New Giveaway! Tips & Techniques

by Berni on January 16, 2012 · 41 comments

Update: 1.25.12: It was tough to pick just one winner …there were so many great entries. So we decided to select two winners! Crystal Thomas and Karen Karlsson. We’ll contact the winners by email to arrange their prizes. Thank you to everyone who entered. We’ll have more giveaways in the future…

Do you have a  useful tip/working technique that you’ve discovered when using PanPastel Colors? 

Enter our latest giveaway by telling us about it. We will choose our favorite entry and one lucky winner will receive: a palette tray filled with 10 PanPastel colors of their choice, along with a selection of Sofft Tools.

Using the comment form below in this post (click “Read More” ) enter your favorite PanPastel tip or working technique. All entries must be submitted by Saturday January 21st, 11pm EST (New York time).

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Artist Q&A: Mindy Lighthipe

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Mindy Lighthipe is a botanical artist based in Florida. She uses PanPastel in combination with watercolor and other media. Her drawings and paintings are in many private, public and corporate collections, including the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Denver Museum of Natural History, and the New York Botanical Garden Gallery in the Bronx. In [...]

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Lisa Pressman

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At the recent CAA conference in New York city, I met Lisa Pressman, a New Jersey based painter. Lisa was demonstrating on a neighboring booth – R & F Handmade Paints.  I took these photos of Lisa experimenting with PanPastel Colors, instantly creating some interesting results. One of her first “on-the-spot” experiments, shown below, involved [...]

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New! Photo Artistry Workshops

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Dianne Poinski has launched an exciting new website: Photo Artistry Workshop Subscribers to the website will have access, during 2011, to her video lessons. She will share her hand-coloring techniques with subscribers and will also provide tutorials on various aspects of photography including working with Photoshop, filters, textures, and papers for digital printing, along with [...]

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Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch

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I am an encaustic painter. I have been painting abstractly in this melted beeswax medium for over seven years now; preceded by abstract mixed media. “Gears” Last year I paid a visit to Toronto Canada at the prompting of a student. In her store/studio she had PanPastel Colors. Their delicious packaging hooked me first, followed [...]

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New Book: Art at the Speed of Life

Art at the Speed of Life

I just received a copy of Pam Carriker’s new book “Art at the Speed of Life”. And I have to say, it certainly lives up to its subtitle: “Motivation and Inspiration for Making Mixed-Media Art Every Day”. This book is not only packed with great mixed media projects, it also includes inspirational advice on how [...]

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Pastelmat Giveaway

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We are often asked by artists using PanPastel for the first time, what papers they should use. This is a difficult question for us to answer as PanPastel works on almost any surface, from low tooth surfaces such as vellum and ink-jet / digital (matt) papers to the very toothy pastel surfaces. So it really [...]

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Artist Interview: Leonard Jagoda

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Leonard Jagoda lives in Georgia. His paintings can be found in private collections from Washington State & Texas to Saudi Arabia. His work hangs in some of the most prestigious stud farms in Kentucky. He has received several prestigious awards for his work, and has been included in many juried shows, including the American Academy of [...]

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The Pastel Journal – Sydney McGinley

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I have been travelling quite a lot recently, so I haven’t had time to write here; however today I managed to write a little and catch up with the contents of my mailbox (well most of it!). I was delighted to receive the latest copy of The Pastel Journal. Always a great read! I was particularly [...]

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Giveaway Winners!

Mass, Shade, Tint

Thank you to everyone who entered our Labor Day giveaway. Using Random.org we have drawn the winners: Mindy Yvette Plouffe LaurieH. Bree Nancy Campbell Congratulations to the winners!

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Mixed Media Experiments

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For a few years we’ve known and worked with Scottish artist Celia Buchanan. Celia is based in Florida, and has been working & teaching in the art supplies industry for a number of years. “Orbs”  - gold leaf, PanPastel, encaustic Recently, Celia has been experimenting with different mixed media techniques for her demos & workshops; [...]

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Artist Interview: Dianne Poinski

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Dianne Poinski is a professional photographer who hand-colors her black and white photographs with PanPastel with beautiful results. Dianne lives and works in Sacramento, California. “Roses” by Dianne Poinski Tell us about your background as an artist. When I was younger, I loved to sew, do crafts and play my guitar. My brother was the “artist” [...]

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