Dive into the vibrant world of hard and soft pastels in this skill building class! Learn about the variety of papers to use and how to prepare your own sanded paper and boards. You'll discover techniques for layering and blending to create rich, dynamic effects, and use color more intentionally by minimizing black and white. Learn how fixatives help finish and protect your work.
Date: Wednesday, July 16th
Time: 10am - 4pm, lunch break - 12:30-1:30
Class Fee: $75, Pre-Registration Required
FREE CLASSES FOR VETERANS
All supplies included
Ages 13+
Visit www.saultartcenter.com/classes to sign up!
Materials provided will include
- Blank drawing paper
- Sanded paper for developing a finished piece
- Hard & soft pastels
- Blending sticks
- Sanding pads
- Erasers
- Gloves
- Fixative
- Photo reference of local & regional images will be available to work from in practicing your own skills at pastels to create a piece.
Tracing paper, pounce wheels & charcoal pads will also be available for personal image transfer if desired.
Steve is a local artist who loves the outdoors & nature and has been passionate about the arts since he started drawing small fish, snakes and frogs he caught growing up. Summers during and after high school he began painting houses in northern New Jersey to put himself through Parson’s School of Design. As an illustration student in the pre-digital/pre-cell phone age, he spent 20 hours a week figure drawing, along with learning classical skills in painting, printing making, photography, composition, perspective and layout. After graduating from college he applied his newly acquired skills to the preservation of historic finishes and decorative painting, including design of a new decorative finishes campaign for the Michigan Governors’ ceremonial office in The State Capitol. During his years in preservation Steve continued to take advantage of figure drawing sessions wherever he traveled for work, and worked with a variety of art media that fit his lifestyle.
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