"Park Trail #62" (pastel, 6x12 inches) bid or buy  I wrote a really nice long inspirational New Years post today about painting more, and you can read it here! (or on my Patreon page.) What I really want to say here is that my blog is moving! I'm retiring this location and continuing with the Daily Painting posts on my new website blog...  But you can always find them also on my Patreon page, and on DailyPaintworks. I won't delete this blog, I just won't post here any more. Thanks for being great fans! See ya around on the web in other places. Happy New Year! . . . . Thanks f ..read more

  "Beau" (pastel, 7x5 inches) bid or buy  Here's "Beau", from VOS Episode 124 Part 2, which I finally finished. (Muses and Buddies on my Patreon can watch it here!) See a quick speed video of "Beau" here! . . . . Thanks for reading! .... RitaKirkman.com .... Patreon.com/RitaKirkmanStudio .... ritakirkman.blogspot.com .... facebook.com/ritakirkman ..read more

  "Harper" (conte pencil and pastel, 16x12 inches) (a sold commission) Here's Harper, one of the handsome quick-sketch doggies from Episode 128, sped up for your enjoyment!   . . . . Thanks for reading! .... RitaKirkman.com .... Patreon.com/RitaKirkmanStudio .... ritakirkman.blogspot.com .... facebook.com/ritakirkman ..read more

 "Screech Owl" (pastel, 8x6 inches) bid or buy Here's the star of Saturday's Paint-Along - the Screech Owl! This one's a little different... Instead of my usual pastel primer underpainting, I used some UArt paper  that had some pastel washed in with alcohol, something I had left over from someone else's workshop months ago. I figured I'd put it to use! So instead of building an acrylic-based underpainting, I basically started with a value drawing of the owl using a black Rembrandt pastel.  See a quick speed video here! . . . . Thanks for reading! .... RitaKirkman.com .... Patre ..read more

  "Finley" (pastel, 7x5 inches) bid or buy See a 40 second slide show video of the creation of Finley here! . . . . Thanks for reading! .... RitaKirkman.com .... Patreon.com/RitaKirkmanStudio .... ritakirkman.blogspot.com .... facebook.com/ritakirkman ..read more

 "Park Trail #61" (pastel on Ampersand Pastelbord, 14x11 inches) bid or buy here The first day of Mark Ivan Cole's workshop was fantastic! He demoed a wonderfully moody and atmospheric woodsy creek. Many of us were surprised by his method, which starts off very loose! My painting here is from a photo I took "somewhere in TN" according to my endless photo files. I thought it looked like a Mark Cole scene, though I swung myself into a method I used in a workshop with Rae Smith in 2017, when I painted one of my fave landscapes, Park Trail #39. And the Pastelbord handled the many layers ver ..read more

  "Gurty" (pastel, 6x6 inches) bid or buy Here's a quick high quality GIF for you, and guess what? I made it myself! My son showed me how. There's a program that only works on Mac or Linux... well, I won't bore you. But I'll probably have to get my son to show me again the next few times too. (PS: If this GIF doesn't play for you, click to watch it here!)   Gurty is short for "Yogurt" because doesn't she look like vanilla? Today's your lucky day too because I finished painting Gurty in my Virtual Open Studio Episode 118, Part 2, which I decided to make public for everyone to watch ..read more

  "Argie in his Blanket" (pastel, 8x6 inches) bid or buy Here's a quick speed video of Argie expertly edited by my son. Enjoy! Muses and Buddies on my Patreon can watch the real-time video in Episode 122 here! If you pay attention you can see when I when I wipe off most of the first try, to correct the drawing and values and paint it again! . . . . Thanks for reading! .... RitaKirkman.com .... Patreon.com/RitaKirkmanStudio .... ritakirkman.blogspot.com .... facebook.com/ritakirkman ..read more

 "Ramiro" (pastel, 10x17) bid or buy Enjoy this speed video of this, my latest sheep painting! https://youtu.be/gQW-AM4FIrY . . . . Thanks for reading! .... RitaKirkman.com .... Patreon.com/RitaKirkmanStudio .... ritakirkman.blogspot.com .... facebook.com/ritakirkman ..read more

  Day #21 of 21-in-31: "Young Kingbirds on Wire" (pastel, 10x8 inches) available, and will be with me at the Midland Septemberfest Art festival Sept 9-11, 2022. My final painting of my monthly goal! Yay! This painting will soon be with me at the Midland Septemberfest Art festival Sept 9-11, 2022, unless it sells here first. ;) See some progress pics on my Patreon Page! . . . . Thanks for reading! .... RitaKirkman.com .... Patreon.com/RitaKirkmanStudio .... ritakirkman.blogspot.com .... facebook.com/ritakirkman ..read more