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Archive for September, 2010
Bold Brush Aug 2010 Pastel Winners
Sep 30th
The Bold Brush Painting Competition is having more and more pastel paintings reaching the FAV15. The Outstanding Pastel painting went to Margaret Ferguson and Lisa Mitchell.
The following are pastel artists from FAV15%. Click on the name to see the painting:
Margi Lucena
Mary Aslin
Cuong Nguyen
Lisa Fricker
Jane McGraw-Teubner
Sandy Byers
Stephanie Birdsall
Margi Lucena
Patty Forte Linna
Add Your Pastel Site to This Blog
Sep 21st
I have posted links to all the pastel blogs that I have being collecting for the last year or so. If you are the pastel artist and want to be listed, please go to the Link Page and add your website or blog to the list. I will neither review nor judge your art but I will need to check your site in order to avoid spam entries.
Once again I’d like to thank Casey Klahn who notices the problem with links the first time I published it.
William A. Schneider won The Salmagundi Award
Sep 20th
William A. Schneider
William A. Schneider‘s painting “Bud at 92″ won The Salmagundi Award at the Pastel Society of America’s 38th Annual Open Juried Exhibition held at The National Arts Club in New York City. The exhibition runs through October 2, 2010.
“I have painted Bud several times,” said Schneider. “He loves to model. He is a joker who delights in good-natured teasing. The twinkle in his eye belies his 92 years. I hope I captured that spirit.”
news via Artist’s Magazine blog
John Singer Sargent, Pastel painting
Sep 18th
This is the pastel portrait of Paul Helleu by John Singer Sargent from 1880, and it is his only pastel painting I could find on the net. If you know for some more please let us know in the comments.
Fogg Museum of Art (USA)
Width: 44.8 cm (17.64″) Height: 49.5 cm (19.49″).
John Singer Sargent, pastel portrait of Paul Helleu
To see it in the better resolution click on the image.
Upcoming Pastel Competition Deadlines
Sep 10th
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, 2010.
BoldBrush Sep 30, 2010.
The Artist’s Magazine Over 60 Competition Oct 1, 2010
BoldBrush Oct 30, 2010.
International Artist Magazine Landscapes, Nov 17, 2010.
BoldBrush Entry deadline: Nov 30, 2010.
BoldBrush Entry deadline: Dec 31, 2010.
Featured Pastel Artist: Terri Ford
Sep 9th
Terri Ford is a native Californian, she attended the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and she is living in San Jose. Terri has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Mexico and her pastel paintings include landscapes, portraits, the splendors of Paris, the backroads of France, and Italy… She likes the play of light in a different conditions and is greatly inspired by old architecture; barns, bridges, missions, cathedrals, clock towers, turrets and spires. I especially like her surprising use of vibrant colors like the painting Fishing nets which I can’t stop starring at 
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Terri’s pastel paintings have gained national and international recognition. She was conferred the title Masters Circle by the IAPS in 2007. She has been awarded Distinguished Pastellist status by the Pastel Society of the West Coast, and is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Pastel Society of New Mexico & Sierra Pastel Society. Terri teaches plein air workshops in California and abroad. She was a demonstrator at the IAPS Biennial Convention in Albuquerque, NM, May 2009.
“My passion for pastels never subsides. It becomes more intense as I continue my journey with them.The tactile nature of pastel in hand, the surface, with nothing in between continues to excite me. My work is driven by drama of light, and a poetic resonance in a subject.”
IAPS 16th – Accepted Pastels
Sep 1st
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.
Barbara Benedetti Newton
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