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Bet Borgeson Studio
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In the August, 1982 issue of American Artist magazine, Bet Borgeson wrote the first article in the U.S. on using colored pencils as a fine art medium.
Raised and educated in Southern California, Bet Borgeson began her first serious art studies at UCLA. Early in her marriage to photographer Edwin Borgeson, they founded and operated a popular boating publication at Marina del Rey, California. After 11 years they sold the newsmagazine and moved to the Pacific Northwest, where Borgeson completed her art education with a degree in painting from Portland State University.
She was by this time working mostly in colored pencil, exhibiting and selling her work in various Oregon and Washington galleries. Examples of Borgeson's Art in Colored Pencil. Although colored pencil as a fine art medium was not then generally familiar to the public, it became increasingly clear that its unique handling characteristics and potential were also not well understood by other artists. Since Borgeson was already teaching oil painting, she felt that she should additionally be spreading the word about colored pencils.
