Greg Sandford

Thanks!

@jennylsq.bsky.social I feel like the question songs you just nerdily listed on the radio are all pretty high energy. Here’s one that fits both those criteria: “Where’d You Go?” By the Bosstones!

Thank you 🙂

Longfellow & Storrow

Ink on paper

#art #blueskyart #usk #urbansketching #boston #uskboston #bostonart #storrowdrive

Ink sketch of the crosswalk in front of the Lobster Pot on Commercial Street in Provincetown, MA.

Sketch of Commercial Street, Provincetown, MA

#art #sketch #blueskyart #lobsterpot #provincetown #provincetownart #usk #urbansketching

Yes! It is very similar to fine grit sand paper from the hardware store, but it’s made special for pastels so the pigments and dust stick to the paper. I also sometimes add rock tumbler grit to acrylic paint and paint over wood panels to achieve a similar surface.

Excellent guess!

Thank you for the kind words 🙏🏻

Thanks for the pro tip!

Ahhh the good old days

I love your machines. Discovered them through the process of painting this piece. 🤓 my wife says there is one at the Boston MFA which we visit pretty regularly so I need to check it out next time I’m there.

Very cool! There’s a company @artomat.bsky.social that does it too!

Me too. Every Chinese food restaurant lobby in New England had one.

I too loved a juke box. My high school cafeteria had one and “Burning Down the House” by the Talking Heads was often played on repeat.

However… this woman is paying for a different vice other than rock and roll…

Pastel painting of a woman in high heels and a green dress standing at a vintage machine of some sorts. The machine also seems to have high heels.

Who here is old enough to know what she’s doing? 🤔

Soft pastel on sanded paper
16”x12”

#art #blueskyart #nostalgia #pastel #softpastel

Thank you 🙂

Soft pastel still life painting of flower clippings on a dining room table.

PJM & Forsythia Clippings No.3
8 x 8 soft pastel on prepared wood panel
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#softpastel #forsythia #softpastelpainting #pastel #pastelpainting #flowerspainting #stilllife #art #blueskyart

Soft pastel painting of forsythia and PJM flower clippings in a small glass milk jar on my dining room table.

PJM & Forsythia Clippings No.2
8 x 8 soft pastel on prepared wood panel
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#softpastel #forsythia #softpastelpainting #pastel #pastelpainting #flowerspainting #stilllife #art #blueskyart

Thank you 🙂

Colorful pastel painting of rooftop skyline in Woods Hole, MA

Woods Hole Skyline
11”x11” soft pastel on sanded paper

#art #blueskyart #pastel #blueskyartshow #skyline

A colorful soft pastel painting of flower clippings in a short vase on a dining room table with cast shadow.

PJM & Forsythia Clippings No.1
8 x 8 soft pastel on prepared wood panel
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#softpastel #forsythia #softpastelpainting #pastel #pastelpainting #flowerspainting #stilllife #art #painting #blueskyart

Woods Hole?

Some value sketches of flower cuttings in small vases on my dining room table. #art #blueskyart #drawing #sketching

JFK & Dump Truck
Ink on paper
#art #blueskyart #sketch #urbansketching #manchesternh #manchvegas

Yes!

I’m jealous of all those pastels tho! My collection is pretty humble.

Thank you!

🙂 it’s made to be opened and closed

I’ve got handy little padded covers that latch in place onto each side! Close the box and the pastels all stay quite secure!! ✅