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Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 8″ x 10″), September 2008.
“Change is good”, my wife Kyoko replied yesterday when I told her I was thinking of exploring new subjects for my drawings.  I’d decided to make a greater effort to work on drawings of local subjects, which [...]

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Abandoned Barn Color Study

Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 8″ x 8″), September 2008.
Here’s a new, larger and more finished color study I did of the abandoned barn that I’ve been working on with Casey.  There were several strategies I tried to incorporate with this study.  First, I gave a [...]

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Cherry Trees in Late Summer

 
Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 9″ x 12″), September 2008.
Last Sunday we took a drive up into Westchester County and visited a small park that we went to back in the spring this year, when the many cherry trees were in full bloom.  We had a nice picnic lunch [...]

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New Hampshire Landscape Study

Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 6-1/4″ x 10″), September 2008.
Here I’ve posted the next in a series of landscape studies I’m doing based on reference photos and sketches from our recent camping trip to Maine. We drove through New Hampshire on our way there [...]

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