Western Slope 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 […]

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

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……

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

Date: December 21, 2024 Time: 1:00 pm Location: Strayhorn Grill 456 Kokopelli Drive, Fruita, Colorado RSVP to Penny Creasy: 970-256-9584 Gift Exchange as we do…. “Chocolate & Ornament or small picture that you have done (any medium)” Don’t forget to put in brown bag for wrapping

Demo by: Nancy Lewis Date: November 16, 2024 Information: 1:00 – 1:20PM Demo: 1:25 – 3:00PM Location: Bray Education Building, 640 Belford Ave., Grand Junction

Demo by: TBA Date: October 19, 2024 Information: 1:00 – 1:20PM Demo: 1:25 – 3:00PM Location: Bray Education Building, 640 Belford Ave., Grand Junction

Demo by: Pending Paint Out Date: September 21, 2024 Information: 9:00ish – whenever  Note: Bring your lunch Location: Bev Lee’s Cabin in Collbran 

Demo by: Annual Paint – Out – S Cross Ranch Date: May 18, 2024 Time: 9:00 ish – whenever Note: Bring your lunch Location: Glade Park, Colorado. Ten miles west of the Glade Park Store

DATE CHANGE! (As the 3rd Saturday is Easter Weekend) Date: April 26, 2025 Demo by: Sandy Marvin Information: 1:00 – 1:20PM Demo: 1:25 – 3:00PM Location: Bray Education Building, 640 Belford Ave., Grand Junction Presenting Our Demo Artist: Sandy Marvin Sandy Marvin is a lifelong artist with a curriculum vitae of art careers that includes medical artist, calligrapher, sign painter, graphic designer, art teacher and now pastel painter. Her change of focus from lettering to painting came about during her years teaching art when she became increasingly attracted to drawing and painting. Sandy is primarily a representational painter with a strong abstract tendency. She works