Category: Awards

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8/6/2018

Happy Winners 2017 Member Show

The satisfaction and pride of seeing your work in a beautiful gallery setting, The exhilarating experience of comparing your painting to that of other talented artists. Resume building. The undeniable thrill of winning an award. The chance to gain new collectors for your work. The social fun of seeing all your fellow pastelists without pastel smudges.

You get all that and more just by participating ~ one painting, no jury, easy entry.

Member Show and Sale Arden's Gallery Sept 8 - 29
Quick click to entry at showsubmit. Deadline Aug 15.

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Juror's statements for art of the pastel winners

5/9/2018

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Jeanne Rosier Smith: Juror's Statements on Award Paintings, Art of the Pastel 2018.
Click the image to get the full, wonderful effect of seeing pastel's color and techniques.

Best of Show, Carolyn Hancock. Not Your Mother’s Purple Hair
This painting is a standout in every way. It’s a beautifully executed portrait: the face is beautifully modeled, richly colored and alive. She is a contemporary icon: her purple hair recalling a veil, and formal pose and embellished frame beautifully contrasts to the lost edges and loose marks around the shoulders.

First Place, Linda Dellandre, Beautiful Morning
The soft glow of this beautifully composed landscape captures a particular moment in time and pulls us in with just the right balance of large shapes and sharp detail. Dark mystery pulls us into the to the end of the path, and seductive curves point toward it, while beautiful color contrasts exciting marks keep us lingering.

Second Place, Eve Miller, Overlook
This stunning skyscape is more complex than it appears at first. Luminous layers of color create a glowing sky from which the moon silently appears while a mist quietly settles over a deep reaching landscape dotted with brush. Expert use of texture, color, edge, and mark making.

Third Place, Becky Johnson, Silent Alarm
This painting conveys miles of distance, a feeling of height, and a sense of atmosphere into less than 100 square inches. The foreground brush and trees have fallen into twilight dusk and cool while the distant peak feels the sun’s lingering warmth. The detailed style does not distract but rather support’s the painter’s vision. Every value and edge is perfectly calibrated to show us what’s important.

HM, Anne Maree Healey. Watch Out Baby
This fresh, bold take on a traditional subject—mothers and babies at the beach—commands attention with its strong color and nearly abstracted background color field. THe figures and their reflections tell a narrative story and create a spatial world, while the luscious, vivid warm and cools compel a more abstracted color pattern reading. A visual pleasure.

HM, Sherry Killingsworth, Durango
This painting shows a true mastery of atmospheric perspective and light in the landscape. Low light rakes across mountains and trees and invites the viewer further down the path, enjoying the contrast between the cool shade and the warm light.

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ART OF the PASTEL 2014 OPENING RECEPTION

2/8/2014

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If you have the chance to visit the Art Gallery at the Center for the Arts and Sciences in Clute, TX by all means do it. You will find some of the finest pastel artwork in the state there on exhibit through March 8th. BASF Corporation, a worldwide chemical company, hosted the opening reception on Friday evening attended by artists, art enthusiasts and the general public. Show Judge Alan Flattmann spoke on the versatility and properties of pastel and then presented the awards. Best of Show went to “Thoughts of Elberta” by Brenda Hash, First Place to “The Sea” by Linda Dellandre, Second Place to “Mostly Blue” by Irena Taylor, Third Place to “Miss Lilly Rose” by Rita Kirkman and Honorable Mentions were given to “Peaceful” by Betty James and “Girl Wearing a Bandana” by John Markese. It was an enjoyable event which followed the conclusion of a three day Landscape & Cityscape Workshop conducted by Mr. Flattmann. Many thanks go to the Brazosport Art League for all their help and support with both the reception and the workshop. Their facility in Clute is one of the finest in the area.

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exhibition awards

11/4/2013

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Admittedly prejudiced toward pastel, but Carolyn Hancock, Sharon Haney, Joan Eure, and Missy Gates thought the pastel paintings were the stars in Art League of Fort Bend's Fall Show on November 2. The ALFB show included all media, but for the first time, pastel was judged within its own category. Mark Stewart was the judge and awarded the following:

Professional Division
1st - A Technicolor Day, Carolyn Hancock
2nd - Late Afternoon on A Bar Ranch, Melissa Gates
3rd - I Wonder, Carolyn Hancock
HM - Enchanted Texas, Carolyn Hancock

Semi-Professional Division1st - Denver Lilies, Sharon Haney
2nd - Rumpled Rooster, Sharon Haney
3rd - Love That Prickly Pear, Sharon Haney
HM - More Shrimp Pretty Please, Sharon Haney
HM - Red Beauties, Joan Eure

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