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Current show: Tucson Botanical Gardens Show - Legacy Gallery
January 2023 - June 2023


This Is Colored Pencil - First Studio Gallery - Phoenix, Arizona 2022


July 16th - August 13th, 2021
Pressing the Point:  The Fine Art of Colored Pencil


Show Highlights

Advanced Category
  • Best of Show - Under the Orchid Tree by Barbara Dahlstedt ($200-CPSA)
  • 1st - Surface by Virginia Carroll ($120 Jerry’s Gift Cards-Anne Williams)
  • 2nd - Crotons in Victoria by Mary Carlson (Art Collector’s Magazine + $20 Jerry’s Gift Card donated by Anne Williams)
  • 3rd - Yellowstone Splendor by Donna Mund (Colored Pencil Magazine-Sally Robertson)
  • Honorable Mention—Inner Beauty by Elliott Everson ($25 donated by TCPAA)
  • Honorable Mention—Skull Lookout by Helen Rowles (Ann Kullberg book + 8 tutorials)

Emerging Artist
  • 1st - Beer Heaven by Cathy Valente (Sharpened Artist Lifetime Pass donated by John Middick)
  • 2nd - Lizard Focus by Dominique LaRoche (Painterly Pencils Workshop by Barbara Dahlstedt)
  • 3rd - Keeping Time by Tamara Smith (International Artists Magazine)
  • Honorable Mention—Fabulous Fuchia by Kathy Sieloff ($25 from TCPAA)
  • Honorable Mention—Dare to be Different by Mary Cooper (Ann Kullberg book + 8 tutorials)

Thank you to our Sponsors
  • Anne Williams
  • Sharpened Artist
  • Ann Kullberg
  • Barbara Dahlstedt
  • International Artist Magazine
  • Tucson Colored Pencil Association
  • American Art Collectors Magazine
  • Colored Pencil Magazine

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To draw you must close your eyes and sing.
~Pablo Picasso

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
~Aristotle

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