Latest Blog Posts for Julia Patterson Art

• Pastel Landscape Painting Challenge
  on Jul 20, 2013 in Arizona art dry pastels fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes New Mexico pastel painting plein air painting soft pastels Southwest art
  I’m challenging myself in this daily painting challenge (as one should) to paint more landscapes. I have told myself for years that I simply don’t understand the principles of landscape painting well enough to make an effective one, so he...
• Chamisa Road Pastel
  on Jul 16, 2013 in Arizona art buying art dry pastels field study fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes New Mexico pastel painting soft pastels Southwest art
  The little landscape was so much fun the other day I thought I would try another. And now I’m thinking another. Landscapes have always been tough for me. Much harder than generally acknowledged. So much to be thinking about: perspective, color...
• Big Spaces, Small Pastel
  on Jul 15, 2013 in Arizona art buying art dry pastels field study fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes New Mexico pastel painting soft pastels Southwest art
  Day 14: Daily Painting Challenge On a recent trip to New Mexico, we stayed at a B&B on a working cattle ranch. It was fabulous country with white sand and scruffy cactus, mountains in the distance, as well as the Apache del Bosque, a beautiful bi...
• Old Town, Day 12: Daily Painting Challenge
  on Jul 14, 2013 in architectural art dry pastels fine art florals impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes New Mexico pastel painting soft pastels Southwest art
  Oy vey, I’m behind but catching up…. This is another view of that tall sea of hollyhocks at their height of color I saw in Old Town Albuquerque in New Mexico. The sandy pink and grays of the window interiors helped make the flowers pop! I...
• Mi Casa: Day 9 of Painting Challenge
  on Jul 10, 2013 in architectural art Arizona art buying art dry pastels fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes New Mexico pastel painting soft pastels Southwest art
  Day 9 of Painting Challenge This is another rehab. I wiped out all of it except for part of the window that I liked. So I rebuilt the wonderful shadows on the window sill and set out to describe the sunflowers better than before. I made the surface w...
• Bunny & Friends: Daily Challenge
  on Jul 9, 2013 in animal art Arizona art Arizona artist tour dry pastels fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes soft pastels Southwest art wildlife paintings
  Day 8 of the Daily Painting Challenge July 2013 Wow, I just had a fit with this one. I took elements of the quail, dove and bunny from photographs I took of them through my kitchen window and recomposed them around the water fountain. I just wasnR...
• Longhorn Calves in Pastel
  on Jul 8, 2013 in animal art dry pastels farm animal fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes pastel painting soft pastels Southwest art
  DAY 7: Daily Painting Challenge I do so love the shape of a cow. It’s a long, hot afternoon, but these longhorn calves are content in their cowness. Unperturbable gazes right at the viewer with thirst sated for now. Not worrying about even the...
• Texture, Texture! Day 5: Daily Painting Challenge
  on Jul 5, 2013 in architectural art dry pastels impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes New Mexico pastel painting soft pastels Southwest art
  Okay, so I whiffed Day 4. It was Fourth of July, had to cook and clean and have fun. BUT I have been working slowly on this one, experimenting again on multimedia artboard, my new found surface passion. I bet I have 50 layers of different colors in t...
• Some of My Favorite Pastel Subjects
  on Jul 5, 2013 in dry pastels fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson landscapes pastel painting soft pastels Southwest art wildlife paintings
  Day 6, Daily Painting Challenge Another day of cheating since I had started this piece a couple of years ago. Somehow I was moved to finish it today with a big old raven looking down from the flat roof of the Taos pueblo. I am enamored of adobe walls...
• Best Burro Buddies
  on Jul 2, 2013 in acrylic painting animal art Arizona art buying art farm animal fine art impressionistic painting style Julia Patterson Southwest art
  In the Southwest, we call them burros, but by any name these guys would win your heart. Gus and Woodrow, named after the main characters in the book/movie Lonesome Dove, live on a ranch owned by a friend. I was drawn to simply the shape of a burro, i...

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