Comments on: About https://www.howtopastel.com/about-gail-sibley/ Info, opinion, and training on how to pastel with artist Gail Sibley BFA, MA Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/about-gail-sibley/#comment-18577 Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:34:09 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?page_id=23#comment-18577 In reply to Judi.

Hi Judi,
Thanks for writing such a lovely introduction to yourself and your work. Certainly oils are similar to pastels in the way one builds a painting. Interesting that! I’m glad though that my blog may bring you back to the pastel side 😀 Even if not, so much of what’s here can be applied to the other media available for painting.
I look forward to having you in one of my workshops whether in Tasmania or Europe!!

]]> By: Judi https://www.howtopastel.com/about-gail-sibley/#comment-18307 Wed, 11 Sep 2019 01:15:06 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?page_id=23#comment-18307 Hi Gail. I’m really excited and pleased to have discovered your website. I live in southern Australia and I started painting with pastels a few years ago (self taught) , but went a bit stale after doing a couple of workshops- mostly because the pastel artists here who I came across seem to be very conventional and felt that I wasn’t learning much. I’ve been working in oils since and enjoyed it- as I’ve realised, it’s similar in many ways. You showcase so many exciting works – use of colour, composition etc. , and your quick tips are helping me rethink how to approach my work. Looking forward to hearing more about your workshop in Tasmania, or perhaps one in Europe in a couple of years’ time.

]]> By: Gail Sibley https://www.howtopastel.com/about-gail-sibley/#comment-1131 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 20:12:32 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?page_id=23#comment-1131 In reply to Marcia L. Hochstetter.

Marcia, that’s the best reward a writer/artist could hear!! Thank you for letting me know. (As yet, I still haven’t received my copy!)

]]> By: Marcia L. Hochstetter https://www.howtopastel.com/about-gail-sibley/#comment-1121 Wed, 02 Mar 2016 15:35:38 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?page_id=23#comment-1121 I just read your article in the April issue of “Pastel Journal”. Thank you so much. I felt as if you were speaking directly to me. I am going to tear it out and tape it to my studio wall.
Marcia

]]> By: Gail https://www.howtopastel.com/about-gail-sibley/#comment-419 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 20:55:48 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?page_id=23#comment-419 In reply to Kathryn Morris Trainor.

Thank you for writing Kathryn, and for your enthusiasm! It comes over loud and clear 🙂 I am wondering which article on abstraction you are referring to. Perhaps you can add a comment directly on the blog? Good luck with your leap. I know how difficult it is to make. It’s ongoing risk-taking that’s for sure! Please let me know how it goes.

Look forward to hearing more from you

]]> By: Kathryn Morris Trainor https://www.howtopastel.com/about-gail-sibley/#comment-416 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:42:28 +0000 http://www.howtopastel.com/?page_id=23#comment-416 Gail! Just got turned on to your website by a fellow artist from Wellington, Ontario… both of us former presidents of the Pastel Society of Eastern Canada. I work primarily in pastel and it will always be my medium of choice! I could never give them up! Being a landscape artist for years, I would now like to change things up a bit and try abstract. I was inspired by your article about the progression of your abstract painting…it’s given me the courage to take that (for me) giant leap and go ahead with an image I’ve had in my mind for a long time. Thank you! I look forward to future e-mails! Your’s is one of the best Pastel websites I’ve come across. Look forward to receiving your emails.
Kathryn

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