Meetings

The Gateway Pastel Artists meet on the second Monday of every month except  August & December.

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

June 11, 2018 - 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

 Julie Snidle will be our demo artist.  Once a corporate training administrator, Julie has followed her passion for art and painting.  With a degree in education she has taught art professionally in the classroom and in workshops throughout the U.S.   Julie has studied encaustic intensively since 2004 and is a Core Support Instructor for R&F Handmade Paints based in Kingston, NY.   She attends and has taught at the International Encaustic Conference held annually in Provincetown, MA.  Her work appears in galleries and in private collections across the United States.  
​Julie and her husband Will have just purchased their dream home in Fairhope, Alabama.

Please remember to return your borrowed videos and books.
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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:

  • "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.
Remember, if you have a video/dvd that you would like to donate or sell to the library, we always welcome that! AND...your suggestions for new titles/subjects are very welcome as well.

Questions? Please call or email me.

Email: Vic Mastis
Telephone: 314-402-1959
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