LONG TIME

Wow...I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted. Like to say that I've been very busy, but the truth is, just lazy!

New Pastel

OLDER PASTEL

Bloomin' Chair

ANNIE

New pastel for a friend. Her Golden probably is a bit prettier than this!

NEW PASTEL

A mixed media (mostly pastel) that I did for a friend.

ODDS AND ENDS

I couple of recent pieces that I actually like.

Watercolor on Arches paper

Pastel

OLDER PASTEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6hg7BvDRGY

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

WOLF PASTEL REVISITED

Pastel drawing that I did a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/G6hg7BvDRGY

SON AND GRANDSON

My son and one of his two boys spent a couple of days with us. Levi has grown so much and is now really a hand full...but in a good way.

Easter Levi
Pastel
John Brisson

Levi
Scratch Art
John Brisson

BAD BLOGGER

I have been terrible at posting lately. Family things have been keeping me busy. My grandson's birthday has come and gone and I can't believe how old he is.




I can share a great website though. Fantastic paintings at...
 http://www.watercolors.org/exhibitions/2015/

GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER

Played some music last night with some of my teacher friends from the high school. It's always so hard for us to find free time at the same time, but great fun when we do.

The Band
Pastel
John Brisson

KOI

Koi Pastel
John Brisson

MORE VERMONT

Reworked and one of my older pastels after our refresher trip back east.

PRESERVE LIFE

"I feel the only thing you can do about life is preserve it, by art if you're and artist, by children if you're not."
                     ~Philip Larkin~  'Letters to Monica'

Beach Boy
Pastel on Canson paper

PAINTING

"The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard"
     ~Leonardo da Vinci~

Boothbay Harbor
Pastel on Canson paper
John Brisson

ART'S PATH

"Art is meant to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers..."
   ~Kelly Bingham~

Wind Swept
Pastel
John Brisson

DELICATELY

"All art is but dirtying the paper delicately."
 ~John Ruskin,  The Elements of Drawing~

Old Mill
Pastel on Canson Paper
John Brisson

LEVI

Another attempt at a portrait of my grandson. Fun to do but, once again, I seem to make him look like he is in high school. He is just three!

PORTRAIT

"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait."
~James McNeill Whistler~

Champ
Pastel Portrait
John Brisson

ME BEING KOI

Koi
Pastel on Canson
Pastel Paper