Meetings

Bring your most interesting items in to create a still life smorgasbord for a live pastel painting!

Shawn Dell Joyce will provide a Live Demo teaching the art of adding a Focal Point to a painting!

Members are invited out to Bountiful Farms and Bistro for a morning of Plein Air Painting and photo taking.

Longtime Member and professional portraitist Echo Keller will create an in-person pastel portrait with model, Claire Simpson at Leesburg Center for the Arts.

Holiday Pot Luck, Installation of new officiers, Tribute to Donna Tweedle, and a demo by Anne Kindl - Anne will Demo a Winter Flower with an emphasis on building pastel layers and intuitive marks. This will be via Zoom and will broadcast at Leesburg Art Center.

Award winning artist, Laura Pollak demos painting abstracts with pastels.

As Colors Change

Mark will discuss how he determines his focus and intent when using what can be a complex reference image. Mark will talk about different ways to get textures, temperature shifts and interesting edges as he paints.

Lisa will demo how she paints with looseness the subject of birds in the landscape.

If you would like to participate, please bring something to show and tell, if not feel free to come and enjoy your fellow pastelists.