December 2005
In January, as we mark the beginning of our second full year, the Oil Spiel will become an exclusive benefit of membership.
Beginning with the January issue of the Oil Spiel, the newsletter will be available to members only.
We will have a newsletter webpage that you can bookmark in your internet browser and we will also provide the access link in the email announcement sent out each month. The general public will be able to see information about the Oil Pastel Society as well as a brief paragraph about the Artist of the Month. That paragraph will be linked to the artist’s OPS gallery page.
The general public will also see a sample (old) issue of the Oil Spiel to see what it is like. The newsletter itself will contain information, articles and the full Artist of the Month interviews you have come to expect. In this way it will be similar to paper copies of newsletters being sent to members thru the mail.
Also, January is the time to renew your membership. Dues can be paid thru the PayPal link on the membership page or a personal check can be mailed. The Oil Pastel Society, Membership, P. O. Box 390114, Snellville, GA 30039
Anyone who has joined since October 1 of this year will not have to pay again in January. (They have paid their dues for 2006 already.)
Thanks for a great year. And don’t forget to send in your membership dues.
Welcome to the Oil Pastel Society!
Professional
Julia Lesnichy
New Associate Members
Pamela Burton
Bob Caron
Glenn Goodrich
Robert Haertig
Sally Mucica
Member News
Stephanie Neely placed 2nd in the Arkansas Pastel Show for her painting "Red Rose"
If you happen to be in Paris, December 8 -11, stop by Galerie St. Martin to see the collective art show that includes five works by Luba Sterlikova. The gallery is located at 256 Rue de Fauburg St.Martin, 75010, Paris. The opening reception is December 9 at 6 p.m.
Connie
Chadwell
won First Prize in Oil Pastel at the Arkansas Pastel show with "The Model's
Musings".
The painting was a 20-minute drawing - where there is just enough time to
capture the essentials.
WORKSHOPS AND DEMOS
Marilynn
Brandenburger will be teaching an 8-week course "Introduction to Oil Pastel"
at the Spruill Center for the Arts,
Atlanta, GA, January 10 - March 7,
2006. This is a class for intermediate and advanced students who have solid
skills in drawing & painting. We will focus on basic as well as experimental
techniques. Students will work on a variety of supports, such as paper, panel
and canvas; try out various surfaces, including gesso, clay and pastel grounds;
and explore combining other media with oil pastel.
Subject matter will include still life and abstracts. Sessions will include
lecture, demonstration, in-class exercises and weekly homework assignments.
TIME: Tuesdays 10:00 am - 12:30 pm
COST: $145 Spruill Center members; $165 non-members
For more information, go to
www.brandenburgerstudios.com/classes.html
or
email
marilynn@brandenburgerstudios.com
Featured Artist of the Month – Martha Kennedy
Martha Kennedy creates paintings in brilliant, bold, luscious colors. Her art can be found in galleries in New Mexico and Oklahoma.
Sit back and enjoy as we have a Conversation with Martha Kennedy
Never Too Young To Start
-by Vatcharaporn Plewtianyingthawee, Thailand
Three year old Dhanat Plewtianyingthawee and his mother, Vatcharaporn (Ead) Plewtianyingthawee have teamed up to create one-of-a-kind greeting cards. Ead assembles the cards from her son’s artwork. They have sold thousands.
Click here to read Ead's story behind this amazing mother and son art business.
Turn Your Painting
into a
Personalized Holiday Card
-by Ann Tucker
It is fairly easy and not too expensive to make your own holiday greeting cards. It can cost less than most store-bought greeting cards and it has your artwork on it.
If you do make your own cards out of your Oil Pastel art, please send us a card. We will hold onto them and use them in next December’s issue of the Oil Spiel.
Send them to:
Oil Pastel Society
Newsletter Editor, Holiday Card
PO Box 390114
Snellville, GA, 30039
To find out how to make your own cards, click here to read this article.
Local Chapter News
As members begin forming local chapters, we will put links to the chapter information. If you like to start a new chapter in your area, contact us. We will see if any other member are in your area.
Oil Pastel Society - Chicago Chapter http://opscc.blogspot.com
Future Articles
Many of our best articles, demos and tips have come from members.
If you have something interesting that you’d like to share, please send us an
email. Even if you don’t think what you have to share could be a whole article,
sometimes it can be a starting point for an email conversation which then can
turn into an article.
There are only a few of us working on this newsletter and it is very easy to run
out of ideas. So…..
If you have something interesting that you’d like to share, please send us an email at
newsletter@oilpastelsociety.com
Ann Tucker, Newsletter Editor
NOTES:
One way that all of you can help to make the Oil Pastel Society more visible is by placing a link from your personal website to the Society's home page or you can link to your artist gallery from your homepage. Feel free to use the new society logo as a graphic on your links page! Below is the reference and the logo which has been downsized. Copy and paste the reference into one of your web pages and download the graphic and upload to your site.
If you have a new email address, please notify membership@oilpastelsociety.com so that our records can be updated and you don't miss out on any of the news!
And don't forget, Cafe Press has items for sale featuring our beautiful OPS logo and can be seen at:
http://www.cafepress.com/oilpastels
Your OPS Staff