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USPA seeks to promote the art of soft pastel painting through open communications with USPA members and quality presentations by respected artists. Our aim is to educate, inspire and support our membership, while gaining public recognition and enhancing awareness of the pastel medium through our annual exhibitions.

One of the great advantages of working in pastel is that the medium allows the artist to address both value and color simultaneously... value, depending on the degree of pressure used in its applications. (Sidney Hermel)


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Marie Tippets
President
My mother tells me that I have been drawing since I could hold a pencil. She recollects accusing me of tracing the characters in the Sunday comics until she stood over me one day and confirmed that I could actually freehand quite well. Her praise must have gotten me hooked because I have been studying, painting and drawing ever since.
Joann Quinlivan
Vice President
Artist extraordinaire, winner of a Holbein Award for excellence, an Award of Merit - Pastel Society of the West Coast, 1st and 2nd place - San Clemente Art Assoc. shows, and honoree in International Artist Magazine, Joann is fulfilled to know that many enjoy her vision and her love of pastels.
Jennifer Nichols
Treasurer
  I moved to California 9 yrs ago from Massachusetts after living there my whole life. The beauty of this area renewed my love for plein air painting and nature journaling. I have belonged to The Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, The Niguel Art Association and taught watercolor at The Tall Mouse for 7 years. Pastel has been my favorite medium because of it's versatility, immediacy and brilliant clean color. I am also a Pet sitter and love to paint Animals and birds.
Linda Capaci
Recording Secretary
As a native Californian it was only natural that I learned to appreciate the great outdoors with all it's beauty and great wildlife. My parents would take us camping in Yosemite and I would sit and try to draw squirrels, deer, birds and yes the bears (at a safe distance), and the people at their campsites. My passion however has been Southwest art.  After retirement, I decided to get serious and enrolled into Saddleback's Emeritus classes working with oils and pastels and I am enjoying every minute of it.
Scott Jones
Newsletter Correspondent 
When Scott finally began to paint in earnest, he gravitated toward pastels because they seemed the perfect combination of painting and drawing. Also because, having absolutely no mechanical aptitude, paintbrushes were too complicated for him to grasp. If he were forced to give one piece of advice to aspiring artists, it would be to draw something from life every day, even if it's nothing but a sketch on a Post-it or napkin. It's by drawing something that you really learn it, make it a part of you. To him, there's no substitute.
Miriam Kranser
Publicity/Public Relations
  Working with pastels is Miriam's hobby. She takes classes through Saddleback College and loves the medium. She & her husband Len have visited 60 countries and just returned from Holland and Belgium where the tulips dazzled and she could not stop taking photos. She feels studying an art medium just makes her so much more appreciative of the art she observes in galleries and museums.
Barry Keller
Website
Programmer by day, programmer by night, artist the rest of the time. I've been drawing since the time I could walk and painting with pastels for about ten years now. I like depicting people or any scene that tells a story and I like the immediacy and richness of pastels.
 
 

Message From the President...

  
 
 

September already?

An eventful summer has passed with the United Society of Pastel Artists organizing many fun opportunities for inspiration and painting: a Paint-Out at Los Rios Street in June; a modeled painting session at the El Toro Library with Joann Quinlivan modeling in July; a studio tour and pastel demonstration by world-renowned artist Phil Journeay in August; and our second annual Paint-Around at the El Toro Library in September. Those who ventured out to participate thoroughly enjoyed themselves and they extend to all of you who were not able to come an invitation to join them at future meetings and events.

Sharing, observing and painting are all a part of our growth as artists, and the USPA board members are committed to creating more ways to do exactly that in the upcoming months. As it takes a tremendous amount of time and energy for the board to organize and plan these events, we are all a bit crestfallen when only a handful of members show up. Though our personal lives are busy with demands pulling us in many directions, the board and I sincerely hope that you will find the time in the future to become more active participants in our society. We will do our best to give you advance notice, and we will always post the calendar in each bi-monthly newsletter. Please try to join us. It will be worth the effort!!

Looking forward to the excitement, October presents a demonstration by award-winning artist Dori Dewberry (see article on page 4) at the El Toro Library on October 10th at 6:30pm; November presents a demonstration by award-winning artist, and signature member of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, Patricia Rose Ford (see article on page 4) at the El Toro Library on Thursday, November 10th at 6:30pm; December has a member hosted holiday get-together (specifics to be announced); and January presents a studio tour and demonstration by award-winning festival artist Elizabeth Wallace (www.etwallace.com) on January 14 at 11am at her studio in Trabuco Canyon.

So, mark your calendars and get ready for some fun and inspiration!

Marie

  
 
 

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