Pastel Journal - USA (2020-04)

LilacsDancing(30x22) “I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I wasn’t an artist,” she says. “It has given me the opportun ...

SURPRISINGLY,SPRINGRAINWASACTUALLYPAINTEDLASTAUGUST,notinthe spring,andnotfarfromNorbertNagel’shomeinDenver,Colo.,atanareaof ope ...

Color in the Landscape Nagel’s experience as a professional horticulturist— he worked for Denver Parks and Recreation for 48 yea ...

Looking West (8x10) “Clouds are just vapor, so you want to make them appear transparent,” he says. He has found that certain col ...

to put something down that feels like what I’m looking at, because the light is moving and circumstances are changing fast. I pa ...

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“BEFOREI STARTAPAINTING,theabstractelements andrepresentationalimagesalwaysappearinmymind, repeatedly,”saysCaliforniaartistJianW ...

anymuddy,flatcolors.“Ithinkthe complementarycolorapproachhelps withoverallcolorbalanceandmakes colorintheshadowsappearricher,”he ...

his subject is in shadow and adjacent to a light background, Wu employs a harder edge. Some of these harder edges can be seen in ...

JERZYMOSCICKI,WINNEROFTHERICHESONPASTEL BRONZEAWARD,sayshispainterlylifeislivedwithin a “theateroflights.”Indeed,heseesLumièreIn ...

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seethatthesameobjects—thepuppets,inparticular—took ondifferentlevelsofimportancebasedonthelightingthey weregivenonstage.”Thisrea ...

Hesays,“Manypaintersaresurprisedwhentheylearn ofmypastelmethod;theythinkthatblackandwhite willspoilthecolors,butthat’snotthecase ...

FIRSTPLACE KathyFallaHoward BorninCanadabut whisked away to Arizonaatanearly age by her fam- ily,KathyFallaHoward (kathyfalla ho ...

this underpainting peek through in places,” she says. After making a few thumbnail sketches and transferring the design to her p ...

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Southern Alps, NZ (18x24) by Tony Allain High Above (27½x18½) by Denise LaRue Mahlke Bright Ending (10x20) b ...

explicitly expressed through the beautiful use of light and shadow, but they don’t. The artist’s mastery blends the two into a p ...

Landscape & Interior HONORABLE MENTIONS Cottonwood Cow Pasture (24x30) by Amanda Houston | Cornelius, Ore. ExploringISEnough ...

Footprints (10x8) by Dalibor Dejanovic Toronto, Ontario, Canada Albuquerque at Night (9x12) by Anne Vosikas Kingston, Mass. Cree ...

Nocturne, Rue du Milieu, Giverny (12x24) by Maria Marino | Sykesville, Md. Missing You (35x24) by Wade Zahares Lyman, Maine Sunr ...