Pastel landscape painting of Umbrian farm land and distant hills of Italy.

Pastel paintings   12.5 inches x 25.5 inches          SOLD

In this pastel landscape of Italy, I was trying to capture the breathtaking views that you see from the walls of the many hill towns around Umbria. You can see almost forever into the distance, and in all directions. But I also was playing a bit with the idea of breaking the scene into a more abstract composition, where fields, roads, and forests become nothing more than colors and shapes arranged in a pleasing way. You could say that I made the “earth move”, because I rearranged, eliminated and added elements in the Umbrian countryside just to fit my own artistic needs!

Just a few more days to check out my exhibit of Italian pastel and watercolor paintings at the River Gallery in Chelsea, Michigan. It comes down December 24th, so stop by if you can!

http://www.chelsearivergallery.com/artists/Jill_Wagner/Jill_Wagner_Pastels_1.htm

This artwork was created with:
Paper: Aubergine Art Spectrum Pastel Paper
Medium: Rembrandt Pastels and Sennelier Pastels

Plein air pastel landscape painting of silos seen from summer Michigan fields.

Pastel painting 11 inches x 8 inches

This field is not far from my house in an area that is scheduled for a large business park development. It breaks my heart to see all of the beautiful woods and farmlands eaten up by urban sprawl. Its one of the reasons I keep painting  pastel landscape paintings of farms and fields. I’ll be able to remember them after the huge steel and glass monstrosities replace them…

Plein air pastel landscape painting of a barn seen from barren fields.

Pastel painting 11 inches x 8. inches     $200

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Some of the fields around here are planted and starting to green up, but a lot of them are still full of the stubbly waste from last years crops. The acres of broken stalks make interesting texture for pastel landscapes. Sometimes spring is a difficult time for plein air because everything is so darn “perky” and green. It’s nice to find some gritty compositional elements to break up all of the emerald.

Pastel painting 13 inches x 9 inches $300 + shipping

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Can’t stop painting fields plein air right now. They’re too luscious! It will be fall soon enough and then winter when I can only paint couped up in the studio. Got to grab the great outdoors when I can!

Pastel painting 11 inches x 17 inches + shipping

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Another impossibly sunny day west of town. Nora and I found this beautiful scene in our wanderings around the countryside. She set up her oil paints and I set up my pastels for a few hours of painting bliss. We must have been a bit of an oddity painting out in the crops because we were visited by all of the farmers in the area. I think they wanted to see our work but they also wanted to make sure that we weren’t hurting their neighbor’s property. They were so friendly and proud of the beauty of their land.