January 2006          

• REMINDER!!!

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• Our Annual dues are now payable!! After January 31st, if dues have not been paid, you will be removed from the membership role. 

• Don't  miss out on receiving the monthly Oil Spiel, which will be available to members only starting February 2006!  

• Don't miss out on the recognition thru your online oil pastel gallery!

• Don't miss out on the opportunity to enter the 2006 Members' Show!  

• Don't miss out on any of the exciting new ideas  that the Society can come up with to showcase or promote oil pastels!!
  
  AND THANK YOU!! to all those who have renewed their membership this
  past month!
   

Welcome to the Oil Pastel Society! 

New Associate Members:

Shoshana Avramovitz

Elaine Juska Keeley

Stephanie Koslow

Lillian Pagni

Ron Pollack

Lynn Whitsel

WORKSHOPS & DEMOS

Patricia Isaac will be doing a demo for the Weymouth Art Association on February 18, 2006 from 2pm to 4pm at the Tufts Library, Broad St., Weymouth, MA.

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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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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

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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
Sponsor: Jerry's Artarama
Cost: $99.00
Email: Sharon DiGiulio
Phone: 919-876-6610

Local Chapter News

As members begin forming local chapters, we will put links to the chapter information here.  If you would like to start a new chapter in your area, contact us.  We will see if any other members are in your area.

Oil Pastel Society - Chicago Chapter

http://opscc.blogspot.com

Featured Artist of the Month – Raquel Tripp-Tamayo

Raquel Tripp-Tamayo creates lovely, vibrant portraits of people caught in the act of everyday life. Although she now lives in Florida, USA, one of her favorite subjects is the people of her native Ecuador.

Cartuchos (22 x 24)

Sit back and enjoy as we have…

A conversation with Raquel Tripp-Tamayo (Click here for the article)

Oil Pastel Primer

Ann Tucker is compiling an extensive list of information for us about the oil pastel medium, for beginners especially.   With each article new ideas, helpful hints, etc., will be added to this page.  Click here for Ann's Oil Pastel Primer and her latest demonstration.

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:

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