Day 2- Vermont Meadow

"Vermont Meadow"oil pastel on board
5"x 7"
available at Daily Paintworks

A quick study in oil pastel based on photos I took this summer in Vermont.  This is a view outside of Woodstock, Vermont.  Sunny summer days like this one in Vermont make me want to pack up and move up to the beautiful "Green Mountain State."

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This is for day 2 of the 30 in 30 project I talked about yesterday.  Today I kept my time to under one hour by keeping it small and loose.  Painted in mostly Sennelier oil pastels on Ampersand Pastelbord. I used a white board and underpainted with watercolors yesterday when I was doing the underpainting for "Maggie."  For me the key for a successful challeng will be to plan ahead, underpaint several boards at once, and have all of my photos and boards/papers ready to go.  

Stay tuned, and thank you for reading!

Bethany

Day 1- Maggie

"Maggie"
oil pastel on paper
8" x 8"
purchase here

Today is the kick off of Leslie Byrd Saeta's 30 Paintings in 30 Days Challenge.  See all of the submissions for Day One here... there are 250 artists signed up!  I will be focusing on small works, mostly completed within 2 hours.  There will be plenty of cows, houses, and landscapes from my travels in 2012.

I'll be posting daily, so stay tuned!  You can see them all over on my Facebook page, too.

Thanks for reading!
Bethany