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| Pastel Demonstration for Pastel Society of New Mexico "Winter's End" 12x16 Pastel on Art Spectrum Paper See the Video Here |
Earlier this month, the Pastel Society of New Mexico invited me to give a demonstration at its monthly meeting. I've done this for the group before, but in person, on stage. This time, I had to do it via Zoom from my studio because the Albuquerque Museum, where the meetings have been held in the past, still isn't permitting group meetings. As always, I eagerly accepted and immediately went about figuring out how I was going to set up a broadcast studio in my painting studio.
Fortunately, I had the gear I needed—a tripod plus a phone-holding gizmo and a couple of good LED lamps. I also was able to arrange my easel so I wouldn't knock over my phone every time I took a step. (I tend to bump into things when I get excited about laying down a particularly virtuosic pastel stroke.) The only limitation I feared was my Internet connection, which one might imagine as a trickle coming out of a somewhat clogged bit of plumbing. But as luck would have it, the trickle never stopped, and I was able to share my entire process.
The Pastel Society is gracious enough to let the public see the finished, recorded videos from its meetings. I'd like to share mine with you. It's only a little over an hour, and I hope you find it enjoyable and informative. Click here to see the video. (In the video, the blues are a bit over-saturated, no doubt from my smartphone's processing.)
