Aline Ordman Biography

Aline receive her BFA at Cornell University, and continued her training at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, earning a degree in Illustration.

“My goal as an artist is to find those times and places where beauty is not only evident, but startling and suddenly present.”

Aline is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America.  She was featured in an article in the February issue of the Pastel Journal and she  has been honored with awards at the 33rd and 34th  and 38th Annual Juried Shows of the Pastel Society of America in New York City.  In April 2010, she  received First Place in the figure category and third place in the landscape category of the April 2010 Top 100 Pastels issue of the Pastel Journal.  In February of 2012, she was featured in an article of the Pastel Journal.  Her work has been accepted in national juried shows of the Oil Painters of America and The American Impressionist Society.

Aline teaches workshops throughout the country and in Europe.