Looking for something in particular?
In order to serve our members better we have compiled a list of useful links.
Click on the link and a window will open displaying the web site.

If you know of any stores, suppliers, magazines, museums or even good spots for painting please email us at: contact@ctpastelsociety.com With your continual input we can make this web site a valuable resource for all of us.

• Kent Art Association
On hwy 7 right before you get to the junction at hwy 341. For more info Email kent.art.assoc@snet.net

• Artshow.com/apow
• PastelArtists.com
• Scanart
"The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown, Inc. (SCAN), a non-profit art association of Western Connecticut area artists, meets in the historic Newtown Meeting House on Main Street at the Flag Pole (Route 25).

Our goal is to support the artist and promote the visual arts. For over 30 years, SCAN members - artists of all skill levels and art enthusiasts - have been sharing knowledge of a variety of media, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, graphics, mixed media, and sculpture.

We provide twice-monthly demonstration meetings featuring professional artists, workshops with practicing artists, informal "drop in" sketch sessions with models and many other educational opportunities. In addition, we sponsor three art shows each year. Each month we publish SCAN INK, a newsletter for our members,which provides complete details about our programs."

email: handmadepastels@yahoo.com

• www.mountvisionpastels.com
  
• Click here to see the process of making pastels

Books

In Pastels Made Easy, award-winning artist and instructor Anne Heywood CPS, shows beginners everything they need to know about working with pastels. Best of all, no knowledge is ever assumed!

Pastels Made Easy
by Anne Heywood
ISBN: 0-8230-3908-0
Watson-Guptill
Book (Paperback)
$24.95
8 1/2 x 10 1/2
144 pages
200 color illustrations
May 2003

Click here for more info

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• Artshow.com book listing
• Amazon.com's books on pastels

Creative Painting For The Young Artist: A self help support book for the young person who wants to choose art as a subject or the youngster who thinks art is not for him. This book shows the steps one needs to be a creative artist early on. It includes how to get over the fear of failure, develop and artist statement, how to choose a subject to paint, develop an artist's mode of seeing, develop a composition, relaxation exercises for the young artist, art self critique and self promotion. The book also includes oil and pastel paintings by the author, his students, and grandfather. The book is also of value to art teachers and art therapists. Available on amazon.com
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9659025122/)

and at http://jasonalster.googlepages.com/home

• Jerry's Artarama
• Dick Blick
• Quincy shop

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Magazines and Publications
• The magazine for pastel artists is The Pastel Journal

• Online magazine for artists.
The Fine Arts Magazine is absolutely FREE. You may wish us to add you to our
Mailing List. We mail out the Fine Arts Newsletter every second month to keep
readers up-to-date with The online edition of the Fine Arts Magazine. Please
let us know if you'd like to be added to our Mailing List by sending your
request here: newsletter@goldrush.com.
To view our Online Fine Arts Magazine, go to
http://www.sierra-arts.net/MagazineHOME2.html

CPS is listed on their page at
http://www.sierra-arts.net/OrganizationsPASTELS.htmll

• A great resource for Competition info: Artshow.com

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• For the selected locations in CT Click HERE or visit our workshop page

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