Inspired - Pan Pastel with Donna Downey

I'm back from a fabulous week away in NC playing with paints and 4 days of Pan Pastel at Donna Downey's Inspired Pan Pastel Workshop.

What an absolutely wonderful experience.   So happy I took the time to go and be "inspired". Great hosts and met bunch of wonderful new friends too!!THAT is always fabulous!

I have used and loved Pan Pastels as a background or accent medium but this workshop gave me the confidence to paint with it as, truth be told, it was designed to do.

As a class, we made bird images, added colour to transfers and did a forest motif to get the techniques "going" and then we were on our own to create.  I made 2 pieces I'd love to share with you here that were based on a couple of paintings that inspire me.  The first one is of an image that Kathryn Trotter created in oil on canvas - "Fashion Illustration 2".  Here is the original

And this is what I created with the pastels with my own "touch"

Made me smile...

But not as much as this one....

This is my version of a Fabulous Painting one of the gals (Judy) brought with her for inspiration,

This is a 16x20 Pan Pastel (with soft pastel accents) painting created on green pastel board

Since I used a print image of a painting provided by someone else, I don't know who the original artist is but I am looking into that as we speak ... cause I want to show you and credit such a wonderful image.  As soon as I know, I will put the link here.  If you know - PLEASE email me!!

I still can't believe I painted these!

Gotta love Pan Pastel!  Donna will be in the studio this September.  I would like her to teach a Pan Pastel class at the studio too...  so stay tuned for more info on that!

These two paintings I created are now framed and hanging in the studio for you all to enjoy!  I hope you come in to see them "in real life" soon

Hope you had a creative week!!