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Win, Place and Show in The Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition
We might be tempted to doubt our chances of winning awards and recognition for our artwork, but we have no chance at all if we don’t take the trouble to enter. So, don’t let your latest pastel masterpiece go unseen. …
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Introducing | Art Books for Your Digital Library
Our fine art community at F+W Media has just launched a terrific new resource for artists: Artist’s Network eBooks. Offered as an annual subscription, participants will have online access to a full art instruction library of more than 100 (and growing) art books from North Light Books. Subscribers can look at any book in the library and as many books in the library as many times as they wish.
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Pastel Pointers | Commercial Pastel Primers and Grounds
At the end of last year, I posted a couple blogs about “Homegrown Surfaces” on December 12 and December 19. These covered the topics of substrates and the components required to make a homemade pastel ground. With the ever-increasing popularity …
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Pastel Pointers | Workshop Lessons
When the latest issue of Pastel Journal arrived the other day, I was immediately reminded of a familiar response to a student’s inquiry about how to paint something unfamiliar: It’s all the same. I first heard the phrase when attending a workshop given by a nationally renowned artist, famous for his still life and portrait work…
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New Art Videos | Pastel Masters Demonstrate Their Skillls
Three definite highlights of last spring’s International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Convention were the live painting demonstrations with three of today’s pastel legends: Albert Handell, Elizabeth Mowry and Richard McKinley. Anybody who has had the privilege of watching these artists in action, as I have, knows that it is a magical experience.
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Pastel Pointers | The Art of Edges in Our Paintings
Any creative who’s trying to depict reality—whether an author, sculptor or painter—must try to master the art of illusion. One of the most useful tools an artist can use to produce this magic is the manipulation of edges. The dictionary definition of “edge” is the line where an object or area begins or ends: a border. In the framework of a painting, the governing factors in determining how an edge should be handled are: the character of the object or area, the degree of value and color contrast that make up its surroundings, its overall importance and its placement within the composition.
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Paint Skies in Pastel | New Video
Sometimes the sky plays a supporting role in a landscape; other times, it is the star of the show. Either way, knowing how to capture the impact of a dramatic sky is key for anyone interested in painting the landscape. Last fall, Liz Haywood-Sullivan, an artist well known for her luminous pastel landscapes, visited our Cincinnati office to shoot some videos for ArtistsNetworkTV that address key components of the landscape.
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Pastel Art in Singapore | A Review
The National Library Board (NLB) of Singapore, host of a November 2011 exhibition, “Singapore Pastel Art: Impression & Expression,” at the Singapore National Library, is the publisher of a newly released anthology Pastel Art in Singapore. This is the first time that an art exhibition and book were launched together under the NLB sponsorship. How fitting that pastel, whose art history begins in the 18th-century maritime city-state of Venice, should drop anchor in the 21st-century cultural life of the great port and city-state of Singapore.
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In Memoriam | Three Recent Losses in the Pastel World
I recently got the sad news of the passing of Mary Silverwood (1932-2011), a pastel artist from New Mexico with whom I spoke for a feature story back in June of 2008. Mary was an inspiring artist and fascinating person, and she is the third pastel artist we’ve lost in about as many months. The artist Ann Templeton, of Texas, whose expressive landscapes and creative insights were greatly admired, passed away in October, and Sheila Reinman, of Montana, died in November.
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Composition Skill Builders | The Organizational Shape
Several years ago, Doug Dawson made a discovery that changed the way he views nature and how he approaches the problem of painting: “I call it the principle of the organizational shape. This new approach changed what I look for in subject matter, how I go about composing a painting and what I think about when finishing a piece.” Read all about it in the February 2012 issue of Pastel Journal on sale here, and see the following examples of how he put the idea to work:
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