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The Winter Landscapes in Soft Pastel
Feb 8th
Liz Haywood-Sullivan "Daybreak"
I’m starting to present artists who paint Winter landscapes in soft pastels. Just to make it clear, since the Winter looks different in southern California than the one in Sweden I’ll be presenting only snow winters. The gallery with the links to the artists will be on the left column. The paintings that were so far presented should end up in the January gallery as soon as I figure out how to do that in the WordPress.
There are couple of demos and instructions how to paint snow and winter landscapes and I’m recommending the WetCanvas class by Deborah Secor and demos by Tom Christopher demo1 demo2 demo3.
Featured Pastel Artist: Mary Anne Cary
Feb 5th
Mary Anne Cary is a soft pastel artist living in Maine. She has a BFA in Visual Design from Southeastern Massachusetts University and she has enjoyed a career as a Graphic Artist for more than 10 years. While raising a family, she continued to take art classes in various mediums, focusing mostly on pastel painting and black and white photography. With her children now grown, she is finding that the time is right to make a full-time commitment to her art, and she has discovered a passion for pastels.
Mary Anne finds the creative process to be both exciting and meditative. Her bold strokes and fresh pastel colors of grass and flowers give the feel of almost abstract painting. She draws her inspiration from the coastal beauty of Maine. Mary Anne’s work has been included in invitational and juried shows and you can follow Mary Anne’s work at her blog almost daily.
Featured Pastel Artist: Liz Haywood-Sullivan
Jan 15th
Liz Haywood-Sullivan, PSA, is a traditional representational artist specializing in pastel landscapes. Her paintings are defined by strong contrast values and graphic compositions and often feature the interplay between man and the environment, with buildings, roads, and signs often working their way into her imagery. She spent 18 years in design and since 1996 she has worked as a professional pastel artist, art educator, and community arts organizer. She lives in Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts, USA along the New England coast where she finds much of her subject matter.
She teaches workshops nationally and internationally and you can find the schedule here. She is on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Pastel and is a vice president for the North River Arts Society. She holds Signature Memberships in the Pastel Society of America, Connecticut Pastel Society, Academic Artists of America, and the Pastel Painter’s Society of Cape Cod. Her paintings have been juried into numerous major national shows and have been featured in The Pastel Journal, American Artist, Southwest Art and American Art Collector magazines.
Cecilia Watson won “Get Dusty” contest
Jan 10th
Cecilia Watson "Just Hanging Around".
The Pastel Guild of Europe is a society that gathers pastel artist from all around the Europe. Any pastel artist living and working in Europe can join the society by submitting 3 paintings. As one of the activities for the members they run a monthly challenge called Get Dusty. The theme for December was “Still life – artist’s own setup” and the winner was Cecilia Watson, a self taught animal and wildlife pastelist from Spain.
Featured pastel artist: Karen Margulis
Jan 3rd
With the New Year and as a start of this blog I’m starting to present some of the fine pastel artists I met on the internet. The first presented artist is Karen Margulis
Karen Margulis art
Karen Margulis received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Florida but started to seriously paint in 2005. Since then she has been creating a daily painting and posting it to her blog every day. Karen estimates that by now she has used and covered about a mile of paper! She paints primarily in pastels.
Painting en plein air is her passion and she goes on location whenever she can. These outdoor painting experiences help give life to her studio work. She likes to finish a painting in one sitting so that she can capture that flash of inspiration which attracted her to the subject. Karen lives in Marietta, Georgia, USA, where you can attend her continuing classes and workshops and visit open studio.
Barbara Benedetti Newton
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