PASTELS

"Heading Home"

A vintage Silver Streak travel trailer winds its way back home ... Inspired by real life Houston County Road here in East Texas, this painting was begun as a demonstration for the Greenville Art League, May 2006.

Pastel on sanded paper. 18" x 26" NFS

"The Old Smokehouse at Orchard Hills"

This was a demonstration in pastel painting for the Mineola League of the Arts (MLOTA). The subject came from my grandfather's farm in Barboursville, West Virginia. This fine, old brick structure is still in place, although the farm is now a nine-hole golf course. Still, isn't it comforting to know that some things never change?

This was also a demonstration in pastel painting. It is rendered on Terracotta Art Spectrum Paper and is now happily adorning a wall in my studio.

This is a portrait of my cat who was a constant companion until she passed away in January 2003.

 Pastel on Sanded Paper. 18" x 24" Custom matted and Framed  - NFS

Collection of the artist.

           "The Green Gate"

I painted this as a demo for a Dallas Christian school. Actually, I recycled the paper. It began as a pastel landscape by a student who abandoned it ...Two years later I washed the pastel off in the kitchen sink and started all over again. Wanting to do something with hollyhocks, I kind of made it up as I went along.  

 Pastel on sanded paper.  18" x 24" 

Custom matted and Framed  $500.

This painting was of my sister's road at Hico, West Virginia, which was covered with "red dog," a slate-like by-product of coke ovens, and is naturally a red-orange in color. I won Best of Show in March 2003 at the Mineola League of the Arts (MLOTA) Annual Fine Art Exhibit.

Pastel on Sanded Paper  18"x24" Custom matted and framed

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Hesskew  - Century 21 Hesskew Real Estate - Canton and Wills Point, Texas.

My grandfather William S. Estler originally photographed this scene of his only daughter, little red-headed Mary Katherine, in 1919, so the origin of this pastel rightfully belongs to him ... He used an old-fashioned box camera with a gun powder flash to capture it! His original photograph was also published in "Woman's Home Companion" magazine that year.

Pastel on Canson Paper  19" x 25" 

Custom matted and Framed - NFS

Collection of the artist.

"Sunshine!"

A tribute to sunflowers, one of my favorite flowers to paint. 

Pastel on Sanded Paper   13 1/2" x 18" 

Custom matted and Framed - $400.

"Cocky Guy"

The original of this print was created on stretched, sanded canvas. My model was part of a small band of renegade chickens that visited our backyard for several weeks before roving coyotes picked them off, one by one. I hated to see them go.

 

"Afternoon Nap"

One more (shameless) opportunity to paint my cat Bittie ... 

Pastel on Sanded Paper  18" x 24" Custom matted and Framed.

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mikos

Pastel on Velour Paper - A humorous rendition for a good friend of mine who runs a B&B on a working farm.

"Tribute to Bittie"

When Bittie died, I painted this portrait of her, doing what she did best: napping. I still miss her ...

Pastel on Sanded Paper  12"x16" Custom matted and Framed - NFS Collection of the artist...

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If you wish to purchase prints or license my work, you may contact me directly: paige@vintagetraveltrailerart.com

Telephone: 903-560-1672