Pencil Arts Gild Annual Exhibition - Selected Artists As Well As Respect Winners

The really first Online International Juried Exhibition of the Pencil Art Society went alive today.  It has a dedicated website then that over fourth dimension it volition construct upward 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 come across the Gallery of sixty selected images online.  The industrial plant inward this exhibition lead maintain a lot inward common with the UKCPS too CPSA exhibitions in damage of discipline thing too stylistic approach.  The exhibition for certain includes around splendid move 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 footing including Canada, the United States, Germany, Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy, too Spain! 
• This is a page virtually the awards - too listed below.  The Pencil Society decided that they would throttle the number, inward monastic say to showcase exactly 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 footing the best of what pencil tin do.

This is a dream come upward truthful for all of us. Such a reply 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 hold upward included inward the show. Alexandra Bastien, PAS Exhibition Chair

Those interested inward pencil fine art volition desire to annotation that in that location are 2 categories of artwork inward the Gallery:

• 100% Pencil Works: for drawings that consist of exactly graphite pencil, exactly charcoal, exactly conté, exactly coloured pencil (used dry out or amongst solvent) or exactly 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 — exactly graphite pencil, exactly charcoal, exactly conté, exactly coloured pencil (used dry out or amongst solvent) or exactly watersoluble pencil (used dry) — used separately or inward combination amongst each other AND amongst 50% whatsoever OTHER media.

The Pencil Society Online Exhibition 2013 - Awards

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

• Bianca Eva by Cristina Iotti (see the picture at the move past times of this post) Christina is an Italian creative mortal working inward coloured pencils. You tin come 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 i yr 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 too 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 flat 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 purpose of pencil amongst mixed media

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

Master Pencil Art Status

The get-go 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 move 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 dear both the composition too technical execution of Speak no evil. This creative mortal has an incredibly low-cal touching too existent finesse - which is a science I'd commend to others who move inward pencil
• Kim Hamby – USA
• Sheona Hamilton-Grant, MPAS – FRG (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 dear the juxtaposition of former too novel inward Rear View.  I e'er experience I tin say when an creative mortal has been working on a subject for around fourth dimension - too I wasn't inward the to the lowest degree chip surprised to observe more splendid drawings of modern solar daytime geishas on the artists website.  Developing a subject too a suite of move is such a proficient means of persuading an gallery to demonstrate 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 stance of a riot of colourful shirts. The technical execution looks similar it mightiness autumn a lilliputian brusk but the touching on is actually strong. For me it would lead 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 stand upward for amongst Bob's pick of Best inward Show.  Bianca Eva is a really worthy winner - too prissy to come 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 hold upward that the Society has been really good organised too is to hold upward congratulated for getting such a proficient reply to its get-go exhibition.  Here's hoping they become from clitoris to strength.

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