Do Not Forget This if You are Going to IAPS 19

'Red Rock Country'            8x10            pastel           ©Karen Margulis
sold

The moment has arrived. You are finally at the IAPS convention. You have picked up your registration packet and dumped it out on your hotel bed. OH the wonderful things to read! It is real now. Then you see the badge. And a little pin. Your name is on it. It IS real. You pinch yourself. You are at the IAPS convention .....the biggest pastel party on the planet!

Let's talk about the badge. Before my first IAPS convention I had never attended a real convention. I had no idea of the importance of wearing the badge. But is IS important. It gives you access to the convention and all of the convention activities. It is kind of like the security badges we might have to wear at our job. It is important the we wear our badges during the convention.

The badge serves another important task....it is your introduction to all of your new pastel friends! It allows everyone to see your name and your pastel society. The badge is a conversation starter! Wear it with joy and pride! You are a member of this very special tribe!

IMPORTANT TIP:   Plan to wear your badge at all times during the convention. (OK... you can take it off when you sleep!) And if you have been to past conventions DON'T FORGET to bring your old convention pins. It is customary to put your old pins on your badge. Pack them right now!!!

My convention badge with pins form all of the conventions I attended

A happy pastelist!

About the painting in today's post: It was a painting I started at one of the convention workshops with Bill Creevy. It is on Multimedia Artboard. I finished it at home and it was sold to a good friend.