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Holiday Pot Luck and Demo of Painting Semi-Abstract Flowers
Holiday Pot Luck and Demo of Painting Semi-Abstract FlowersDecember 14th, 2024 10:00 a.m. via Zoom and 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.

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Past Events

Abstracts with pastels
Abstracts with pastelsNovember 9th, 2024 10:00 a.m. via Zoom

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

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Mark Ivan Cole
Mark Ivan ColeOctober 12th, 2024 10:00 a.m. via Zoom

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.

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Birds in the Landscape
Birds in the LandscapeSeptember 14th, 2024 10:00 a.m. via Zoom

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

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Donna Tweedle Presents a Practical Approach to Painting from Photographs
Donna Tweedle Presents a Practical Approach to Painting from PhotographsMay 11th, 2024 10:00 a.m. at Leesburg Center for the Arts
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Jan Vermilya presents Critiquing Your Art
Jan Vermilya presents Critiquing Your ArtApril 13th, 2024 10:00 a.m. at Leesburg Center for the Art
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Members Show and Tell
Members Show and TellMarch 9th, 2024 10:00 a.m. at Leesburg Center for the Arts

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

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"Dancing with Stardust" with Terrilynn Dubreuil
"Dancing with Stardust" with Terrilynn DubreuilFebruary 10th, 2024 10:00 a.m. via Zoom

Terrilynn will be working on finding the essence of an image

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Orit Reuben will be presenting "Architecture in Nature"
Orit Reuben will be presenting "Architecture in Nature"January 13th, 2024 10:00 a.m. at Leesburg Center for the Arts

Inspired by the beauty of nature, Orit will talk about how she draws inspiration from light effects when observing how objects are illuminated.

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Holiday Party, Potluck and White Elephant Exchange at Leesburg Center for the Arts
Holiday Party, Potluck and White Elephant Exchange at Leesburg Center for the ArtsDecember 9th, 2023 10:00 a.m. at Leesburg Center for the Arts
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Seascape Demo with Lana Ballot via Zoom
Seascape Demo with Lana Ballot via ZoomNovember 11th, 2023

Lana Ballot is a professional artist and pastel painting instructor, living on Long Island, NY. Ocean and coastal landscape are the main subjects in Lana's work. Expressive use of color and painterly mark making are characteristic of her style.

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Demo by Helen Mathyssen at Leesburg Center for the Arts
Demo by Helen Mathyssen at Leesburg Center for the ArtsOctober 14th, 2023

Helen will be demonstrating how she gives a sense of mystery to a pastel painting using walnut ink as an underpainting. That particular style of painting is called tonalism. She will bring several examples of that style of painting.

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