get ready!

● January 2: Board Meeting 10 – 12

● February 1: General Membership/Christine Obers demonstration 10 – 12
Christine Obers IAPS/MC, PSA, PSWC/DP: “Working on Colored Backgrounds”
Christine will show ways to use free apps on your phone to create fun effects that can be used for reference.

● March 6: Board Meeting 10 – 12

● April 3: Goal Planning Meeting 10 – 12 (or until finished)

● May 3: General Membership/Dawn Emerson demonstration 10 – 12
Dawn Emerson PSA: “About PanPastels: what, when, where, and how?”
Dawn presents a demo that will give you helpful information about PanPastels, the new colors soon to be available, and how she uses them in her work.

● June 5: Board Meeting 10 – 12

● July: No scheduled meetings.

● August 7: Board Meeting 10 – 12

● September 6: General Membership/Nancie King Mertz demonstration 10 – 12
Nancie King Mertz IAPS/EP, PSA/MP: “Perplexed By Perspective?”
We’ll tackle perspective problems in this Zoom demo with IAPS Eminent Pastelist Nancie King Metz. Questions encouraged.

● October 9: Goal Planning Meeting 10 – 12 (or until finished)

● November 6: Board Meeting 10 – 12

● December 6: General Membership/Teresa Saia demonstration 10 – 12
Teresa Saia IAPS/MC, PSA: “Paris Night Scene”

 

● April 9-11: Tony Allain workshop. Central Art Supply, Medford.

● May 1–August 15: Entry – Members Only Exhibit (MOX) – via ShowSubmit
View/Download Prospectus

● August 30 (or earlier):
Notification of Accepted artwork

● September 2: Presentation of Awards via Zoom.

● September 12–14: Steve Hill Workshop
Woodburn Arts Center, Woodburn

● Date in Fall TBD: Paint Where You Are (PWYA) – depending upon volunteers

● Monthly: FaceBook Challenge on the PAO Members Only page. The purpose of this challenge is to encourage members to try a different way of looking at their subject. A photo is posted with a challenge to members to change the photo however they want to make their painting different from the photo. No copying the photo exactly as presented. The photos can be painted any month after they are posted, so if the current month doesn’t inspire the artist, look back for another. Every member who participates will be eligible for gift certificate drawings at the end of the year.

September 12, 13, 14, 2025
10 AM – 4 PM Daily
Woodburn Art Center
Woodburn, Oregon

Steve is a lifelong professional artist well-known in the plein air art world. He’s won top awards in over 100 major competitions in the past 2 decades. His work has been featured in the Plein Air Magazine Salon, The Pastel Journal Top 100, and The Artist’s Magazine, and resides in 3 art museums along with many private and corporate collections. He has also been published in several other notable art magazines and books. Steve has exhibited in Florence, Italy, and New York City, and was nominated and voted into the prestigious Salmagundi Club in NYC, 2018. Steve believes his biggest honor was winning the annual purchase award from the Superintendent of Zion National Park in 2015, putting his work in the park’s permanent collection alongside Thomas Moran and other notable artists over the past 100 years.

His most recent honor was winning the “Best Plein Air Landscape” in Plein Air Magazine’s January 2025 Salon competition. There were 830 entries from 23 countries. Steve is a popular, long-time beginning through experienced instructor at Dakota Art Pastels, known for spending quality time at each student’s easel and meeting them at their experience level. Since 2004, he has taught over 100 workshops in the U.S. and Europe.

This workshop will be in-studio and en plein air. The first two days are in-studio, and the last day en plein air: weather permitting. Steve will use Pan Pastels every day in his demonstrations for soft distant shapes, forms, and colors including fog, mist, clouds, mountains, water-in-motion, transparent water standing still, etc.

You are recommended (not required) to buy a landscape set & tools if you don’t have Pan Pastels. A limited number of colors and tools will be available to share, but not every color Steve might use. His favorite stick pastels include Blue Earth and Unison for their organization of values into color families, plus Terry Ludwig, Mount Vision, Great American, Girault, and Sennelier, as well as hard pastels. However, bring what you have to the workshop.

9 x 12 pastel papers/boards will be used in the workshop. Steve uses Pastel Premier, Art Spectrum Colourfix, and Sennelier La Carte Card. Any other brands with less texture are ok. Bring a plein air easel for the final day. Other recommended equipment: backing board (16×20 is a good size 11×14 is OK for smaller papers), soft tac tape, sketch book, pencils and or pens for sketching, composition finders with rubylith for isolating values into shapes (3 in 1 viewfinders are perfect), Gloves in a Bottle or equivalent lotion to protect hands, wet wipes to clean hands. Dakota Art Pastels offers a 10% discount for students of Steve Hill, so if you need/want to order something, let Dakota know it’s for Steve’s PAO workshop.

The workshop is limited to 14 students.
Fee: PAO Members $350
Non-Members $425
PAO members have priority. Nonmembers will be placed on a waiting list. To join PAO, look on the “Join PAO” tab on the website. Dues are $40 annually.

Payment via your personal PayPal account sent to Pastel Artists of Oregon, or mail a check to Pastel Artists of Oregon, PO Box 80096, Portland, OR, 97280.