about 1 month ago - 2 comments
The International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) has organized the second web show and you can see it on the society website. The show chair was Paula Ann Ford, and jurors of selection were Alain Picard, Christine Ivers, Phil Bates. The Judge of Awards was Denise LaRue Mahlke. To see the winning paintings click on…
about 9 months ago - 1 comment
Daggi Wallace is a pastel painter born in 1962, in Berlin, Germany, currently living in Dallas, Texas. Primarily self-taught, she had her first painting lesson at the age of five and continues her studies through workshops and classes as well as many museum visits during her frequent travels to Europe. Her pastel paintings have been…
about 10 months ago - No comments
I was fortunate enough to visit John Pence Gallery in San Francisco and see the pastel paintings by Clark G. Mitchell. Beside a few smaller landscapes there was one huge beautiful pastel painting, bigger than me and I’m sure the biggest pastel painting I’ve ever seen. Clark is a pastel artist with a B.A. in…
about 1 year ago - 10 comments
This is the basic statistics from the recent IAPS 17th web show. I will not attend to comment data since the statistics is always prone to different interpretations. The great majority of the PSA members also have their local pastel societies and that is the confusing moment in this statistic, but for the simplicity sake…
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
For the first time The International Association of Pastel Societies has organized the web show and you can see it on the society website. There were record number of entries this year, over 850, and 72 were accepted for the exhibition. The show chair was Liz Haywood-Sullivan, and jurors of selection were Lorenzo Chavez, Margaret…
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
The 16th IAPS Juried Exhibition was taking place in The Flora B. Giffuni Gallery, Ohio, USA from July 11-Aug 29, 2010. For all of you who haven’t had a chance to see the exhibition (me included) take a look at the left column and you will find the accepted works with links to all artists.…
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The International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Master Circle was created to honor those artists whose work has been accepted and/or given awards in a specific number of IAPS Exhibitions and IAPS Convention Catalogue Cover Contests. Newly qualified artists for IAPS Master Circle (Medallion will be awarded in Spring 2011) are: Phil Bates, Christine Bodnar,…
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
The Tucson Pastel Society is a new society run by Becky Neideffer, who’s work you could have seen at the last Pastel 100. Becky and other Arizona pastel lovers started the society in January 2010 and they look like a very lively group of artists. They have monthly meetings, monthly newsletter and they have joined…