PASTEL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY www.pastelsocietynj.org JUNE • 2018 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CALENDAR OF EVENTS Facebook PSNJ Member Page Dear Members, Bloom, at last, is all around us and what a better way to celebrate nature than derive inspiration from it? Our Paint In the Garden event was held early in May in preparation for the plein air season and several of us gathered in my garden to compare our gear, exchange tips and paint quick sketches. Look up our PSNJ Members FB group page for images of that enjoyable day. Membership renewal notices will be sent out soon. Please renew your membership in a timely fashion. Starting this year your membership cards will be emailed to you, rather than snail mailed. Our PUMP event (Paid Up Membership Party) is tentatively scheduled for 9/16. We had a fun time last year and hope you will be able to attend. Coming up in fall are two exhibitions in new venues, a demonstration by our own Jeri Greenberg and a workshop in planning. In spring we will hold our second Biennial Juried Signature show, which counts towards your D-PSNJ assignation, as well as our annual Members show. Speaking of the latter, the board is looking to revise and improve the award structure. As always, we thrive to improve your PSNJ experience. Wishing us all an inspiring summer, Michal Barkai, President Pastel Society of New Jersey Madison Community House 25 Cook Ave, Madison Small Works Exhibit at the gallery in Short Stories Bookstore in Madison. September 2018 Sunday, September 16 Paid Up Membership event. October 2018 Sunday, October 28, 2018 - 2-4 pm General Meeting and Elections Demo by Jeri Greenberg 1879 BOOK ON COLOR THEORY November 2018 Karen Israel Workshop - Composition November 20-11 e Creativity Caravan, 28 South Fullerton Ave., Montclair 2018 Annual Juried Show at The Gallery Space in Rahway.
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PASTEL SOCIETY OF NEW JERSEY
www.pastelsocietynj.org
JUNE • 2018
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Facebook PSNJ Member Page
Dear Members,
Bloom, at last, is all around us and what a better way to celebrate nature than derive inspiration from it? Our Paint In the Garden event was held early in May in preparation for the plein air season and several of us gathered in my garden to compare our gear, exchange tips and paint quick sketches. Look up our PSNJ Members FB group page for images of that enjoyable day.
Membership renewal notices will be sent out soon. Please renew your membership in a timely fashion. Starting this year your membership cards will be emailed to you, rather than snail mailed.
Our PUMP event (Paid Up Membership Party) is tentatively scheduled for 9/16. We had a fun time last year and hope you will be able to attend. Coming up in fall are two exhibitions in new venues, a demonstration by our own Jeri Greenberg and a workshop in planning. In spring we will hold our second Biennial Juried Signature show, which counts towards your D-PSNJ assignation, as well as our annual Members show. Speaking of the latter, the board is looking to revise and improve the award structure. As always, we thrive to improve your PSNJ experience.
Wishing us all an inspiring summer,
Michal Barkai, PresidentPastel Society of New Jersey
Madison Community House25 Cook Ave, Madison
Small Works Exhibit at the gallery in Short Stories Bookstore in Madison.
September 2018 Sunday, September 16Paid Up Membership event.
October 2018Sunday, October 28, 2018 - 2-4 pmGeneral Meeting and ElectionsDemo by Jeri Greenberg
1879 BOOK ON COLOR THEORY
November 2018Karen Israel Workshop - CompositionNovember 20-11The Creativity Caravan, 28 South Fullerton Ave., Montclair
2018 Annual Juried Show at The Gallery Space in Rahway.
Here are the award winners from our PSNJ Member Exhibition.
Best in Show: Jacqueline Meyerson
Erin Gill - “Cloudbreak”
Olya Powzaniuk - “Divided We Fall”
Merit Awards:
Best in Show: “D E R A I L E D”
14 x 10 soft pastel on sanded paper
Seeing this toy caboose nestled in a heap of old toy railroad tracks brought me back to the days in Brooklyn, NY, where as a child we used to pass the old train yards in Coney Island.
I thought if only that little toy train could speak of the wonder and entertainment it brought to the child or adult who played with it. I have always felt intrigued by trains and the lonely Caboose in particular.
HEADS UP Board positions coming up for elections in October 2018: • President• First Vice President, Membership• Corresponding Secretary• Program Director• Newsletter Editor Also opening up (appointed mid-term): • Treasury If you are considering joining the PSNJ board please contact Recording Secretary Bonnie Wilkenfeld, [email protected] 973-896-4419, or President Michal Barkai.
Perspective lines added to photo to see the eye line and vanishing points. Then adds grid to transfer to Richardson board with watercolor under painting. Converts reference to B&W to retain value...
After intial water color underpainting, add dark pastel over watercolor while still wet to set
Add grid to substraight after watercolor.
Heads stay same height in photo but feet will rise for more distance
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INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET COHEN, PROGRAM CHAIR
Janet Cook demonstrated a cityscape of Time Square on a rainy evening. Janet is a regular teacher at PSA in New York and is represented by sev-eral galleries. I took a workshop with her several years ago and learned some good tips about perspective from her. She also is known for her lovely dancerly floating ladies.
Photos and Observations by Catherine Love, Newletter Editor
Caroline Klein - Somehow, I always knew art was a career I wanted, although I was also drawn to the field of fashion. I designed and made my first two prom gowns and made my wedding dress. My art education was both formal and informal, from a commercial art school in Tenn. to informal classes at the Kunst Academy in Munich, Germany. Over the years, I have taken classes and workshops in pastels, oils, colored pencil and sumi-e (oriental watercolor.)
I am an Exhibiting Member of the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury NJ, as well as past president. While there I taught sumi-e and pastels. I’m pleased with the years that I have spent running our figure workshop at the Guild, booking models and arranging the classes. In my home studio, I taught classes in colored pencil.
Featured Volunteer Caroline Klein
I am also a Signature member of the Pastel Society of New Jersey, an Associate Member of the Pastel Society of America, and a charter member of the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast. I am also an early member of the Pastelists’ Salon of New Jersey.
Our retirement home has a 20x20 foot loft which serves as my studio. Lately, I have been working primarily on landscapes and some figure work. My pastel boxes are a mixture of brands, from hard to soft, with no particular brand dominating the collection.
There are times when I feel guilty about abandoning Sumi painting, but it is difficult to juggle too many mediums at the same time. I am, however, extremely proud of the numerous awards I have received in this medium in both national and international shows.
At this time, working plein air gives me a feeling of freedom. It is hard to say that any one thing inspires me. It is of the moment. Right now, these are on the easel.
PSNJ Exhibitions News- submitted by Anita Gladstone
It’s hard to believe, but 2018 is almost half gone, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t still exhibition opportunities for PSNJ members. Just in time for the holiday season, for the month of October, we will have a special Small Works Exhibit at the Peg Williams Gallery in the Short Stories Bookshop & Community Hub in Madison. The maximum framed size will be 16” in either direction, so keep that in mind when considering what you might enter.
Also, our 2018 Annual Juried Exhibit will be held in a new venue this year - The Gallery Space in Rahway, NJ. Crane’s Mill has been a lovely place for our exhibits, but it is exciting to find a new venue and audience for the superb paintings being created by our membership. The show will run November 1 - November 30. Our awards juror will be Brian Bailey, PSA-MP, IAPS-MC. Selection jurors will be Casey Klahn, PSA, Alain Picard, PSA and Jeanne Rosier Smith, PSA.
The Biennial Signature and Board Members Invitational Exhibit was held at the Wyckoff Family YMCA from March 5 through the closing reception on March 25. It proved to be an excellent showcase of our talented Signature Members and Board Members to a new audience. We had a nice crowd at the closing reception. The 2019 Biennial Juried Signature Members Exhibit will be held at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown from April 3, 2019 - May 21, 2019.
Signature and Board Members Biennial Exhibit- submitted by Anita Gladstone
“More?!” was included in the Allied Artists of American Online Members Exhibit. The show runs from 5/15/18 through 8/30/18. http://alliedartistsofamerica.org/2018-online-associates
“Green Expanse” has been accepted into the Connecticut Pastel Society’s Purely Pastel Online Members Exhibit. The show will run 6/1/18 - 6/30/18 http://www.ctpastelsociety.org/
Member News: Juried Shows and Awards
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Karen Collins
November Evening received a Best in Category, Landscape at the West Essex Art Association’s Annual Juried Show held at the Crane’s Mill Koether Gallery in Caldwell, Jan.-Feb., 2018.
Tucson Sunset received an Honorable Mention award at the New Jersey Art Association’s show at the 2018 Member’s show, held at the Mayo Performing Arts Center in Morristown. The show ran from Jan - Feb., 2018.
• Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod National Juried Exhibition “For Pastels Only on Cape Cod” 2018
• Pastel Society of the West Coast Online Member Juried Show 2018
Clouds Break Camelback Mountain was accepted to the Connecticut Pastel Society Purely Pastel Online Juried Member Show.
Karene Infranco
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has her sumi-e works are presently hanging in the NJRepertory theatre at 179 Broadway, Long Branch. They will remain there throughout the show of Issel.
Caroline Klien
Judy Leeds
He’ll Make Me Beautiful won The Flora Giffuni Award from The Catherine Lorrilard Wolfe Art Club in their 2018 annual exhibition. It was also juried into the PSA’s 2017 annual show and won an Honorable Mention from Artspan in their Rebirth Exhibition.
There Went My Diet won:
• Fourth Place Award from The Portrait Society of America in their 2017 Annual Members show in the still life category
• The Celebrate America Award from the American Artists Professional League
• a Finalist in the Richeson75 Exhibition of Florals and Still Lives
My pastel “Carousel” was awarded 3rd place in the January exhibition at the Artists Guild Gallery an auxiliary of the Boca Raton Museum of Art of which I am a member. My pastel “Sunset After the Storm “ was awarded 3rd place at the Living Room Gallery, at FAU in February (also a venue of the Artists Guild Gallery)..
Carol Rifkin
Judy Leeds - continued
Seize The Day won First Place from the Pastel Society of The West Coast’s 2018 General member show.
AND teaching a one day portrait workshop on October 20 at Christina Debarry’s Studio 10 in Florham Park.”
www.monadnockareaartists.org“Realistic Pet Portraits in Pastel” - Lisa Ober
September 2018
Lisa Ober, PSA, IAPS-MC, will be your instructor in this hands-on workshop sharing her experience creating life-like pastel pet portraits. Lisa’s step-by-step approach to teaching pastel pet portraiture insures that when this workshop is complete you will know how to develop a realistic pet portrait from the first sketch through signing the finished painting.
Lisa will talk through the secrets to creating absolutely pet-able fur whether painting cats, dogs, horses, or other furry creatures. She will address the special issues of painting all black or all white fur, a common challenge. She will also show you how to make incredibly life-like eyes, a critical component for a realistic pet portrait that might leap off your paper! Time permitting, Lisa will also provide great tips for photographing pets in order to get the most flattering reference photos.
Note: Fee goes up June 7th even though the form says June 1st.
DID YOU KNOW?Your memberhsip card. Being a PSNJ member may entitle you to special discounts, e.g., Jerry’s Artist Supply, 495 Prospect Ave, Essex Green Mall, West Orange, NJ gives a 10% discount on your art supplies when you present your card each year.
Yearly dues for the 2018 - 2019 season run from Sept 2018 - August 2019.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have.
Carol Clemens, 1ST Vice President - Membership , Pastel Society of New Jersey
PSNJ Mission Statement"The mission of the Pastel Society of New Jersey shall be to secure a membership of dedicated pastel painters, to promote educational activities such as programs, demonstrations, and workshops of pastel techniques to benefit the artistic and professional goals of its members, to exhibit pastel paintings of professional quality, to increase and expand opportunities for pastel artists in New Jersey, and to promote and educate the public interest in pastel painting."
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