Explore the rich and vibrant medium of pastel drawing/painting. Learn different application techniques like blending and cross-hatching to create still-life, figure, works from photography, works from master images, and optionally abstract subjects. Experiment with using pastels combined with other media like acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. Utilize color and design to express a vision and evoke experience.

Your subject matter can be whatever you wish it to be. During the course of our work, you and I will develop and approach that suits what you want to make. We will identify “growth edges” and develop and method to approach them.??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:
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