THE
PASTEL PRESS
Newsletter
of the Oklahoma Pastel Society
February
2007
Before we get
to the rest of the newsletter, we’ve got to give Charlotte Rodgers a big
round of applause (well, you know what I mean!) for her wonderful, entertaining
and so informative Composition program at last month’s meeting. I took pages and pages of notes and
copied Charlotte’s uncluttered line drawings; these line drawings
demonstrated beautifully the concepts as she presented them. Thank you, Charlotte, for a great
program to kick off 2007!
February
Program
Our
“Oklahoma Pastel Society Goes to the Movies” night a few months
back was so fun as well as instructional that we decided to have another movie
night! This month’s
“feature” is a demonstration – via DVD – by well-known
pastel artist Albert Handell.
Mr. Handell
was born in Brooklyn, studied at the Art Students League of NYC and then
traveled and studied in Europe, particularly Paris. He has had over thirty one-man shows, has written numerous
articles for art-related magazines and has at least four books written about
his paintings and teachings. In
the late 1980’s, the Pastel Society of America elected him into their
Pastel Hall of Fame. He and his
wife, artist Anita Louise West, live and paint in Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you’d like to find out more
about Mr. Handell, his art and workshop schedule, check out his website at www.alberthandell.com.
This DVD
demonstration we’ll be watching runs for approximately two hours. Jan Hutchinson, OPS’s secretary,
says that while Albert doesn’t say a lot in words, he shows a bunch of
great techniques for pastel painting.
The meeting
is on the second Monday, February 12, 2007, at 6:30 p.m. at the Will Rogers
Garden Center (email or call Sue Ann if you need directions: sueann@trademech.com
or 405-330-5467.) Donna
Connelly and Judi Mott are providing finger food (think we should request
popcorn?); just bring your beverage of choice. See you there!
(p.s. Linda Battles and Leona Russell will bring snacks for the March
meeting. Have YOU signed up yet?)
Last-chance: Special for the out-of-towners!
For those who
live outside the
OKC metro area and can’t
be present for the monthly meetings, this is your last chance to register
for the gift certificate give-a-way for all of the out-of-towners! On or
before February 9, 2007, you need to either email or snail-mail your
name AND mailing address to sueann@trademech.com
or Oklahoma Pastel Society, P.O. Box 75696, Oklahoma City, OK 73147. (Janie’s email has been giving her some trouble, so
if you emailed her with your info, please send it instead to Sue Ann NOW!) Each OUT-OF-TOWM MEMBER may enter ONCE. We’ve basically defined “out-of-town”
as being any member who CAN’T reasonably drive to and from the meeting;
if you live in the greater OKC metro area, you AREN’T out-of-town.
So REMEMBER,
you have to email or snail-mail your name AND mailing address so that
it’s RECEIVED NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 9th. The drawing will be at the February 12th
meeting and the winner will be notified ASAP. Good luck!
Workshops
– Dale Martin and Terry Ludwig
As we said
last month, they aren’t “team teaching” a workshop but
they’ll BOTH be conducting workshops for OPS in 2007.
Dale Martin’s two-day “Portraits and
Landscapes” workshop is set for Saturday and Sunday, February 17
and 18, 2007, at The Rink Gallery and Antiques Mall, 3200 N. Rockwell, Oklahoma
City. Cost is $150 for OPS members
and $200 for non-members. Contact our treasurer, Janie Schmitz,
if you’d like to take one of the few remaining spots for Dale’s
workshop; call her at 405-943-0330 (home) or 405-942-3489 (work.) Once you’ve registered,
we’ll get a supply list to you ASAP. Just so you know, Dale’s supply list is the stuff
you’ve already got – small sketchbook, vine charcoal, pencil,
pastels of your choice, paper (like Canson Mi-Tientes, Wallis sanded pastel
paper, Art Spectrum Colourfix, etc.), paper towels, reference photos, portable
easel/drawing board, etc. If you’ve already reserved
your place in Dale’s workshop (with a $75 check payable to OPS to P.O. Box 75696, Oklahoma City,
OK 73147), your place is still
there for you. And if the
rescheduled dates don’t fit into your schedule, your deposit will be
refunded.
Terry
Ludwig will be here
August17, 18 and 19, 2007 for a 3-day workshop. (He’ll also be teaching a workshop for the Ozark
Pastel Society only a few days after he leaves OKC; you can contact Joey
Frisillo, not only a member of the Oklahoma Pastel Society but also the current
president of the Ozark group, at 918-242-3205 or by email at joey@joeyfrisillo.com.) Just using any of Terry’s luscious
pastels tells you that he knows a thing or three about painting in this
medium.
This workshop
won’t be outdoors – we all know how brutal August in Oklahoma can
be. BUT, as long as “the good Lord is willin’ and the creeks
don’t rise,” we’ll have Terry’s workshop at the
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (formerly known as the Cowboy Hall
of Fame) in Oklahoma City! And to
make it even better, the annual Prix de West Art Show will still be hanging at
the museum. Granted, we haven’t
been able to set the fee for the workshop yet, but as soon as it’s set,
you’ll know about it.
This shaping
up to be a great year for workshops sponsored by the Oklahoma Pastel Society!
TAG
NEWS
TAG is
planning a party! To coincide with
the launching of TAG’s website in early spring, the board of directors of
TAG is inviting members of all the current member groups, as well as any other
interested groups, to a party. Here are the
particulars: “Meet, Greet
and Share Ideas” party (sponsored by TAG – The Art Groups; Advancing
the Visual Arts in Oklahoma); Thursday, Marcy 8, 2007; 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the
new Oklahoma History Center, Atrium Bridge; 2401 N. Laird, Oklahoma City,
OK 73105; for more information,
please contact Suzie Chelsea at 405-614-0558. Everyone’s invited!
Some of our
current representatives to TAG – The Art Groups have said they would like
to “pass the baton” to other OPS members. Debbie Flynn has volunteered to be one of our reps to TAG
and Janie Schmitz has said she would stay on as a rep too. TAG’s next meeting will be on
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007; that might be a good time to take a look at
TAG. Please let Janie, Debbie or
Donna know if you’d like to attend!
Membership
Roster
Oklahoma
Pastel Society rosters are either attached to the email version of this
newsletter or are enclosed with the hard-copy of the newsletter for those of
you who receive it via U.S. Postal Service. If any of your information as shown in the roster is incorrect, please let me know; we’ll
publish the corrections in March’s “The Pastel Press.”
Annual dues
for membership in the Oklahoma Pastel Society are a low $30.00. Please note: if you are a brand-new member who
has joined OPS between February 1 and May 31, 2007, you’ll already be “in”
for our
membership year beginning June 1, 2007! If you’ve been an OPS member for longer than that,
please send your check, in the amount of $30.00 and payable to
“OPS” to: Oklahoma
Pastel Society, P.O. Box 75696, Oklahoma City, OK 73147.
Condolences
The members
of the Oklahoma Pastel Society send their condolences to the following members:
Jeanne
Carver following the death of her husband,
Ronda
Zenker on the passing away of her father, and
Donna
Connelly on the recent loss of her mother.
Please take a
moment to remember your fellow members during their difficult times.
And Donna
Connelly asked us to include this note from her family:
“My
whole family would like to thank you all so much for the beautiful dish garden
and the cards and letters that you sent following the passing of our
mother. This has been a very
difficult time for us and your outpouring of sympathy has been wonderful. I am lucky to be involved with such
kind and generous people. Thank
you, Donna”
New
Webmaster
OPS member Judi
Mott has bravely
stepped up to the plate (or should we say keyboard?) taking over the
website maintenance duties from Jim Hiller. If you have any questions or would like to ask Judi to add
something to the website calendar, you can contact her at 405-350-2095 or via
email at landondale@atlinkwifi.com. Thanks Judi!
Shows
& Events in the Pastel Community
International
Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) 2007 Convention will be May 11
– 13, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency in Albuquerque NM. You can download the flyer about the
convention at www.pastelinternational.com
or send a SASE to IAPS, P.O. Box 2057, Falls Church VA 22042. Pre-convention workshops will be held
on May 9 & 10, 2007; the Trade Show begins on May 11 at 6:00 p.m. and runs
through May 13 at 4:00 p.m.
And
one more thing…
The Pastel
Journal magazine always encourages pastel groups to send them
photos/slides/digital images of the prize-winning paintings from their shows. So, any of Oklahoma Pastel
Society’s prize winners who have images of their prize-winning works need
to contact Donna Connelly at Donna.E.Connelly@faa.gov. Thanks!
Don’t Forget!
Albert Handell Painting Demo (via
DVD)
6:30 p.m.
Will Rogers Garden Center