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| 12/7/11| Randy presented very useful information regarding supplies and suggestions pertaining to plein air artists at the December 2011 (held in November) meeting. He reminded artists that one needs to plan ahead with a light, portable studio. He shared with us his Hellman Design Pastel Backpacker Box with a tripod mount and fitting for a portable easel. | | He shared tips on carrying a good selection of half sticks between pieces of memory foam cut to size in a light plastic case. Another tip was to have a book of tracing paper handy to store the paintings safely if you're painting more than one piece on an outing. | | His demo stressed familiarity with the site (in this case a tree and rocks in Joshua Tree Park) with strong attention to contrasts and light, and his process combining sketches on site and photography to aid him later in the studio. He does careful drawings, and a watercolor underpainting when he can in preparation for the pastel.
Thank You Randy for a very informative demonstration. | |
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11/9/11 | | "On Guard" 2nd Place Artist: Carolyn Teincuff | | "Water Baby" 3rd Place Artist: Marilyn Grame | | "Lion" Honorable Mention Artist: Carolyn Teincuff | | "Looking for Love" Honorable Mention Artist: Karen Howard | | "Seals" Honorable Mention Artist: Betty Johnsen | | "Cougar Country"Honorable Mention & Peoples Choice Award Artist: Billie Mear | | "On My Way" Honorable Mention Artist: Marji Cramer |
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8/16/11The
website is fully functioning for exhibits, newsletters, meeting info, blog,
links,and roster. Valorie Barnard is the official Webmaster and Debbie Krentz Johnson is Val's back-up of tending to the Website.
If you know of someone who has
not received an e-newsletter…have
information to share via Chalk Talk i.e. an article, art exhibit, awards and/or other
bits that our membership might be interested, please contact us through the
website: pastel.sandiego@gmail.com
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8/16/11IAPS Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 2 – 5,2011
Hello from the heat of New Mexico! We are having fun and learning lots from
strangers and many friends too! Proud to
say, The Pastel Society of San Diego is quite well represented here at this International Association of Pastel Societies
gathering.
On the first evening buffet we were delighted to run into
each other. There was Carol McClure, Betty Johnsen , Carolyn Teincuff and LJ Crowe– who were all adventuring
together in an RV, Susan May Hull had driven
herself by car and Barbara Peterson, Terri McMurray and Karen
Howard who I bumped into on the Southwest airlines plane.
Susan brought some of our brochures and included them on the
information table.
Karen Howard who has achieved Master Circle membership had two of her stunning still life pieces
accepted into the 18th juried show.
She is an inspiration – as was the shared expertize of so many stellar
demonstrators and speakers propelling and promoting the art of pastel painting.
The convention held something for everyone: still life,
figurative, landscape, abstract and a
rare chance to meet with these experts.
The Trade Show on the floor of the convention included representatives
of all the different vendors of papers & makers of pastels. What a feast of products. A common theme to the demonstrations that I attended was the
importance of the preparatory planning, drawing etc. and the establishment of three
contrasting values: darks – neutral - light. Also a startling freedom, alternately layering
warm and cool colors, as long as the
values are preserved. Thought I would
pass on these fundamentals – as coming from these versatile experts the notion
was refreshed and clarified. Certainly the work was wonderful!
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L-R Carolyn Teincuff, Betty Johnsen, Carol McClure & LJ Crowe |
Back Row: L-R Carolyn Teincuff, Barbara Peterson, Terri McMurray, LJ Crowe, Margaret Larlham & Betty Johnsen. Front Row L-R Karen Howard, Susan Mae Hull & Carol McClure | | Richard McKinley, Master Pastelist Demonstrating at IAPS |
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8/16/11Pastel Art Class with
Award winning instructor Barbara Peterson La Mesa Adult Enrichment Center
8450 La Mesa Blvd
La Mesa, CA
Tel: (619)667-1322
September 12 – December 5, 2011
Fall Semester $18
Mondays 8:00am to
11:00am
Register online starting August 17, 2011: www.adultschool.guhsd.net
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8/16/11 | | Glen Maxion's painting "Sandpiper" has been accepted in the Pastel Society of America 39th Annual Exhibition at the National Art Club in New York, NY. Glen is a signature member of PSA. The Show runs September 6, through October 1, 2011. Glen also has 10 paintings on display at 4311 Gallery at San Diego Hospice through August 26th. | Valorie Barnard was awarded a 3rd Place at the Catnip Connection a Juried Show in Gallery 21, Spanish Village.Currently Val also has five paintings on display at "Third Friday in Coronado" in the Executive Suites. Show runs August 15 through September 10, 2011 and is sponsored by St. Clair Gallery and Coronado Plaza. Reception Friday evening August 19th from 5:30 to 8:00pm. 1330 Orange Ave., Coronado, CA. |
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8/16/11 Welcome
to all New and Continuing Members!
Congratulations-Kudos-and
a great big WOW to all who participated in:
The two (2) Membership Shows, the
25th Annual Open Juried Show, San Diego County Fair in Del Mar, IAPS
online exhibit and IAPS 2011 Convention. I hope
this will inspire more of our members to compete next year, there are many
opportunities local and National.
Our new
2nd V.P. of Membership ,is B.J.
Mulvey. Thanks for stepping up B.J. we
look forward to working with you. Our refreshment Chairs, Betty Johnsen, Carolyn Teincuff and Carol McClure have re-volunteered.
We all enjoy the little snippet of time for refreshments and short
visits with fellow members.
The Pastel
Society of San Diego the one organization that pastel artists can go to for
information and support.
We have made the digital
transition and no longer have a printed
newsletter. Please keep the Membership VP BJ Mulvey advised of any changes especially e-mail addresses.
A request for space in Gallery 21 for the 26th Annual Open
Juried Show is now being processed.
The information will be passed on as soon as
we have a date.
Val & I met for lunch at City Deli
in North Park last week and spoke to Michael one of the owners. After explaining that we were artist and with
the PSSD he offered to be one of our sponsors with a tray of desserts for the
reception. Thank You Michael. Also, Val place another order for 11 name badges which will be available at our next meeting.
Welcome to new members Sylvia Hatcher and Randy Smith.
Happy Painting to All,
Debbie
Krentz Johnson
President
2010-2012
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President Debbie Krentz Johnson & Webmaster Valorie Barnardmeeting over lunch at City Deli. |
City Deli Partner Michael Wright our new sponsor for the Spring 2012Annual Open Juried Show. |
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8/15/11 |
"The Race" Artist: Karen Howard Awarded 2nd Place Category: Themed Art |
"Tangerines"Artist: Karen Howard Awarded Honorable Mention
Category: Colored Drawing |
"a is for apple2" Artist: Terri McMurray Donated Award: Gavin Family Law |
"Bowl of Cherries"Artist: Terri McMurray Awarded Honorable Mention Category: Colored Drawing |
"Grapes 2" Artist: Terri McMurray Awarded 1st Place Category: Miniatures |
"The Looking Glass"Artist: Phebe Burnham Donated Award from the San Diego Portrait Society |
"Dia De Los Muertos" Artist: Phebe Burnham Awarded 1st Place Category: Mixed Media |
"Foggy Day, Yosemite Valley" Artist: Juli Ricksecker Awarded 3rd Place Category: Soft Ground Etching
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"Rocky Point" Artist: Ray Ferdorchak Awarded: 2nd Place Category: Pastel |
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4/6/11 | | Margaret Larlham gave a fun demo for 18 members attending.Her Power Point slide show for all the details will be emailed to members if you wish to view what we missed. The spirit of Plein Air was with us as we talked about our inspirations after our "zen quilt" and some of us were inspired to work outdoors in the plein air style for the first time! And you missed the very generous raffle that Margaret donated-- the original landscape you see in the photo! I just about danced to the moon when I won!
Carolyn Teincuff made a refreshment center for us, and we had our own Le déjeuner sur l'herbe . Thanks to our members who contributed to the pot luck refreshments!
We are still short two executive officers and we need volunteers for Raffle assist, Web Assist and Newsletter! Most importantly, we need two volunteers to organize our next Annual Juried show. Val and I aren't able to do all the extra administration that was required of us due to abscent officers last year. Please consider volunteering for YOUR club!
Membership Dues are ready to mail or email to Jeanne Conant: Note her corrected postal address: POBOX 17, La Mesa, CA 91944
For those wishing to use PayPal, go to the Membership Page and see the button. It will be up and running shortly--we changed banks and had to be re-linked, which takes a few days.
--Debbie Krentz Johnson
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