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 Friday, February 13, 2009
Deborah Secor Video Workshops Now Available on DVD
Posted by jessica
 The popular ArtistsNetwork.tv video workshops are now available on DVD! Now you can start your own fine art instruction library at home—with two workshops by pastelist Deborah Secor. In Get Started in Pastels: Deborah Secor Paints The Landscape, the artist shows you how to get started with pastel the easy way. She covers basic strokes, tools, techniques, elements and principles of design, and finishes by completing a landscape painting.  Secor shows you how to use light, photo references, nearby vs. distant shadows, color recipes and more in Painting Outdoor Shadows in Pastel with Deborah Secor. You'll finish by completing a painting using a reference photograph, defining color layers and shadow edges. Both are available for $29.99. Click here for ordering information.
Art Inspiration | Tips and Techniques | Tools and Materials
Friday, February 13, 2009 4:11:32 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) 
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Monday, February 09, 2009
Showstoppers: Sally Strand
Posted by anne
 Catch it if you can. A new solo exhibition "Across the Day," featuring new pastels and oil paintings by California artist Sally Strand, opened on February 5 at the Telluride Gallery of Fine Arts in Telluride, Colorado. Whether painting a still life or interior—with or without figures—it is the light which captivates and inspires the artist. She has won numerous awards for her luminous pastels and was inducted into the Pastel Society of America's Hall of Fame in 2007. Read a feature about the artist from our new sister magazine, Southwest Art. The show continues through March 5.
Glass with White Roses (2008; pastel, 10 x 12 1/2) by Sally Strand
Shows and Events
Monday, February 09, 2009 7:02:25 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Friday, February 06, 2009
Copyright Infringement on Obama Image?
Posted by jessica
Copyright infringement is always a weighty issue when it comes to art, and the art created during the recent presidential campaign is no exception. The Associated Press is claiming it owns the rights to the photo that artist Shepard Fairey used to create his ubiquitous image of President Barack Obama ( Obama Hope) throughout the presidential campaign—and seeks credit and compensation for Fairey’s use of it without permission. Fairey maintains that he did nothing illegal in using someone’s image—a photographer who snapped the image while on assignment for the AP—to create his work. What do you think: fair use or copyright infringement? Click here to listen to the story from NPR. Update (Feb. 9, 2009): Fairey was in the news again Friday night. The artist was arrested for tagging property in Boston with his street art. Click here for details.
Overheard
Friday, February 06, 2009 4:01:17 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Marlene Dumas at MoMA
Posted by sarah
 If you happen to be in NYC between now and February 16th, I wish you'd visit MoMA and report back on the Marlene Dumas retrospective, Measuring Your Own Grave, as it's sure to be a once-in-a-lifetime treat. From Peter Schjeldahl's review of the retrospective in The New Yorker: "Dumas matters as one of a number of now middle-age painters who dealt
with the apparent dead end of painting after modernism. ... Like Richter, Dumas confronts the
problems head on by hewing, in paint, to the arbitrary givens of a
photograph; in her case, photographs that she has found or has taken
herself (usually Polaroids of people close to her)." Read the entire article here: Unpretty Pictures.
Art Inspiration | Shows and Events
Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:40:07 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Pastels for Your Desktop
Posted by anne
 There is now one more way to enjoy select paintings by artists featured in issues of The Pastel Journal. We are now offering a collection of images from the magazine, as well as from our sister publications The Artist's Magazine and Watercolor Artist, as desktop wallpaper for your home computer. Here's what to do: Visit our website and choose an image you like. Click the desired size link. After the
image has loaded, right-click (control-click on a Mac) and select “Set
as Background” or “Set as Wallpaper.” Lake O’Hara (above; pastel, 18x24) by Canadian artist Horace Champagne, featured in the February 2009 issue of The Pastel Journal, is one of three paintings now available. We'll be adding new paintings on a regular basis, so be sure to check back from time to time to update your desktop gallery.
Art Inspiration
Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:16:25 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Friday, January 30, 2009
Celebrating Oscar Season in Cincinnati
Posted by jessica
 We’re getting in gear for the Academy Awards a little early here in Cincinnati, as the Taft Museum of Art today opens its latest exhibition, Fashion in Film: Period Costumes for the Screen. The 36 costumes have been worn in blockbusters such as Titanic, Evita, Sense and Sensibility, Ever After and others. The fashion festivities continue through April 26. Pictured here is Two-Piece Evening Dress worn by Kate Beckinsale as Maggie Verver in the film, The Golden Bowl (2000), set in the early 1900s. Costumes designed by John Bright; directed by James Ivory. Silk satin with lace.
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Friday, January 30, 2009 10:09:46 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Join the Debate: Rock or Rap While You Paint?
Posted by sarah
 Have you noticed what's going on over at the Pastel Pointer's blog? Our friend Richard McKinley is stirring up quite a debate with his Name Your Tune post. Visitors are encouraged to share their favorite painting songs. Lately, our household is partial to  Andrew Bird's new album Noble Beast. It's complex but it doesn't intrude upon our work. Plus, it's beautiful, rich songwriting. What's in your playlist?
Art Inspiration | Overheard
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:23:08 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Degas in Australia
Posted by jessica
 Our Aussie friends have no doubt already caught word of or been to see the blockbuster exhibition, Degas: Master of French Art, at the National Gallery of Australia, but for those who haven't yet, it's on view through March 22. Among the major highlights of the exhibition—Degas' visual and literary inspiration, subject matter and themes in his work—is the focus on the artist's transformation and development of style. The accompanying exhibition, "Degas' World: The Rage for Change," just opened on Friday and continues through May 3. If you can't make it to Canberra, you can view a gallery of the included works and trailers of the exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia's website. Edgar Degas, The Dance Class (c. 1873; oil on canvas, 47.6 x 62.2 cm). The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. William A Clark Collection, 1926
Shows and Events
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:39:41 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Pastel on the Evening News
Posted by sarah
Don't you love it when loved ones buy you art? I was more than pleased when I was gifted recently with a lovely pastel painting by Brian Mathas Burt. It's pictured here on a spare easel, where it will live until I decide where to hang it. In preparation for this post on the blog, I visited the artist's website only to discover that he's recently been featured on the evening news for his Obama-inspired work. Click here to watch the riveting news coverage. (By the way, we featured Burt in the October 2008 issue of the magazine. That's one of his portraits on the cover.) 
Art Inspiration
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:52:50 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
A Creative Kick In the Pants
Posted by anne
 Our interactive column Creative Spark was developed for all those times when we find ourselves settled into creative inertia. In each issue, an artist shares a few thoughts on art-making that serve to fire up ideas and solutions. And then, there's an assignment, a creative prompt or a creative kick-in-the-pants, if you will, to inspire us to head back to the easel and get to work. Also motivating is the fact that everyone who responds to the assignment has a chance to win valuable pastel materials! We've recently created a Creative Spark "hub" on our website. Visit the hub to see all the current and past winners, or to find out details of the latest Creative Spark challenge , which this month is offered by artist Cheri Dunnigan, whose pastel Carpineto (left; 14x11) speaks to her experience "grappling with grays."
Art Inspiration
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:58:50 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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