Pastel of Ballerina

This is from a series of pastels that I produced some years ago at the Riverside Ballet Company, Riverside, California. I used Canson paper, which is designed for pastel work. Nupastels were used for the under drawing, followed by Sennelier and Schimke pastels for the finished painting. These last two brands of pastel are outstanding in their quality and usability. I keep the blending of the pastels on the paper down to a minimum, so as not to lose the gestural part of the drawing, which expresses the energy and vitality of the scene. This picture was purchased by a private collector in Laguna Beach California.

Fly me to heaven!

This was a design model for a memorial bench commission that I received. The finished alabaster bench will be 7ft long.

Learning Tree

A design I produced for the 4 H learning program at a local Montessori school , using the learning tree motif. They kept a large number of chickens at the school, so I placed one right at the top of my design.