Dianna Ponting
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How long have you been painting in pastels and what other mediums do you like best?
I have been painting pastel since 1981 that makes it 32 years...wow… time flies!

However, I began painting with pen and ink when I was still in my early teens and pastel didn't enter into the picture until I was in my 30s.  As a divorced mother of two I needed to supplement my income and did so by doing pastel portraiture.  At the same time I was furthering my ink drawings with the addition of watercolor washes and went on to produce 110 limited edition prints and medium which allowed me to become an independent artist.

I delved into pure watercolor for a few years, and in 1994 I went almost exclusively back to pastels for 10 years.  I felt watercolor a lot of work and pastel a lot of fun.

In between then and now I have done oils, acrylics, silk dyes, and stained-glass.  I have recently returned small, loose oils and I'm having a ball.  However, I continue to travel the world and teach pastel, wherever they will have me.

I'm still trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.


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