Inside A Pastel Painting

zoom demo with artist

Colette Odya Smith

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

* * * 3:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific* * *

join call early to socialize

https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/98009215926

Get the inside info as Colette plans, considers, and decides what and how to paint.

Learn Colette's process and watch as this takes form in an demonstration painting.

www.coletteodyasmith.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu883cxZ-JY

Ms. Smith is an award-winning artist who has exhibited widely in the US as well as France, Germany, and China. She was the Invitee de Honneur of le Societe des Pastellistes de France in 2014. Other recognitions include being named a Master Pastellist - le Societe des Pastellistes de France, Eminent Pastelist and Masters Circle Member - International Association of Pastel Societies, Master Pastelist - Pastel Society of America (PSA), and Distinguished Pastelist -  Pastel Society of New Mexico . She has been published in 3 books, featured multiple times in The Pastel Journal, American Artist, and Pratique des Arts magazines, and judged and written for The Pastel Journal. She teaches, offers critiques, and has twice juried “Enduring Brilliance”, the annual exhibition of the PSA at the National Arts Club in New York City, for whom she has offered portfolio reviews. She is in the collection of the Ming Gallery Art Museum, dedicated to pastel paintings, in Suzhou, China. Ms. Smith is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, now living in Wauwatosa. She is known for her contemporary landscapes interpreted in a beautiful fusion of realism and abstraction.