Tuesday Paintings – Pastels!

November 12, 2018November 15, 2018 | Doreen E. Lepore

It’s been a long time since the last post because I tend to get behind on the photography end of things. If the paintings are small enough they are scanned.

It seems that the pastels have been neglected lately, so after thinking about it, the issue was with the bulkiness. So going back to another post where I had evaluated the colors used in a plein air painting by John Pierce Barnes [https://doreenelepore.com/2012/06/02/john-pierce-barnes/] I decided to expand on that selection of pastels yet keep it within this cigar box. The box is about 8″x10″x2″ deep. It’s lined with some foam that was laying around and there is another piece that lays on top to minimize the jiggling.

cigar box

Here is the palette that seems to be working for me.

cigar box pastels

This is working out great for plein air because it’s much lighter to carry and an added bonus is that I don’t get mesmerized by too many colors to look through for the exact right stick. I’ve been using my old half julien easel that holds a few supplies like a travel watercolor box and some brushes.

Here are the paintings that are done with this palette.

Savannah morning s Sandsprit Park s sewells point 2 s sewells point s port st lucie botanical s Savannah s savannah 2 s sandsprit scribble s sunset lake s

Mokie’s Official Portrait

November 6, 2017 | Doreen E. Lepore

Finally, after having Mokie here for over three years, I’ve painted her official portrait. It’s a 16 x 20 pastel on sanded paper that I mounted onto gesso board.

Mokie - 16x20 - pastels — Mokie – 16×20 – pastels

Elliot Museum Show

June 10, 2017 | Doreen E. Lepore

Two of my plein air paintings were selected to be in this invitational show, which is already hung at the Elliot.

Topaz - oil on board - 9x12 — Topaz – oil on board – 9×12

Port Salerno - 9x12 - pastels — Port Salerno – 9×12 – pastels

If you are in the area, hope you get a chance to swing by. 🙂

Pastel Demo and more Tuesday Paintings

February 20, 2017 | Doreen E. Lepore

Recently I was asked to do a demonstration of my method of painting with watercolor and pastels at a local art club. It was a fun morning and well received. Here is the painting I did for them that I started with a watercolor underpainting.

Savannah - 12x16 - pastels — Savannah – 12×16 – pastels

and here are more plein air Tuesday paintings:

11 Maple St. - 9x12 - pastels — 11 Maple St. – 12×9 – pastels

Lyric Theater Building - 9x12 -oil — Lyric Theater Building – 9×12 -oil

Sewells Point Morning - 9x12 - oil — Sewells Point Morning – 9×12 – oil

Ancient Oak - 8x10 - oil — Ancient Oak – 8×10 – oil

Palms at Indian Riverside Park - 12x12 - oil — Palms at Indian Riverside Park – 12×12 – oil

Prints

April 9, 2016 | Doreen E. Lepore

Recently I discovered a website that allows artists to upload their work and make it available for the public to buy as prints. They will even frame it! They will do giclee prints on stretched canvas as well as paper prints and there are a number of good quality papers to choose from. The frame selection seems limited, but it could be that I haven’t seen all they have yet.

My page has three galleries – Landscape, Still life and Animals. If you click on the gallery link on the right you will be able to go there and see what I have so far. If there is anything anyone would like made available, just let me know either in the comments or via email and I’ll see if it’s something that can be done.

If you are interested in making your own gallery there, it wasn’t hard to do [and it’s free], but do recommend that you get your images ready – they need to be higher resolution than 800×800.

“A Trip Down the Loxahatchee”

November 18, 2015 | Doreen E. Lepore

“A Trip Down the Loxahatchee” by Jim Snyder will debut on Nov. 21 when the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse and Museum holds the “Lighthouse River Rendezvous.” The annual fund raiser will unfold along the river, at the foot of the museum, on Saturday evening starting at 6:00 pm. http://www.jupiterlighthouse.org/jupiter-events-november.php

This coffee table book is made up of paintings and photographs by local artist of the Loxahatchee River and will be for sale in local gift shops. Some time ago Jim asked me if he could include this painting in the book and of course I said yes. It’s a small pastel painting that I did on location.

The Mokie Chronicles Day 2 #kidlitart28

February 2, 2015 | Doreen E. Lepore

Day Two – Toys don’t need ears!

Mokie - Toys Don't Need Ears - ink, pastels — Mokie – Toys Don’t Need Ears – ink, pastels

Cows

January 19, 2015 | Doreen E. Lepore

The Cow – Robert Lewis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses

The friendly cow all red and white,

I love with all my heart:
she gives me cream with all her might,

To eat with apple-tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,

And yet she cannot stray,

All in the pleasant open air,

The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass

And wet with all the showers,

She walks among the meadow grass

And eats the meadow flowers.

Publicity!

June 26, 2014January 16, 2015 | Doreen E. Lepore

It’s rare to get free publicity, at least for me it is, but one of my paintings will be in the next issue, July/August, of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine. (not on newsstands yet) http://www.fineartconnoisseur.com/

The magazine is one of those well done, high quality, shiny art magazines that is aimed at collectors.

My painting is part of a photo essay on painting in parks, which is something I love to do. One of my favorite parks is a local one, Jonathan Dickinson State Park and the painting is one of several I’ve done of the Loxahatchee River. You’ve seen it here before, but here it is again: