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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Pastel Society of North Florida has announced the call for the entries for the 11th biennial national (USA) juried exhibition. The entries must be received by August 15th and the prospectus can be found here. The show will take place in Niceville, Florida, USA, from October 22nd through December 2nd 2010. Margaret Dyer will…
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The category Abstract & Non-Objective at The Pastel Journal 11th annual Pastel 100 Competition is the last one in this series. I hope you have enjoyed it as much as I did. All paintings and links to the artists will be stored on the Gallery page. Gold medal for exelence: Jennifer Gardner 1. Judith Berk…
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Top pastel artists in the category Still Life and Floral at The Pastel Journal 11th annual Pastel 100 Competition. Check the left column and the Gallery page for the artworks that I got permission from the artists to be published. PJ Grand Prize Sarah Blumenschein 1. Gertrude Abramson 2. Kathy Steckel 3. Anne McGrory 4.…
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The North Light is having the Pastel Journal and other art magazines Annual CDs on sale. The 2009, 2008 and 2007 are 18$ and 2006 and 2005 are for 10$. I prefer the paper version but the CD version is very useful when I do some research. Share/Bookmark