
AFTER PAINTING IN PASTEL for years I wanted to try a picture using pastel pencils only. In 1988, a friend gave me a few sheets of 7×10 inch heavily sanded cotton cloth. It was very stiff and had a great deep gray color. Not wishing to take normal painting hours to try the pencils I did a work-around. I grabbed a small box of pencils, the new paper, a little white eyelet doily that was on my end table, and a little bowl purchased at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (in VA). Voila! My husband and I hopped on an airplane for vacation. Once in the air, I pulled out all my little supplies and opened my snack tray. For the next few hours, I sketched a couple of little vignettes with the two simple elements of fabric and the bowl. My light source was the plane’s tiny double paned...
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