Hello out there. Welcome to my blog.
A little bit about myself ( more to come in future blogs) . I am a professional artist working in pastel. I am a signature member of The Pastel Society of the West Coast and Northwest Pastel Society. I started painting at the age of 50 after moving to the high desert north of Los
Angeles's San Fernando Valley. The open spaces , the light, clean air, dramatic and vast
skyscapes brought out of me an intensive desire to create. I could not deny the urges so I started dabbling in oils. After a year of closet painting, I worked up the guts to show my works at a local festival. I sold nothing but was invited by another artist, Glen Knowles to enroll in his watercolor classes at the local college. I did that and ended up taking his classes for a few years switching to water color as my medium. Oh heck, I don't want to go into my history. You can look it up on my website at
http://www.anitastoll.com/ if you wish. By the way at the time I'm writing this it needs updating. Until I do that this blog will suffice.
I am both excited and nervous about this new venture of blogging. I hope you'll bear with me as I learn the ropes. I'm not so much a high tech person but I will
achieve some degree of learning and skill. By the way, did I ever tell you I'm not a writer. Did you hear about the Panda who went into a diner. He sat at the counter, ordered and ate his meal then pulled out a gun and shot the person sitting next to him and proceeded to leave. As he was about to go out the door someone shouted out " Why did you do that?". He answered, " I'm a panda that's what I do. Look it up in the dictionary". Then he got up and left. Naturally all the people around were stunned. The owner of the diner went in the back room, came out with a dictionary and looked up panda. It said "panda : eats shoots and leaves". Well folks, I'm an artist, I paint....That's what I do. I'm not a writer.
Here's hoping you will enjoy my blog and share my adventure as I grow and learn what the heck I'm doing here.
