Pears in Pastels

Lately I have found
 JOY
in playing around with my set of
Oil Pastels
and
PEARS

oil paint first then I added in pastels

Paint Party time August 30th 2012

Happy Friday

I hope everyone has a nice three day weekend planned

I will be traveling and visiting loved ones

I will be running away from Isaac

although by the time the once hurricaine Isaac

gets up into our part of the country

 it will only be a windy thunderstorm

and maybe lots of gray clouds for  Labor Day

Here is my work in pprogress for this past couple days

I continue to paint pears and to get ready for the Art  Festival

I seem to be in love with the pears

 This painting is taken from a memory of the Lake Huron Home

that my grand parents had long ago

I am still working on getting it right and developing it  further

I just bought some oil pastels to perhaps use ontop of the oil paints

does anyone see any reason not to?
... or have any experience in using oil pastels 

along with or mixed in with oil paint or acylic paints ???

let me know if I am able to do this 

I could use a little friendly advise

-KAT-

PPF - Pears, the City and a Church

First things first

Here is  my finished painting of the bowl of pears

I painted this from a still life 

I love my pretty blue ceramic bowl

don't tell anyone but it has a crack in the back

but I just cannot throw it away yet

oil on canvas - 8 by10

here is the finished Cincinnati painting 

I had to touch it up because somehow 

it got black smudges on it 

 I could not get them to clean off

but I like the sky now better 

... so it all worked out

hard to get a good photo of this one for some reason

 Update on my painting of the 

Loveland Presbyterian Church

 I am so happy to tell you

that Pastor Stephen Melton really liked it

so much so that he asked to purchase it !

I am so happy it has a happy home to hang in

 and to be appreciated

words in the painting do you see the words Discipleship, Loving, Praying, Caring, Welcome

I was invited to a service last Sunday 

as all the loveland artists were

 and we all could display our paintings of the  Church.

Pastor Steve talked  about forgiveness

It spoke straight to my heart

It is a hard and an emotional subject for me

but  he lifted my spirit a great deal.

happy weekend my friends

-KAT-

Plump Pears water mixable oil paints

What is on the good ole 

 desk/ space/ easel/ tray-table....

It all started out like this:

 I just had to add more color

What do you all think ?

- KAT -

I am also hopping at the party at Cheri's

HERE