Brand New!! Pencil Arts Gild Annual Exhibition - Selected Artists In Addition To Abide By Winners

The real first Online International Juried Exhibition of the Pencil Art Society went alive today. It has a dedicated website too hence that over fourth dimension it volition construct upwards a history of the exhibition. I want all fine art societies were this good organised!

Best inward Show - Bianca Eva by Cristina Iotti
19.7″ x 23.6″
NFS
Graphite & Coloured Pencil on unknown paper

You tin ship away run across the Gallery of sixty selected images online. The plant inward this exhibition direct maintain a lot inward common with the UKCPS too CPSA exhibitions in price of champaign of written report thing too stylistic approach. The exhibition for sure includes approximately fantabulous locomote from a technical perspective.
The Juror was Bob Ebdon - the Founder of the UK Coloured Pencil Society inward 2001
I'm listing all the 35 juried artists below amongst links to their websites. Entries came inward from all over the the world including Canada, the United States, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy, too Spain!
This is a page nearly the awards - besides listed below. The Pencil Society decided that they would restrict the number, inward monastic tell to showcase precisely the best of the submissions. Prismacolor, Canson, Derwent, Curry's too Dick Blick are all sponsoring the exhibition. The combined value in cash too fine art supplies of the prizes offered prizes is over $1800 CAD .

The aim of the Pencil Society is to demonstrate to the the world the best of what pencil tin ship away do.

This is a dream come upwards truthful for all of us. Such a answer from our members! So much beautiful work! We were blown away past times the entries nosotros received, too our juror Bob Ebdon had a very difficult fourth dimension choosing which would last included inward the show. Alexandra Bastien, PAS Exhibition Chair

Those interested inward pencil fine art volition desire to notation that at that topographic point are 2 categories of artwork inward the Gallery:

100% Pencil Works: for drawings that consist of entirely graphite pencil, entirely charcoal, entirely conté, entirely coloured pencil (used dry out or amongst solvent) or entirely watersoluble pencil (used dry) — used separately or inward combination amongst each other.
50% Pencil Mixed Media Works: for drawings that consist of at to the lowest degree 50% of ANY of the 5 PAS-accepted pencil media — entirely graphite pencil, entirely charcoal, entirely conté, entirely coloured pencil (used dry out or amongst solvent) or entirely watersoluble pencil (used dry) — used separately or inward combination amongst each other AND amongst 50% whatever OTHER media.

The Pencil Society Online Exhibition 2013 - Awards

Best inward Show $500 cash prize. Plus Free Entry to the 2014 international exhibition too 1 twelvemonth costless membership

Bianca Eva by Cristina Iotti (see the ikon at the exceed of this post) Christina is an Italian creative someone working inward coloured pencils. You tin ship away run across to a greater extent than of her portfolio of carefully worked cross hatched artwork on her website

First place $325 production (sponsored past times prismacolor) Plus Free Entry to the 2014 international exhibition too 1 twelvemonth costless membership

Share the burden past times Alexandra Bastien A graduate of the School of Fine Arts of the Saidye Bronfman Centre inward Montreal, Alexandra is besides a signature fellow member of both CPSA too UKCPS too has won numerous awards.

Other Places too Honourable Mentions

Second place: Working Horse Team past times Leonie Bell New South Wales, Australia
Third place: Model Soldier past times Susan E. Poole UK
First honourable mention: Falling into Place by Arlene Steinberg
Second honourable mention: Exposed by Darlene Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Pfaff
Third honourable mention: Spring's Sentry past times Lissa Rachelle Robillard

Excellence inward Drawing

Indiana Barn past times Diane Wright (Diane Wright Art Journal) Diane has a Bachelor of Fine Art score from the University of Northern Iowa too lives inward Mitchellville, Iowa. She includes a position out of tutorials on her website too links to them inward her blog.

Special recognition for the role of pencil amongst mixed media

Blue Eyes past times Christine Karron Christine was born too raised inward Republic of Estonia too directly lives inward Alberta inward Canada. She attended the Willy-Brandt School inward Art too Design spell living inward Germany.

Master Pencil Art Status

The kickoff artists to have Master Pencil Artist Status (MPAS) were Sheona Hamilton-Grant, Denise J. Howard, Karen Hull and Wendy Thompson.

Selected Artists

Thirty Five artists had locomote selected for the exhibition. I've highlighted my personal favourites below amongst a comment.

Two works

Carolyn Bain – Ontario, Canada
Alexandra Bastien, CPSA, UKCPS Silver – Quebec, Canada
Nancy Bélisle – Quebec, Canada
Leonie Bell – New South Wales, Australia
Pierre Blanchette – Quebec, Canada
Kathy Dolan – Ontario, Canada
Tanja Gant, CPSA – USA I beloved both the composition too technical execution of Speak no evil. This creative someone has an incredibly low-cal touching too existent finesse - which is a science I'd commend to others who locomote inward pencil
Kim Hamby – USA
Sheona Hamilton-Grant, MPAS – Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany (Black on Grey on White)
Sharon Hester – Florida, USA
Denise Howard, CPSA, UKCPS, MPAS – California, USA
Karen Hull, MPAS – Commonwealth of Australia (Karen Hull Art)
Darlene Jordan-Pfaff – Canada
Christine Karron – Canada
Louka Kurcer – Quebec, Canada
Manon Leclerc - Quebec, Canada
Mary L. “Rusty” Parenteau – Arizona, USA
Andrea Placer – New Jersey, USA
Julie Podstolski – Western Australia (juliepodstolski) I beloved the juxtaposition of erstwhile too novel inward Rear View. I e'er experience I tin ship away tell when an creative someone has been working on a topic for approximately fourth dimension - too I wasn't inward the to the lowest degree chip surprised to observe more fantabulous drawings of modern twenty-four hours geishas on the artists website. Developing a topic too a suite of locomote is such a proficient agency of persuading an gallery to present your work
Susan Elizabeth Poole, ASGFA, UKCPS – United Kingdom
Lissa Rachelle Robillard – Canada (Co Founder of the Pencil Art Society)
Adolfo Fernandez Rodriguez – Spain
Arlene Steinberg, CPSA – USA
Wendy Thompson, MPAS, CPSA – USA
Erica Walker – Canada
Diane Wright – Iowa, USA (Diane Wright Art Journal)

One work

Allison Fagan, CPSA – Ontario, Canada I loved the see of a riot of colourful shirts. The technical execution looks similar it mightiness autumn a lilliputian curt but the touching on is actually strong. For me it would direct maintain been fifty-fifty amend if done much bigger - at to the lowest degree life size.
Kate Ferguson – Victoria, Commonwealth of Australia (Kate Ferguson)
Cristina Iotti – Modena, Italy I tin ship away handle amongst Bob's alternative of Best inward Show. Bianca Eva is a real worthy winner - too dainty to run across Best inward Show become to a mixed media work!
Judith Angell Meyer – Colorado, USA
Alison Philpott – British Columbia, Canada
Daniela Rioux – Manitoba, Canada
Sue A. Seggeling – Illinois, USA
Virginia Tupper – New Brunswick, Canada (Virginia Tupper)

It seems to last that the Society has been real good organised too is to last congratulated for getting such a proficient answer to its kickoff exhibition. Here's hoping they become from forcefulness to strength.