Simpson's Beach

Simpson's Beach in pastel,
drawn from a photo taken last August while Billy and I were enjoying an evening walk there.

My new moleskine

We missed Tabby this Christmas so I found a photo of her curled up on Katie's bed.
She is the first painting in my new moleskine.

Live Painting Class on Ustream

Kitchen Art

that's the theme of the online painting demos this week.
Artist Roger Bansemer and his wife Sarah
open their home to international artists to visit virtually while Roger paints in acrylics.
This week, the subjects have been small kitchen arrangements.
Check it out at
http://bansemer.com/painting_live/demonstration.html
demos usually start at 7 pm ET - no set dates, just check in to see if it's on.

Lemons were the first subject covered. I couldn't see the reference lemons so I just found a photo to work with and painted along.

The second session I attended, Roger was painting a radish. I prefered to paint a pomegranate - used the same basic colors. Benefitted from his comments and instructions re: shadow colors and highlights etc for alizaron crimson.
So nice to be painting with other artists. In the chatroom running beside the video screen were artists tuned in from all over the planet, commenting and asking questions. A terrific forum and virtual studio.