In her studio, the artist talked about the technique behind her new paintings. While most seem to be rather large pure pastels, in reality they are a mixture of media on a variety of supports. To make her "skyscapes" light and airy, Dornzo experimented with new pastels, oil bars and pure pigments, sometimes layering them over each other, to create the luminous effect of these new paintings.

The artist mixes many of her own pastels and paints with the purest possible medium, a black oil which she prepares herself and later uses the smallest amount with pure pigment. To paint with oils, she uses as many as 18 brushes for one painting, sometimes a brush for each color, retaining clarity and intensity.

Some of the supports include canvas glued to wood panel, stretched canvas, Page Two black gesso on Arches paper, 300 lb white Arches paper. Some of the paintings are scratched and textured with nails, charcoal pencil, china marker, whatever it takes in what she considers her age of experimentation.