Soft Pastel
14″ x 11″ x 0″
Joy Gonzalez paints landscapes of Coastal California, where she lives, as well as scenes from her travels throughout California and the Southwest. She is a third generation California native, and has enjoyed beach trips, back-packing and camping since she was a child. In this increasingly chaotic world, she feels that getting back to nature seems to restore sanity and serenity and that is what she tries to bring to her artwork.
Oil paint is currently her primary medium, since she loves the richness and intensity, but she has just started using soft pastels, another rich and intense medium.
Gonzalez’ goal is to paint expressively, yet maintain a sense of realism, and to convey her deep appreciation of the beauty of nature. Her goal in painting outdoors is to capture the ever-changing light and deepening shadows and her studio work builds on the knowledge of nature’s colors learned from observing and painting outdoors.
