Photos from the May 14th Meeting
May 14 PSNC Meeting: Traveling with Pastels
Our May 14 program will be about traveling with pastels and will feature Anne Kiefaber and Laura Pollak.
Anne will be showing her homemade sketchbook, as well as the tools she brought which were very portable from which she has produced some pastels and a couple of oils. She will explain her process and how she goes from a quick sketch to a painting. Ann will have a couple paintings in process, which she will bring.
Laura will be presenting some info on how she travels with Pastels… from plein air in her backyard to Japan, French Polynesia, and Italy. What to pack to minimize weight and space and to how to get through security. She’ll share photos of her setup on locale as well as photos of where she has traveled. Included will be small paintings done on location as well as the larger studio versions. She’ll also bring the backpack with the actual set ups.
Luana, our President, will have some giveaways she picked up for our members at the Portrait Society conference from one of the manufacturers!
Hope to see you at the meeting at 10 AM at the North Carolina Botanical Gardens room 106, 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill!
Painting Expressive Landscapes – November 21
Presenter: Wendy Musser
Date: Saturday, November 21, 2015
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Place: NC Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill
Painting out of doors can be either exhilarating or daunting. While painting in plein air Wendy tries to create a painting that is tranquil by incorporating the exhilarating things that attracted her to the scene and editing the daunting down to the essential elements. Her goal is to paint an image where the viewer can feel that the fast pace of our technologically filled lives can be left behind; a subject that will evoke a feeling of place where the viewer is not pulled in a million directions. When painting in the studio from photographs Wendy tries to remember the mood the location evoked, what the day was like and the sounds she heard and uses these memories to create a painting that will be reminiscent of her plein air work.
Photos from September 19th Meeting – Nancy Marshburn PSA
Nancy discussed her transition from medical art to realistic still life paintings of a different subject matter. She demonstrated her steps in creating a pastel painting from concept to sketching, blocking in the big shapes, color choices and finally, adding the finishing details. Nancy is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and paints in both pastels and oils.
Approaching a Still Life: My Perspective – September 19
Nancy Marshburn will discuss her transition from medical art to realistic still life paintings of a different subject matter. She will then demonstrate her steps in creating a pastel painting from concept to sketching, blocking in the big shapes, color choices and finally, adding the finishing details.
Nancy is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and paints in both pastels and oils.
The first part of the program is a Power Point presentation that lasts about 20-25 minutes. That will be followed with a demonstration of a small pastel painting of a simple still life.
Photos from March Meeting – “Let’s Create Some Dust!”
Everyone was invited to come and paint together for the morning. Bring a project you have been working on, or create something new.
Photos from January meeting with Anne Kiefaber
Luminosity in Snow Scenes by Anne Kiefaber
To Anne, painting snow is all about light, reflections and the feeling she remembers after viewing the scene. In her demonstration she shared different processes she employs to create stunning snow scenes in pastels. These techniques can be applied to other subject matter as well.
Anne worked from an oil study and incorporated her experience in plein air painting into her lesson. After doing an underpainting in gouache she demonstrated how this technique can enhance the properties of pastel and enable the artist to achieve a beautiful luminosity which is vital when painting a snow landscape.
To see more of Anne’s work go to annekiefaber.com
Update – Anne has finished the final painting…
Photos from the annual PSNC Holiday Party
Photos from November meeting with Addren Doss
Photos from September meeting with Chris Powell, PSA
Ideas, Techniques for Creating Water Scenes, presentation by Chris Powell, PSA
Pastel Society of America signature member Chris Powell presented her ideas, process and techniques for creating a water painting in pastel. Content and composition including lighting, balance, Golden Section, contrast, edges, values and color harmony using the Munsell Color System was explored. She demonstrated building texture to express the splash and foam of water and how to safely transport an unframed pastel painting using a foamboard box and how to stretch Wallis Paper when toning with an acrylic wash.
Be sure to check out Chris Powel’s gorgeous website at: www.powellfineart.com.
Photos from July 2014 Meeting
Award winning artist Judy Meyler conducted a demonstration illustrating her exciting techniques for portraiture using pastel pencils. Completed drawings were featured showing the direction her piece was be taking. Judy Meyler’s work has been included in Art Journey: People, a collection of works by contemporary artists published by North Light Books, available December 2014. Visit www.judymeyler.com to see more of Judy’s drawings and paintings.
Photos from May 2014 meeting w/ Jerry’s Artarama
Mr. Tom Dowd of Jerry’s Artarama visited with us. He spoke about pastel products carried by Jerry’s, particularly their line of Mungyo pastels. This was a great opportunity to learn about these soft and hard pastels that have been getting rave reviews.
Critique Meeting – March 2014
“Artist Critique” Meeting with NC artist and teacher Jill Eberle.
Photos from January 2014 meeting
photos from the September 2013 meeting
IAPS Signature Master Circle Pastelist, Kurt Weiser, shared a day of pastel with us. The morning program was a demonstration of “The Creation of a Pastel Painting From Start to Disc.”
