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Working further on our class demo at the Michigan Art Center, I began building depth in the distant treeline and the distant ground....

Pastel painting; 10x12. Challenge here was muting the large distant tree in the background so that it shows distinctly behind the bold...

One of my local favorite parks to go jogging (often with my curious canine Cosmo). October anoints this park with layers of colorful...

Plein air artists need the discipline to capture a scene quickly before sunlight and weather conditions change. One way to train for...

Focusing further on the Birch Ballet painting, the distant shrubs can be further blended and faded-out by lightly applying pastel pencil...

Today's enhancements included focusing on the foreground tree, beginning to add the canopy of leaves. I began to bring the distant blues...