{"id":2963,"date":"2015-06-29T00:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T07:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtopastel.com\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2019-05-31T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T19:21:28","slug":"iaps-landscape-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtopastel.com\/2015\/06\/iaps-landscape-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"IAPS – The Landscape Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last post<\/a>, I shared the first half of the interviews I made at the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) in early June. Here is\u00a0the second set – the landscape interviews I call them since they’re all related to painting the landscape. Let’s go!<\/p>\n

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I first discovered the work of Lyn Asselta<\/a> when I presented one of her extraordinary-from-the-ordinary pastels in my November monthly roundup<\/a>.\u00a0She’s a master at taking something that we might not give a second thought to and making it into something that makes us look and look and wonder….like a gray day with an empty rutted road leading off into the distance accompanied by telephone poles possibly no longer in use. The paintings below are of places fairly close to Lyn’s home.<\/p>\n

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Lyn Asselta, “Forgotten,” pastel, 13 x 21 in<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lyn Asselta, “Blue Morning, Crescent Beach,” pastel, 20 x 20 in – this piece was in this year’s IAPS show. What incredible light and colour!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I asked Lyn about how she sees beauty in mundane, everyday\u00a0scenes:<\/p>\n