Drawing With Pastels

Adult Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

9/15/2022-11/17/2022

2:00 PM-5:00 PM EDT on Th

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$315.00

$285.00

$15.00

Explore the rich and vibrant medium of pastel drawing. Learn different application techniques like blending and cross-hatching to create still-life, landscape, and self-portrait drawings. Experiment with using pastels combined with other media like charcoal, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. Utilize color and design to express a vision and evoke experience.

The beginning of each class will include lecture and demonstration; and then you will work on your projects while we discuss your work. We will see new ways of understanding the work, and we will find solutions to issues in the work.

What you will learn in this course:
1. How/when to utilize pastel pencil, hard pastel, and soft pastel.
2. Color Theory: analogous color, complementary color, contrast, color harmony/cohesion
3. Application Techniques- blending, layering, cross-hatching
4. Linear and tonal modelling
5. Techniques for using pastels in combination with other media (gouache, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal)
6. Approaches to composition

  • This is an in-person class which will take place in our building with strict social distancing protocols and reduced student capacity. Please see our COVID-19 community safety policies.
  • • Sargent Art (or other brand) soft pastels- set of at least 12 colors
  • • Canson Mi-teintes Pastel Paper Pad- Assorted colors (12x 16 inch, 24 sheets)
  • • Accessories: Soft cloth for blending, spray fixative
  • • Paint: Gouache, watercolor or acrylic paint. One small (#2-4) and one medium (#14-16) paint brush
  • • Stick of vine or compressed charcoal
  • • Optional: Arches Cover Stock. 22x30” 250 gsm. White, Off White, Cream, Gray, and/or Black; Black
  • Pastel Sandpaper
  • • Optional: Hard pastels and pastel pencils are highly recommended but not required. It's possible to
  • purchase pencils individually for experimentation, rather than a full set, in addition to the soft pastel set
  • that is required.