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I’ll be driving west along Route 128—our scenic “river road,” and I’ll see the huge slabs of red rock, the purple splashes of varnish, the reflections on the Colorado, and it really grabs me. I have to paint it!

My art career has been a series of stops and starts. In fact my introduction to pastels more than 30 years ago was due to the stops and starts of my business. I was living in the Pacific Northwest and learning to work in oils, when my teacher, Roberta St. Louis, suggested I give pastels a try. With pastels, I wouldn’t need to keep remixing my oil paints when I had some time for my art. I made my first order from Dakota Art Pastels, and it began a lifelong obsession.  Continue Reading>>>