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After just a few minutes of pastel painting . . . .

 To paraphrase an old 60’s song “Baby Love”
“Baby wipes, my baby wipes,
I need you, oh how I need you . . . “

Since I’ve taken up pastels, here’s a little tip for those of you thinking of entering the stock market - invest in any company manufacturing a version of baby wipes!

As shown here – that stock’s gotta soar!

PASTEL PEPPERS - FINISHED

Here the peppers are complete, but not the whole painting yet.

After adding a light background and making the shadows lighter, here is the completed painting.

I’m not thrilled with my background, but for this purpose – education – it’s fine with me!

PASTEL PEPPERS - Part 4

Here is the yellow pepper in process.

PASTEL PEPPERS - Part 3

Here is the completed orange pepper – slightly refined!

PASTEL PEPPERS - Part 2

Here you can see how I developed the orange pepper.

PASTEL PEPPERS - Part 1

Another in my little series of fruits and veggies!
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I decided to use lighter pastels for the drawing, instead of charcoal on this one.

PASTEL CHILI PEPPERS - FINISHED

The completed painting.

PASTEL CHILI PEPPERS - Part 3

At this point, I realized that the upper pepper was too short, according to the photo. I’m not that good of a drawer, keep trying though!

I realized I could probably fix that problem easily – and so I did! (Not at all like watercolor!)

2012 RECAP

At this time of year, it seems we all tend to look back at our accomplishments (or lack thereof!), so, here is a recap.

In 2012, I:
- was elected President of the Greater Cincinnati Watercolor Society
- taught series of classes for the Cincinnati Recreation Commission
- was asked to juror a local art show

My artwork was accepted into:
- the Cincinnati Woman’s Art Club 119th Juried Exhibit
- the Georgia Watercolor Society National Juried Show and the Annual Members’ Show
- the Rising Sun Juried Art Exhibitions – both Spring (2nd place award) and Fall
- the ViewPoint 44th Annual National Juried Exhibit
- the Ohio Watercolor Society 35th Annual Juried Exhibition – and the OWS Traveling show (State of Ohio)
- the National Watercolor Society 92nd Annual Exhibit – and the NWS Traveling show (USA) – and my image was used for the show postcard

Since it seems that we have survived the Mayan Apocalypse, and we may still be around for a while, I guess resolutions are in order again!

The only things I can think of for myself (that I’m liable to keep!) are to keep trying to improve in my art and to set up a blog posting schedule of twice a week - I have neglected my blog lately.  Time will tell if I succeed in these lofty endeavors!

I hope 2013 turns out to be a good year for all of you – to your health, happiness and success this year.

WEDDING DAY

After an “almost wedding” in October, my daughter and her fiancé finally tied the knot on New Year’s Eve!

It was a small ceremony, family only, at their place (as my daughter said “no big deal”). Everyone pitched in to help in some way so we had flowers, appetizers, Champagne and a cake, cupcakes and brownies (courtesy of me).

I’m “famouns” for always crying at weddings and funerals, whether real or on TV or film. Don’t know why; I just get emotional. Sometimes I think I could rent myself out to attend these affairs and make lots of money posing as either a crazy old aunt at a wedding or a grief stricken family member at a funeral.

But – amazingly – I didn’t cry! Well, just a couple of tears, but that’s it. Guess it was just a happy occasion!

Anyway - - - the bride was lovely and the groom quite handsome.

They are planning on taking a vacation out west later this year as their honeymoon, and probably having some kind of party to celebrate, once the weather gets nicer.

It wasn’t quite what I had envisioned when she was born and I daydreamed about this day – but they are made for each other and I love them both and if they are happy, then so am I!