I recently won the Art Spirit Foundation Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Pastel at the American Artist Professional League’s 91st Grand National Exhibition 2019 with my drawing “In The Bag”.
The show was at the Salmagundi Club in New York in November.
3 Day Workshop – Naples Art Association – February 17-19, 2020
2 Day Workshop – North Port Art Center – March 14-15, 2020
Give someone you love or better yet Yourself the perfect Holiday Gift of freedom and creativity! Join me in a workshop in Glorious Naples Florida and the North Port Art Center in Florida for a workshop immersion in Abstract Pastel Painting!
Here’s what you will learn:
– Principles of design
– Mounting paper and tinting
– How to set up your surface
– Choosing a palette for maximum impact
– Expressive mark making
– Exercises to warm you up and leapfrog you ahead
– How and where to find inspiration
– Color Combinations that WORK!
– How to get that ‘Glow’
– Resources for ideas
– New and unique techniques and materials
– Framing techniques for your new masterpieces
Spaces are limited so each student receives plenty of attention. The workshop is geared from beginner to advanced. A working knowledge of color and design basics are helpful. A range of pastels from hard pastels to soft are important. A supply list is provided after registration. [Acrylic painters are welcome] Handouts and additional materials will be emailed.
I truly look forward to sharing what I’ve learned on my journey and hope you’ll join me. Email if you have any questions but don’t delay. There are only a few spaces left!
Naples Art Association: REGISTER TODAY!
North Port Art Center: https://northportartcenter.org/
LET’S HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE SOME ART!
Laura Pollak
laurapollak.artist@gmail.com
www.laurapollak.com
Upcoming Workshops at the Arts Council of York County (121 E. Main Street, Rock Hill, South Carolina 29730)
From Boring to Breathtaking Pastel Workshop
Bethany Carter Fields
Mon-Wed February 17-19, 2020
10 am to 4 pm
$450
lunch included daily
Deeper, Darker. Richer. Pastel Workshop
Terri Ford
Mon-Wed Mar 27-29, 2020
10 am to 4 pm
$495
Lunch included daily
Skies, Trees and Water Pastel or Oil Workshop
Barbara Courtney Jaenicke
Tues-Thurs Sept 15-17, 2020
10 am to 4 pm
$475
Lunch included daily
For more information and payment, go to: www.fortmillartguild.com
Wendy Koehrsen placed 3rd Place in the professional drawing category at the 2019 NC State Fair with a pastel painting Look at Me.
Lecture by Mr. Perry Hurt, Associate Art Conservator, on late 18th-20th century painting and the lunch at the museum afterward.
I have a new show of 28 paintings at This & That Gift Gallery, 118C East Main Street, Carrboro. The show, up until October 30, includes some works that were in my Arts Center show in May, others that were not and several new paintings done this summer.
Artist’s Reception is Friday October 11, 6 pm to 9 pm.
These two images were selected by the Mission Hospital Cultural Arts Project. They will be displayed as large giclee prints with other artists of Western North Carolina whose work was chosen. Mine will hang with others in the tower of the Mission Hospital’s new Medical Research wing. A reception is planned before they open.
Pure Color: ONLINE International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings
September 1, 2019 –September 30, 2019
Juror of Selection and Judge of Awards: Deborah LaFogg
You may see all the accepted paintings online here: https://www.onlinejuriedshows.com/
More details available from the prospectus.
 Years of Beauty 18x24, Soft Pastel by: Zahra Pezeshk 1st Place |  Reach for the sky 12x13, Soft Pastel Alejandra Gos 2nd Place |  Would You Play with Me 11x13, Soft Pastel Irene Georgopoulou 3rd Place |
PSNC Members Accepted |
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| Kloster Eberbach, II 15x18, Soft Pastel Christine Berndt Through the Trees 8x8, Soft Pastel Daphne Boder JUDY'S CROCK 11x14, Soft Pastel Deborah Covington Bo and Stephanie 43x22, Soft Pastel Mary Villon de Benveniste Bad Hair Day 12x12, Soft Pastel Addren Doss Pemaquid Nocturne 18x12, Soft Pastel Terrilynn Dubreuil Marsh Drama 14x16, Soft Pastel Frederick Fielding DAYDREAMER 14x16, Soft Pastel Jeri Greenberg | Morgan's Books 24x18, Soft Pastel Janet Johnson Pomegranates and oranges Soft Pastel Anne Kiefaber Look at Me 16x12, Soft Pastel Wendy Koehrsen Leaf Pattern Medley #2 18x24, Soft Pastel Toni Lindahl Dancing in the Sun 12x16, Soft Pastel Kim Long Childhood Series: The Lemonade Stand 24x18, Soft Pastel Luana Luconi Winner Winter Chill 8x10, Soft Pastel Nina MacDonald Russ Point Landing 9x12, Soft Pastel Eve Miller | Detail, Mack Truck 20x16, Soft Pastel Ashley Mortenson EMBEDDED 16x20, Soft Pastel Laura Pollak Ocean Dance 18x36, Soft Pastel BF Reed Just Hang'nround 11x14, Soft Pastel Donna Slade LES CRAYONS 8x12, Soft Pastel Joel Sobelson Y 24x20, Soft Pastel A. Hunter Taylor Boots in the Light 16x12, Soft Pastel Dorothy Whitmore |
The Hillsborough Gallery of Art is holding its annual statewide juried show. Please visit their website for more information and to download the prospectus.
Entry Deadline: October 1, 2019
Get Dusty – How to Pastel with No Fear
Workshop Fee: $139
Skill Level: All
Time: Thursday, November 14, 2019 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at Retail Store
New to art, new to soft pastel, experienced but need a refresher, transitioning from another medium? This is the class for you. Find the sheer joy in making marks again as you did when you were a child.
Quality exercises to calm fears of trying something new will be interspersed with substantive, fundamental pastel painting information – covering how to use hard and soft pastels, papers and surfaces, how to make changes, diversity of applications methods both wet and dry. Leave with several reference exercises, and time-permitting, one small, close-to-finished piece.
Some pastels, materials, and references will be provided, but feel free to bring any pastel or drawing materials you may already have and wish to bring along. Also, bring a clean, worn out brush, some moist hand wipes, a kneadable eraser, and an open mind.
Vibrant Pastel Portraits – The Secret is in the Joyful Application
Workshop Fee: $139
Skill Level: All
Time: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Is a pastel a drawing or a painting? Depending on the approach and application it can be either. Vibrant portraits as drawings are a simplified approach and often become the underpainting to highly detailed finished products. Know when to stop.
We will cover: using dynamic colors, layering those colors to create depth of hues, relying on basic shapes to simplify and begin without hesitation, the basics of human proportion, methods of transferring images from life or references, sculpting with shadow and light, when to use hard and soft edges, techniques to “turn form” to appear rounder with more depth.
Now we add the Joy. Draw. Play. Make marks. Let the soft pastels carry you into a new form of expression about our landscapes, our still lifes, and its people. Some pastels, materials, reference photo, and a method of transfer will be provided. Feel free to bring any pastels or drawing materials you may already have and wish to bring, some moist hand wipes, a clean, worn out brush, and if you’d like to share – one good joke.
Landscapes of North Carolina
Paintings by Kathryn Beam Troxler
August 1 – September 3, 2019
Sandra Neerman Art Gallery @ Greensboro Public Library
219 N. Church Street
Reception and artist’s talk on Friday, August 9 from 5-7pm in the Gallery.
Additionally, Kathryn has three paintings in the Central Gallery Show at Revolution Mill, 1150 Revolution Mill Drive, Greensboro from now through September.
Kathryn Troxler put the finishing touches on two paintings she started during the plein air session at Emily Thompson’s Farm back in May.
If you attended and would like your work highlighted on the PSNC blog, fill out the form here.
Lorie Callahan’s three new seascape pastel paintings will be included in the Ambleside Gallery of Greensboro, group show opening tonight, August 2nd.
The opening free to the public will be from 6 pm to 9 pm.
