Mother and Daughter share an evening out. Mom has only taken a few art classes, while daughter has had many. Mom did quite well for her first time painting in pastel!
Beech Tree Rising from the Field
Beech Tree Rising from the Field
Integrating Composition and Color Theory
Prerequisites: Basic Drawing, Watercolor II
Dates: Sundays, April 29, May 6, 13, 20, 2012
Time: 1:15 – 4:45 pm
Level of Experience: none
Class Size Limit: 12
Fee: $120 ($110 NCBG members)
Color theory is the study of how colors relate to one another. This class will cover how to find a particular hue, the push and pull of warm and cool pigments, the zing of a saturated color and the importance of beautiful muted color, how values create depth, and the beauty of complementary colors.
Class Size Limit 12.
Contact: You may register in person at the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s Education Center OR call the Garden at 919-962-0522, weekdays 8 – 5, to verify space availability. You may also go online and register at ncbg.unc.edu/pages/26/#bot_ill. and then please fill out the registration form [PDF] and mail with your payment to:
Location: North Carolina Botanical Garden
attn: Education Department
University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 3375, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
Payment can be made by check, VISA, or MasterCard. Make checks payable to “NCBG” with “program registration” in the memo line.
Beginning Drawing
Mondays: May 7, 14, 21, 28, June 4, from 7:00-9:00 pm
5 weeks, 2 hour class per week
Prerequisites: None
Instructor: Patricia Savage
Class Size: 12
Cost: $185
Download Class Registration Form (PDF) | Download Class Registration Form (Word doc)
Haven’t drawn since grade school? Want to brush up on your drawing skills? This course is oriented towards the budding artist who has not practiced art in years or who has never taken an art class. In this class we will explore basic composition, how to do a contour drawing, how to draw an elegant line, and how to make the subject look three-dimensional.
Students will need to bring some supplies. Contact the instructor for more information.
Location: Waverly Artists Group
Waverly Place, 302 Colonades Way, Suite 209-D, Cary, NC 27518
Painting in Chalk Pastel
Mondays: June 11, 18, 25, July 2, and 9 from 7:00-9:30 pm
5 weeks, 2.5 hour class per week (Hours: 12.5)
Prerequisites: None
Class Size: 12
Cost: $185
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Chalk pastels are pure, vibrant, luscious pigment mixed in some chalk with a little bit of binder added. They are easy to apply and can be reworked any time and many times. They can be used on any surface that has some tooth. They can be applied very loosely or tightly with many different textural variations.
After blocking out the basic compositional shapes with thumbnail sketches, students learn how to apply thin, multiple layers of pigments, the relationships formed between warm and cool colors, and how to use color and values to create depth of field.
Students will need to bring some supplies. Contact the instructor for more information.
Location: Waverly Artists Group
Waverly Place, 302 Colonades Way, Suite 209-D, Cary, NC 27518
Painting in Pastels
Not quite finished paintings the GNSI-C students produced during a weekend workshop in October, 2011.
Discovering the Landscape in Pastels
Pictures from our very wet painting day at the 2011 GNSI Annual Conference in Olympia, Washington.
Me teaching at 2011 GNSI Annual Conference
Marjorie Leggitt taught her wonderful field sketching technique in the morning.
Painting the Landscape in Pastel
This uncompleted demonstration piece for a workshop in “Painting the Landscape in Pastel” for the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL was done on gatorboard with an underpainting of burnt umber mixed with Golden’s Fine Pumice Gel and applied with a 3″ paintbrush.
These four paintings were done by several of the students in the 2010 workshop. It was a cloudy, rainy day so we painted inside looking out onto the beautiful grounds of the arboretum.