   | | Lee McVey Pastel Lee McVey has felt the desire to be an artist since she was five years old. Walking in the woods with her grandparents while growing up instilled in her a love of nature that inspired Lee to focus on landscape painting. Using pastels, she creates landscapes that people feel they can walk right into.
She is a signature member of Pastel Society of America, Plein Air New Mexico and Pastel Painter’s Society of Cape Cod. Lee is also a member of AmericanAcademy of Women Artists, National Association of Women Artists and Pastel Society of New Mexico. Her pastels have been featured in full-length articles in the magazines American Artist and International Artist. Lee’s work is featured in the book How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint the Landscape. It will also be featured in the book The Jack Richeson Annual: The Plein Air New Mexico Year, which will be published in the fall of 2006.
Recently, Lee retired from teaching elementary art to devote more time to her art career. Along with school teaching and painting, she taught pastel classes at Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY and Cooperstown Art Association in Cooperstown, NY. Lee is now a resident of Albuquerque. | Click images for details. Click images for details. |  | | Aspens Plein air pastel painting of summer aspens in the Pecos Wilderness Framed with AR glass in a gold plein air style frame, no mat. 9"h x 12"w $875 |  | | Boulders and Bare Aspen Plein air pastel painting of boulders and small bare aspen from the Sandia Crest area Framed with AR glass in black with gold lip plein air style frame, no mat. 10"h x 8"w $625 |
 | | Piedra Lisa Trail Head Plein air pastel painting of the trail head path from Piedra Lisa Trailhead, Placitas, NM Framed with AR glass in a gold plein air style frame, no mat. 9"h x 12"w $775 |
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