Useful LINKS and DOWNLOADS:

Below are some frequently needed documents and forms you can download, in pdf format.

IAPS Travel Label for your PASTELS:  Click here for a label you can print to use when you must take your pastels through security.

APS Membership Information

Click here for our APS Contact List for Officers, Committee Chairpersons and Board of Directors

Click here for a printable APS Membership Application Form to fill out and mail (USPS)

. Click here for online APS Membership Application Form

Click here to download pdfs of our APS Newsletters

Helpful Information for Entering Shows

Click here for Liability Release for transporting artwork

Click here for How to Prepare Show Entries

 About the different Soft Pastel brands

Dakota Art Pastels provides a great visual guide that compares the sizes and shapes of the various pastel brands.

A listing of links and resources to learn pastel

The Soft Pastel Forum at WetCanvas.com
Pastel Lesson at Nancy Doyle Fine Art
Introduction to Soft Pastels by Carmella Jarvi, Cheap Joes Art Supplies
Pastel Stick Personality – Richard McKinley Pastel Pointers Blog

Pastel manufacturers and suppliers

Pastel Art Suppliers
Air Float System Inc.
PO Box 1476
Verona, MS 38879

Armadillo Art & Craft
PO Box A
Belle Mead, NJ 08502

Art Supply Warehouse
Tel: 800-995-6778
Website: www.aswexpress.com
Art supplies.

Artist’s Air
Tel: 207-677-3206
Website: www.artistsair.com
A studio air cleaning system that collects pastel dust and oil solvents at your easel and filters them from the studio environment.

info@ccpvideos.com

Cheap Joes Art Stuff
374 Industrial Park Drive
Boone, NC  28607
1-800-227-2788
www.cheapjoes.com

Dakota Art Pastels
PO Box 2258
17873 State Route 536
Mt. Vernon, WA  98273
Tel: 888-345-0067
Website: www.dakotapastels.com
Art supplies.

Daniel Smith Watercolors
customer.service@danielsmith.com
www.danielsmith.com

Daler Rowney
2 Corporate Drive
Cranbury, NJ  08512-9584
1-609-655-5252

Dick Blick Art Materials
Tel: 800-828-4548
Website: www.dickblick.com
Art supplies.

Diane Townsend
Artists’ Pastels
PO Box 74
Milanville, PA  18443
apastels@townsendpastels.com
www.townsendpastels.com

Girault Pastels
www.pasteletc.com
michele@GIRAULTPASTELS.COM

Graphic Dimensions LTD
Tel: 1-800-221-0262
Website: www.pictureframes.com
Frames – ready made & custom

Great American Artworks
www.greatpastels.com
Heilman Pastel Box
Heilman Designs
PO Box 786
Lewiston, CA  96052
www.heilmandesigns.com
HK Holbein Inc.
Box 555
175 Commerce Street
Williston, VT  05495
usa@holbeinusa.com
www.holbeinusa.com
The Italian Art Store
Tel: 800-643-6440
Website: www.italianartstore.com
Art supplies.

Jack Richeson & Co., Inc.
PO Box 160
Kimberly, WI  54136-0160
www.richesonart.com

Jerry’s Artarama
jerrys.customerservice@jerrysartarama.com
www.jerrysartarama.com

Terry Ludwig Pastels
8113 W. Brandon Dr.
Littleton, CO 80125
Tel: 888-795-1232
Website: www.terryludwig.com
Art supplies.

Mount Vision Pastels
handmadepastels@yahoo.com
www.mountvisionpastels.com

Pan Pastels
Colorfin LLC
PO Box 825
Kutztown, PA  19530
USA
info@colorfin.com
http://www.panpastel.com/colors.html

Pearl Art & Craft
1033 East Oakland Park Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL  33334
1-800-451-7327

Princeton Art & Brush Company
Website: www.princetonartandbrush.com
Art supplies.

Print New Hampshire
40 Dow Street
Manchester, NH 03101
Tel: 603-657-7079
Website: www.PrintNH.com
Giglee prints

RayMar Art, Inc.
Tel: 888-809-3314
Website: www.raymarart.com
Art supplies.

Rochester Art Supply
150 West Main Street
Rochester, NY   14614
Tel: 800-836-8940
Website: www.fineartstore.com

Jack Richeson & Co. Fine Art Materials
Tel: 800-233-2404
Website: www.richesonart.com

Soltek Easel
610 W. 9560 S.
Sandy, UT  84070

Starving Artist
814 Kanuga Rd
Hendersonville, NC 28739
Website:  wncstarvingartist.com
(828) 693-3191

ART MAGAZINES

Art Calendar Magazine www.artcalendar.com

The Artist’s Magazine www.artistsmagazine.com

The Pastel Journal www.pasteljournal.com

North Light Books www.northlightbookclub.com