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Pastel Podcast Episode 16: Nancie King Mertz
From Chicago's L Trains to Giverny: A Conversation with Nancie King Mertz
Nancie King Mertz has been painting her...
Discover how Edgar Degas combined pastel with gouache, monotype, and crushed pigment to push the medium beyond its limits — and what artists can learn from it.
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Pastel Podcast Episode 15: Lon Brauer
What If? The Experimental Mind of Pastel Artist Lon Brauer
What happens when a fine arts graduate, commercial photographer, and...
Top pastel artist Lyn Diefenbach explores what happens when a painter stops waiting for the perfect moment and lets the medium — immediate, spontaneous, and wonderfully direct — do what it does best.
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Pastel Podcast Episode 14: Shirley Anderson
From Science Lab to Pastel Studio: A Conversation with Incoming IAPS President Shirley Anderson
What do a crime lab, AT&T,...
Three plein air artists set out to paint the ranchlands of Point Reyes. What they found was a community on the edge of extinction.
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Pastel Podcast Episode 13: Greg Barnes
From Chaos to Canvas: The Intuitive Plein Air World of Greg Barnes
What happens when a life-changing moment sends a...
Learn how pastel artist Carol Strock Wasson paints dynamic waterfalls using value patterns, color harmony, edge variation, and directional mark-making for luminous results.
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Pastel Podcast Episode 12: Liz Haywood-Sullivan
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Liz Haywood Sullivan is a New England landscape pastel artist known for luminous skies, coastlines, and water,...