Moose River 16 x 12 pastel on board








This has been a busy spring with little time to paint! I've been in Albuquerque for the biennial pastel convention and more recently in the Adirondacks, receiving two awards from the Northeast Pastel Society. In preparation for my upcoming workshop in Massachusetts, I decided to paint the same scene three times: on Wallis Belgian mist, Art Spectrum Supertooth, and gatorfoam with AS liquid primer (my favorite surface). The last came out the best and I've included it here.

On Saturday I'll be leaving for Massachusetts and Maine and will be away for five weeks! I hope to get some painting done and lots of material for new paintings for the upcoming year. I'll be having a show and doing a workshop and celebrating my mother's 90th birthday. So a busy, and hopefully, productive time.