Kelly Kane
PleinAir Magazine and American Watercolor Weekly Editor-in-Chief
With more than 20 years experience in art publishing, Kelly Kane has served previously as Editor-in-Chief of Watercolor Artist magazine and Content Director for The Artist’s Magazine, Drawing, Acrylic Artist, and Pastel Journal. She has interviewed many of the preeminent artists of our time and written numerous articles about painting, drawing, art education and art history. She is now the Editor-in-Chief of PleinAir Magazine and the American Watercolor Weekly newsletter. Click here to send her an email.
Gifts for Pastel Artists: Your 2023 Holiday Shopping Guide
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Channeling the Plein Air Experience
Follow along as Kim Lordier draws on memories of painting on location to create a compelling landscape in the studio.
Award-Winning Pastel
Shavon Peacock won Best Plein Air Pastel in the August PleinAir Salon, as judged by master pastel artist Albert Handell, for Maymont Italian Garden (pastel, 12 x 16 in.).
Following in the Footsteps of the Impressionists
This Maryland artist finds that the color sense and paint application that define Impressionism perfectly suit her approach to working with pastels.
Don’t Be Afraid to Question Reality
Gwenneth Barth-White shares her journey to discover the meaning "that must reside in the miraculous structure of matter that is the human face."
How to Make a Living with Your Art
Jill Stefani Wagner shares 11 tips that will put you on the path to success.
Pastel Pioneers, Part 2
A timeline of the icons and innovators who blazed the trail for painting in pastel.
Pastel Pioneers, Part 1
A timeline of the icons and innovators who blazed the trail for painting in pastel.