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The 11th Pastel 100 Competition Results
The grand prize winners of the Pastel Journal 11th annual Pastel 100 Competition are Don Rantz, Sarah Blumenschein, Akiko Hoshino, Jennifer Gardner and Dawn Emerson. In the slide show below you can see the awarded pastel paintings and some more work by these fine pastelists.
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“Pastel 100″ Winners for 2012
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The Pastel Journal selected the top Pastel 100 works in the 13th annual competition. This year’s winners were selected from nearly 3,000 entries. The preview of the top winners can be seen on this youtube clip. The Pastel 100 winners for 2012 (in alphabetical order) Abel Marquez, Andrew McDermott, Anne Van Blarcom-Kurowski, Arlene Richman, Barbara…
PastelNews Painting Challenge
about 10 months ago - 4 comments
Participate to win a new book by Maggie Price. All participants get a free digital issue of The Pastel Journal. I’m sure most of the pastel artist have already heard about the new book Painting Light and Shadow with Pastels by Maggie Price. Rather than providing a one-size-fits-all recipe for painting light, this book shows…
The Pastel Journal: The First 10 Years
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The Pastel Journal: The First 10 Years 1999-2008 CD/DVD. On this single disc (DVD format), you’ll find an entire library of the first 10 years of The Pastel Journal (1999-2008). That’s 59 issues featuring more than 4,600 pages of pastel inspiration, instruction and painting ideas—all searchable by keyword. View it on your home computer, take…
Aaron Schuerr Pastel Adventures
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Have you ever tried to paint outdoors with the frozen fingers? Or climbing to a peek of mountain to find that perfect spot for your next plein air painting? Looks like that is the specialty of Aaron Schuerr. He combines his love of outdoors and painting to capture those special moments when most of us…
Featured Pastel Artist: Cuong Nguyen
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Cuong Nguyen was trained to be a traditional portraitist at the age of 10 in his native Vietnam. He finds the natural beauty in the people that surround him—from the men and women he painted to earn money on the streets of Saigon as a child, to the denizens of Silicon Valley that he often…
Don Williams, The Pastel Journal Best of Show
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Night scenes of empty streets, ships and trains in a fog, old cars and gas stations… if you see it masterfully painted in pastels, you can be very certain it was done by Don Williams. His paintings are very quite and always show dramatic lights. Don earned a Master of Fine Arts degree at the…
Edward L. Rubin, The Annunciation
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The online gallery Infinity Art Gallery has announced winners of the Figurative Art Expo 2010. The first place this time was the pastel painting “The Annunciation” by Edward L. Rubin. You might have noticed this beautiful and unusual painting on this blog in the Pastel 100 Figure competition for 2010. Emmy Award winning Production Designer…
Upcoming Pastel Competition Deadlines
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This is the list of approaching deadlines for the pastel competitions till the end of 2010. Not all of them are pastel only competitions, but they are popular and many pastelists participate. Please feel invited to comment and add more. IAPS 2010 Web show Sep 15, 2010. International Artist Magazine People and Figure, Sep 15,…
Bold Brush July 2010 Pastel Winners
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The Bold Brush Painting Competition for July 2010 had many pastel paintings reaching the FAV15. The Outstanding Pastel painting went to Kathleen Newman and James Otto. The finalist who went into FAV15% with their pastel paintings are: Sue Gombus, Ray Hassard, Margaret Ferguson, John Philbin Dolan, Bob Richey, Mary Aslin, Mike Etie, Christy Perrine, Share/Bookmark
Bold Brush June 2010 Pastel Winners
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There will be a few posts after my summer break that don’t sound like a news, but I would like to have those artists and events recorded on this blog. The FineArtViews Painting Competition is now called Bold Brush painting competition. The Outstanding Pastel painting for June went to Margi Lucena who was in FAV15…
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