Making paper and painting pastels

This weeks class was on making your own paper.  We began by using Heat set watercolor paper and Art Spectrum Colorfix primer  with a fine tooth. The primer was poured onto a paper plate and then rolled with a small roller on to the water color paper. The great thing about this procedure is that is dries in 5 minutes and is ready to paint on.
We used Ultra Blue and Aubergine and Clear. This process was fun and made a great paper for pastel painting.
After the paper making session the class completed the pastel paintings that they did last week...and then proceeded to the newly made paper and painted another landscape.
As you will see the class is progressing nicely and have made huge strides since the first class. I think they are hooked on pastel......See below

Connie had fun today in class!

Connie's pastel ...love the gray building and the
many colors you used. Beautiful!

Rita getting ready for critique

Arlene's painting that she finished from last week,
Great use of color, love that tree on the left!

Arlene getting ready to paint

Jean is loving pastel class!

Jean, these dark Irises are the envy of every gardener.
Love the beautiful color you used and how you treated the background.
This is a very successful painting. Kudos, Jean!

Rita just finished her pastel painting....and she likes it!

Rita's pastel with lost and found edges. Beautiful use of pastel
and the foreground is warm and  fabulous. The clouds are  great...I
love the use of several colors to get that puffy cloud. Wonderful job, Rita!

Valerie brings her painting to the critique.

Valerie has done it again...Wow! love the color. The beautiful composition
you son's photo is the inspiration you needed. This painting
has a great use of color and composition. Fabulous job Valerie!

This class has outdone itself. I am impressed how quickly they have embraced this medium and the beautiful paintings they are producing each week. I just love to come to class to see what they are going to produce.