2025 MEETINGs & WORKSHOPS
TENTATIVE CHANGE OF MEETING LOCATION 2025: Texas Art Supply, 2001 Montrose, Houston TX
JANUARY 4, 2025 VIA ZOOM
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Mark Ivan Cole Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: Landscape/Woodlands
11:00 Mark Ivan Cole Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: Landscape/Woodlands
|
Mark Ivan Cole Mini-Workshop: Landscape and Woodlands
Mark will walk participants through the process of selecting paper to get the look and feel desired for the painting. Following that, Mark will conduct a paint-along session in which he will demonstrate and assist participants in painting a woodland landscape. He will discuss his choices of soft pastels as he showcases the unique capabilities and versatility of the selected paper. He will also demonstrate some novel tools and techniques that can be used to achieve the desired "look." Spontaneous questions are encouraged! |
Register for Mark Ivan Cole Mini-Workshop Landscape/Woodlands
January 4, 2025. PSST Member $50, Non-Member $60 Please select PSST Member or Non-Member option with arrows Click Buy Now button then choose PayPal or Credit Card |
Mark Ivan Cole Bio
Award-winning artist and teacher Mark Ivan Cole, PSA, began making art as soon as he could hold a crayon. He could be described as self-taught, but that does not give proper credit to the amazing artists--both contemporary and historical--whose works and methods he has spent decades studying. He was juried into the Pastel Society of America as a signature member in 2018 and has painted, exhibited and taught around the world. When not out with his wife exploring some beautiful place elsewhere on the planet, he is painting landscapes, recording original music, or working on his latest novel at home in Portland, Oregon. Click to read Mark's in-depth interview in How-to-Pastel: https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/08/mark-ivan-cole-deep-observation-and-emotional-realism/ View his work at https://www.markivancole.com/
Award-winning artist and teacher Mark Ivan Cole, PSA, began making art as soon as he could hold a crayon. He could be described as self-taught, but that does not give proper credit to the amazing artists--both contemporary and historical--whose works and methods he has spent decades studying. He was juried into the Pastel Society of America as a signature member in 2018 and has painted, exhibited and taught around the world. When not out with his wife exploring some beautiful place elsewhere on the planet, he is painting landscapes, recording original music, or working on his latest novel at home in Portland, Oregon. Click to read Mark's in-depth interview in How-to-Pastel: https://www.howtopastel.com/2024/08/mark-ivan-cole-deep-observation-and-emotional-realism/ View his work at https://www.markivancole.com/
|
Titan, Pastel Painting by Mark Ivan Cole
|
The Forest Awakens, Pastel Painting by Mark Ivan Cole
|
Here for Now, Pastel Painting by Mark Ivan Cole
|
|
february 1, 2025 in-person
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Rae Andrews Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: Topic TBA
11:00 Rae Andrews Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: Topic TBA
March 1, 2025 via zoom
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Rita Kirkman Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: The Sunlit Animal Portrait
11:00 Rita Kirkman Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: The Sunlit Animal Portrait
|
Rita Kirkman Mini-Workshop: The Sunlit Animal Portrait
Infuse your animal portraits with the spirit of sunlight! Learn to capture light by underpainting with warm tones. This mini-workshop will help you grow your grasp of value and temperature, and how these basic elements of art affect color and form. Workshop students should attend the morning demo. |
Register for Rita Kirkman Workshop The Sunlit Animal Portrait
March 1, 2025. PSST Member $50, Non-Member $60 Please select PSST Member or Non-Member option with arrows Click Buy Now button then choose PayPal or Credit Card |
Rita Kirkman, PSA-MP, CPS, IAPS-EP, Bio
Kirkman has been using pastel since she was 11 years old. Since 2003 she has consistently won major awards in national and international competitions. She is a Pastel Society of America Master Pastelist and an Eminent Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel Societies. Her paintings have been featured in the Pastel Journal and the Pratique des Arts Spécial Pastel, and published in many others. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide. In 2020 she created a Patreon page, full of demo videos and art tips. https://www.ritakirkman.com/
Kirkman has been using pastel since she was 11 years old. Since 2003 she has consistently won major awards in national and international competitions. She is a Pastel Society of America Master Pastelist and an Eminent Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel Societies. Her paintings have been featured in the Pastel Journal and the Pratique des Arts Spécial Pastel, and published in many others. Her work is in public and private collections worldwide. In 2020 she created a Patreon page, full of demo videos and art tips. https://www.ritakirkman.com/
|
|
april 5, 2025 in-person
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Lynda Hughes Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: Topic TBA
11:00 Lynda Hughes Artist Demonstration, followed by Mini-Workshop: Topic TBA
may 3, 2025 tba
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Details will be added
September 6, 2025
TBA
October 4, 2025
TBA
November 1, 2025
Betty James, in-person demo and mini-workshop
December 2025
Christmas Luncheon
Details will be added
September 6, 2025
TBA
October 4, 2025
TBA
November 1, 2025
Betty James, in-person demo and mini-workshop
December 2025
Christmas Luncheon