Karen Margulis, pastelist

Check out Karen's blog, especially if you are interested in pastels: http://kemstudios.blogspot.com/
She writes about a wide variety of pastel, life, plein air, and blog issues, as well as her travels, including Normandy recently and Iceland last year. She offers lots of advice for artists that is useful regardless of your choice of media.

Pastel Animal Portraits

Irish artist Emma Colbert paints awesome animal portraits. She also paints people and landscapes, but her dog portraits are my favorites; they are quite expressive. She also shows step-by-step demos. In some of those photos, you can also see her pastel set-up in her motorhome.



http://emmacolbertart.blogspot.ie/

Verna's Art Travels

This post is from Verna R., who's been traveling and seeing some awesome art:

Joan and I visited the Wisconsin Artists Showcase (Jura Silverman Gallery) in Spring Green, Wis.  Lots of great stuff there, but Dave Bielot was my favorite.   He has a Facebook page, but not an actual web site, apparently.  

I pulled a few paintings below and you can see a couple more in these web sites. He is a high school art teacher and watercolorist.

 

https://www.facebook.com/david.bielot

http://www.channel3000.com/madison-magazine/arts-culture/a-world-of-watercolors/32256654

http://www.uplandsguide.com/calendar/57/114-The-Wisconsin-Artists-Showcase-at-the-Jura-Silverman-Gallery-featuring-Watercolors-by-David-Bielot/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You know how when you're researching something, you always find other things :

This website has wonderful pastels by Susan Klabak:

http://susanklabak.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html 

And this one has watercolors by Vicky Lillaart:

http://www.vickylillaart.com/gallery.html

Pastels workshop

In honor of our broader organizational title, I thought I'd post this info on a pastels workshop I'll be attending October 26-28 in Ann Arbor. This will be the third time I've taken a workshop with Marla Baggetta. The Oct. one will focus on color.

Here's Marla's blog: http://marlabaggettastudio.blogspot.com/
and website: http://www.marlabaggetta.com/

It's great that we have such an accomplished pastels instructor here, with Ron Burgess at the Art Museum, but sometimes it's good to step out of the local comfort zone.

If interested in Marla's Ann Arbor workshop, contact Debra at idzamperla@gmail.com

The following is a flier for a workshop in Oregon but will give you an idea of what she'll cover in Ann Arbor.