General Meeting Info for the 2024-2025 Season!!!!
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PanPastel® is the world’s first range of pastel colors that can be mixed and applied like paint. They are professional artists’ quality soft pastel colors in a unique pan format (cake-like). This demonstration will have PanPastels® available to experiment with throughout the session. We’ll do some mark-making exercises focused on techniques specific to PanPastels® and demonstrate how to use them combined with regular pastels.
2024-2025 October The Artist of the Month Becky Neideffer is an artist with a life-long passions for art, she has worked in all mediums, but prefers soft pastels and colored pencils. Her art is realistic with an emphasis on light in both mediums. Her paintings are predominately landscapes but include still life, animals, figurative and floral subjects. She is a self-taught artist and has studied basic design, anatomy, landscape, charcoal, watercolor, pen and ink, conte, pastel and oil with professional artists. She is President of the Tucson Pastel Society, which she founded in 2010, and is a member of the Pastel Society of America, the International Association of Pastel Societies, the Colored Pencil Society of America and the Tucson Colored Pencil Artists’ Association.
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November Meeting! Bring your art entry for the Artist of the Month Contest! Must be framed with a wire for hanging. October Meeting!
Nori spent four days at the Amerind before and after our plein air event and reception on Oct 5, 2024.
The 1600-acre campus was founded in 1937 by William Shirley Fulton. The Amerind foundation is a nonprofit anthropological and archaeological museum and research center dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of native American cultures and their histories. She strongly encouraged everyone to visit the in stunning Texas Canyon, see the exhibits on the archaeology of northern Mexico, the jewelry of the Zuni and Navajo people, and paintings by Indigenous and Western artists. Like many artists, Nori is an avid plein air painter. She understands that not all artists are thrilled with the prospect of spending time in nature with the elements including Degas who remarked about artists who painted in plein air. “If I were the government, I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don’t mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of birdshot now and then as a warning.” She shared information about backpacks, gear, pastel boxes and tripods. Nori’s approach to plein air is making a thumbnail or small study of the large shapes in her selected view. She suggested taking a photo every 15 minutes or so because the light changes rapidly. From her study, she applied pastel and a drippy alcohol wash. She added pastel by emphasizing value, varied marks, complementary colors and the underpainting to create a visual contrast. She demonstrated a faux wood graining painting tool that added a lovely texture to her painting. She doesn’t expect to have a finished painting but uses her plein air time as a learning experience. It’s about the process, not a masterpiece. She sometimes continues working in her studio on a plein air piece and sometimes, it goes in the trash. Thank you, Nori, for not only a better understanding of the Amerind but for sharing your plein air experience.
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