Aspen Grove

Aspen Grove - Soft Pastel on paper 20 x 30 cm

"Aspen groves are a popular landscape scene for plain air, impressionist, and abstract painters. How can you paint them so your work stands out from the others?"

this was the challenge on

Monthly Painting Challenge  

(http://paintingchallenge.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/challenge-13-aspens/)

White cloud of hope on a stormy sky

Pastel on Canson paper 15 x 10 cm

Open view

Pastel on Canson paper 15 x 10 cm

Lighthouse shining on a clear day

Pastel on Canson paper 25 x 30 cm

I keep making plans to paint more often but this is what I can come up with.

It could be worse...

My version of 'Three mile harbor'

pastel on watercolor paper, 20 x 40 cm

This is my version of a beautiful painting by Lois Gold, 'Three mile harbor', I saw in the October issue of 'The Pastel Journal'.

In the garden

My kids