SUSAN'S . . . PLAYING AGAIN!

  VIEW ATOP 9"h x 6"w pastel Sold - Private Collector So happy this Southwest Landscape went onto a good home! And I love seeing where my little ones travel to.  Thank you so much to all who have supported my art  throughout the years!

  VIEW ATOP  6"h x 9"w pastel  11"h x 14"w black frame, white mat, glass Sold - Private Collector Chilly yet a sunny day . . . so reminiscent of my time spent at the Petrified Forest National Park during a past residency. Views were breathe taking. And the colors were as crisp as the air!

Pastel Sketch / Sketching at the Painted Desert / Painted Desert Pastel Remember that old saying "Time flies"? It definitely does! I was just reminiscing today about my travels to the Petrified Forest  National Park in Arizona and amazed that it has been exactly four years. I was  juried in as one of the Park's 2009 Artist-in-Residents,  where I lived for two weeks within a three-room historical adobe  at the Park. Across the road from my front door was a panoramic view of the Painted Desert. Breathe-taking! 

A PAINTED SUMMER 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" pastel 8" square archival white matt, glass + gold frame SOLD - PRIVATE COLLECTOR The rain had ceased . . . the sun rose . . .  the white clouds graced the sky. . .   and the colors shone as jewels.

RAIN ON A SUNNY DAY 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" pastel 8" square archival white matte, glass + gold leaf frame $150 + $15 insured priority shipping Puffs of white clouds enveloped the blue sky as the heat radiated.  Upon the Desert's horizon the rain poured. Such a surreal vision as I basked in the sun.

PETRIFIED FOREST & THE PAINTED DESERT By request, I delivered last Saturday a presentation to the Colored  Pencil  Society of San Diego , regarding my 2009 Artist-in-Residence  at the  Petrified Forest National Park .  Above are two plein air sketches of the Painted Desert with the third of myself blocking in the right sketch during my residency.  The request of the presentation was not only a great honor, but a  wonderful opportunity to revisit the memories of a great event!

RAINDROPS COMING 4 1/2" x 4 1/2" pastel white archival matte, glass + petite gold leaf frame SOLD - PRIVATE COLLECTOR Even though it was a sunny day in San Diego, I begun to reminisce of my last September residency at the Petrified Forest National Park. And you guessed it - this was a day it rained! (similar to Catalina Island, huh?) Here I was looking up at the blue, blue sky of San Diego and my mind begun to travel. I was seated and working on a pastel on my featherlight easel on the Painted Desert Rim Trail that stretches between Tawa and Kachina Points. The trail is about one mile in length and had views of the Painted Desert and the woodland rim. That day there were fabulous, white clouds in a rich blue sky, so I decided to create a woodland rim painting. I was so absorbed with the scene and then out of nowhere, huge dark clouds erupted. But what was so strange, is that the blue of the sky didn't darken and in matter of 10 minutes raindrops begun to fall. I had to...