Loriann's Vista revisited

I've been living with the pastel I did before, that I called Loriann's Vista, and realized I didn't like it that much. I'd had too much fun with color and overworked it a little, and lost the quiet tranquility that I'd been after. So I brushed some of the color off (with a hog-bristle, which seems to get rid of a lot more tooth than I would like on the Sennelier paper--anyone got a better method?) and got back down to a ghost image. I worked back up from there, trying not to use too much pastel, sticking to a monochrome (it's actually kind of a very dusky gray-blue-purple, even though it just looks plain gray on the screen) and just concentrating more on value and the feeling I wanted to express. 

Thanks again, Loriann, for the photo use.

$115.00 - Loriann's Vista (Ready to Frame)

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Tagged / Loriann's Vista

I've been tagged by wonderful artist Loriann Signori, who paints this scene or one like it every day, come snow, sunshine, or frozen fingers. With her permission I borrowed a photo of one of her typical vistas and did my own take on it, hence the title of this work, Loriann's Vista.

By the rules of tagging, I tell you who tagged me, then I will tell you 5-7 things about myself...and then tag 5-7 more artists and let them know about it in a comment I leave on their blog. It's a fun way to get more blog traffic love spread around. :)

Here goes: 

1. I can't tolerate closed shoes. I wear clogs or sandals 95% of the time. (When it's cold, I add socks to the clogs scenario.)

2. I have severe arachnophobia. Although it's not really fear per se, but a primal disgust that I feel upon glimpsing a spider. My youngest cat, my little Cleo, EATS spiders when I call her, making her by the far the most specialized and appreciated cat I've ever had.

3. I'm the author of the novel Seducing the Rabbi, as well as another novel about orchids which is still looking for a publisher.

4. I used to do capoeira.

5. I watch science and nature documentaries far more than Hollywood movies.

6. I was born with black hair, then that fell out and I had auburn hair as a toddler, which gradually turned blond for childhood, which then gradually turned brown, and is now turning gray.

7. When I was little I'd always say, "I'm never going to have kids. I'd rather have kittens!" which of course would amuse adults to no end, who would always say the same thing: "You'll change your mind, dear."   I have four cats and zero children. Now who was right?

Artists I'm tagging (I'm trying to choose different ones than last time):

S.P. Goodman
Sherrie York
Trevor Lingard
Kathy Weber

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