Art Demo

Thanks to the hospitality and great questions from the Arlington Heights Art Guild at my demo earlier this week.  With their members as well as some of my neighbors and artist friends, more than 40 people watched me construct a pastel painting from scratch.  Although I didn't have time to bring the painting to 100% completion, I shared my approach to starting and working on a painting using soft pastels. 

I used one of my photos--a Cape Cod beach scene as a reference and discussed how to layer the pastels from dark to light to achieve the colors and values desired.

The art guild has a scholarship fund raising event each year so I donated the same painting that I had completed earlier to be used in their upcoming auction.