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The Maryland Pastel Society hosts a variety of activities throughout the year to include quarterly meetings, workshops, and exhibitions.

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    • 14 Dec 2024
    • Glenwood library

    MPS Executive Board Meeting

    • 11 Jan 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM
    • Gary J. Arthur Community Center

    Winter General Meeting

    at the Gary J. Arthur Community Center

    • 23 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM
    • 25 Apr 2025
    • 4:00 PM
    • Gettysburg YWCA, 909 Fairfield Rd, Gettysburg PA
    • 20


    Painting the Intentional Landscape:

    with Lyn Asselta


    Key Dates: 

    • Workshop: April 23-25 (3 days)
    • 20 total registrants
    • MPS Member Registration Begins: January 23, 2025
    • Non-Member Registration Opens: February 23, 2025




    Workshop Description:


    To be “intentional” throughout your painting process is to know the story you want to tell. Your painting can’t have its own voice if you don’t know what you want it to say. This can be especially problematic in a landscape painting, where the intent isn’t always clear. In this workshop we’ll explore ways to help you focus on your intent, and to create a narrative through composition and color.




    About the Artist Instructor: 

    Lyn Asselta has considered the landscape her muse since she was a child. Growing up on the coast of Maine, where weather often changed by the minute, the effects of atmosphere on land and water were an everyday, mesmerizing occurrence. That fascination has kept her occupied for decades while living along the Atlantic ocean and intracoastal waterway in northeast Florida and in the Smoky mountains of western North Carolina.

    As of 2019, she once again calls Maine home. She’s spent a lifetime reveling in the rich details of the natural world and she draws from her love of nature when creating her paintings. Her chosen medium of pastel allows her to extend her tactile sense of communicating with the world into the painting process at her easel.

    Asselta’s paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States and have been included in invitational exhibitions in France and China. As a workshop instructor, she has taught in Canada, Curaçao and extensively across the USA. She is an IAPS (International Association of Pastel Societies) Eminent Pastelist, a Pastel Society of America Master Pastelist, a member of the Salmagundi Club of NYC, a Master Pastelist with the Southeastern Pastel Society, and is the founder and past president of the First Coast Pastel Society in northeast Florida. In 2009, Lyn was selected as an Artist in Residence at Acadia National Park in Maine.

    Her work has been featured in art publications including Pastel Journal, Plein Air Magazine, and Pratique des Arts magazine (France). Her landscape paintings and process have been included in several books on the pastel medium and plein air painting.


    Details: 


    Registration:

    • Class size is limited to 20 and will be filled on a first-come, first served basis with priority given to Maryland Pastel Society members.  
    • Accommodations, meals, and supplies not included.
    • Full payment is required at the time of registration. Multiple payment options are available: credit card or check.   

    IMPORTANT NOTE: Completion of the registration form AND receipt of full payment of $435 will place you on the roster.  A confirmation email will be sent to you after your full payment is received.  


    • 26 Apr 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Gary J. Arthur Community Center

    Spring General Meeting

    at the Gary J. Arthur Community Center

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