Basics to Soft Pastel Painting Workshop

Basics to Soft Pastel Painting Workshop | Saturday June 1st, 2024 | One Day 3-Hour Workshop | 10:00am-1:00pm | for $90.00 + Tax 

Learn how to paint in Soft Pastel in this one day 3-hour workshop.

Build confidence by learning the basic techniques of soft pastel painting. These techniques can be applied to every pastel painter at any level.

This is a great opportunity to try out this medium with professional level guidance and materials provided.

What you will learn:

Lecture: Brief history, Materials, Soft Pastels and Surfaces

Demonstration: Landscape

• Compose (shape, value, edges, and color)
• Lay in (underpainting, broadside, strokes, and pan)
• Blending and layering
• Opaque or iridescent, adjust colors and fixative
• Subjects
• Advantages and Disadvantages

Hands-on Painting with individual help plus Q&A

Subject: A small still-life setting will be arranged in the center of the classroom, students are welcome to bring an object they want as their subject. Students are also welcome to bring a reference image to work from.

Levels: Beginner to experienced

Medium: Soft Pastels

Materials for this workshop will be provided for in class use. You are welcome to bring your own as well.

• Max Students: 10
• No Refunds after Tuesday May 28th
• Please park on Maclovia Street between Artisan and Autozone – Please DO NOT park directly behind our building

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Artist Statement:
Ms. Anita Louise West has had a passion for painting from an early age. She graduated with a BA in Art from Missouri University. Ms. West went on to study at the Kansas City Art Institute on scholarship and earned a teaching certificate at the graduate level at UMKC. Teaching in public schools in Kansas, California and Texas, she continued to study and paint using oil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel.

Landscape painting on location helped to simplify the subject matter and paint without hesitation, and study the changing conditions of weather and light outdoors.

Anita’s fluency in all mediums and subject matter helps facilitate her students’ growth.

Having been a professional painter and business owner since 1989, Anita moved to Santa Fe, NM in 1993 where she was introduced to the national art world. She painted and taught workshops throughout the United States as well as Spain, France and Canada.

Returning to her childhood dream of painting in New York in 2007, Anita studied at the Art Students League with Mary Beth Mackenzie, Daniel Greene, Nelson Shanks and Richard Schmid. This experience in the studio helped her appreciate figure and portrait work as well as Plein Air painting. Co-author of Painting the Landscape in Pastel, Ms. West is capable of explaining and simplifying the materials and methods of painting in all mediums. For more information, please visit: http://anitalouisewest.com

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