Portrait of a Toddler

March 13, 2022January 30, 2024 | cathmary1030

This work was done in graphite and NuPastel. It’s based on a photo from PxHere.

Pink Rose

January 21, 2022January 15, 2022 | cathmary1030

For this painting I used one of my own reference photos — taken last spring of a rose on one of our bushes. We got this rosebush (all of our rosebushes, actually) down in Texas Hill Country at Antique Rose Emporium. I love it because it is powerfully fragrant. So many pretty roses seem to have no fragrance at all.

I did this using willow charcoal and NuPastels, on Colourfix Original in Soft Umber.

Little Girl… A study in Pastel Pencil & NuPastels

January 15, 2022January 9, 2022 | cathmary1030

I did this picture in graphite, (Derwent) pastel pencils, and NuPastels, using Canson Mi-Teintes paper. The reference image is by Pezibear from Pixabay.

Abstract in Pastel

December 29, 2021December 24, 2021 | cathmary1030

I did this work entirely in NuPastels, using Canson Mi-Teintes in “Red Earth”. I actually got the idea from a post by Karen Margulis, riffing off of her underpainting in preparation for a scene of trees and grass in summer.

It was a warm Christmas Eve, quite spring-like, as I worked this, which got me thinking of gardens yet also of stained glass windows.