Thanks Danelle! I’m so glad to hear it was helpful! 😁

Hi Laurie,
Many thanks for your enthusiasm and compliments and enthusiasm!! Wow – do I have 44 videos loaded??? And you’ve watched ALL of them?? Incredible!! That is a HUGE compliment. Thank you!!! Your words a certainly an encouragement to produce more videos.

If you can ever get to IAPS, you will LOVE it! Just being with others who adore pastels will fill you up. Next year when I am there, I plan on making more videos. The ones on my Channel was a challenge for me – it was the first time I had ever interviewed people and I was nervous at the beginning. But it became easier and I began to enjoy it. So I am looking forward to what next year will bring.

Thank you also for your lovely descriptions of my pastel as it progressed, so poetic :-))

I am glad you are wishing to see more soft pastel abstracts – I’ll see what I can do!

Thanks again for writing!!
Gail
PS. Sorry to take so long replying – I was away on a cruise with my family and had no internet then family visits when I got back and now finally settle back into a normal routine!

I just learned who you were a few days ago while noodling around on youtube. I’ve viewed all 44 videos and I love all the short interviews with the Soft Pastel Greats! I just wish you had hours instead of minutes with each artist and manufacturer. How I envy you your trip to the convention and wish I were able to go with all the spending money to load up on all those lovely, useful things. Today I tried to tell my pastel students to look you up, but for the life of me, I couldn’t come up with your name. I will remember next week.

I really like this piece. Both ways. At the early stage, it looked to me like a garden, of sorts. With the dark greens on top it reminded me of an evergreen forest abutting a body of water, or a swamp, with wild flowers growing at the edge and somewhat into the edges in the way that Blue Flag Iris grow out from the shoreline. With the green at the bottom of the painting, it is a garden viewed while on one’s belly with those blue blossoms- delphiniums or gladiolas, perhaps, contrasting with the bright clean turquoise sky, and trees edging the garden. You could have stopped there but now it is a bit less floral and a bit more abstract. My work is far from abstract, but I long to see more soft pastel abstracts. Thanks for putting quality instruction out there. I hope it will encourage more people to create, market or purchase pastels.

Thanks Mary Jo!! It’s amazing how helpful it is to look at artwork in black and white. Be brave!!

Glad you like the colours Helen. And thanks for the turned over suggestion! I’m still kinda stuck on the rain in the forest idea though…. 🙂

I look forward to talking to you further about this painting Sandy 🙂