SEPTEMBER 2005
American Artist Magazine
The Oil Pastel Society Show Winners are highlighted in the October issue of American Artist Magazine
Turn to page 8 of the magazine to see the article.
This article was also great advertising for OPS. Look at the graph about our website and see what happened on the 26th. That's the day the American Artist hit the bookstores and mailboxes.
Pastel Journal Magazine
The Pastel Journal Magazine will be including Oil Pastel groups in their Society Listings even though they don't allow oil pastels in their competitions. It’s a start…
The Oil Pastel Society goes on it’s first outing…
The OPS will have a table at the biennial art materials show this October in suburban Chicago.
Good’s of Evanston (www.goodsofevanston.com), a local art supply store, is sponsoring “Art Alive ’05 –Art Materials Exposition and Market”.
There will be over 40 art materials manufacturers (including Savoir-Faire/Sennelier US distributor and Holbein), experts available to answer questions, product demonstrations at every table, many art societies and panel discussions. One of the panel discussions will be by gallery owners and an art critic.
Admission and parking are free.
So if you are in the area, plan on stopping by.
WHEN:
October 23, 2005, Hours
10am-4pm
WHERE: Nichols School, 800 Greenleaf St., Evanston
(Two blocks north of Main St. on the corner of Sherman and Greenleaf)
For more information, call Good’s at 847-864-0001
OPS Brochure available
Pat Isaac has put together a society brochure that we will be handing out at the Good’s of Evanston show.
This brochure is now on the website for any member who would like to use it.
OPS Brochure in Adobe Acrobat PDF format
Welcome to the Oil Pastel Society
New Associate Members
Betty Lolacono
Member News
- Sue Choppers-Wife has two of her paintings (done in oil paint
sticks) featured in an ad on the back cover of the October issue of the Pastel
Journal magazine.
Patricia Isaac will be doing an OP demo for the Foxboro Art Association on
October 12, 2005, 7 - 9pm, Boyden Library, Baker St., Foxboro, MA
Katherine Simmons is a professional member of the Oil Pastel Society and she will be presenting a one-day Oil Pastel Workshop on October 28, 2005. The link to information about the workshop on her web site is http://www.katherinesimmons.com Telephone 860-633-9884
Katherine Simmons,
Professional Member
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Joan Crice entered oil pastels at the Klickitat County Fair in Washington State, USA. One of her paintings took Advanced Division Champion.
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- Luba Sterlikova’s work is in a show opening on October 18, 2005, in West-Eleven Gallery, London, UK. (Notting Hill, off Portobello Road). The show - Sensual Images - runs from October 18th through October 23rd, 2005. For details, please check http://www.west-eleven.com/exlubasterlikova.htm
The Oil Pastel Society of Maine Exhibition
Patricia Isaac, who lives in Massachusetts, USA, attended the oil pastel show put on by the Oil Pastel Society of Maine. She shares her thoughts on the show and some photos she took.
Click here to see find out more….
Some thoughts on oil pastel and plein air
From a show in the eastern USA to a plein air group in the western USA
Member Joan Crice, from Washington State, shares some thoughts on her experiences using oil pastels in plein air work.
If you’ve ever wondered how a painting group gets started, click here to find out how Joan’s group got started. Link to Joan's thoughts on Plein Air Painting
Future Articles
Some 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
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