“Granite Grandeur” 12” x 16” Original Pastel Painting by Colorado Artist Margretta S. Perry

“Granite Grandeur” 

 12” x 16” Original Pastel Painting 

by Colorado Artist Margretta S. Perry

$275.00...+ Shipping

This is an award-winning piece that is soon to be shown at the library at Front Range Community College in the “Art from the Heart” show sponsored by the Paletteers Art Club, Inc. The painting will be for sale at the show. 

“Granite Grandeur” is a scene from the Snowy Range Mountains in southern Wyoming. The lovely glacial lakes sit at the bottom of tall granite peaks with glaciers nestled in their crags. The roads across Snowy Range in the Medicine Bow National Forest are all closed during the winter which gives you an idea of the weather issues…

I used Wallis sanded paper as the ground and a mixture of soft pastels. This painting is matted and framed out to a 12 x 16 size, ready for hanging. Although, if purchased matted but unframed, the shipping would be less but will need to be framed under glass. 

I will accept landscape commissions if you have a favorite scene. Prices vary by size.

Contact me for purchasing details at smyliemp@gmail.com

See this and other paintings for sale at http://PerryPastels.blogspot.com

“Blowing and Drifting…” 9-12” Original Pastel Painting by Colorado Artist Margretta S. Perry

“Blowing and Drifting…” 

9"x12" Original Pastel Painting

 by Colorado Artist Margretta S. Perry

$225.00...+ Shipping

This pastel painting is a painting of memory and a little bit of fiction. It is an impression piece, I suppose. While growing up in Montana and Wyoming (and a host of other places which are not important right now) the weather forecast was often, “blowing and drifting snow”. If you’ve spent any winter time in the windy plains north of the Rockies, you’ll know what I mean. You might not be having falling snow at the time, but the ground blizzards can be ferocious and deadly. I remember riding many times with my family and having everyone at a car window calling out the white, (can you believe it???) center lines on the highway or the edges of the barrow pit and mile markers on the other side so that whoever was driving would know where he or she was on the road. So, when I painted this piece, I wanted to capture the isolation of the ranch, the mountains in the background, and the effects of the ground blizzard, reshaping the landscape by the minute. These were cold winter days which were miserable outside, but warm and cozy when you went into the house.

I used Wallis sanded paper as the ground and a mix of soft pastels. This painting is matted and framed out to a 12 x 16 size, ready for hanging. Although, if purchased matted but unframed, the shipping would be less but will need to be framed under glass. 

Contact me for purchasing details at smyliemp@gmail.com

 

See this and other paintings for sale at http://PerryPastels.blogspot.com

 

I will accept landscape commissions if you have a favorite scene. Prices vary by size.