Yes it does that for sure! Thanks for making the connection 🙂

(And for those of you who may be curious, Dom is referring to our monthly Looking at Art call in my IGNITE! membership where we look at art from the past as it relates to the month’s topic. You can get on the Waitlist for the membership HERE.)

Thanks Liz. I no longer do the roundups. They took me on average, three full days to write, and that didn’t include the collecting time! Now much of my time is dedicated to creating content and managing IGNITE! the art-making membership you’re part of (thank you!).The rest of the time is blog writing and curating and also trying to carve out studio time! I loved doing those roundups…they made me take time and ponder about WHY I had chosen the pieces I did and then to write something specific and individual about each.

Liz, I will alert Moira to your inquiry and see if we can get some answers. Or perhaps some of our UK friends will have an answer.
I did go to Jackson’s Art Supplies (UK retailer) and found this page about mount board. I also found this article about the difference between mat board, mount board, and foam core. Useful I think!

Gail, Your round-ups are great. Are you still doing them? It appears that you are doing them on How to Pastel. I’ll take a look there. Since joining Ignite! I don’t go to How to Pastel very often. Hmmmm what else am I missing …..

I am also thoroughly intrigued by mountboard.
What is it exactly – I’m thinking maybe it is different in the UK, from what we call mount board here in the US. Here mount board is a slightly stiff, maybe 1-2mm thick paper based board that we use to frame paintings. Sometimes it is foam, and thicker, say 3-5mm, and it is used as a back board.
I’m also wondering if Moira puts a grit or roughening substance on the mountboard before she paints.

Hi Gareth,
Gosh I thought I’d replied but it seems not! Thank you for sharing your own connection with Moira. How wonderful to have actually met this fabulous artist and oh yes, how splendid to be in the same gallery as her. A thrill indeed!

You are so welcome Isabella. It really is my pleasure to bring guest artists and their pastel work to HowToPastel and hearing comments like yours just adds to that pleasure.

I like your references to Morandi and to the Cubists. And yes!! shape rather than object! Please post your experiments in IGNITE!

Hi Sue, WOW!! and WOW! Thanks for your enthusiastic response to Moira’s guest post!! I’m pretty darn excited for you! (Ad I’ve seen your collage in the HowToPastel (HTP) Facebook group and another WOW! Can’t wait to see how your experimentations and self-portrait in pastel via Moira’s method turn out.
Thanks for the idea of interviewing Moira! I’ll see what I can do 😀