Western Slope Meeting

September Western Slope Meeting & Demo

DATE: September 20TIME:  Information: 1:00 – 1:20 PM            Demo: 1:25 – 3:00 PMAddress: Bray Education Building, 640 Belford Avenue, Grand Junction At the meeting, we’ll be having a creative mixed-media paint-along. We’ll provide paper and other miscellaneous supplies. Artists need to bring a small amount of pastels and pastel pencils if you have them. Bring a variety of warm and cool colors and darks and lights. Demo Artist: Bev Lee PSA, PSCM, IAPSMCBev is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Master Signature member of the Pastel Society of Colorado, and Master Circle artist with the International Association of […]

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May Western Slope Members Meeting

Date: May 17, 2025 – 3rd Saturday Information: 1:00 – 1:20PM Demo: 1:25 – 3:00PM Location: 640 Belford Avenue, Grand Junction – Bray Education Building Presenting Our Demo Artist: Doug Graybeal Graduating with a degree in Architecture during a slow economy Doug moved to Colorado to ski and never left. He was a principal in an award winning and nationally recognized architectural firm for 25 years before starting his own distinguished practice focused on sustainable design. After practicing the “hard line art” of architecture for forty years Doug decided to more deeply explore the softer “more free flowing” art of watercolors with the

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March Western Slope Meeting and Demo

March 15, 2025 Information: 1:00 – 1:20PM – Demo: 1:25 – 3:00PM 640 Belford Avenue, Grand Junction – Bray Education Building Presenting Our Demo Artist: Bruce Gomez Bruce Gomez is self-taught and works exclusively in pastels and has been painting for 29 years. He has taught workshops for the last 15 years. Bruce has won several prestigious plein air awards, Including: Best of Grand Canyon Plein Aire. His style and approach has been presented in Pastel Journal, The Artist Magazine, and recently won Best Pastel in Plein Aire Magazine, November issue.  Bruce’s subject will be Rocks, water and perspective. His unique style will be instructional

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February Western Slope Meeting and Demo

February 18, 2025 Information: 1:00 – 1:20PM – Demo: 1:25 – 3:00PM 640 Belford Avenue, Grand Junction – Bray Education Building Back Again for our Fun and Enjoyment Triple Play Round Robin Bev Lee, Peg Oswald & Susie Roehm Will supply the material needed for an afternoon of fun and learning. Monthly Challenge Is: Had these three picture so asked Deb Mallory and Penny Creasy their thoughts…they said put all in and we each can pick our choice with options of; rearranging, deleting what we want and color changes etc……

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Western Slope Meeting & Demo

Saturday, January 18, 2025 Information: 1:00 – 1:20PM Demo: 1:25 – 3:00PM 640 Belford Avenue, Grand Junction – Bray Education Building MAKE YOUR MARK! Our monthly demo will center on an exercise that Alain Picard introduced in a recent landscape week he conducted. The exercise focused on completing a landscape painting in 100 strokes with a limited palette of pastels…using three light pastels, three medium pastels, three dark pastels and a bonus pastel. Yes, only 10 pastels!  All materials will be provided at the PSC meeting. Come, join the fun, painting a landscape with your fellow pastelists and enjoying the company of

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