November has ended and that means, whoo hoo!, another round-up of 10 nifty pastels I’ve chosen from the oh so many I’ve seen through the month. As always, a lot of stewing when it came down to the last 15 or so choices and this time, I even spent two days deliberating on how to get
Recently I taught a one-day workshop to 15 artists from the Salt Spring Island Painters Guild. As always when I teach, I had a marvellous time. It seemed the same was true for most of the participants going by the feedback on the evaluation forms. Having said that however, I want to talk about about the trouble
I met Ellen Eagle at the 2013 International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Convention where I bought her marvellous book, Pastel Painting Atelier (see link at the bottom of this post to purchase). I asked her to sign it and then had the gumption to ask her to do a short video interview with me.
I’m once again excited to share with you the 10 pastels that I’ve selected from the 87 (yes!) that I collected over the month of October. More and more artists are showing their work on various groups so the choice has multiplied over the last little while. As always, a difficult selection to make and as always, my own
Today, the 25th of October, is International Artists Day and in recognition of the day and to honour its mandate (“To celebrate the contribution all artists make to society by promoting and raising their credibility and visibility locally and around the world”), I invited Nigerian pastellist Damilola Opedun to join me as a guest on
A couple of blogs ago, I gave you the step-by-step progression of the pastel I did in Budapest. The painting wasn’t completed and I promised to share the finishing process with you. Well I finally got back to it on Sunday…then again on Monday. Hmmmmm. Every time I worked on it, I thought, Ah yes,
I can hardly believe we are well into October already. September’s Super Pastels are a wee bit late coming to you but you’ll know I’ve been busy launching my first online course Pastel Painting En Plein Air – super exciting!! Anyway, onto September’s Super Pastels! Yup, it was another fabulous selection of over 50 pastels
We leave Budapest in a few hours. It’s been an amazing stay of almost three weeks – the city is more than I hoped or expected. But I did learn a lesson and that is, you can’t do everything! I had planned on finishing up my online project as well as seeing the city. I had
For some time now, I have admired the work of Daggi Wallace. I featured one of her paintings in my October pastel choices. I knew Daggi did a lot of commissions and thought info on doing commissioned work would be a great topic for a blog. Happily, when I asked Daggi to write a guest blog, she
Here I am, a week into September, and because I’m travelling (now in Budapest), I’m only now getting to August’s awesome pastels. As always, sigh, a difficult decision. I had 57 pastel paintings to choose from, ones that I’d collected over the month of August, and after much humming and hawing, whittled the choices down
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