What Is a Personal Artistic Journey?

Where are you on your personal artistic journey? Jean Pederson discusses this and gives you questions to consider that will help you take a look at your artistic path.

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How Important Is It To Use Archival Materials?

Mixed media artist Jean Pederson offers food for thought on the topic of using archival materials.

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FCA Workshop

I had a blast teaching a workshop for the Federation of Canadian Artist last week!

The class was filled with very experienced artists who worked through The Artists Pocketbook to Better Painting with me. I hope that everyone keeps in touch, thanks again for a fantastic class!

Arts and Letters

The Arts and Letters Club hosted the anniversary dinner of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colours.

It was great to see friends like Sterling Edwards, Tim Packer, Peter Marsh, Carol Westcott and Jean lowering herself to Marc Gagnon's level!

Solo Exhibition at the Avens Gallery

The Avens Gallery gave me a beautiful solo Exhibition with a variety of subjects to choose from.

I hope that you are able to stop by the gallery to have a look!

Canadian Institute of Portrait Painters

The Vessel was honoured with the Best Watercolour of Show in the National CIPA Exhibition 2010.

Tekell Brush Discounts

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Great Slave Lake

Ice road closed.

Charles Comfort Medal and Swinton Award

Wow what an Open water this year. The jury chose an amazing group of National water colours and then awarded my painting both the Charles Comfort Medal for excellence in figurative work accompanied by the Swinton's Award.

Paper Rose is an image inspired by one of my wonderful models. One day the model came over and we had fun crunching paper and taping it onto her as if it were a high end blouse. The imagery deals with the concepts of fragility, facades and pretences as they relate to our media and our youth.

LaCrosse

What a beautiful part of the U.S.A. with treed hills and quaint farms nestled into the landscape.
Becky, you are the best and I hope to see you again!

The workshop dealt with mixing water media in different combinations. We held the workshop inside part of a brewery! While there I was able to pick up a Norwegian grill for Christmas backing, oh ya sure.

On the last morning, Becky drove me around the country side to see Amish farms, what a privilege for me!