Pastel Society of Southern California (PSSC)
7th ANNUAL “Make Your Mark!”
International Online Open Juried Exhibition
2025 Official Prospectus
The Pastel Society of Southern California (“PSSC”) is pleased to announce our seventh international online open exhibition, “Make Your Mark!” This juried exhibition is easy to enter and requires no framing or shipping of artwork. The final show is completely online, making it accessible for all to view and purchase artwork.
Our esteemed Judges of Selections are Stephanie Clark, Dalibor Dejanovic and Marie Tippets. This online only exhibition features multiple cash awards. You may even enter artwork that is no longer in your possession, as long as you have an image of it.
Stephie Clark, PSA-US, PSV, PSSC, RRPS, PSA-Australia is a pastel artist known for her expressive florals and vibrant wildflower meadows. Working from her home studio in Armidale, NSW, Stephie captures the poetry of nature through bold color and intuitive mark-making. She teaches workshops internationally. Sharing her passion for pastels with artists of all levels. Her work celebrates movement, joy and the delicate dance of light in the natural world. You can read more about Stephie in the french magazine Pratique des Arts or visit her patreon site.
https://www.patreon.com/12_stephieclark
https://www.stephieclark.net/about
Dalibor Dejanovic, PSC signature member is a classically trained artist, who has worked in animation and illustration fields for the past 20 years. He has taught workshops and has exhibited in Canada, US, Europe, Korea, China and India. He is an award winning artist who regularly competes in local and international plein air festivals. Dalibor is a tenured art professor at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada. His works have been featured on the cover of Plein Air Magazine’s 2021 winter edition and also Pastel Journal. Outdoor painting is his passion and he teaches students how to simplify complex scenes and infuse them with life and mood. Learn more about Dalibor on his website - https://www.dalibordejanovic.com
Marie Tippets, PSA, PSWC, CAC, IAPS is an award winning accomplished pastel artist that is considered a contemporary realist. She has been awarded with the signature status by PSA, PSWC and an eminent pastelist of IAPS. A member of the International Guild of Realism and the California Art Club. She studied art in New York and is currently living in Laguna Beach, California where she regularly displays her art at the prestigious Festival of Arts. Her works have been described as poetry of visual delight. Read more about Marie and see her fabulous works in Pastel Journal 2025 April issue.
https://www.marietippets.com/
IMPORTANT DATES
Online Entry Opening – May 19, 2025
Online Entry Deadline - July 15, 2025
(Final day to submit digital images and pay jurying fee to onlinejuriedshows.com)
Notice of Acceptance - July 30, 2025 (Approximate Date)
Online Show goes Live - August 1, 2025
Online Show closes - August 31, 2025
ELIGIBILITY:
· To be eligible to enter the show you must be 18 or older and working in the pastel medium.
· The show is open to both PSSC members and non-members worldwide. Each submitted image will be juried anonymously by our three judges of selection and assigned a numerical score. These scores will be averaged to determine which pieces are accepted into the exhibition. Similarly, several awards will be given to the top scoring artworks. Any numerical award ties will be broken by juror discussion. Acceptance is not guaranteed.
All work must be entered online through OnlineJuriedShows
Log in and click Enter This Show above to begin your entries.
· Member Pricing: $30 for up to two (2) images for members of the Pastel Society of Southern California (please make sure your membership dues are current for the 2025-26 membership year before entering the show). $10 for each additional image. There is no limit to the amount of entries allowed per artist.
· Non-Member Pricing: $40 for up to two (2) images for any artist who is not a member of the Pastel Society of Southern California. $10 for each additional image. There is no limit to the amount of entries allowed per artist.
· Entry Fees are non-refundable.
· If you would like to become a member of the Pastel Society of Southern California, please visit our website at https://www.pastelsocal.org/. Annual dues are $30.
SHOW RULES:
· You must enter online. All entries must be submitted as digital files to OnlineJuriedShows. For help with your entries, contact onlinejuriedshows@gmail.com or 888-666-1351.
· JPEG images must not show the mat, frame, etc., and must be cropped to include only the artwork. Make sure images are right side up. Images must be smaller than 4MB, JPG, in sRGB color space, and at least 1920 pixels on the longest side, at 72 dpi.
· Payment is online via credit card or PayPal; international entries are to use PayPal only. No checks accepted. All entry fees are non-refundable and must be paid by the entry deadline.
· The artwork’s final layer must be (80%) soft pastel.
· No oil pastels
· Artwork must be original and personally executed, not copied from other artists or from published or copyrighted materials or from someone else’s real life/still life set-up or photo. Paintings using reference photos taken by another photographer, even used with permission, will not be accepted.
· Works that appear to duplicate, or be closely derivative of a painting previously accepted into any PSSC show will not be eligible.
· Paintings of nudes will be considered.
· Artists who enter a painting which shows a recognizable likeness (face or figure) must have a signed model release from the person portrayed in the painting, giving the artist permission to exhibit the painting in a public forum. You do not need to provide the release, but you should hold it for your own protection.
· If the work is not for sale, check “NFS” on the entry form.
· Artwork may not have been accomplished in a directed, step-by-step class or workshop.
· Artwork must be originally drawn and not created on top of any type of photographic image.
· In the spirit of honesty and integrity each work should reflect human originality.
· Artwork must have been completed within the last three years (i.e., after July 15, 2022), and may not have been exhibited in any PSSC show before. Artwork submitted and accepted into this show that has been shown in a previous PSSC exhibition will be rejected, and the Artist will be ineligible for the next PSSC show. If there is a second infraction, the Artist will receive a two-year ban on entering future PSSC shows. A third infraction constitutes the Artist a lifetime ban from any future PSSC shows. These rules of ineligibility also apply to any Artist who does not use their own original material reference.
· PSSC reserves the right to exclude from exhibitions any artwork deemed offensive, or any artwork that violates the laws of the United States, or of state or local governments.
· There are no size limitations.
· A maximum of one painting per artist will be accepted into the show.
· Any one artist is eligible to receive up to a maximum of two (2) awards only (one ranked award and one special award).
· PSSC reserves the right to refuse artwork that does not meet with any show rules or requirements even though accepted by the jurors.
SALES:
Prices may not be changed after submission is completed and after the submission deadline.
If an artist sells a painting during the show, each artist is responsible for any sales transactions according to the listed price. Once the image is entered and paid for using Online Juried Shows, it is considered “entered” in the show.
There will be no commission taken from sales. Artists are responsible for their own sales taxes.
PROMOTIONAL AGREEMENT:
Artist agrees to allow the Pastel Society of Southern California and OnlineJuriedShows to reproduce the accepted paintings on their websites, and for advertising and promotional purposes only. No images will be used or published for any purpose except as stated above.
LIABILITY:
Submission of online entry form and fee shall constitute agreement with ALL conditions set forth in this prospectus.
For questions about the exhibition, please contact Jolene Paige ocjolene@gmail.com, PSSC Exhibition Chair, or PSSC President Chris Stillians cmsdesignphoto@aol.com.