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3-Day Workshop with Stephie Clark: Discover the beauty of soft pastels

March 17, 2021

Learn more and sign up here – registration begins on May 1 @ noon.

We have designed the perfect 3 day workshop to discover the beauty of soft pastels and let Stephie take you on an exploration of soft pastel art with the focus on bright, loose florals.

Suited for beginners and intermediate students.

Each day of the workshop, Stephie demonstrates exactly how she makes a painting from scratch using her self taught techniques for her backgrounds and applying pastels with freedom and thoughtfulness.

We will paint from life as well as photos and discuss the differences. Stephie not only wants you to come away with some successful works, but also the confidence, knowledge and skills to keep practicing at home.

Stephie wants each workshop participant to grow in experience and apply skills that are relevant for your own artistic voice.

Learn more and sign up here

Day One: Introduction to the process and order of painting, my chosen materials for creating expressive art. The benefits of using colour and shape to create form and depth in our subjects, demonstration of backgrounds and the techniques used. Full instruction and guidance on setting backgrounds ready to meet our subjects.

Day Two: Learn about tones, values and hues with a colour study. Working from still life set up and artists reference photos. Implementing skills Stephie uses in each of art works, learn to hold different shapes and sizes pastels and blend and shade by using shapes upon one another. Practice by creating a piece of your choice.

Day Three: Focus on creating leaves and petals upon our backgrounds and using the stroke skills with full tutorial and constructive critique each student will complete a full piece.

Learn more and sign up here

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Creating Clouds in Pastel, Online Workshop with Diana Coidan

September 23, 2020

Online workshop – Available anytime

I am thrilled to announce my collaboration with The Centerpiece Gallery in Raleigh to develop a new online Pastel workshop. This fun workshop will give you the basics you need to create a beautiful cloud Pastel, and you even have the option of purchasing additional feedback and follow-up after the class via email. Visit the Centerpiece today for more info or to register.

 

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Barbara Jaenicke: Zoom Online Workshop

July 24, 2020

Medium: Pastels or Oils
Orientation:
September 14, 2020 from 4pm to 5pm EST
Workshop:
September 15 & 16, 2020 from 11am to 6pm EST
Price:
$210

Workshop limited to 12 students.

For more information and to register, visit the Fort Mill Art Guild website.

For more information on the artist, visit Barbara’s website.

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The Painterly Landscape online pastel workshop with Alain J. Picard

April 27, 2020

Glenns Falls by Alain J Picard

Enrollment is now open for The Painterly Landscape Course. This class is exclusively for active NC Pastel Society members: Piedmont Pastel Society, NC Pastel Society and Appalachian Pastel Society.

Registration is open today and closes on May 4, 2020.

We hope you take advantage of this great online course. Please contact Alain at alain@picardstudio.com directly should you have any issues registering.

For more information and to enroll, click the link here: The Painterly Landscape Course.

Download the PDF.

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Let’s Head to the Clouds – pastel workshop by Diana Coidan

March 19, 2020

Let’s Head to the Clouds is a workshop by Diana Coidan with the Champion Education “Master Class” Art Program in Morrisville. Sharpening your pastel skills on creating expressive clouds which are integral to the art of landscape painting…over land or sea. Learn to create spectacular cloudscapes.

Sunday, July 26th
For more information and to register: www.cier-art.com/masterartdiana.html

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Jeri Greenberg, Member News

March 16, 2020

Jeri Greenberg named Juror of Selection for Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod’s annual National exhibit FPO (For Pastels Only).

I will be teaching a “Behind The Looking Glass” for the PSA in NYC on May 9th, The Many Colors of White workshop for the Piedmont Pastel Society August 29th, a workshop for the Pastel Society of South Carolina September 12, and a 3 day workshop at the Jersey Shore in October.

Plus JUST ADDED: A DEMO FOR THE LEFT COAST PASTEL SOCIETY IN APRIL, FOLLOWED BY A WORKSHOP IN 2021.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION: Water+Color Gallery in Wilmington NC beginning 3/13/20 and Art In Bloom Gallery beginning 06/24/2020.

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Abstract Pastel Painting: 2020 WORKSHOPS

December 30, 2019

3 Day Workshop – Naples Art Association – February 17-19, 2020
2 Day Workshop – North Port Art Center – March 14-15, 2020

Give someone you love or better yet Yourself the perfect Holiday Gift of freedom and creativity! Join me in a workshop in Glorious Naples Florida and the North Port Art Center in Florida for a workshop immersion in Abstract Pastel Painting!

Here’s what you will learn:
– Principles of design
– Mounting paper and tinting
– How to set up your surface
– Choosing a palette for maximum impact
– Expressive mark making
– Exercises to warm you up and leapfrog you ahead
– How and where to find inspiration
– Color Combinations that WORK!
– How to get that ‘Glow’
– Resources for ideas
– New and unique techniques and materials
– Framing techniques for your new masterpieces

Spaces are limited so each student receives plenty of attention. The workshop is geared from beginner to advanced. A working knowledge of color and design basics are helpful. A range of pastels from hard pastels to soft are important. A supply list is provided after registration. [Acrylic painters are welcome] Handouts and additional materials will be emailed.

I truly look forward to sharing what I’ve learned on my journey and hope you’ll join me. Email if you have any questions but don’t delay. There are only a few spaces left!

Naples Art Association: REGISTER TODAY!
North Port Art Center: https://northportartcenter.org/

LET’S HAVE SOME FUN AND MAKE SOME ART!

Laura Pollak
laurapollak.artist@gmail.com
www.laurapollak.com

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Upcoming Pastel Workshops at Arts Council of York County (SC)

December 11, 2019

Upcoming Workshops at the Arts Council of York County (121 E. Main Street, Rock Hill, South Carolina 29730)

From Boring to Breathtaking Pastel Workshop
Bethany Carter Fields
Mon-Wed February 17-19, 2020
10 am to 4 pm
$450
lunch included daily
 

Deeper, Darker. Richer. Pastel Workshop
Terri Ford
Mon-Wed Mar 27-29, 2020
10 am to 4 pm
$495
Lunch included daily
 

Skies, Trees and Water Pastel or Oil Workshop
Barbara Courtney Jaenicke
Tues-Thurs Sept 15-17, 2020
10 am to 4 pm
$475
Lunch included daily
 

For more information and payment, go to: www.fortmillartguild.com

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Luana Luconi Winner teaching two pastel workshops during 19th Annual Art of the Carolinas

August 27, 2019

Register Online

Get Dusty – How to Pastel with No Fear
Workshop Fee: $139
Skill Level: All
Time: Thursday, November 14, 2019 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at Retail Store

New to art, new to soft pastel, experienced but need a refresher, transitioning from another medium? This is the class for you. Find the sheer joy in making marks again as you did when you were a child.

Quality exercises to calm fears of trying something new will be interspersed with substantive, fundamental pastel painting information – covering how to use hard and soft pastels, papers and surfaces, how to make changes, diversity of applications methods both wet and dry. Leave with several reference exercises, and time-permitting, one small, close-to-finished piece.

Some pastels, materials, and references will be provided, but feel free to bring any pastel or drawing materials you may already have and wish to bring along. Also, bring a clean, worn out brush, some moist hand wipes, a kneadable eraser, and an open mind.

Register Online

Vibrant Pastel Portraits – The Secret is in the Joyful Application
Workshop Fee: $139
Skill Level: All
Time: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Is a pastel a drawing or a painting? Depending on the approach and application it can be either. Vibrant portraits as drawings are a simplified approach and often become the underpainting to highly detailed finished products. Know when to stop.

We will cover: using dynamic colors, layering those colors to create depth of hues, relying on basic shapes to simplify and begin without hesitation, the basics of human proportion, methods of transferring images from life or references, sculpting with shadow and light, when to use hard and soft edges, techniques to “turn form” to appear rounder with more depth.

Now we add the Joy. Draw. Play. Make marks. Let the soft pastels carry you into a new form of expression about our landscapes, our still lifes, and its people. Some pastels, materials, reference photo, and a method of transfer will be provided. Feel free to bring any pastels or drawing materials you may already have and wish to bring, some moist hand wipes, a clean, worn out brush, and if you’d like to share – one good joke.

Register Online

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Debora Stewart, PSA IAPS MC Workshop: Oct 8-10, 2019

July 18, 2019

Upcoming Workshop at the Arts Council of York County
121 E. Main Street, Rock Hill, South Carolina 29730

sponsored by the Fort Mill Art Guild

Abstract Workshop in Pastel and/or Acrylic
Debora Stewart PSA IAPS MC
Tuesday through Thursday, October 8-10, 2019
10 am to 4 pm
$425
Lunch included daily

This workshop is open to both pastel and acrylic artists. You can work in one medium or both. You will learn how to work intuitively and expressively, develop abstract compositions, understand color theory, create both small and large works, develop a series, evaluate your work and know when to stop. You will also learn many mixed media techniques in the workshop. Plus you will work in a non-threatening environment and have fun!

ENROLLMENT DEADLINE AUGUST 15, 2019

Learn more.

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Weekly Pastel Classes by Addren Doss

July 17, 2019

I have been asked by numerous people to teach a weekly pastel class. I have now decided to do so.

When: Thursday mornings, August 1 – September 26
(except for Thursday, September 12)
Time: 9:30 am – 12:00 noon
Where: College Place United Methodist Church
Cost: $195 for the 8 week session

To register email me at addrendesigns@aol.com

This class will have a minimum of 6 students and a maximum of 10 students. Registration is on a first come basis. Several people have already indicated they would like to attend, so don’t hesitate to contact me.
When you register I will let you know what type of supplies you will need for this first session.

Beginner and experienced artists are welcome in this class. We will start with the basics and work our way up. Even if you are experienced it never hurts to review the basics, and I will certainly work with you on the level you are currently at. There will be some work from life using simple still life set ups, and some landscape work using photographs.

In this first session we will cover:
How to set up your pastels to give you a better understanding of color harmony and value relationships.
Proportion and basic drawing.
Composition and what makes a good painting.
Under painting — to use or not to use.

I have been working in pastel and been a professional artist for about 30 years, and look forward to sharing with you some of what I have learned during that time.

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Member News, Jeri Greenberg

July 17, 2019

I recently moved to Leland, NC from NJ/NY area and am pleased to announce that I will be teaching a weekly pastel class for the Cameron Art Museum starting on September 10, 2019, as well as 2-day workshops in September and November. I’m thrilled to be the first instructor in a very long time to offer a pastel only class to the Wilmington museum area.

I am a signature member of PSA and a IAPS Master Circle recipient, as well as other groups and I am excited to meet pastel artists in my new surroundings.

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Lyn Diefenbach Demo Photos

June 7, 2019

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Beyond the Photograph – Creating Better Pastel Paintings

March 29, 2019

May 14 & 15, 2019
The Florence Thomas Art School
West Jefferson, NC
$210
In this 2 day pastel workshop we will be exploring different ways to work creatively with photographs. We will look at how to simplify and change a photograph into a better composition, and how to use elements from more than one reference when creating a painting.
For complete information visit my website www.addrendoss.com

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Marilyn Dwyer: Focus on Drawing, Demonstration and Workshop

March 27, 2019

Chalkheads, don’t miss this!

Piedmont Pastel Society presents Tennessee Artist Marilyn Dwyer

Focus on Drawing
Demonstration and Workshop
April 6, 2019
Cornwell Center, Charlotte, NC

Free morning demonstration 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 – Register Now
Afternoon workshop 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – Register Now

Learn more and register online at www.piedmontpastelsociety.org

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Upcoming Zoom Presentations for 2023

June 10th – Regina Burchette
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Shows / Workshops

7th Annual PURE COLOR: Online International Juried Exhibition of Pastel Paintings 2023
DATES: Online Entry Opens June 15th - Online Entry Deadline August 15th
Notice of Acceptance August 21st - Online Show Opens September 1st
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