DRAWING FROM LIFE

Blocked in study in pastels

On Wednesday I usually go to life drawing.

It's so educational to draw a model from life!

There seems to be a sense of 'freshness' that's

nonparallel to working from a photo.

Above is my first stage of blocking in the

red-headed model. I underlaid three pastel

shades onto the paper before starting to sketch

to give a nice undertone.

Below is a more progressed stage.

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Sold! GLOW, by Susan Roden

GLOW 11" x 14" soft pastel SOLD - private collector So nice this pastel went to a wonderful home! Now I'll live in my memories of the Petrified Forest National Park, where I did a residency and was the inspiration for this painting. Thank you!

CIRCLES + A STAR - 6 x 6 pastel

BATTLE OF THE BRANDS! CIRCLES + A STAR 6" x 6" pastel 10" square archival white matt, glass + black frame $295 + $15 insured priority shipping Monday is roaring up quickly and you know what that means . . . Battle of the Brands with donuts and cupcakes! Slinging going on from the East Coast to the West Coast . . . what a sticky mess! Sure Kelley MacDonald will be slamming me with a jelly donut . . . or two or three stacked oh, so high! But wait . . . also Mary Sheehan Winn has jumped into this ruckus . . . and shown her sportsmanship but tossing little munchkins into the ring last week. What's a gal to do? I say sit back and catch a couple of these tasty morsels flying bye. Yum!

SUMMER PASTEL CLASSES!

PINK FIELDS 12" x 9" pastel on canvas panel PRIVATE COLLECTOR I'm teaching "Introduction to Pastels" once again at UCSD Extension this summer and will be covering a whole array of techniques from washes, to layering and strokes and in various genres. "PINK FIELDS" was the demo piece in illustrating washes on textured panels in an impressionistic style. So if you want to learn more on this medium, as well as have a barrel of fun, please click here to read more and sign up.

SUSAN'S . . . PLAYING AGAIN!

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