2025 MEETINGs & WORKSHOPS
TENTATIVE CHANGE OF MEETING LOCATION 2025: Texas Art Supply, 2001 Montrose, Houston TX
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
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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/
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april 11, 2025 in-person
Plei Air painting at Mercier Arboretum
May 3, 2025
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 TETYANA ALEKSENKO Artist Demonstration
11:00 TETYANA ALEKSENKO Artist Demonstration
Website https://www.taleksart.com/
Instagram: TAleksArt Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Tetyana-Aleksenko/100087360253712/ |
Tetyana Aleksenko. 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.
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. |
SEPTEMBER 6, 2025 in-person
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Rae Andrew Artist Demonstration
September 4 & 5 Workshop: Topic TBA
11:00 Rae Andrew Artist Demonstration
September 4 & 5 Workshop: Topic TBA
OCTOBER 4, 2025
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 SHERRY KILLIGSWORTH Artist Demonstration
11:00 SHERRY KILLIGSWORTH Artist Demonstration
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November 1, 2025
10:30 Business Meeting
11:00 Beety James Artist Demonstration, in-person demo and mini-workshop
11:00 Beety James Artist Demonstration, in-person demo and mini-workshop
Betty James. Betty loved to draw as a child but was 28 when she began to pursue art. She began with oil painting and has studied with many accomplished artists. For many years oil was her only media, and she taught adult and children classes.
Betty now works in many mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolor, sculpture and the beautiful medium of soft pastels. Her focus over the past decade has been on large commissioned murals in acrylic. She recent;ly complied a series of paintings for Northland Christian School consisting of 11 48x60 inch and 15 36x48 inch wrapped canvases in oil, now hung as murals. Betty works on commissioned paintings and does demos and workshops.
President of PSST, Betty says, "Painting is a never ending process to learn and improve my skills and a way to express myself. I am thankful to have an art filled life working at something I love. It gives me a deeper appreciation for the beauty surrounding me daily."
Betty now works in many mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolor, sculpture and the beautiful medium of soft pastels. Her focus over the past decade has been on large commissioned murals in acrylic. She recent;ly complied a series of paintings for Northland Christian School consisting of 11 48x60 inch and 15 36x48 inch wrapped canvases in oil, now hung as murals. Betty works on commissioned paintings and does demos and workshops.
President of PSST, Betty says, "Painting is a never ending process to learn and improve my skills and a way to express myself. I am thankful to have an art filled life working at something I love. It gives me a deeper appreciation for the beauty surrounding me daily."
December 2025
Christmas Luncheon
february 1, 2025
- 2PM - 4PM
- Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony
Degallery (Bryan, 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
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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/
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Titan, Pastel Painting by Mark Ivan Cole
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The Forest Awakens, Pastel Painting by Mark Ivan Cole
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Here for Now, Pastel Painting by Mark Ivan Cole
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