My pastel painting “Sun Kissed” received Special Merit Award in the Fall 2024 Art and Color 365 Magazine issue.
This show will be on their website online exhibition for a full year.
Part-time pastel instructor needed at Brunswick Community College, Southport NC
We are seeking a part-time instructor to teach pastel classes at Brunswick Community College Southport Center, Southport NC. These are continuing education adult students (most 50+).
Prior instructors include Carol Yaquinto and Kim Long.
Contact Barbara McFall (mcfallb@brunswickcc.edu).
Wet Pastel Techniques at Enos Arts Mill with Avon Waters
When: Saturday 6/29 9AM-5PM; Sunday 6/30 9AM-3PM
Cost: $220 for the weekend
Ages 18+
This workshop is designed for beginner or intermediate pastel artists to explore and expand their understanding of the dry medium of pastel by using a variety of wet techniques to transform the medium. The workshop will include demos each morning, then hands-on practice and exercises. The workshop will include CDR methodology — create, destroy, and recreate — encouraging construction and controlled deconstruction of a work, allowing many layers of color to exist within the surface.
Students will experience a mix of structured exercises and free time to work on their own paintings to explore how they can incorporate wet pastel into their own artistic style.
This is not a workshop where you learn to paint like the instructor, it is a workshop to give you tools to try to incorporate into your own styles.
For more details visit www.avonwaters.com and click on the “Workshop” menu tab, or you can register here: https://events.humanitix.com/wet-pastel-techniques-with-avon-waters
“Layering the Light” Pastel Workshop
A 3-day virtual workshop with Rita Kirkman
hosted by the PSWC
February 23-25, 2024
$285
In this virtual 3-day workshop, you will learn how to create a vibrant sense of glowing light in your pastel paintings. Instruction emphasizes value and temperature as keys to unlocking the light.
Learn an underpainting method to “nail the values!” The workshop is appropriate for adventurous beginners all the way to advanced pastelists.
For more info see this page: https://pswc.ws/workshops/ and register here
Pastels – Bringing Landscapes to Life
Jim Hallenbeck will be teaching a pastel class on Saturday, February 10 from 1pm to 5pm at the Eno Arts Mill Gallery located at 437 Gimmicks Mill Road #17 in Hillsborough, NC.
The class is for beginner to intermediate pastel artists.
Using soft pastels, students will learn how to start a landscape with a simple pencil drawing followed by a watercolor underpainting (2-3 colors) to set up shapes and dimensions. We will paint on UArt 500 grit paper board eliminating the need for any adhesive. From there we will begin using soft pastels working from the focal point out, dark to light to create the mood and capture the colors of the landscape.
Students will learn the techniques of blending, layering, and using charcoal to create soft, lost edges.
Here’s the link to register: https://events.humanitix.com/pastels-bringing-landscapes-to-life-with-jim-hallenbeck
Pure Color 2024: our 8th International Online Juried Exhibition
The Pastel Society of North Carolina is proud to announce our 8th International Online Juried Exhibition
2024 Official Prospectus: Open to soft pastel artists only – and it’s completely online! Download PDF
Judge of Selections: Albert Handell
Key Dates:
Online Entry Opening – June 14 / Deadline August 14
Notice of Acceptance – August 28
Exhibition Dates – September 1 thru September 30
Awards: Best in Show $1300 / 1st $1000 / 2nd $700 / 3rd $500 / 4th $400 / 6 Honorable Mentions @ $100
Pastel Workshop in Seagrove, NC with Leslie Hudson-Tolles
Join us for a 3 day workshop, exploring pastels with well known North Carolina artist, Leslie Hudson-Tolles. She has decades of experience teaching artists of all levels.
Visit our website https://walkerartstudiosnc.
Kim Long selected for “Up Your Arts” pole banner project
I’m very honored to be selected to be a part of “Up Your Arts” downtown Southport, NC Pole banner project to be hung in May of 2024. More details below…
We are so proud to announce the names of the artists selected to have their artwork displayed on banners in downtown Southport next year! Chosen by a three-judge panel from a group of 71 submissions to represent our “Raise Up Your Arts” pole banner project, their art is a mixture of 2D and 3D mediums — everything from paintings and photography to mosaics, pottery and fiber art to woodworking and glass, with equally varied subjects.
The two-dimensional artists are: Kristen Adkins, Chelsea Beard, Prentiss Halladay, Jeffrey Hanke, Bett Lewis, Kim Long, Tim Mauk, Nick Noble, Su Peyton, Lisa Prichard, Joy Rademacher, Jan Sowers, Chris Stitcher, Ann Thompson, and Buffy Weiss.
Hats off to these artists and compliments to all the others who participated. The judges had a difficult time deciding who to include in the final group of 24, increased from 14 this year.
The completed banners depicting their work will be unveiled at our 3rd Annual Cool & Fancy Gala on March 9 before they are hung from utility poles in Southport’s central business district next May through November.
Ongoing Pastel Instruction / Group Mentoring
Fun and informal pastel instruction and inspiration in Rita’s Virtual Open Studio.
Exclusively on her Patreon, Bunny Buddy level $10 and up.
Live Zoom invites and instant access to over 170 full-length videos, and more!
(The highest tier now includes monthly critiques! 🙂
If you’re not yet ready to join as a member, you can join for free to follow the frequent public posts, quick vids, art tips, progress pics and other cool stuff.
https://www.patreon.com/RitaKirkmanStudio
“You can’t use up creativity. The more the you use, the more you have.” –Maya Angelou
Pastel Fundamentals Workshop with Gretha Lindwood
Been wanting to learn to paint with soft pastels or polish your existing skills? Join me for a two-day course with structured, easy to follow lessons focusing on:
- different pastel strokes,
- underpainting techniques,
- working with warm and cool colors,
- understanding values.
You will work from your own photos while interpreting with your own “artistic voice.”
Demonstrations and individual instruction will be given as I share tips, techniques and ideas.
3/2/2024 – 3/3/2024
$165.00
The Village Gallery of Arts
1060 NW Saltzman Rd.
Portland, Oregon 97229
United States
https://villagegalleryarts.org/event/gretha-lindwood-2-day-workshop-pastel-fundamentals/
The Art of Painting a Landscape in Oil or Pastel with Patricia Savage
North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill
100 Old Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill
Dates: 1/26-28, 2024
Time: Friday and Saturday – 9:30-4:30, Sunday – 1:15-4:30
Cost: $225 ($202 for North Carolina Botanical Gardens members)
Landscape painting offers the artist a playground of visual opportunities to experiment with color and structure. Students will immerse themselves in learning about composing a landscape, establishing a value structure, how and when to use warm and cool colors (temperature) and how and when to mute colors (chroma). Students may work in either chalk pastels or oil paint.
Each class will begin with a demonstration; one day in oil, the next in pastel. There will be ample time for individual feedback and personalized teaching.
Supplies are not included. Download the supply list here.
Register online at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center and/or call the Garden at 919-962-0522, weekdays 8-5, to verify space availability.
Albert Handell Raleigh Workshop, April 2024
The master Albert Handell will hold a 5 day oil and pastel workshop in Raleigh from April 9 to April 13.
For the second consecutive year, the workshop will be hosted by Artspace (201 E. Davie St., Raleigh) and coordinated by PSNC signature member Jim Hallenbeck.
This is the ONLY 5 day workshop Albert teaches and includes a career building session the evening of April 11, 2024. Albert executes a demo in the morning and students paint at their easel in the afternoon as Albert provides individual instruction.
Yes, you can paint with pastels all 5 days!
Cost is $950 with a $200 deposit required to secure your spot. Jim is coordinating the workshop. To sign up, please call or text Jim at 919-917-3394 or via email at jimhallenbeckjr@gmail.com.
Are you ready to take your painting to the next level, then here’s your opportunity!
Diff Whitmore wins first place in “Paint it Orange Plein Air Paint Out”
The Orange County Arts Commission presented the 7th Annual Paint It Orange Plein Air Paint-Out and Wet Paint Sale on October 4-6, 2023.
This year’s Paint it Orange hosted 75 painters from three states. The event celebrates artists of all types and all abilities and combines gorgeous scenery with the opportunity to meet other painters from around the region.
Congrats to Diff Whitmore on her 1st place finish!
17: An Autumn Art Exhibition at Centerpiece Gallery
The Centerpiece Gallery is pleased to invite you to Seventeen an exhibit showcasing women artists from North Carolina, currently represented at the gallery.
Join us on October 13th from 5:00-8:00pm for the Opening Reception as we celebrate these masterful artists!
17, Featuring: Lynn Alker, Marty Allran, Sasha Bakaric, Dana Brown, Deb Covington, Kathleen Deep, Judith Ernst, Natalie George, Anne Harkness, Laura Berendsen Hughes, Alana Knuff, Kimberlee Maselli, Cora Ogden, Flora Pinkham, B. F. Reed, Molly Sawyer, and Nancy Meadows Taylo.
Member Spotlight, Toni Lindahl
Toni Lindahl, PSA-MP
Anyone who is familiar with my work knows I love to work in series. When I am inspired by a subject, I enjoy pursuing it until I have exhausted my interest. My pastels are diverse in subject matter, ranging from florals and figurative work to landscapes. I emphasize movement, patterns, light and shadow.
I became very interested in environmental issues, particularly with the diminishing rainforests. I wanted to try and portray the beauty of tropical plants. This inspired my Leaf Pattern Series. I love to showcase the way sunlight plays on the leaves and all the small compositions lurking within. This is a subject that has taken me to places like Hawaii, the Bahamas, Florida and Bermuda and has resulted in over 60 pieces which now reside in businesses and hospitals all over the country.
I love to communicate a sense of mystery through contrasting surfaces, movement and a variety of patterns. Nowhere is this more evident then in my Rock Series. I have always wanted to paint rocks. North Carolina is a beautiful state with incredible mountains but they are covered with trees. I finally had the opportunity to visit Arizona and Utah and was enthralled with the six canyons I witnessed. When I was on a boat on Lake Powell, I saw the beautiful Antelope Canyon. I snapped a photo of patterned rocks that reminded me of a Native American design. In the Pastel Journal juror Nancy Nowak noted: “It’s as if the weavings of the Native American people are embedded across those dynamic rock formations, echoing the past.”
People often question how an artist first discovers that they are drawn to painting. When I was a child, I found pieces of charcoal on the ground. I brought them home and started to draw with them. My mother bought me paint by numbers and she quickly discovered that I would do my own drawing over the picture so she bought me some canvasses and oil paint. In my late 20’s I decided I wanted to make my art a profession. When I started using pastels, I found my own distinct style and have never looked back.
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