Artists Magazine - USA (2020-04)

34 Artists Magazine April 2020

Build LESSON

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Since 1990

Call for Entries

Colored

Pencil

Cash awards for the 28th

Annual Colored Pencil Society

of America International

Exhibition will total more

than $15,000,

including a

$5,000 top

award. Works

must be 100%

colored pencil

and meet other

eligibility requirements.

Entries: December 15, 2019,

to March 31, 2020. This is a

juried gallery exhibition to be

held at the Dunedin Fine Art

Center in Dunedin, Florida,

from July 14 to August 16, 2020.

For a prospectus visit:

http://www.cpsa.org/INA

Wy l d Man

Barbara Dahlstedt, CPSA, CPX (Arizona)

$5,000 winner of the Best of Show and

CIPPY Award at the 2019 CPSA

International Exhibition

MINI LESSON: Cattails

This work, like the previous examples, uses

color to warm up chilly scenes. Cattails feels

animated with light and showcases a field in

that ambiguous time between seasons, such

as late November and late March. Chlorophyll

has been stripped from the reeds. Small pools

of cool blue suggest lingering water. Only the

distant amalgamated line of dark blue-green

conifers presents the note of living foliage.

The advantage of using a brushed

aluminum substrate becomes apparent

with the use of translucent colors: gamboge,

quinacridone fuchsia, ultramarine blue and

carmine lake. When viewers shift their viewing

angle even slightly, the light reflecting from

the surface sparkles and simultaneously

changes the pattern of its sparkle.

The colors in Cattails are predominantly

anchored to warm golds, ambers and

red-browns. The complementary blues and

blue-greens are situated on the periphery

of the work at the top and bottom. Cattails

oil on brushed silver Dibond, 36x48