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Conveying distance in a painting can be successfully portrayed by cooling or subduing color. Softening edges is key to building that...

This is a Wallis grayish brown toned sanded pastel paper. I felt that the brown tone will help fill the ground beneath the grasses of...

A wintry scene on a sunny morning in the Pittsfield Preserve off Thomas Road, Pittsfield Township, Michigan. #Uart #pastels #snow

Nature was not drawn. So as we convey the landscape in pastel, we try not to "line out" the elements of the landscape. Here is the snow...

Here's a completed painting. Complementary colors hide behind the orange tree and green in the field. Marton Road Field is in the...

This morning I had the privilege to meet Ed Kennedy, PSA. Ed resides in the same town as I do, in Saline, MI., so we got together to...