The Birch
More black and white pastels. I really miss the north woods… And we used to start our fires with birch bark. This nostalgia gave me the motivation to paint a […]
Category Archives: Pastel
Sunrise in New Zealand
Finally got my color palate back! A few years back, I gave my heart to a country with phenomenal beauty, amazing people, and a whole bunch of sheep. Yea, New […]
The Incoming Storm (Art, not Farm)
Man, my color skills are so rusty! After I cleaned out the rabbit shed and all of the cages, and continued to scrub out my bedroom, and clean my craft […]
The Lifeboat
It has been awhile since the art part of Dirtartful came into the picture. However, I am on vacation, and it is pretty much saturated outside, so aside from basic […]
Finally… A craft studio in the making.
Our last rental house was 1200 square feet with a LOT of wasted space… The new house we bought has a TON of room for me to actually have a […]
Winter Shimmers
It is 90 kajillion degrees outside, so I was tempted to create something cool. I got a set of $5 oil pastels, and wanted to do some experimenting with colors […]
Winter Arches
There has been a lot of chaos in my life lately… For me, this chaos mirrors Lake Superior. Everything can appear to be calm and smooth, but in reality, the […]
Lone Hay Bale
Another one of the prairie storm shots. Once again, not nostalgic for Kansas, but maybe missing the fact that i could stand on the pickup truck and see 100 square […]
Spring on Lake Superior
I really love this one! It is early morning in early spring on Lake Superior, with the rocks glazed over in ice. The brilliant sunset lights some of the ice […]
Red Cattle Dog Puppy
This art thing is difficult sometimes! The different colors and undertones required for a red cattle dog puppy is crazy! There are pinks, reds, purples, browns, and blues that combine […]
Kansas Prairies
I won’t admit that I feel nostalgia toward my time in Kansas, as I really love where I am in life now. However, driving back and forth to my research […]
Fall in Western Wisconsin: An artistic process
As spring dawns on the Southeast (FINALLY?!?), I find myself homesick for Wisconsin again. Today it was the region that I went to college (River Falls, GO FALCONS). The hills […]
Purple Mountains Majesty: An Artistic Process
When I was in middle school, we took a trip out west, into the mountains of Colorado. Being from the flat-lands of Wisconsin, I had a lot of love for […]
Portrait of a Sheltie
I will fully admit, I was sort of scared to take on a custom piece of a friends dog. Up until this point, I was practicing on stock photos, or […]
Launching My Art Business
So, in the last few months, I have gotten in a lot of practice in the pastel art medium. Landscapes, pet portraits, and other various commissions. All of these things […]
Tobacco on Mars
I am a total nerd and I am not ashamed of it. As a card carrying nerd (that grew into a soil scientist), I have always wanted to be the […]
My Clark: An artistic process
So, by now it should be no secret that I am super proud of my dog Clark and his amazing agility career. I found him when I just started my […]
Sunrise at Lake Mattamuskeet
Lake Mattamuskeet is kind of a oddity. Situated on the Eastern Coast of North Carolina, it is 18 miles wide, and 7 miles long, but only averages like, 3 feet […]
Fantasy Fjords
I guess I am surprised that it has been nearly a week again since my last post. In my defense, the temperature went from very cold (like mid 30s and […]
Autumn Harvest in Wisconsin
Maybe all of the crappy, winter snowy and rainy weather is making me nostalgic for my favorite time of the year. This happens to be late summer and early fall. […]
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