Meetings
The Gateway Pastel Artists meet on the second Monday of every month except June, August & December.
The June meeting will be held on June 19, 2017
No meeting in August or December
Location:
Green Door Art Gallery
21 N Gore
Webster Groves, Mo. 63119
Time: Meetings start at promptly at 6:00 PM and go to 8:00 PM
Guests are always welcome.
Meeting Programs
January 9, 2017 TBD
February 13, 2017 Landscape Demo with Jerry Brown
March 13, 2017 TBD
April 10, 2017
Demo by Marla Rush ParnellA Few Steps Beyond
Incorporating Graphic Elements Into Your Artwork
Marla will bring examples of some of her portraiture showing her use of geometric shapes, lines and hand lettering that takes her work beyond an expected commissioned painting.
Plus, you will have a hands-on opportunity to try out some of her effects using stencils and silkscreens. You will come away with a fresh perspective and ideas to take your paintings to another level!
Marla and her husband, Hue, operate Creava School For The Arts in Springfield, Missouri, where they both create and teach in their respective media, pastel and clay.
Marla specializes in commissioned pastel portraits of pets, and her work is in private collections throughout the U.S. She frequently exhibits on a national level in annual juried exhibitions and was the First Place Award winner in the Pastel National 2016 Exhibition in Wichita, Kansas with her painting of a Weimaraner.
In addition to her membership in Gateway Pastel Artists, she is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and is a juried member of Best of Missouri Hands.
May 8, 2017
Pastel Demo with Jennifer Evenhus
Master Pastelist, Jen Evenhus, PSA-MP, NPS-DP, IAPS-MC, PSWC will demostrate
“Less is More” and her technique for painting her quick 10 sketches that she is so well known for.
June 19, 2017 (NOTE DATE CHANGE)
What we learned at the International Pastel Convention
Bring a painting you are having trouble with or are not sure about and we will all discuss it.
July 10 2017
Lisa Ober - Demo
August 7th (Note First not Second Monday)
Carl Judson of Judson Outfitters will present “Paint Outside the Box – Personal Style in Plein Air” A seminar/workshop centered around slides on Carl’s iPad: About 50 slides of work from the Renaissance to the present give context for a brief history of plein air painting and provide examples of the surprising diversity of styles that painters over the last 250 years have used to depict the world around them. The presentation takes about an hour. Carl encourages questions and discussion from participants – this often gets quite lively so, allow 2 hours.
Carl will also have his supply van- so we can shop. He has some unusual things. His inventions are then manufactured and are sold exclusively by him. Such an interesting man!!
September No Meeting
October 9, 2017 TBD
November 13, 2017 TBD
December 2017 No Meeting Happy Holidays!
Members only benefit:
Pastel Video and Book Library
Here's the process: check-out/in happens at monthly meetings. You may keep the dvd/video for the entire month or can loan to someone else during that time. However, if you checked it out, you are responsible for its return. Titles are listed below:
Questions? Please call or email me.
Email: Vic Mastis
Telephone: 314-402-1959
Useful Pastel Artist Links
Pastel Video and Book Library
Here's the process: check-out/in happens at monthly meetings. You may keep the dvd/video for the entire month or can loan to someone else during that time. However, if you checked it out, you are responsible for its return. Titles are listed below:
- "Painting a Still Life in Pastel" (DVD) - Ramon Kelly
- "Working from Life" (DVD) - Wende Caporale
- "Abstracting the Landscape in Pastel" (DVD) - Ann Templeton
- "The Pastel Landscape" (2 DVDs) - Bob Rohm
- "Flowers in Pastels" (DVD) - Margaret Evans
- "Pastel Workshop 1&2" (DVD) - Jackie Simmonds
- "Pastel Painting" (VHS and DVD) - Greg Biolchini
- "The Difference a Day Makes, The School of Light & Color" (DVD) - this DVD is on ‘full-spectrum color’ seeing. Demo is painted in oil, outdoor landscape at varying times of day.
- "Landscape" (VHS) - Duane Wakeham
- "Create Better Paintings" (book) - Elsie Di Nardo Dresch
- "Jim, Pastel Portrait" (DVD) -Daniel Greene
- "Landscape Pastel" (2 DVDs) -Richard McKinley
- "Painting the Figure, Plein Air" (DVD) -Bill Hosner
- "Plein Air Pastel Painting" (DVD) -Doug Dawson
- "In the Cedar Grove at Point Lobos" (DVD) -Albert Handell
- "Color Concepts" (DVD) -Stephen Quiller
- "Landscape Painting I" (DVD) -Deborah Secor
- "Landscape" (DVD) -Katherine Hurley
- "Values (B/W)" (DVD) -Katherine Hurley
- "2008 Pastel Journal, Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Artist" (CD)-all issues
- "How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Lifes and Florals"(Book) - International Artist
- "Creating Textures in Pen & Ink with Watercolor" (Book) - by Claudia Nice.
Questions? Please call or email me.
Email: Vic Mastis
Telephone: 314-402-1959
Useful Pastel Artist Links
