classes

MATERIALS LIST

This is a list of suggestions. Do not feel that you have to have everything on the list. At the first class we can discuss options and costs, and some materials will be available to purchase there.

Ideally you want a selection of hard- and soft-textured pastels, but no one brand makes both yet. Any of the below brands will work:

Great American Pastels, 39 or 78 southwest landscape set (soft) (My signature sets, please order one month in advance)

Design Nu-Pastels (hard texture)

Girault Soft Pastels (medium hard)

Schmincke Soft Pastels (very soft)

Unison Pastels (very soft)

I recommend one of my signature Great American sets and a Nu-Pastel or Girault set, to get you started, depending on what you want to spend.

No matter which sets you choose, be sure to include the following if possible:

One or two sticks of Nu-Pastel bottle green 298-P

One stick each of Unison Green 13 and A-43

One stick of either Schmincke or Great American white

You might also get a small plastic container with a tight fitting lid and fill it about half full with plain old cornmeal to carry the pastel sticks you are using to complete a painting. And once you become serious about pastels you might want to invest in a portable pastel palette box used to transport your entire collection from home to class or use on location.

Wallis sandpaper, 18" x 24" sheet (available in class)

*Portable easel, any kind (or turn a folding chair upside down on a table...)

Extra soft thin vine charcoal, a few sticks (available in class)

*Smooth drawing board, about 18"x24" or larger, plywood or Masonite

Masking tape

Paper towels

Baby wipes or moist towlettes

*Drop cloth such as an old sheet

Red viewing filter (from quilting stores)

*Bring to the first class

Book:

Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting by John Carlson

CLASS POLICIES

The cost is $200 for each 8-week class session.

If you sign up for 4 to 8 classes you’re enrolled in the class session, at a cost of $25.00 per class. If you sign up for 4 classes and later decide to attend additional classes within that session of 8, the cost remains $25.00 per class.

Enrollment is open from classes 1-5. After the fifth class you can no longer enroll in the current session but must pay by the class at a cost of $35.00 each.

No class payment will be credited to any later session and does not roll over to the following session.

Any classes missed due to illness or other unexpected causes will not be credited.

No payment refunds.

My policies are in place in order to keep the cost of the classes reasonable for everyone. However, no policy is ever final and I welcome discussion with my students on an individual basis. If hardship is keeping you from classes, please let me know. Grace is free.

Materials (see list below)

Wallis Sandpaper is also available at every class. The 18x24" professional grade sheet with small flaws costs $10.00. This sheet commonly makes two or more paintings and can be reused if not sprayed with fixative. (Price includes tax.)

*NOTE: These policies do not pertain to any classes held at Harwood Art Center.

CONTINUING PAINTING TECHNIQUES

IN ALL MEDIA

August 5- September 23, 2010

11:30-2:30 at Paradise Hills Methodist Church, Albuquerque

$200.00, contact me to reserve your space

I hope you’ll join me for the next session of classes beginning after the summer break. We’ll gather in August to get those fingers dirty or the brushes wet again. In this eight-week session I’ll challenge you to think about positive and negative shapes, how to use temperature to your advantage in any painting, as well as try an experiment in scale. We’ll warm up with some 20-stroke paintings, which have turned out to be a wonderfully freeing, do a little different take on memory painting, and examine the link between color and emotion. And just for fun we’re going to make a collage where each of us paints a small section of one surprise image in class!

Any Medium

Remember, you’re welcome to paint with any medium you like, as long as you don’t use any strong smelling solvents. I'll demonstrate in pastel or gouache, depending on the class.

Any Subject

I’m no longer teaching how to paint landscapes exclusively, so if you want to paint animals, still life, landscape, or portrait/figure paintings, you’re welcome. Exploring creative experiments and challenges stimulates inspiration, so I’ll be introducing new classes regularly.

Class Structure

Every week you’ll see a demonstration/lecture lasting approximately an hour. Following this you’ll work at your easel under my supervision. We have a lot of fun in this class learning how to use pastels and other painting media in a more creative way and encouraging one another as we paint. We have a friendly, relaxed critique of the work done in this course at the final class, suited to helping you see how to continue your studies.

Class Enrollment

Our class will be held at the Paradise Hills Methodist Church from 11:30-2:30 every Thursday. The cost of the eight-class session remains the same— $200.00 for 8 weeks. To enroll, please contact me, then send your $75.00 deposit. The balance is due at the first class

I enjoy teaching because my students teach me so much. My classes and occasional workshops are structured but relaxed, built around instruction and demonstrations in which I present 'the rules' so that my students will know when to keep them, bend them, or break them, not out of ignorance but from an understanding of how and when to apply them. I encourage individual growth and expression in each student, seeking to enhance strengths and fairly critique weaknesses with suggestions about how to build painting 'muscle'.

I've taught pastel painting to adult students since 1989, having received a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art in 1979. I studied for several years with Master Pastelist Albert Handell in what I personally consider to have been my 'advanced degree' work, and have shown my artwork in galleries and fairs for almost 30 years.

I'm one of the founders and first President of The Pastel Society of New Mexico and hold Signature Membership in the society. I also write for The Artist's Magazine, The Pastel Journal and other publications.

You can see my paintings featured in Pure Color: The Best of Pastel, and Painting with Pastels by Maggie Price, as well as in other books. You may see my pastel techniques in two online video workshops available through F+W Media. Most recently I have the pleasure of sharing my free book, Landscape Painting in Pastels online