The Vintage Vehicles
Four paintings of old cars and trucks, from a sage-green pickup to a Cadillac in chrome. What pastel does with rust, paintwork and reflected light.
Framing a Pastel, and Looking After It
Pastel is pigment sitting on paper, which makes framing a real question rather than a formality. Glass, spacers, light, and what actually threatens a painting.
City Suburb: The Lane in Full Colour
An original soft pastel of a lane between turning trees, with a red maple on one side and a blossoming tree on the other. Autumn and spring in the same painting.
Four Small Paintings for the Spots Nobody Decorates
The stairwell wall. The shelf by the coffee maker. Four original pastels under ten inches, for the places a big painting will never go.
Why I Work in Soft Pastel
Soft pastel is very nearly pure pigment, sitting bare on the paper. Here is what that means for how a painting looks, and why every mark has to commit.
Autumn Light: Pastel Paintings for September and October
Six original soft pastel paintings for the season of low golden light — golden wildflowers, a rust-red truck, a working barn, a low creek, and one quiet pond at dusk.
A Brush of Irish
An Irish landscape in soft pastel — a castle, a wooden bridge, and the particular green of that country.
Dance Into the Artistic World of DawnE
Three ballerinas in soft pastel — Mysty, Rose and Crystal — and what each one holds still.
What Pastel Can Do
An introduction to DawnE and the medium she has worked in for decades — and why pastel behaves unlike anything else.
Embracing the Wild Frontier
On painting buffalo — weight, weather, and why the American plains are hard to get right in pastel.