Oils and Pastels by Margaret Dyer

If you think you can't afford my class at Scottsdale Artists School, think again. There are several empty spaces in my class and the SAS is offering full scholarships to fill them. Click the picture below to go to the SAS Scholarship page. Go ahead, give it a try! I hope to see you in Scottsdale next month. Dates of class: January 5-7, 2018

2017 has been an insanely busy year for me. With the very sad death of my ex-husband in the early part of 2016, and the time I took off to be home for our daughters, I way overdid things this past year trying to make up for lost time. I don't know where my head was. I never even had time to sit and write on my blog, and I missed that. Writing is a quiet and reflective thing for me. Hopefully this year will be different. All this to is to say that I am scheduling my workshops for 2018; here's what I have so far. Dates for my workshop in France have not been confirmed yet, so please check my website periodically for updates if you're interested in joining us. Send Kippy Hammond an email ( khstudios4@gmail.com ) telling her you want to be sent notifications about Margaret Dyer's workshop. It should be sometime in late spring or the summer. I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season. Cherish your loved ones. January 5-7 Scottsdale Artists School Sco...

I will be teaching two one-day workshops at "Art of the Carolinas" at the Hilton North Raleigh/Midtown, in Raleigh, NC: Saturday, November 11: "The Figure in Pastels" https://www.artofthecarolinas.com/products.php?sa1708-the-figure-in-pastels&cPath=221 Sunday, November 12: "Urban Scenes in Pastels" https://www.artofthecarolinas.com/products.php?su1708-urban-scenes-in-pastels&cPath=221 Go to www.artofthecarolinas.com for information on these and countless other available workshops by other well-known artists.

My sister, Catherine Dyer, is Psycho In-Law. For those of you who may have missed it last week, it airs again tomorrow night on Lifetime Network. Last week it was on at 8:00 p.m. eastern time, not sure if it's the same tomorrow. http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/psycho-in-law

Not a whole lot of time to write tonight; I leave for Atlanta in the morning. We spent all day today walking around Paris, savoring every minute of our last day here. It's 10:45 p.m., and we just got home from dinner--Kippy, Judith, Phil and I (Ann left us this morning). So instead of writing, I'm posting pictures. Lots of them, hoping they will speak for themselves.  In case you don’t know what the modern structure with tunnels is, it’s the Pompidou , with its spectacular view of Paris. Here we saw the David Hockney retrospective and dined on the rooftop. What a glorious day.  And how wonderful it has been to see Paris with artists. To spend hours and hours in the museums and only want to get together afterwards to hear each other's thoughts. To learn how inspired each other is (or not) and what they intend to do about it when they get home.  So...about next year. "Mary Cassatt, An American in Paris," at the Jacquemart-Andre Museum from March 9-July ...

We had a lot we wanted to pack in to our next to the last day in Paris, so early yesterday morning we walked to Rue Mouffetard, a neighborhood in the Latin Quarter, for petit dejeuner (breakfast). I snapped pictures along the way; our route was a part of Paris you don’t often see in photos. I love graffiti, so bear with me please.  Rue Mouffetard, one of Paris’ oldest and liveliest neighborhoods, is a pedestrian avenue with restaurants, shops, cafes and a regular open market. Shops were just opening as we arrived; shopkeepers and workers were preparing for the day, the crowds had yet to arrive.  After a full breakfast, our first stop of the day was  Place Saint Sulpice , a large public space with the Fountain of the Four Bishops, a huge sculpted fountain with wonderful lions, in the center of the square. The adjacent Church of Saint Sulpice was built in 1754. We sat on benches and sketched. We then moved on to the...