I still haven't figured out a way to add images to my draft posts (thank you for a prompt response to my query Google help staff...). So I'm going to close out 2025 with a post I started in 2023 and never added text to.
My friend/former mentor Phil Laber had a show in DeWitt, Iowa. If you have a time machine you can go see it. Anyway, his show was a look back at the work he made durin g the time period I was a student of his back in Missouri. I LOVED seeing these pieces again. The excellent compositions and dynamic plays between warm and cool colors are PRECISELY how/why I fell in love with his work over 30 years ago.
You can check out his pastel work by clicking this link to his website: https://www.philiplaber.com/pastel-drawings .
Enough of my blabbering on, check these pieces out! We'll start out with what is probably my favorite.
With that, we bid 2025 adieu....
