MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS 2024

In-person and Zoom 2024 meetings/demos/workshops
Watch your PSST emails for meeting details and Zoom links

In-person Meeting Location 
​Trini Mendenhall Community Center, ​1414 Wirt Road, Houston TX
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Zoom Meetings
Links for Zoom meetings will be emailed to members prior to meeting

map to trini mendenhall

Monthly Member Challenge

• Open to all PSST members
• Challenge theme for the next month announced at meeting
• Bring your challenge painting to meeting
• Any  size; soft pastels.only
• Painted during the challenge month
• Must be present to be included

Workshops
Workshops may be scheduled at various times during the year. 
​Details will be announced in emails to members

JANUARY 6, 2024 ZOOM MEETING
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Artist Demonstration, Tetyana Aleksenko
​Tetyana will demonstrate the painting of a single magnolia bloom

​Tetyana is a Ukrainian-born pastel artist who lives in The Woodlands, Texas. She is inspired by Texas nature, by its beauty and endless variety of shapes and forms. Her artistic mission is to capture unusual aspects of everyday life and to create artwork that speaks to a viewer by evoking powerful emotions.

Tetyana Aleksenko

After a career in the biomedical field, Tetyana’s art journey started in 2020 when she discovered Unison pastels and fell in love with them. She spent two years studying academic drawing, composition, watercolor, pastels, and oil painting at famous online Kalacheva Art School and is now an Associate Member of the Pastel Society of America. She continues to attend pastel workshops and demos of other artists to improve her artistic skills and learn new techniques. She also gives workshops at Degallery to share her knowledge with other artists.
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Click for Tetyana Aleksenko website.

FEBRUARY 3, 2024 IN-PERSON MEETING
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Artist Demonstration, Cheryl Stribling, followed by mini-workshop

MARCH 2, 2024 ZOOM MEETING
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Artist Demonstration, Denice Peters, Iowa
Denice will demonstrate a still life with a focus on light

Denice Peters

Denice Peters. My goal is to create realistic pastel paintings using strong light and shadow with a bit of nostalgia and a sense of peace. I’m attracted by the effect that light has on nature and everyday objects. This spark of brightness shining against the darkness is what inspires my work.

Regardless of subject, each painting is about this dramatic glow evoking an emotional response using my self honed style I call ‘Blended Reality’. The elements of light, detail and feeling all come together in a realistic way to create serenity, appeal and sentimentality, through everyday items and antiques, or landscapes that I visit. This is done without any tools other than fingers and pastel sticks. Starting with a quick hand drawn sketch of just the shapes, I then add the color and details as I paint.

I want to help others see the beauty and peace that is all around us. Life is too short to do otherwise.

Click for Denice Peters website.

APRIL 6, 2024 ZOOM MEETING
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Artist Demonstration, Lea Chang (Yuli Zhang), Taiwan
​Lea will demonstrate the painting of an animal

Lea Chang

Lea Chang (Yuli Zhang) Yuli Zhang was born in Taiwan and graduated from a well known Art School in Taipei.  She loved painting when she was a child, has always felt that painting is a real action to achieve imaginary beauty.  She chose pastel media to create, because she feels that as long as she uses "finger", she can freely use her imagination and creativity, which is a great thing! She likes to depict the beauty of the world around her through pastels, and uses magic at her fingertips.  She enjoys painting girl's soft hair, delicate face, and pet's loving eyes. Sometimes the painting is gentle and delicate, and sometimes it is thick and strong, all of which are Yuli's interpretation of the image of beauty.

Yuli is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America  and has won many awards from international competitions.

​INSTAGRAM : lea.3265 
FACEBOOK: artgo - Lea Chang

MAY 4, 2024 IN-PERSON MEETING
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Artist Demonstration, Diane Brahm, followed by mini-workshop

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024 IN-PERSON MEETING
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Artist Demonstration, Carolyn Hancock

OCTOBER 5, 2024 ZOOM MEETING
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Artist Demonstration, Robert Dutton, England

WORKSHOP CANCELLATION, REFUND AND WAITLIST POLICY. PSST understands that cancellations may be necessary and that duplicate registrations occur, and will accommodate members when possible. However, a $5.00 handling fee will be deducted from all refunds, for whatever reason.

If a mini-workshop can be filled from the wait list, registrant will receive a refund, less the $5 handling fee. If a mini-workshop cannot be filled from the wait list, registrant will forfeit the full workshop fee.

Requests for cancellation, refund, and wait list must be made via email to Programs Chair, Sally Hoyt.

Cheery Young , Program Chair