I have been working on a landscape commission, which I cannot show until after Christmas. It was a BIG pastel picture. It is done and is now with the one who commissioned it. Yay!
So, because of my most recent health issues, I need to lay off the pastels for a while. I wanted to do the following with pastels, but decided to give it a try with acrylics. I like it. It was fun, also. And no worries about breathing in the pastel dust. Double yay!
This is an 8×10 stretched canvas.
I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
-- Robert Frost (Selection from his poem "Birches")
Virginia C. McCoy Fine Art 