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Pastel Artist: Mary Ann Cherry
Mary Ann Cherry is a Master Signature member of the Women Artists of the West and a signature member of the Pastel Society of America. She is co-founder of the Pastel Society of the Northern Rockies and current president. She paints primarily in soft pastel or oils, working in a studio near the Snake River in Idaho, where wildlife and birds are abundant. Although comfortable with any subject matter, Cherry admits that wildlife and Native American dancers are her favorites. Cherry is a workshop instructor and offers an online critique service
The painting in this post Blur of Yellow was the finalist in The Bold Brush Painting Competition in January.
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Pastelagram 2012
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Pastelagram is a publication by Pastel Society of America and is published each February, featuring reproductions of the best in current pastel artistry, highlights of the most recent Annual Exhibition, and articles by noted PSA members, who discuss their experiences, style and method of working. The featured artist in the 2012 issue are Liz Haywood…
Pastel En Plein Air Demo by Michael Chesley Johnson
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Main Course by Don Judah
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Don Judah‘s painting First Course (in this post) was selected as an outstanding pastel painting at the November 2011 BoldBrush competition. Here is how Don describes his art. “Art has always been my first love. My formal education in art was limited to high school and college elective classes and a few excursions into available…
Featured Pastel Artist: Jill Stefani Wagner
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Jill Stefani Wagner works in two quite different mediums: watercolor and pastel. She finds watercolors to be very fresh and intuitive medium and she is ready to throw away many pieces. Pastel on the other side is more forgiving and she will changes color, form, and position until the wanted effect. She strives for realism…
Bill Creevy in PSA Hall of Fame
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Each year the Pastel Society of America selects an outstanding artist to be included in the Hall of Fame to honor his or her special achievements in pastel painting. The artist included this year (2011) was Bill Creevy, a widely exhibited New York artist with over twelve solo shows. Originally a native of New Orleans,…
PSA’s 39th Annual Pastels Only Exhibition
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The Pastel Society of America held the 39th Annual Pastels Only Exhibition. There were close to 50 awarded artists. Top Award Winners, with prices over 1500$ were: Jimmy Wright – PSA Founders Award given by The Flora B. Giffuni Foundation. Bob Palevitz – Jack Richeson & Co. Award. Theresa Emmett Allison – Art Spirit Foundation Dianne…
Alberto Piedra Fernández
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Alberto Piedra Fernández is a pastel artist from Spain. He studied laws and in his artistic beginnings he was self-thought but soon he explored and discovered a field of figurative art and realism in pastels by the hand of internationally renewed artist Abel Marquez from Argentina. Alberto has received several international awards and recently had…
Pastel Artist: Paola Bassoli
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Paola Bassoli developed passion for painting under the watchful eye of her grandfather who was also a painter. The search for the right expression of Paola’s personality has gone through every form of art, but neither watercolor nor drawing courses have fulfilled her full expression. She finally found her expression through the portraits and figures…
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…
Daggi Wallace Non-Profit Project
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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…
Barbara Benedetti Newton
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