New Workshop 
Dates: September 11 & 12
Times: 10am to 3pm
Tuition: Members: $200 - Non-members: $230
Create drama with deep values, and learn to see color as value to make breathtaking paintings with dramatic light and color. Work with the color wheel to understand complementary palettes, and a value chart to see color as value. Use techniques and rules of painting to create different textures in the landscape and further the illusion of depth. Participants should have a general knowledge of pastel (not beginners) and a set of 72 or more soft pastels (see materials list). Students will work from supplied references, and receive individual and group attention.
Day 1: Value
- 10am Introductions
- 10:30 Value scale 5 values
– comparing value scale to reference
– simplifying values
– creating a color study, sketching boards - 11:30 Questions
- Noon – lunch break
- 12:30 Painting the wave-step by step with me (demo and painting time)
- 1:30 break and check values
- 1:45 pump up the volume on the values & color then finish paintings
- 2:00 group critique
Day 2: Color (using reference photo)
- 10am Color wheel and intro to complementary palette
- 10:30 Value as color workshop
– simplifying colors into blocks
– demo of substituting color based on value - 11:30 Questions
- Noon lunch break
- 12:30 choose your reference and compare color chart
- 12:30-2:30 Individual painting time with help as needed
- 2:30 pump up the volume on the color demo
– finish paintings - 3:00 group critique