Third and final day of Pastel Live, the three-day, one-of-a-kind event put on by Eric Rhoads and Kelly Kane with the help of the amazing Streamline crew. The first artist of the day is Marla Baggetta. Marla began painting landscapes -a middle ground between realism and abstraction- after she moved to Oregon. Today her work and workshops are increasingly sought after. Fundamental ingredients in Baggetta's demo are the right dosage of ...
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Vera Kavura opens the second day of Pastel Live, the world's first online event entirely dedicated to pastel. Credit and praise for all of this goes to Eric Rhoads who, with Kelly Kane and the hyperactive Streamline crew, made this much-needed event possible for attendees at all previous conventions. Vera Kavura, an artist of Ukrainian origin has become fond of pastel in recent years, nevertheless her skill is incredible. The artist likes ...
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Official start of Pastel Live, the world's first, largest and only three-day online event dedicated entirely to pastel. Organized by Kelly Kane and the unstoppable Eric Rhoads, celebrated face of magazines and art events, Pastel Live began with a jam-packed lineup with demos of: landscape, portrait, still life, plain-air, floral and seascape, punctuated by technical and historical notions about pastel. The first artist of the day is Scottish artist Tony Allein who ...
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Pastelists around the world unite for the start of Pastel Live, the first three-day event (plus yesterday's optional beginner day) dedicated entirely to the art of pastel. After Plein-Air Live, Realism Live and Watercolor Live, Eric Rhoads, Art Publisher of magazines and creator of important artistic events that take participants around the world, has kept his promises to create a real "Disneyland for artists". In doing so, it has satisfied all those ...
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Last days before the official start of Pastel Live, scheduled from August 19 to 21 (with pre-convention workshop on August 18th) the first event designed and dedicated entirely to the art of pastel. Among the faculty members over thirty internationally renowned artists who will alternate demos of portraiture, still life and landscape to theoretical notions and the teaching of proven techniques that have brought the teachers awards and recognition in the ...
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Today there will be another extraordinary day full of events that will "enlighten" you before returning to your studios to put into practice the notions acquired during this wonderful convention that has seen some of the most renowned artists of the American realistic-figurative art scene. The Art of The Portrait began with an inspirational hour with Susan Lyon addressing a frequent theme that every artist has experienced, precisely because of their ...
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Another star of the contemporary art scene will open the third day of the 23rd edition of (The) Art of The Portrait of the Portrait Society of America: Burton Silverman, a 93-year-old artist, a reference point in the "credible construction" of the portrait, with many stories to tell. The approach that the artist has had during his long career with the use of photography as a support started from the analysis ...
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The 23rd edition of The Art of The Portrait comes to life and does so with an exceptional artist: Max Ginsburg, 90 years old this year. An innate talent that he experienced, when he was still a child, with his artist father. In the series of works presented in his anthology there is the image of his parents, whom the artist immortalizes arm in arm: "the right one", the artist points out, ...
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The official speaker for the fourth day of the workshop was Michael Shane Neal, a faculty member and from this year also Chairman of the Portrait Society of America. It would be complex to mention all the honors and awards received by the artist in the thirty years of his career, so we will limit ourselves to saying that among the countless awards there is the Grand Prize Award from the ...
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Third day of workshops for the Portrait Society of America's The Art of The Portrait pre-convention in its 23rd edition. Today's artist is Alicia Ponzio, a sculptor and figurative drawing instructor who has received numerous awards and honors from prestigious American institutions, including the The Portrait Society of America, the Art Renewal Center, and The National Sculpture Society from which Alicia received the Alex J. Ettl Grant in 2016. Today's workshop was ...
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