Another Asheville Urban Landscape Project Work

This pastel was started in last April from a location overlooking Asheville.  Never having done a painting with this much aerial perspective it took an afternoon of color and value adjustment in the studio.

The site is the parking lot of Zealandia Castle which is a great old building which would have made an equally interesting subject.

Shambhala 

Pastel 6 x 8

Asheville Urban Landscape Project

From time to time I have been lucky enough to paint with a group in Asheville.   Lisa Blackshear has organized the Asheville Urban Landscape Project which met last year and again this spring.  There is a schedule for this fall at http://www.wncpap.com/avl-urban-landscape-project-2014.

Meanwhile other painters in this group organized events this summer, the next:

 Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary June 24

Contact Araya Hansen araya-sol@charter.net

This is a pastel from the last spring event at the French Broad River Park.

Hanging On 

Pastel 6 x 7

Plein Air Day

After a long hiatus, got outside today.  A local group, the Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild is preparing for a show next year.  It's about the new crops, livestock, and farmers reinventing agriculture in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.  The show's title is "New Pioneers of the Blue Ridge: the Renaissance of the Family Farm".  Today we had our first outing at Mountain Farm which cultivates several breeds of goats and lavender.  Their store sells soaps, lavender teas, goat cheese.

There were more than a dozen painters and photographers at work.

Here's a small pastel sketch, before the wind forced the umbrellas closed.

Running in Place

Here is a series of pink beads made at the Penland Flamework Studio.

Pink and Amber

This is an usual color combination.  I would like to make several more, possibly for earrings.

Below a series of discs made from every pink colored glass that could be found.  Figuring out how to link and arrange them in a necklace is a challenge.

Pink Discs

A Big Pink Honker of a Bead

This one is suitable for a pendant.    Would be great with some more pink pieces on the chain.