Carol Peebles

Founder and Director of BlueEaselClub.com, Carol Peebles continues the tradition of classical realist life drawing through Atelier classes and commissions. Carol’s work focuses on portraits and figures, drawn from life, to celebrate the people in her immediate environment. Recent international and national exhibitions include: Sotheby’s NY, The European Museum of Modern Art, MEAM, The Butler Institute of American Art; The International Association of Pastel Societies at the Salmagundi Club, NY, New York; The Pastel Society of America at the National Arts Club, NY, New York; Allied Artists of America; Cincinnati Art Club; The Ogden Museum,  and numerous International exhibitions with pastel societies.  IAPS Master’s Circle Recipient and Winner of Pastel 100’s 2019 Ruth Richeson Gold Award. Art Renewal Center Finalist 2020, 2019. Portrait Society of America International Exhibition Finalist 2019 & “Select 50” in 2020.  Carol’s works have been published in North Light Books: Strokes of Genius 12;  Strokes of Genius 11:Finding Beauty, Strokes of Genius 6: The Best of Drawing, and  Art Journey: Portraits and Figures: The Best of Contemporary Drawing,  Featured articles in “International Artist Magazine”, “Pastel Journal”  and “Pastelagram”. A  Salmagundi Club Artist Member,  Signature Member of the Portrait Society of America and The Pastel Society of America, she has instructed at Studio Incamminati, PA; The Pastel Society of America at the National Arts Club, NYC; Louisiana State University, The University of New Orleans, Pennsylvania State University and currently teaches at The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, and her drawing Atelier, BlueEaselClub.com. A New Orleans native, she received her MFA from Penn State University, BA from the University of New Orleans, but attributes her learning of classical realism to Master painter Auseklis Ozols, Founder of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. A mother of two, she currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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