Pastel Journal - USA (2019-08)

Capturing effects quickly, espe- cially during plein air painting, helps train the artist’s mark-making to be more spontaneous a ...

Amanda Houston (amandahouston. com) has a bachelors in apparel design and merchandising from University of Vermont and a graduat ...

Step1:I startedbysketch- inglargeshapesinvine charcoal.I markthehori- zonfirstandtrytopay attentiontochangesof directioninthesky ...

GLENMAXIONISAMASTERATCATCHINGTHE INSTANCESWHENPEOPLEAREMOSTTHEMSELVES. ByStefanieLaufersweiler ABOVE School’s Out (19x25) LEFT L ...

T he beach is a perfectly imperfect place in Glen Maxion’s pastels, where the differences among the people who go there are what ...

BODY TALK Perhaps what’s most impressive about Maxion’s paintings is how much expression he captures even when we’re only seeing ...

10 TIPS FOR PAINTING THE UNPOSED In his years of evaluating beachgoers as art subjects, Maxion has honed his ability to capture ...

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT Beach Buddies (25x19) Matchy Matchy (19x25) Beach Notes (25x19) and temperature make sense, and you retain b ...

Afterretiring froma 35-year careerinspecial education, GlenMaxion (glenmaxion. com)switched hisfocusto paintingfull-time. He’sa ...

Step1:I beginonCansonMi-Teintespapercushionedwith a stackofdrawingpaperthatmakesit moreresponsiveto changesinpressure.I startwit ...

“I SUPPOSE THAT PEOPLE ARE MOST UNIQUE IN WHAT WOULD OTHERWISE BE CALLED THEIR IMPERFECTIONS. FOR ME, THAT’S WHERE THE BEAUTY LI ...

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T he French island of Mont Saint-Michel, in the bay of the same name, is listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site and welcomes ...

Q: How did you begin your career? A: I had no formal training as a fine artist. I studied landscape architec- ture at École Nati ...

in a medium I’d never used before! I even used the backing board of a frame as the support because I didn’t have access to paste ...

sort of asked, “Who are you?” It was pretty funny. I showed them more paintings that I’d done using my method, which wasn’t at a ...

me most is the precise rendering of the effects of elements: the move- ment of the water, the boat hulls that are almost like ab ...

To express emotion, I try not to copy what I see; instead, I try to enter into the spirit of the locale. I take sev- eral pictur ...

CatherineHutter (catherinehutter. fr)hasbeena painterfor 30 years.Twoyears ago,sheopeneda galleryinCancale, Brittany,inFrance, w ...

Bright Ideas Jen Evenhus in her organized, clutter-free studio. Everything in its Place Declutter and organize your painting sup ...