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Pastel Artists
A portal for pastel artists to share news, tips, photos of their art, and other advice about using pastels including the care and preservation of pastels.
There is no more enjoyable activity for a portrait artist than the art of pastel portraiture. An artist who uses pastels enjoys both worlds - the world of dry media and the world of wet media. Let me explain why I said “wet" media, yes, a pasteI is most certainly a dry , hard substance, but a skilled pastel artist can make a pastel give the effect of oil paint, which as we know, is a “wet” media or medium. I myself can do this, it’s all about feeling the power of pastel. Pastels give...
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I was introduced to soft pastels when I took a workshop offered on www.wetcanvas.com. I immediately fell in love with them and for the past year have been working with them. With every painting I do I learn a little more. It takes patience and practice to perfect one's technique and it seems that each painting requires that I learn to do something a little bit differently. Since I mostly do paintings of people's pets I have had to learn to make convincing fur. Then when I start to...
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This card was made using oil pastels applied on white cardstock and rubbed in by hand to obtain the misty look. This was then overstamped with Black Stazon with a shell stamp and three words. A spotty stamp using Versamark was stamped randomly over the edges of the card and gold embossing powder was then applied and was heat embossed this was matted over pale blue cardstock. The second mat was done using blue dye ink and the same shell stamp and was finished with a bunch of fibres. The base...
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conan Growing up I read nothing but comic books. I didn’t understand books like novels; I just didn’t understand why someone would want a book that had no pictures. My take was that - you only read such books because you had to - like in school - a math book or something. I just didn’t get the idea of reading pages and pages of words and novels were at the top of my don’t do list. See...an artist is a visual being, we see life in pictures(Sperry found we use another side of the brain...
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"Pastels in Sandgate" can be seen at the historic one-room Sandgate Schoolhouse July 4, 5, and 6 from noon to 5 pm Visitors can talk with the artists and ...
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By Dave R. Davison Pastels, crayon-like sticks of pigment and binding medium, have a venerable pedigree dating back to the 1720s when the Venetian pastelist ...
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Is it necessary to apply fixative to oil pastels? Oil pastels are composed of a waxy or oily binding medium that make them adhere well to the surface and ...
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Area artists are represented well in the 2008 National Competition, sponsored by the Great Lakes Pastel Society.
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Since my wife in an artist it was a natual project to try to build her a carrying box for her pastels. I also gave a couple away to her artist friends and still have a few leftover.
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Although virtually unknown outside of indie rock circles, the Pastels were one of the most inspirational and enduring groups of their era, spearheading a movement towards a renewed sense of wistful musical ...
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Several openings remain for the upcoming "Painting the Landscape with Pastels" workshop by professional artist Diana Randolph, set for Aug. ...
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"You can never have enough pastels," said Rossetti-Bailey, noting that students in her class often end up having to have every new color. ...
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Weber, who has been creating pastel art for 40 years, began using the Utah landscape as inspiration for much of her work about 10 years ago. ...
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She is a well-trained professional whose speciality is pet portraits in either water col our or pastels. Her Prince George show will feature 15 pieces of ...
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