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Archive for July, 2011
PastelNews Painting Challenge
Jul 17th
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 you how to capture the particular ambient qualities of any scene before you, be it a gloriously clear morning, a rainy afternoon, or the joyful dance of sunlight on water. Master pastelist Maggie Price, together with five contributing artists, explores different styles, approaches and subjects, including landscapes, water scenes and people.
If you would like to play with light and shadow and share your work with us here is the pastel painting challenge for you.
- Download and read chapter one The Basic Principles of Light and Color.
- Choose any of the paintings from this chapter or use your own reference.
- Make a soft pastel painting with the clearly visible play of the light and shadow.
- Upload your painting to the Pastel News Facebook page by end of August 2011.
- I will chose one of the participants randomly to win a paper copy of the book.
- All participants get a free digital issue of The Pastel Journal.
- Your work and link to your site will stay on the Facebook page and in the Gallery on this website.
If you don’t have a Facebook account you can e-mail your work to info@pastelnews.com
The Basic Principles of Light and Color’ is an excerpt from Painting Sunlight & Shadow with Pastels copyright (c) 2011 Maggie Price. All materials used by permission of F+W Media. All rights reserved
The Pastel Journal: The First 10 Years
Jul 14th
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 it with you on your laptop or print articles to use in your studio. Issues are in PDF format, making them viewable on both PC and Mac with Acrobat Reader 6.0. It is sold for $79.99 at North Light Books webstore.
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Old Pastel Master: Stanislaw Wyspianski
Jul 10th
Stanislaw Wyspianski self-portrait
Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907)
self-portrait, 1902
pastel on paper, 38 x 38 cm (15×15″)
National Museum, Warsaw Poland
Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907) was a Polish painter, pastellist, decorative artist, illustrator, writer and theater director. He was the son of the Kraków sculptor Franciszek Wyspianski and studied at the Kraków School of Fine Arts. In 1889 Wyspianski and Józef Mehoffer, the school’s most talented students, were appointed to complete a painted decorations for St Mary, Kraków, a task that prompted Wyspianski’s interest in both decorative painting and stained glass. The years 1890-1895 were devoted to traveling. Wyspiański visited Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Prague and France. The stay in France was regarded to be the major point in his artistic life. He studied at the private atelier Académie Colarossi. During the stay in France he got acquainted with Paul Gauguin. Together they visited art museums, where Wyspiański was bewitched by the beauty of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes’s paintings.
Odilon Redon: The Shell
Jul 7th
Odilon Redon "The Shell"
Odilon Redon, from 1912
title: The Shell, The Seashell, Coquille
pastel, 51 x 57.8 cm (20″ x 23″)
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
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“My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.” –Odilon Redon
Barbara Benedetti Newton
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