No longer just pictures, these became decor.

A Rochester 'plant-based family' acquired several of my winter vegetable projects, loose paintings, all oil on gessoed oil paper. This series was made during the winter-raiding the refrigerator for live models.

I wasn't just surprised, I was thrilled to see all these paintings matted and framed so beautifully and expertly displayed.  Each painting is about 11x14 so adding the mats and frames turned them into an amazing addition perfectly arranged on kitchen and hall walls. Love this!

 

Sunlight streaks the Path at Beaver Island

As 'plein air season' winds down there is joy at the colors of the changing season but melancholy at the idea of losing contact with painter friends for a few months. This year the Niagara Frontier Plein Air Painters held a final event at Beaver Island, including a pot luck lunch and gag prizes for artwork completed in the morning.

I am totally in love with my achievement capturing the nearby path in the low fall sunlight of Autumn. My pastels were singing! 

 

Sunbeam at Beaver Island 9x12 pastel 

How I did it! Steps to a painting

These are in my phone since last summer. It is a pastel on a brick colored Colourfix paper. Watch how the dark color modifies some of the shapes yet is not obvious in the finished painting.

Buffalo Waterfront, pastel c. K. Schifano 2021