Congratulations to Virginia Larrea, of Tampa, Fla., for her winning entry in Carole Katchen’s Creative Spark challenge featured in the October issue of the magazine. The challenge was to “mix it up,” and paint with multiple media. Click here for Larrea’s most unusual story about her use of mixed media, which, in this case, involved beer.

Larrea won a package of UART sanded pastel papers worth $140. Our thanks to UART for their generous donation.

Look for the next Creative Spark challenge in the February 2009 issue of The Pastel Journal.