Welcome to the September Pastel Strokes!
Those who have participated in previous months already know the guidelines. For all newbies to this monthly challenge, they are as follows:
* An individual volunteering to host the monthly project proposes to a guide or a moderator a new photo reference near the beginning of the month.
* The guide or moderator approves the host and reference photo(s) and the selected host posts the project in Pastel Talk and also a thread in the Soft Pastel Studio with a link to the Pastel Talk project.
* Interested participants create a painting from the photo(s) and upload it to this thread for viewing and discussion.
* The image may be cropped, rearranged, and interpreted in any manner! Use different effects in your software program and try painting something different, tweak the color, add or subtract things.
* You may paint as many versions and as many photos as you like, and they may be any size.
I hope you are pleased with the photos - these were taken from one of the paintout spots at a nice farmlike area in Kansas during the Albert Handell and Anita Louise West workshop here in the Kansas City area in 2007. I tried to select photos that you might crop to find a little jewel area to paint. Have fun!
