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February 2006
Welcome to the Oil Pastel Society!
New Professional Members:
Stephen Henning
New Associate Members:
Andrea Barram
Eileen Bosic
Christophe Cardot
David Cornwell
Lauren Ennist
Jacquelyn Pfaff-Pratt
WORKSHOPS & DEMOS
S. H. Bill Burgin will be holding an Oil Pastel Landscape Workshop at the Running Deer Retreat near Danville, Arkansas April 21-23, 2006. It is a lovely setting on a lake in the Ouachita Mountains. Spring in Arkansas is spectacular!
Tuition for the workshop is $250 for 3 days, and includes continental breakfasts and sack lunches. Out of state participants can fly into Little Rock or Fort Smith, AR.
Deposit for the workshop is $75. Rooms are extra - Running Deer offers Bed &
Breakfast rooms and has 5 RV hook-ups available. Russellville, AR motels are 25
minutes away.
For more information:
Phone: 479-495-2401
e-mail: paulasteel@arkwest.com
website: www.runningdeerretreat.com
Burgin has painted in pastels for many years and is a founding member of the
Arkansas Pastel Society. He has won numerous awards with his pastels, most
recently in a National Exhibition juried by Maggie Price at the Arkansas Arts
Center. He has studied with many nationally know pastelists including a Wolf
Kahn workshop at the National Academy in New York this year. He also painted
this year with Author and Oil Pastelist John Elliot in his studio in Upper
Nyack, NY.
His website is www.burgin.info
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Oil Pastels Made Easy
March 5, 2006 (10am-4pm) — Discover the creative possibilities of oil pastels in
this exciting workshop with Gina Murray. You will explore several techniques to
create many interesting effects, such as color mixing, layering and working with
light to dark values. Oil pastels are the perfect travel medium and are ideal
for ink and watercolor resist and scratch techniques. Get ready for some fun and
creative discovery!
Location: Raleigh, NC
Instructor: Gina Murray
http://www.jerrysartevents.com/ginamurray.html
Sponsor: Jerry's Artarama
Cost: $99.00
Email:
Sharon DiGiulio
sharon@jerrysartarama.com
Phone: 919-876-6610
Member News
Luba Sterlikova has two pastels in London February 2-5, 2006, at the Art on Paper Fair at Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London. West-Eleven Gallery.
For more information visit http://www.artonpaper.co.uk/exhibitors.htm
George Shipperley has a ONE MAN SHOW currently at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. They have a wonderful gallery for exhibitions, which easily accommodated 30 of his latest works. The exhibit will be up until the 28th of February.
Featured Artist of the Month – Cathy Fontechia
Cathy Fontechia creates representational art that concentrates on space and the abstract flow of line.
Sit back and enjoy as we have…
Click here for a conversation with Cathy Fontechia
Air Travel With Oil Pastels
By Ann Tucker
With heightened airport security, airlines are much more restrictive on products they allow on planes. I have heard that some oil paint artists had oil paints confiscated.
Since I had a trip planned that I wanted to bring my oil pastels on, I was curious whether air travel with oil pastels would also be affected.
So I went to the experts, oil pastel artists who have traveled with their oil pastels. After reading many positive responses from members, I took some OPs with me on my trip. I am happy to report that I too had a positive experience.
Our members have gone through a lot of airports around the world.
Read about some of their experiences yourself. (Article Link)
The Oil Pastel Society of Maine annual show will be held again in Kennebunk, Maine at the Raintree Center for the Arts on July 29-30, 2006. Slides are due by June 1, 2006. Entry should be mailed to Elizabeth Shore, PO Box 7455, Ocean Park, ME 04063. For information, call 207.934.3408 The reception will be held Saturday evening from 6-8 p.m. where awards will be presented. Artwork delivery date is Friday, July 28th and pick-up of unsold works is Sunday, July 30th at 8 p.m.
The Awards Judge will be Laura Savard, an award winning oil pastelist and gallery owner.
Letter to the Editor
Thank you Ann: I got into oil pastel late in the fall of 2003. Bought Elliot's book and subscribed to the Pastel Journal. Bought all the old issues with articles on oil pastel. I renewed my subscription for two years and there was not another OP article after that. How ever they did list the Society e-mail address. After reading two old newsletters joined the Society in November last year.
North Light Book Club lists no other titles on OP. Amazon lists a Hard Cover used Title starting at about seventy dollars, but I am not about to spend that amount on a pig in poke.
Now to the reason for the thank you.
I like working on stretched canvas, but don’t think it would look right to hang it behind glass. Tried some spray varnish on a paper support painting but did not like the results. Read where some OP were made with mineral oils and reasoned that acrylic might work as a light dust and scuff seal. It worked with some of the paint on a old painting in which I had used more than one of the seven brands I have. Have completed three paintings using only one brand of OP with (three or four) light coats of acrylic gloss media with luck. To bad I didn't read the July newsletter before as it may have saved some timed attempts on my part. So Thank You Again for the last newsletter.
Glenn Goodrich
Editor’s note: Glenn is referring to the Oil Pastel Primer which is a collection of articles on oil pastels that is added to occasionally. Click here for the Oil Pastel Primer
A highlight for new access to a magazine competition
International Artist Magazine is published 6 times a year and has a contest for each issue. The competition is open to All Mediums and they have just started accepting online submissions (no slides required).
http://www.international-artist.com
Future Articles
Many of our best articles, demos and tips have come from members. If you have something of interest that you would 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 would like to share, please send us an email at:
Ann
Tucker, Newsletter Editor
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Your OPS Staff
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