Tim Gaydos

Tim Gaydos

Maine

"Even with the slight risk and lack of convenience, I believe working on-site imbues my paintings with a truer feeling of the location. Certainly it would be easier to photograph a scene and paint it in the studio, but you don't see as much in a studio, and the colors are never quite right. I like rawness and realism, and I try to evoke emotion by combining composition and color."

Tim Gaydos has been a Master Pastelist of the Pastel Society of America since 1987. He has participated in numerous museum shows and competitions, including solo exhibitions at The Montclair Art Museum and the Bergen Museum. He has received more than a hundred awards, most notably the American Watercolor Society Gold Medal of Honor in 1995 and the American Watercolor Society Silver Medal of Honor in 2002, and top awards at annual "Pastels Only" shows, organized by the Pastel Society of America.

Tim Gaydos is a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Pastel Society of America (elected "Master Pastelist" in 1987) and the New Jersey Watercolor Society.

Tim Gaydos' most recent article is a feature article in American Artist Magazine, January 2002, on his figurative pastels, entitled "Guiding the Eye". North Light Publishers featured step-by-step demonstrations of four paintings in Pastel Interpretations, 1993, and Watson-Guptill included three demonstration portraits in Pastel Portraits, 1996. Work of his was included in The Artists' Magazine September 1995 "Award Winning Watercolors of 1995".