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REFRESHMENT SCHEDULE:

April 2010:  Ronda Zenker and Sue Ann Rodgers
May 2010:  no one has signed up yet!

OPS' Stillwater members Donna Branson, Terry Hunt and Jude Tolar entered pastel paintings in the Stillwater Art Guild Spring Show and Sale. The three Stillwater pastelists batted .1000, as all six paintings entered won awards. (Can you tell it's college baseball season?)

Jude Tolar: 1st in Advanced Pastels - "Basking in the Sun" - Also tied for People's Choice	Terry Hunt: 1st in Beginning Pastels "Learning to Fly"	Donna Branson: 1st in Intermediate Pastels "March Snowfall"

Donna Branson: 1st in Intermediate Pastels - March Snowfall
2nd in Intermediate Pastels - A Bridge at Giverny

Terry Hunt: 1st in Beginning Pastels - Learning to Fly

Jude Tolar: 1st in Advanced Pastels - Basking in the Sun
3rd in Advanced Pastels - It Just Gleams
HM in Advanced Pastels - Elva's Glass with Garden Tomatoes

Jude's Basking in the Sun was also in a three-way tie for People's Choice.

The spring show is at the Stillwater Community Center, 8th and Duck, and runs through March 30.

JUDE TOLAR presented the program for the Stillwater Art Guild in February-her paintings and demo of glass was an inspiration for their members as it was for us.

PATTI KING , who is a new member from Tulsa, won 2 awards in the Pastel Society of the Southwest members juried show. All three of her entries were accepted into the show and her portrait entitled “:Blue Blanket” won second place while her portrait titled “Meredith” won an award of merit. She is currently the featured artist on the OPS website and it’s easy to see why “Blue Blanket” was awarded-the only curious thing is how it missed being first place. Check out other work here .

BILL DENNEY had work accepted into the annual show at St. Gregory College in Shawnee and his work sold.

Three OPS members, Mitsuno Reedy, Clive Tyler, and Becky Way, are featured in "Best of Pastel Artists" Book, Volume II (scroll down for K-Z).

"and the winners are ..."

2009 FALL SHOW at THE GREAT FRAME-UP

BEST OF SHOW: Sheila Minnick - The Visitor

Landscape:
1st Jan Hutchinson - Looming Large
2nd Charlotte Rodgers - Below Taos
3rd Sue Ann Rodgers - Oklahoma Sunset

Animals:
1st Sherry Hicks - Becky the Giraffe
2nd Nancy Boyer - Don't Bother Me I'm Busy
3rd Charlotte Rodgers - Willet I

Still Life:
1st Sheila Minnick - North American Gooseberries
2nd Jude Tolar - Trio of Pumpkins
3rd Becky Way - Splash Light

Portrait - Non-representationable
1st Mitsuno Reedy - Untitled
2nd Becky Way - Captain Salty
3rd Stuart Johnson - Louies

For those of you who use fixative, check out the new kid on the block (and let us know what you think): Spectrafix.

Have you heard of Art Perk? This is a website that helps artists find opportunities to display their works in juried shows and competitions, online shows, art festivals, gallery shows and the like. You can contact them via email and look at their website.

And to get your work in front of “thousands of galleries” you might want to look into a new publication “Artist Advocate Magazine.” You can sign up for their newsletter/blog there too.

Did you know that Porch Art and School Supply carries Sennelier pastels? And full-size sheets of Art Spectrum’s Colourfix pastel paper in all colors? And that they now have all the colors of Canson Mi-Tientes paper too?

Dennis Parker is offering a Life Drawing Class which continues through May. Classes will be held on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the month. His classes and workshops are open to both beginners and more experienced artists. Contact Julie McAfee at 755-5672 or painterly1@juno.com for all the details and to sign-up.

If you’d like to take a workshop outside Oklahoma... Maggie Price will be teaching in a variety of places in the United States and overseas. Her workshop schedule along with contact information and a brief description is listed on her website.

Well-known pastel artist Doug Dawson is also teaching workshops all over the United States. Go to his website, , where you can see a list of his scheduled 2009 workshops. Also you can email him or even give him a call at 303.421.4584.

WINNERS OF THE 2009 PASEO SHOW:

BEST OF SHOW: Jude Tolar

Joni McKim - 1st Place Still Life, 1st Place Animals
Bob Kaiser - 2nd & 3rd Place Animals
Joyce Jackson- 1st Place Portrait
Donna Branson -1st Place Landscape, 2nd Place Portrait
Marie Weltzheimer - 2nd Place Landscape
Sue Ann Rodgers - 3rd Place Floral
Linda Probst - 3rd Place Portrait
Charlotte Rogers – 3rd Place Landscape

2008 FALL SHOW at THE GREAT FRAME-UP

BEST OF SHOW: Marie Weltzheimer - "Western Skies"

Still LIfe
FIRST PLACE : Jude Tolar
SECOND PLACE: Sheila Minnich
THIRD PLACE: Jimi Layman

Portrait
FIRST PLACE: Larry Layton
SECOND PLACE: Sherry Brown Hicks
THIRD PLACE: Ella Moore

Wildlife
FIRST PLACE: Glenda Ross
SECOND PLACE: Linda Hiller
THIRD PLACE: Ronda Zenker

Landscape
FIRST PLACE: Linda Battles
SECOND PLACE: Phyllis Baker
THIRD PLACE: Jan Hutchinson

The SPRING 2008 SHOW in PASEO :

Best of Show – Sheila Minnich
Animal/Non-Representational:
1st – Sheila Minnich
2nd – Bob Kaiser
3rd - Silver
Portrait:
1st – Joyce Jackson
2nd – Ella Moore
3rd – Linda Probst
Still Life:
1st – Becky Way
2nd – Pam Brewer
3rd – Jude Tolar
Landscape:
1st - Shelly Henry
2nd – Sue Ann Rodgers
3rd – Jan Hutchinson

Pastel artist Paul deMarrais invites you to look at his newly-redesigned website. In addition to promoting his artwork, his site provides quite a bit of information about pastels.

Modern Renaissance, a fine arts publisher, has sent information about giclee prints made on canvas or watercolor. Visit their website or email them.