I have just completed a four day workshop with 12 other students at the Tucson Art Academy with Albert Handell. I am so energized. It was a expansive artistic experience. The first morning we met at the Academy studio and Albert laid out the plans for the four days. Four days packed full of learning and experimenting. Albert [...]
“India in Repose” - Oil on canvas, 20″ x 16″ Jury’s Favorites Award, August 2010
“This pastel won an Award of Merit in the Signature Members Only Show held recently by the Sierra Pastel Society at the Artspace Gallery in Placerville, California.” – Mickey Theobold
“Your portrait won first place in the Pasadena Materials and Supplies Expo: ART! It was also juried into the Pastel 100 Competition and got an Honorable Mention in the Figures and Portraits Category. It will be in the April 2011 edition of the Pastel Journal Magazine.”
Jane Christie received the Armstrong Award for her painting The Homestead ® at the Mile High International 2010 Exhibition sponsored by the Pastel Society of Colorado in September. She also won 4th place for her painting The Beauty After (L) at the International Association of Pastel Societies 17th Annual Web Show now on their Website. [...]
Pastel Society of the West Coast, Signature Member Women Artists of the West, Signature Member “Attached are the paintings of my recent accomplishments since joining your great Mentorship Paint Along programs. I feel I have benefitted greatly from the mentorship and your guidance and advice, which has helped me achieve these recent accomplishments.”
“I just started entering some shows, and one of my landscapes was juried into the Colorado Artists Guild “Artists of Colorado show, Oct. 2010, Alpine Fine Art Center in Denver. The attached painting , 21 x 27, is in the AUM Framing and Gallery show…I was invited to enter this show (that was especially nice).” [...]
I have taken 2 workshops from you and 3 mentoring programs. After each workshop or mentoring program I always did very well. You are a great inspiration. I always have something you said to me in the back of my head when I am painting. …When I felt like I was not getting any place [...]
“All of these accomplishments are due to my having studied with you in Concord, MA….The paintings were done using Albert’s matching values theory and a very light ‘touch’ over the under-painting. I love being able to express myself so rapidly and with such a conservative amount of pastel on the paper.”
“I was in Taos, New Mexico this fall for a mentoring paint-along with Master Artist Albert Handell. On the Edge (pastel, 9″ x 12″) was painted en plein air. The sunlit adobe situated close to the colorful cliff was what inspired me to paint this.”
TUCSON ART ACADEMY Workshop 
Beginning Our Travels… 
Pastel Painting Demonstration- Plein Air Magazine Article 
Emily Hirn – Atlanta, GA 
Prairie Creek Redwoods by Mickey Theobold 
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