Contours

Taken at Longwood Gardens, PA

Taken in the conservatory at Longwood Gardens, PA

Taken in the conservatory at Longwood Gardens, PA

Taken at the Italian Water Garden at Longwood Gardens, PA

Taken in the conservatory at Longwood Gardens, PA

Taken at Longwood Gardens, PA

Taken in the convservatory at Longwood Gardens, PA

Taken in the conservatory at Longwood Gardens, PA.

I’ve just started working on a new piece, and snapped a photo of one of my favorites parts of the process – working out the color palette.  If possible, I’ll lay down the swatches on scrap pieces of the actual paper I’m using (in this case, black Colourfix).  If I like the color, I’ll put the pencil aside into my “palette box” for the picture.  Hopefully I’ll also remember to label the color – something I don’t always do when I’m rapidly trying many colors – so I can reference it later on.  It’s also a nice sanity check to look at all of the colors in the piece at once as swatches – if they have good harmony, then I’ll feel more confident about how the final picture will look.  Here’s the pic of the working palette for my new piece:

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If you’ve been to my blog page before, you’ve probably already noticed that it’s moved to http://www.shawnfalchetti.com/wordpress/.  This is because I’ve created a portfolio page as my main page at http://www.shawnfalchetti.com/.  At one of my recent shows the gallery mentioned they had got a little lost on my blog looking for my works, so I thought it would be helpful to have a main page with just my portfolio, show history, and a few other items (in addition to keeping my blog up and running).  Since the new site is designed purely to see the images, you can see works full screen, which is nice.

I received notification that with this summer’s CPSA 17th Annual International Exhibition in Atlanta, I will receive CPSA Signature Status.  There is an awards banquet on Friday,  July 31st at the Marriott Atlanta Gwinnett Place, where new Signature members are announced.