"Exploring Pastel Painting & Cloudscapes: Painting the Drama and Beauty of Clouds" with Kathy Beekman -- Saturday, February 1, 2020 9am-3pm at the First Presbyterian Church, 1609 W. Littleton Blvd, Littleton CO
Kathy's workshop was a huge success. She taught technique, supplies, and a bit of impromptu acting! Phyllis and Joyce demonstrated, physically, what clouds look like!
It was a fun and paint worthy workshop!
-- Mary Kay Jacobus
It was a fun and paint worthy workshop!
-- Mary Kay Jacobus
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Kathy Beekman
Kathy Beekman, a professional artist known as the “Master Finger-Painter of the West”, lives in Bailey, a small town situated at 8,600 feet in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Her artwork emerges from the West and Midwest country sides where the vastness of the natural landscape inspires her work.
Having had gallery representation for nearly twenty years, collectors appreciate how her thoughts and feelings about her natural environment are translated through her pastel paintings. Her passion for the arts extends beyond her canvas. She is an art career coach for artists who want to “rise above the rest” and has also authored the book Prosper, A Success Book for Artists, which is packed with tips and real-life experiences offering crucial advice on how to reach personal artistic goals.
Kathy is consistently given rave reviews by her students because of the comfortable learning environment she creates. This environment supports thinking, experimenting, a sense of achievement, respect and a good dose of laughter.
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Having had gallery representation for nearly twenty years, collectors appreciate how her thoughts and feelings about her natural environment are translated through her pastel paintings. Her passion for the arts extends beyond her canvas. She is an art career coach for artists who want to “rise above the rest” and has also authored the book Prosper, A Success Book for Artists, which is packed with tips and real-life experiences offering crucial advice on how to reach personal artistic goals.
Kathy is consistently given rave reviews by her students because of the comfortable learning environment she creates. This environment supports thinking, experimenting, a sense of achievement, respect and a good dose of laughter.
>> download artist bio
A Good Place to Sit ~ A Glorious View II ~ Spring Green
This workshop is split into two 3-hour segments.
Part One: Exploring Pastel Painting
The statement “I wish I could paint” really means I wish I could convey through painting how I feel about what I am seeing. This fun-filled informative workshop is designed to suit the beginner, as well as the continuing pastel painter desiring to extend their range of skills. The instructor will demonstrate pastel techniques that will include blending colors and working from the background to the foreground and will also engage you in the total process of painting with this incredibly versatile medium. Participants will complete a painting during this 3-hour segment.
Part Two: Cloudscapes: Painting the Drama and Beauty of Clouds
In art, a cloudscape is the depiction of a view of clouds. This workshop will explore cloudscapes with the inclusion of the landscape to suggest scale, orientation, weather conditions and distance. Fine tune your powers of observation in this very focused and exploratory workshop. Instructor Kathy Beekman receives rave reviews from her students. She creates a comfortable learning environment where class participants excel in the world of soft pastel. Participants do not need prior pastel experience and will complete a painting during this 3-hour segment.
Part One: Exploring Pastel Painting
The statement “I wish I could paint” really means I wish I could convey through painting how I feel about what I am seeing. This fun-filled informative workshop is designed to suit the beginner, as well as the continuing pastel painter desiring to extend their range of skills. The instructor will demonstrate pastel techniques that will include blending colors and working from the background to the foreground and will also engage you in the total process of painting with this incredibly versatile medium. Participants will complete a painting during this 3-hour segment.
Part Two: Cloudscapes: Painting the Drama and Beauty of Clouds
In art, a cloudscape is the depiction of a view of clouds. This workshop will explore cloudscapes with the inclusion of the landscape to suggest scale, orientation, weather conditions and distance. Fine tune your powers of observation in this very focused and exploratory workshop. Instructor Kathy Beekman receives rave reviews from her students. She creates a comfortable learning environment where class participants excel in the world of soft pastel. Participants do not need prior pastel experience and will complete a painting during this 3-hour segment.
Summer Storm II
Techniques:
• Overview of materials to be used
• Finger painting
• Blending
• Layering
• Basic Design Principles
• Exploring different papers (canvases)
• Paper tooth
• Discovering how to use different kinds of soft pastels
• Using different hand positions
• Learning to create different strokes
• Creating compositions to direct the eye
• Applying fixative to soft pastel paintings
• How to care for soft pastel paintings
• Overview of materials to be used
• Finger painting
• Blending
• Layering
• Basic Design Principles
• Exploring different papers (canvases)
• Paper tooth
• Discovering how to use different kinds of soft pastels
• Using different hand positions
• Learning to create different strokes
• Creating compositions to direct the eye
• Applying fixative to soft pastel paintings
• How to care for soft pastel paintings
Student Supply List:
1 – Basic 12-color box of Soft Pastels (NOT oil pastels!) A box with a larger pastel
stick count is always acceptable.
(Recommended pastel brands: Sennelier or Terry Ludwig Pastels)
2 – (or more) sheets of paper.
Recommended paper brands: Rising Stonehenge in any Color (instructor’s personal favorite) Arches and Somerset.
Photos or book images of landscapes and landscapes with clouds as painting reference material
1 – Can of a pastel final fixative
1 – Container of Wet Ones or Baby Wipes for easy cleaning of your hands
1 - Smock or large shirt to protect your clothing
Optional (but recommended):
1 – Dust Mask which will provide adequate protection against dry pigments and most
dusts
1 – Disposable Latex Gloves for protecting your hands from pastels
Newspaper, glassine, or kraft paper to protect your paintings during transport
The following are good resources for artist materials:
Provided by Instructor:
If you choose to do so, sheets of black colored Rising Stonehenge paper will be available for purchase from the instructor at a cost of $5.00 per 22 x 30 sheet.
>> download supply list
1 – Basic 12-color box of Soft Pastels (NOT oil pastels!) A box with a larger pastel
stick count is always acceptable.
(Recommended pastel brands: Sennelier or Terry Ludwig Pastels)
2 – (or more) sheets of paper.
Recommended paper brands: Rising Stonehenge in any Color (instructor’s personal favorite) Arches and Somerset.
Photos or book images of landscapes and landscapes with clouds as painting reference material
1 – Can of a pastel final fixative
1 – Container of Wet Ones or Baby Wipes for easy cleaning of your hands
1 - Smock or large shirt to protect your clothing
Optional (but recommended):
1 – Dust Mask which will provide adequate protection against dry pigments and most
dusts
1 – Disposable Latex Gloves for protecting your hands from pastels
Newspaper, glassine, or kraft paper to protect your paintings during transport
The following are good resources for artist materials:
- Online catalog at danielsmith.com Allow 5-10 days for regular delivery
- Meiningers located in Denver at 499 Broadway, 303-698-3838
- Terry Ludwig Pastels located in Littleton, CO, 303-795-1232 or on-line at www.terryludwig.com. Please tell Terry that your art instructor Kathy Beekman sent you.
Provided by Instructor:
If you choose to do so, sheets of black colored Rising Stonehenge paper will be available for purchase from the instructor at a cost of $5.00 per 22 x 30 sheet.
>> download supply list