HFAG March Scholarship Workshop

Workshop Information

Date: March 31, 2012
Time: 9:00AM - 3:00PM
Location: First Presbyterian Church‎
1609 West Littleton Boulevard
Littleton, CO 80120

Supply List

Pastels—bring what you have. If you don't have anything, instructor recommends a basic set of NuPastels…24 or more. They could be supplemented with a few colors you like--a bright red, bright yellow, and dark green for this workshop would be good.
2 pieces 9 x 12 or a little larger pastel paper and board to tape it on (Instructor uses Wallis Belgian Mist or white, or Art Spectrum in 9 x 12)

An inexpensive bristle brush (Instructor will bring Turpenoid for underpainting) And a small, empty bottle or baby food jar.
Masking tape
A couple of pastel pencils in grey or light blue.
We will do a "paint along" with photos of sunflowers and poppies. You can also bring a photo of flowers to work from if you wish.
Important: You can be a beginner for this class; we will work one step at a time through the sketching, the underpainting, and the fresh and bright loose florals. It will be fun and relaxing!

To attend this workshop contact:

Beatrice Drury
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Phone: (303) 796-8110
Or complete one of these forms: MS Word PDF

Workshop Description

This workshop will consist of an easy paint-along for learning how to paint and manipulate pastels. Topics covered will include: variety of pastels and papers that can be used, design/composition, different marks, edges, darks vs. lights, color temperatures, and finishing.

We will be using a photo reference and work on a sketch, under painting, and how to apply layers of pastel. We will work on 9 x 12 sanded pastel paper. Advanced pastelists, or those who work faster, may do two paintings. Look forward to a fun, relaxing day with plenty of information for skill levels on how to paint with pastels and create a successful and colorful painting!

Note: Instructor will bring papers to purchase and a sampling of Terry Ludwig pastels.

About the Artist

Diane Edwards is a versatile artist who paints in oils, watercolor, and pastels. She has a BS and MA in Art and Education. Diane owned an art supply/studio for 27 years, taught high school and college art, and for the last five years was director of the Art on Mountain Gallery in downtown Fort Collins. She teaches painting classes in her home studio that she recently finished in her walk-out basement, adding a fireplace and seating area. She is married to Dale and has two married children and three grandchildren.

Diane paints the landscapes and terrain of the Midwest and West in pastel and oil. Her paintings are filled with the warmth of the flowing rivers, rocks, and colorful geology of New Mexico, Colorado, and North Dakota. She works to share her affinity with the landscape with viewers, enabling them to enter into the warmth of color and the unusual qualities of light in our ever-changing landscapes. In my paintings I look for the small details, the remarkable differences in the landscape which tend to make it more individualistic. I want to bring to the viewer's attention the unusual, the colorful in the plain, dull landscape that most people will never notice or even acknowledge until they see it in a painting.

My greatest challenge is to convince the viewer that those beautiful colors and that variety of detail really do exist but in a different form than they usually expect to see them. Interwoven with the beauties of the natural landscape are the small pieces of colorful shapes, lines, edges, and form that one rarely sees until an artist illuminates it. My joy in life is in finding the mediocre, the obscure and transforming them into a beautiful, satisfying scene."

For Questions Contact:
Diane Edwards MA, PSC (970) 229-9846
email
www.dianeedwardsart.com,
www.nordic-arts.com, dianeedwardsartdoodles.blogspot.com