Winter WarmthPines covered with blue snow Pastel by Mena Size: 11x14 About Mena Mena Levit Artist Statement A classical opera singer & voice teacher by trade, I have always been interested in art, but never formally trained on it. A few years ago I had the opportunity to attend a pastel demonstration by Robin Frisella. I immediately fell in love with the style and vibrant nature of the medium, and began watching online beginner videos and attending various classes

Vibrant roses arranged in a vintage bowl

Photography: With my camera

Duck with attitude and carnation "hat"

A lovely building painted en plein air with soft pastels during a summer trip to the south of France

The Monarch butterfly is important both ecologically and culturally

Giclee Reproduction of a Botanical Monotype by Judith Stein

I enjoy looking through my "spectrum inspired lens and capturing he beauty of nature and life all around us

Optimism abounds from this show of bright yellow lifted up from the surrounding blues

Marker and pencil on Canson Mixed Media Paper by Eloise Hardie

and reflectivity of the paint

Found and polyurethaned birch bark flower sculpture vases

and Australia