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General Meeting Info for the 2024-2025 Season!!!!
Hodge Podge!
Questions arise about framing, pastels, papers, etc. Send them to Becky and we'll put together answers and demos, if possible. Artist of the Year contest!! Check out the Activities/Contents page HERE for details! April Meeting!
Ink and Pastel with Christ Olsen Christy explained the different pastel painting types, which include blended and smooth, broken color techniques, and underpaintings created with alcohol and a brush. Using alcohol with a brush can create a look similar to oil paint. The ink underpainting process begins with a brayer. You can create random marks on any color of paper, let the ink dry, and then set it aside for later use in planning a pastel painting. Ink can be applied over botanicals, household items, or stencils. By using a Gelli plate, with a softer and more yielding surface, you can achieve clearer and more defined images in your ink prints. Different brands of ink can provide either a shiny or matte finish when dry, and using various colors of ink adds interest to your work. Your imagination is the only limit, often leading to surprising results.
You can access information about inks and pastels on the Art Verve Education blog website at artverve.info. The Art Verve Academy website at artverve.org has information on classes taught by Christy and other teachers. Thank you, Christy, for an informative, interesting, and fun program! 
2024-2025 April The Artist of the Month
Originally from Swarthmore, PA, Barbara and her husband John Baldwin relocated to Tucson in February, 2024 after living in Florida for over 25 years. She is an academically schooled professional artist with training at Rhode Island School of Design, Philadelphia University of the Arts, and Temple University's Tyler School of Fine Arts. She has been represented by the Four Corners Gallery since May 2024. She is a Signature Member of Pastel Society of America, as well as the Pastel Society of the West Coast, and the Arizona Pastel Artists Association. and a member of several other national Pastel Societies. She has been juried into the most prestigious Salmagundi Club, NYC. Her teaching experience is long and widely varied, though, since moving, she limits her teaching to one-day workshops. Her prolific work includes illustrations for published books and periodicals, works in oil, acrylic, pen and ink, pastel, and miniature art, and hangs in collections all over the world. She has been consistently juried into National and International Pastel Shows, winning awards in many of them. She and husband John founded the Left Coast Pastel Painters Society, in Florida, with affiliation in the International Assoc. of Pastel Societies. Still members there, they are now very active with the local Tucson Pastel Society. [email protected], www.barbaraarcherbaldwin.com
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