For our October Get Dusty we welcome all species of animals. Big or small, harmless or dangerous; all are allowed, either alone or in a...

Mark Ivan Cole PSA , our guest judge for the Get Dusty Competition September 2022, has made his decision: The winner is Stefan...

Right now before the summer is end, the new Pastel Scribbler is published. There is plenty of interesting reading matter in this issue;...

Have you already decided which paintings you are going to enter? You can post in each of our four categories: Landscape Figure/Portrait...

Mark Ivan Cole grew up in the Ecuadorian Andes and has lived in three of the four quadrants of the planet, including Taiwan and the U.S....

Corinne Caillé , our guest judge for the Get Dusty Competition July/August2022, has made her decision: The winner is Silja Salmistu with...

This month's landscape challenge is about forests. Share your best work showing forests throughout the seasons and from all around the...

Breton pastel artist Corinne Caillé lives in the Morbihan. She discovers pastel in 2003 during art classes where she studies different...

The PGE website admins are taking a well-earned summer break. You can continue to upload your Get Dusty entries into the shared gallery,...

Penelope Milner, our guest judge for the Get Dusty Competition June 2022, has made her decision: The winner is Fabang Pei with "Huslan...

Our Summer Get Dusty competition is open. Every member may upload up to three entries of their choice. There is no competition theme,...

We are happy to announce that our third open online competition has been set up with OnlineJuriedShows and that the prospectus is now...

Penelope studied fine art in Wales and then worked for several years co-ordinating art exhibitions in a Milton Keynes public art gallery....

Right now before the summer is here, the new Pastel Scribbler is published. There is plenty of interesting reading matter in this issue;...

Dorothea Schulz PGE, our judge for the Get Dusty Competition May 2022 has made her decision: The winner is Silja Salmistu with "Good old...

This month the challenge is to paint a human figure in motion. How do you capture movement in a static image? It is not easy to avoid...

Christine Obers, our judge for the Get Dusty Competition April 2022 has made her decision: The winner is Joanna Gray with "Sunny...

This month’s category is still life, the challenge is ‚A still life with tools‘. Have a rummage in your kitchen drawers, your garden shed...

The PGE board wishes you all a wonderful spring with this lovely "Backlit bouquet" by our member Silja Salmistu.

"My medium is pastel. I like the simplicity and immediacy. Pastels are pure pigment with a binder. The colors remain true over centuries....