Sale!!

Atticus Framing & Art Supply, 11360-B Pleasant Valley Rd, Penn Valley, CA 95946 · (530) 777-8755 has all Daniel Smith paints on 30% sale. 

Dawn’s  13390 Lincoln Way, Auburn, CA 95603 · (530) 888-6033  has 50% sale on the 7th of February. 

SPS Brunch

Hello everyone!  It is time again for one of our new favorite get-togethers!  This Saturday at Susan Levitsky's house...join us for a fun critique, great food and wonderful camaraderie.  Bring some art supplies too that you would like to sell.  Please RSVP to Susan by the 5th.  See you there!

Workshop News!!!

2-Day Realistic 

Portrait Drawing Workshop

 in Pastel

 with

 Cuong Nguyen

Saturday & Sunday 

February 7th & 8th  

10am-4pm

Cost   $175

Join award-winning artist Cuong Nguyen for a 2-day portrait workshop covering pastel drawing techniques. This workshop is designed to create a relaxed, informative, yet focused working environment for all skill levels. The core of the lesson will be based on drawing, values, edges, composition and creating life-like skin tone color. Students will focus on the fundamentals of drawing the human head while developing new skills in soft pastel. The workshop will feature a live model, and Cuong will demonstrate his own techniques to draw from life. Students will learn to use an approach that helps them see the big shapes first, and then go into details towards the end of the session. This is a great opportunity for you to discover your own passion for drawing, or just take your existing skills to the next level. 

 

About the Artist:

Trained to be a traditional portraitist at the age of 10 in his native Vietnam,Cuong has always had a passion for drawing human faces. His paintings depend on the dramatic portrayal of light, shadow and environment to create their mood and sense of realism. He believes that a successful painting requires that he establish an emotional connection with his subject, so that the viewer in turn connects at an emotional level with his work. Cuong has won many awards for his paintings, including Prix de Pastel at the IAPS's 2011 Master Circle Exhibition, Grand Prize Award 2010 Pastel Journal Magazine. Cuong is a Signature Member of the PSA, and Distinguished Pastelist of PSWC.

Cuong's paintings depend on the dramatic portrayal of light, shadow and environment to create their mood and sense of realism. He often supplements the emotions visible in his subjects' faces with symbolic imagery that adds a sense of mystery. He believes that a successful painting requires that he establish an emotional connection with his subject, so that the viewer in turn connects at an emotional level with his work.

Cuong is a member of the Oil Painters of America and the International Guild of Realism, as well as having been awarded the distinction of Distinguished Pastellist with the Pastel Society of the West Coast. His work has appeared at the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, California, and the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California, as well as in both national and international competitions exhibiting from coast to coast.

Today, Cuong works in both oil paints and pastels, though casual viewers may at first have trouble distinguishing the two media in Cuong's hands. Though he almost never blends his strokes, Cuong achieves a level of detail and smoothness of gradations that is unusual in pastel paintings. In oils, he aims for a realism that never crosses the line to photographic, so that the viewer always has a sense for how the image was formed from its raw materials . Regardless of media, however, Cuong Nguyen's paintings always reveal a fundamentally optimistic view of the world and a sense of wonder towards the beauty that surrounds us.

   

To reserve a spot for this workshop please call  our San Jose store 

(408) 297-4707

space is limited

   

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Linda McCann artwork

Linda did some art with her new Pan Pastels!  She painted Pat's rooster here...the most painted rooster in all of California!

General Meeting Update

Hello...the General Meeting program has been updated...the presenter will be Annie Murphy-Robinson!

General Meeting March 22

Gloria Vernon will be our demonstrator for our first General Meeting of 2015!  She has a fun program planned so mark your calendars...Sunday, March 22 at 1pm!  

Happy New Year!

Let us all come together to make sure the Sierra Pastel Society has another great year!