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“Lingering
Light” © Marla Baggetta
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Name:
Marla Baggetta, PSA
Bio: Award-winning
artist Marla Baggetta attended Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
California, where she got her BFA Hons in 1983. She worked as a commercial
illustrator for a resplendent client list that includes Nissan Motors, Houghton
Mifflin, and Disney, before she decided to devote herself full time to painting
the landscape on her 1993 move to Oregon. She is a signature member of the Pastel
Society of America and the Pastel Society of Oregon. She has won numerous
awards for her paintings including Arts for the Parks top 100 in 1999, Best in
Show, Oregon Pastel Society 2003 and Bronze Award for the International
Association of Pastel Societies Exhibition, 2000. She has been featured in the Pastel
Journal. She is included in Pure Color; The Best in Pastel.
Marla is sought
after for painting workshops in the
Portland area and has taught at Art Center College of Design, Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Creative Arts Community-Menucha and West Linn/Wilsonville Community
Education.
She is represented
by the RiverSea Gallery, Astoria, Oregon.
Medium: Pastel;
acrylic; mixed media
Subjects:
Landscape.
Style: Representational.
Baggetta says that she is a great believer in the fundamentals of painting;
drawing, composition, color theory and the thought that paintings communicate
an idea through this vocabulary.
Technique: “My
painting process is a very active one where my first marks and impressions are
usually bold and gestural. Then I settle in and make assessments and
refinements. The last marks are usually slow, quiet ones, as I am making small
moves to find my way towards the finished piece. I'm hoping to capture the
"aha!" that originally attracted me to my subject. Each one of my
original pastels is done on museum grade sanded pastel paper. I use a variety
of brands of soft pastel such as Schmincke, Unison, Terry Ludwig, and Diane
Townsend, just to name a few. Each brand of pastel has different
characteristics that I use to accomplish a variety of strokes and washes within
a piece. The final painting is lightly sprayed with a fine fixative before
framing."
Publications: Pastel
Step by Step. Walter Foster Publishing, 2004; ISBN-10: 1560108010.
100 Variations: a compilation of Marla’s pastel series first
published in The Pastel Journal in 2009. Marla writes about her journey of
painting a series of over 100 versions of a small composition which started as
project intended as a daily warm-up but evolved into so much more....
Available on Blurb
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Gallery: Portfolios:
Trunk Sale; New Pastels; Landscapes; Vases; Goddesses; 100 variations;
Figurative; Reproductions; Sold Archives.
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Demo: Fifteen
demos on youtube
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