Listen to the music of the waterfall! Take a trip to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, to the National Parks of Yellowstone and Glacier. ...

At a Landscape in Pastel class I taught at the Michigan Art Center, we spent some time reviewing the variety of tree trunk textures and...

I recently started a YouTube channel with pastel painting demos and painting tips. Before YouTube, I would blog about a painting from...

A scorcher in southeast Michigan inspired by latest large pastel painting, "Heat Wave." Heat Wave is 18x24 done in soft pastel on Uart...

Behind Pittsfield Township Hall near Saline, MI., there are nature trails and a pond fed by Warner Creek. Cosmo (my dog) likes to sniff...

Mill Pond Park is located on the west side of Saline, MI. This pastel painting was created on Uart sanded paper with a variety of soft...

Here's a pastel painting-in-progress that includes a change in the composition mid-stream. The painting is called "Meeting at Mill Pond."...

Continuing with my Gallup Park series, below is a view of the Huron River at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor, MI. The reference photo was taken...

Continuing with my Gallup Park series, here is a view of the Huron River neat the public boat launch area. There's a rather tricky...

Part of my new Gallup Park Series of pastels, this painting shows the abundance of water lilies on this stretch of the Huron River. The...

I've been busy lately adding oil painting to my painting activities and have not gotten around to blog much. So I searched for past...

Working in the studio each day, I come across adjustments to work-in-progress paintings that I like to share with my pastel enthusiast...

I think we are done with this one! Now it doesn't hurt to let it "ripen" by leaving it accessible in the studio for some whim of a quick...

A few more refinements. Interesting pointer regarding using reference photos. The water in the photo was too bright (high value) due to...

At this stage of the painting, I am beginning to fill-in portions of the composition. Additional values are added in the shadier spots...