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Some rules are meant to be broken! Those are some nice birbs!

Pastel painting of a bridge over a stream leading into a trail in the woods.

I started this painting 8 months ago (see previous post) and I finished it today. There are some paintings that I’ve done that I truly love. This is not one of them. It’s a good reminder that not every artwork is going to be a masterpiece and that’s ok.

Unfinished pastel drawing

I started working on this one almost 8 months ago and then life got in the way. It will be green outside again soon, a good opportunity to resume working on it again. 🤞

View of the bay from Sunset Beach in Cape May, NJ.

A long weekend trip to Cape May is always the best medicine for late winter blues.

I was cleaning out my home office yesterday and discovered a bunch of photographs from 20 years ago. This is not one of them. Unbeknownst to me, my mom was doing a similar thing. She found this photo of me holding my first cat, Jingle Bell. You can tell he’s thrilled about this. Taken circa 1989.

Go birb! Looks great

We will just have to do our #adventskalendarchallenge from here!

New adventure for the new kid! 🚙

I’ve had my new Outback for about two weeks now and with the fake spring weather this week, I decided to go on an after work adventure to the Lehigh Gorge for some trail running.

#adventure #lehighgorge #outback #trailrunning

Pastel painting of a road leading through old gate into a meadow during early summer.

I love a blue sky, not just the app, but a robust blue summer sky is a sight to behold. This one is done with a blend of Terry Ludwig chalk pastels and Sennelier pastel for that deep blue. Spring is 10 days away. It will look like this again soon.

#pastelart #chalkpastel #art #landscape #spring

I hear you, I used company incentive points to buy them because yeah. On the other side of the spectrum, I have JBL 510s for when I travel that are like $30 and have also held up really well for several years now.

I have M&D MH40s that I’ve been using since the start of the pandemic. I like em because very little plastic is used in them.

Two cats hugging

The more the merrier! These two are helping me get through a lot!

Pastel rendering of a sunset over water

This one is called “Sailor’s Delight.” It is a sunset over the bay at Cape May Point, NJ. This one was an early piece and rather ambitious for me at the time. 😂

Thank you! Had to go through a lot of variations til I found one not taken! 😉

Drawing of a rocky cliff by the ocean with a pine forest

Here’s another pastel drawing done last year, inspired by the cliffside shores of Acadia National Park.

Pastel drawing of a rail tunnel

Hi there! I’m going to use this space to show some of my art from the past year. This is a piece I made last November of a rail tunnel while on vacation. It is a blend of chalk pastel and pencil on sanded paper.