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December's Dynamite Pastels: Leoni Duff, "Pink And White Peonies," pastel on 'Bowden Board,' 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in (80 x 60 cm)

December’s Dynamite Pastels

In case you were hibernating, it’s January (!) and that means it’s time for a humungous HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! It also means it’s time for the monthly round-up of ten pastels chosen from the many many I selected from those seen throughout December. Bring on December’s Dynamite pastels!

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November's Nifty Pastels: Cameron Hampton, "Old Hands and Tired Feet," pastel, 12 x 15 in

November’s Nifty Pastels

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

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October's Striking Pastels: Daud Akhriev, "Chloe," pastel on Sennelier La Carte, 25 x 19 in,

October’s Striking Pastels

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

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September's Super Pastels: Cristina Dimus, "Breathe," pastel, 9 7/16 x 12 7/16 in (24 x 32 cm)

September’s Super Pastels

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

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August's Awesome Pastels: Rob Gregoretti, "Untitled," pastel on multimedia board, 5 x 7 in

August’s Awesome Pastels

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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pastel picks: Jorge Gomez, "The Mediterranean Sea," soft pastel on Canson, 8.3 x 11.7 in

July’s Pastel Picks

It’s time to share my pastel picks for July. As always, a difficult decision to choose just ten pastels but here they be. They’re chosen from the many delightful pastels I came across over the last month.

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June’s Remarkable Pastels!

Oh. My. Gosh. I can hardly believe we are already in July and it’s time for the roundup of the pastels I’ve enjoyed through the month of June. Once again, culling the 55 collected pastels down to 10 choices was incredibly difficult. It’s always when I get down to about 15 that I look and

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May’s Fabulous Pastels

Ahhhhh…we are already at the end of May and it’s time for another monthly round-up of ten fabulous pastels I’ve encountered through the month. I started with 52 choices this time. I thought, by now I should be able to make the cut to ten pretty quickly. But it’s when I get to 19, then 15,

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April’s Pastel Favourites

Oh. My. Gosh. It’s the end of yet another month and once again I’ve faced the terrible and delectable task of picking my pastel favourites from the many I encountered over the month. This time I started with 60 to choose from and once I had whittled it down to 18, my, what a time

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Pastel Marvels – Have A Look At My March Choices!

  Hello hello, Once again it’s the end of the month and so it’s time for my personal and totally subjective selection of 10 pastel marvels for March. I’ve chosen these 10 from the many I have come across over the last 31 days. As always, I’ve had a difficult time choosing my self-imposed 10 choices. I started

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