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Tucson Pastel Society

Founded Jan 10, 2010

[email protected]
​www.tucsonpastelsociety.org




​General Meeting Info for the 2025-2026 Season!!!!

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November Meeting!


November 19, 2025
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2-4 PM

TPS Art Center

2447 N. Los Altos



Pat Dolan

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Pan Pastels


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October Program!!!!!!

Lisa Larrabee

Capturing Luminosity especially in Landscapes!

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The video is snippets from Lisa's demo.  Audio and video issues are solely that of the videographer in training.  
In Lisa Larrabee’s presentation she began talking about common landscape mistakes such as too much detail, items treated as separate instead of grouped into shapes and too much focus on hard edges.
 
Then she talked about luminosity in terms of paint the color of the light, not the subject, relative contrast (make everything darker to create light), color the edges, color shift that radiates from light source in concentric circles and color of light passing through an object versus off of it (leaves).
 
Blocking in color, value and light abstractly with general shapes and soft edges and experimenting with different textures while working general to specific will emphasize luminosity.

By Penny Mazer, Program Chair

October Artist of the Month



​Cornwall Canal View


12" x 9"



John Baldwin


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Popular nature photographer John E. Baldwin was raised in Ohio and has a degree in Engineering from Ohio University. During his professional years working for du Pont in the photographic industry, he became fascinated with nature photography and its many opportunities for capturing interesting and different scenes.

Since his retirement and marriage to artist Barbara Archer-Baldwin, john has studied pastel painting and has developed an interest in landscapes and particularly in scenes where perspective, mood and lighting highlight the story.  He uses his vast collection of photos as references for new and unusual art.

His work has recently been juried into on-line shows in Iowa, Southern California and Red Rocks-Nevada Pastel societies.
He tutors students in digital photography and photoshop editing and also provides artists with high quality digital images for creating reproductions or entering national on-line art shows.

He routinely posts images and activity on his Facebook page “The Brushedlens” .


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November Artist of the Month!!!
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Bring your entry for Artist of the Month


to the general meeting


November 19, 2025



Winners are voted on by the members present at the meeting

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Thank you, Arizona Art Supply, for the $25 gift certificate awarded to the contest winner!!!

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Open Studio

2nd Wednesday of each month - 

Click HERE for details!


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Plein Air

October 22, 2025

9 am - 12 pm

Mission Gardens


Click HERE for details!


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Thank you, Lynn Wilson, for volunteering for our Social Media chair.  She is keeping our TPS FaceBook page up to date.  The name of the page is "Tucson Pastel Society".  We welcome members to join. Please share your information, your websites and most importantly your art. If you are a member of TPS you can freely interact on our FB page. Non-members are vetted just to keep the site free from spam. Let’s talk, share our love of art and Pastels.


For Call to Artists CLICK HERE!


News

Click on the Activities Tab for the complete Tucson Pastel Society Calendar.

Check out the plein air/special events page for upcoming events.  Meeting times and car pool instructions are listed.

Click on the Shows tab to see all of our show information.




​New Members:
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Edward "Skip" Zahm


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Member of IAPS!!


The Tucson Pastelist!

A monthly newsletter with updates on the members of Tucson Pastel Society and so much more!

​Download the past & current newsletters from this year.
The Pastelist
Adobe Acrobat Reader required. 
Don’t have it? Click HERE to get it.

Facility Page
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​We are renting!!!!!

Visit our facility page for rental information, contracts and payment possibilities.

​Also visit the Facility Event page where events not sponsored by TPS will be listed.  If you would like to participate in any of the unsponsored events, contact the person listed for fees and information.


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  • News
    • Call to Artists
  • Millions For Tucson
  • Shows
    • Previous Exhibitions
  • Donations
  • Join/Renew
  • Activities
    • Contests!
    • Plein Air Events
    • Open Studio
    • Classes
    • Workshops >
      • Kim Lordier Workshop
      • Dawn Emerson Workshop
      • Previous TPS Workshops
      • KL Workshop Registration
  • Members
    • Artist of the Month/Year
    • Teaching Artists
    • In Memory
  • Resources
    • Pastel >
      • Manufacturers
      • Techniques
    • Framing
    • Shipping
    • Professional
    • Vendors
  • Contact
  • Facility
    • Facility Event Page
  • About
    • Meetings
    • Society Member Information
    • Volunteers
    • Our Region