Painting the Seasons (Aug 7)

Learn to paint leaves, flowers and snow while learning about our natural environment.  This workshop is an opportunity to sink deep into painting things like spring blossoms, soft summer skies, crisp fall foliage and a quiet snowfall.

With many demonstrations, experimentation, and plenty of individual instruction, you will learn Kathy’s fingerpainting techniques for achieving dramatic seasonal landscape paintings. This is not your average art workshop.  It is a tactile sensory experience full of support, encouragement, and loads of experimentation.

Goals:

• Learning to fingerpaint with soft pastel through layering and blending techniques

• Experimenting with different color palettes

• Creating compositions that direct the eye

• Becoming confident with the subject at hand as well as this medium

• Understanding the difference between papers and pastel brands

• Discovering how to use photos as reference materials

Student Supply List:

• Basic 12-color box of Soft Pastels (NOT oil pastels!)  A box with a larger pastel stick count is welcome.  (Recommended pastel brands:  Diane Townsend or Terry Ludwig Pastels) 

• 2 – (or more) sheets of paper (Recommended paper brand:  Rising Stonehenge in any color) (sheets of black Rising Stonehenge will be available for purchase from your teacher) 

• Your own photographs of landscapes 

• Can of a pastel final fixative (not a workable fixative)

• Container of Wet Ones or Baby Wipes to easily clean your hands

Optional:

• Dust Mask which will provide adequate protection against dry pigments and most dusts

• Disposable Latex Gloves for protecting your hands from pastels

• Newspaper, glassine, or kraft paper to protect your paintings during transport

• 2 sheets of 22 x 30 cardboard taped together on one side (so that you can transport your paintings safely

The following are good resources for artist materials:

• Online catalog at dickblick.com. Allow 5-10 days for regular delivery

• Meininger’s 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 the folks at Terry Ludwig 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 $10.00 per 22” x 30” sheet.

Class Size:

• Min # of students: 5

• Max # of students: 20