PASTEL WORKSHOPS & CLASSES. Pastel Society of. america

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1 PASTEL WORKSHOPS & CLASSES PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA CELEBRATING OUR FORTY-SIXTH YEAR SEPTEMBER 2018 NOVEMBER 2019 The Pastel Society of America annonces 10 new workshops and five on-going classes by nationally acclaimed pastel artists. All instrction takes place in the historic National Arts Clb of New York with the exception of Destination Workshops. Pastel Society of america

2 The Pastel Society of America (PSA), established by Flora B. Giffni in 1972, is the oldest pastel society of its kind in America. Located in the Gramercy Park neighborhood of New York City, PSA s home is in the National Arts Clb (NAC), a glorios historic Victorian bilding, once the residence of New York s Governor Samel Tilden. PSA is largely responsible for the crrent renaissance of pastels in American art and for spporting and directly aiding the creation of other pastel societies in the United States. Thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Giffni, the Flora B. Giffni Gallery of American Pastels was established in 2004 at the Btler Institte of American Art in Yongstown, Ohio, the only msem gallery in the United States devoted exclsively to the pastel medim. In 1989, PSA opened the doors of the School for Pastels to stdents wishing to learn the versatile techniqes of the pastel medim. Hndreds of artists have learned the myriad methods of pastel painting and drawing since PSA s school opened. The Annal Exhibition: Endring Brilliance, in the Grand Gallery of the National Arts Clb, is the premier event for pastel artists in this contry and abroad. PSA encorages artistic advancement by making prestigios awards, both monetary and material, available dring this exhibition. Join the many teachers and stdents from all over the world who have frthered their edcation in the medim they love at the PSA School for Pastels. Additions Coming to the Edcational Program Here are some exciting annoncements for PSA special events and opportnities for artists: Workshop monitoring program Open stdio se exclsively for enrolled PSA School stdents Destination Workshops Please contact the PSA office in advance of the workshop date for yor spply list: psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org

3 THE PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA OFFERS WORKSHOPS The Pastel Society of America offers workshops instrcted by worldrenowned, award-winning professional artists. Or workshops are designed to encorage stdents to learn, experiment, leave their comfort zones, and tilize the wealth of inspiration fond in New York City, which is fll of creative resorces and possibilities. Artists at all levels are welcomed to join or pastel commnity to experiment, discover, hone skills, and share in artistic exchange and comradery. Intimate workshops are offered year-rond in varios genres, styles, and techniqes. Workshops are small, with a maximm of 12 to14 stdents, enabling instrctors to give plenty of one-on-one attention to each participant. PSA offers stdio workshops at the National Arts Clb, New York City en plein air, as well as drawing from professional models emphasizing the basics of drawing, composition, and color theory. PSA provides yo with an opportnity to take yor art to the next level. We are also seeking a monitor for each workshop. Workshop monitors receive 50 percent off tition.** A monitor is a responsible person who assists the instrctor and other stdents with set p and break down. The monitor will act as class facilitator and keep the stdio clean and orderly. If yo are interested in applying for this position, please contact the office manager by (psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org) or in person when yo register. **Discont is applied only to the workshop the monitor has worked. THE PROSAIC LANDSCAPE MADE POETIC with Richard McKinley PSA-MP, HFH September 24-26, 2018 (stdio) Richard will show stdents how to take something mndane and make it sblime by orchestrating the elements of design. He notes that it is always fn when an observer looks at his reference material, whether he is painting on location or in the stdio, and comments abot how boring it appears bt how the painting allows them to see it as beatifl. Varios techniqes of pastel maniplation will be demonstrated throghot the workshop to orchestrate the final otcome. mckinleystdio.com ON COLOR! UNITY & FORM with Casey Klahn PSA October 13-14, 2018 (Self-gided tor at the Metropolitan Msem of Art & stdio) This is not a how-to workshop. The emphasis of this two-day workshop, rather, is on yor own process and personal style, bt with informed and increased knowledge of that always ephemeral element: color, now with Casey s additional focs on Page 3

4 This one day workshop will help the stdent take the fear ot of his artistic process. Starting with yor own failed painting, yo will explore the world of opportnities opened p to yo when yo are not afraid to mess it p. Anna will explain how she was able to try new colors, or new expressive marks, or a whole new painting, by taking the remnants of an attempt to paint something else and letting her creative spirit take over. ajwainright.com PASTEL PORTRAITS FROM LIFE IN THE CLASSICAL REALIST TRADITION with Carol Peebles PSA October 27-28, 2018 (stdio with model) nity and form. Abstract exercises, as well as work from floral arrangements, and sing yor own painting style as a scaffold will help yo discover yor athentic and original voice with color. Gronded in both Classic and Modernist traditions, the point is to contine yor conversation with visal art and be present in the here and now. A self-gided tor of Modernist works at the Met will be ed to stdents before the class, which yo can go to view prior to the workshop. thecolorist.blogspot.com EMERGING FROM THE DUST OF FAILED PAINTINGS with Anna Wainright PSA-MP October 20, 2018 (stdio) The workshop will be abot developing a strong fondation in drawing, with exact likeness to the model, before layered pastel painting is applied. Carol will demo a grisaille with a fondation in traditional classical realist techniqes. The emphasis is on observational drawing from life, which can be applied to any medim, bt then Carol will contine with specifics on pastel painting. The first day will start with a short lectre before a demo ntil lnch. A critiqe will end the day. The second day will start right off with the model and end with a final critiqe. Please contact the PSA office in advance of the workshop date for yor spply list: psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org

5 PSA DESTINATION WORKSHOP IN THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY with Sally Strand PSA-MP, HFH Jly 21-27, 2019 The Pastel Society of America and Hdson River Valley Art Workshops are jointly offering a special destination workshop, with Sally Strand. This is a combination of Sally's signatre workshop, The Color of Light, along with her Paint-With-Me and Mentoring Workshop. Focsed on color and light, Sally discsses optical mixing of layered color and how to trly see and identify color, especially sbtle color. Join Sally to paint light and the Hdson River Valley, the birthplace of American Art. Reserve yor spot now! artworkshops.com. sallystrand.com ajwainright.com Model fee $50. Please note; the fee will be redced according to the nmber of additional stdents that enroll. CarolPeebles.com. BleEaselClb.com ARCHITECTURE IN THE LANDSCAPE with Liz Haywood-Sllivan PSA-MP Janary 18-20, 2019 (stdio) There is something fascinating abot the combination of the hard edges of architectre against the softer, amorphic shapes of natre. This workshop will explore how to place architectre in a natral setting, draping tree shadows over a bilding, and how to se cropping and composition to create interesting paintings that inclde both natre and bildings. Perspective will be addressed bt is not the focs of this workshop. lizhaywoodsllivan.com SMALL BUT MIGHTY: THE POWER OF THE COLOR STUDY IN PASTEL LANDSCAPE PAINTING with Jacob Agiar PSA March 29-31, 2019 (stdio) Jacob will gide yo throgh his process of creating pastel landscape paintings in the stdio, all the while maintaining a loose, fresh look. The focs is on the fondations of sccessfl representational art, inclding composition, vales, color, and drawing. The grop will concentrate on creating several Page 5

6 basic tenets of creating strong works throgh composition, vale, movement, color, textre, chiaroscro (light/shadow), and focs/center of interest/ lost/fond edges. Define the message by concentrating on the feeling one wants to portray. Materials inclde a variety of pastels and papers to be given ot. Demos and handots. Positive critiqe on the last afternoon. Individal attention. sandrabrshell.com small color stdies that will inform and enhance ftre paintings. These stdies allow one to find a painting palette, as well as to develop a niqe mark-making vocablary. Each day incldes at least one demo, followed by ample time for stdents to paint at their easels with assistance from Jacob. If yo are interested in learning in a spportive bt challenging environment, this is the workshop for yo! jacobagiar.com WINDOWS TO ABSTRACTION with Marcia Holmes PSA-MP April 13 & 14, 2019 (stdio) ATMOSPHERIC INTERIORS IN PASTEL with Sandra Brshell PSA-MP April 5-7, 2019 (stdio) Captre the light of interiors while drawing from setp interiors. Techniqes inclde qick tonal vale sketching, toning of pastel paper, and se of complementary colors for color vibration. Discss the Discover a new direction for yor art! Marcia will introdce yo to mltiple approaches to creating abstract pastels starting from both nonobjective and representational sorces. She will demonstrate her mltimedia nderpainting techniqes, which is how she maintains looseness. Give yorself permission to play, break the rles, take some risks, see abstractly, and create expressive, intitive art! Marcia will help yo (with plenty of individal attention) transform yor representational photo inspiration from a three-vale stdy app fondation to yor own abstract expressive or impressionist pastel. Mltimedia ink, goache, watercolor and thinned oil paint will be sed as nderpainting, finishing with pastel. marciaholmes.com Please contact the PSA office in advance of the workshop date for yor spply list: psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org

7 PUSHING THE CREATIVE LIMITS OF PASTEL with Richard McKinley PSA-MP, HFH September 23-25, 2019 (stdio) As a fine art medim, pastel has few limitations. Throgh daily demonstrations, individal attention, and classroom discssions, Richard will show how varios techniqes can expand pastels potential for personal expression. Nmeros wet and dry procedres, as well as srface choices, will be applied to landscape/cityscape reference materials. Stdents are encoraged to work otside their comfort zone as they explore these creative possibilities. Richard has a wealth of information to share and is a dedicated instrctor. He is tireless in this prsit and his intensity, focs, and enthsiasm are legendary. mckinleystdio.com GOOD VIBRATION: EXPANDING YOUR COLOR EXPRESSION with Gigi Horr Liverant PSA-MP, October 19, 2019 (stdio) Learn simple practices to nleash vibrant color in this one-day workshop. Pastels are a medim that begs to be played with and Gigi will demonstrate how to energize yor color expression. The day will inclde demos, hands-on applications, and implementation of skills to feel more confident sing color. Qick stdies will help yo discover a more compelling visal statement. The workshop is geared toward the individal artist s ability and goals. gigiliverant.com PANPASTELS: THE PASTELIST S SECRET WEAPON with Karen Israel PSA-MP October 20, 2019 (stdio) Looking for a way to loosen p and soften edges on yor pastel painting? Join the fn in this one-day workshop to learn how PanPastels can be sed in conjnction with traditional pastel to create softer edges and a more painterly approach. Professional artist/edcator Karen Israel will demonstrate the array of techniqes that can be achieved with this exciting medim. Stdents will learn how to create an nderpainting or an entire painting with PanPastel sing their own photo references. Stdents will also learn how to mix colors to establish vale and temperatre relationships sing sponges and applicators. All levels are welcome. PanPastel palettes, sponges, and applicators will be provided for se dring the workshop. artbykarenisrael.com Page 7

8 FINDING THE SOUL OF THE LANDSCAPE with Lyn Asselta PSA-MP October 25-27, 2019 (stdio) CAPTURED, REFERENCES RE-IMAGINED with Bethany Fields PSA November 8-10, 2019 (stdio) Let s face it, as artists, sometimes we jst plein can t paint! Falling back on photo references is sometimes a necessity when weather, location, or physical limitations get in the way of or idyllic plein air dreams. So how do we create evocative, glorios paintings when or photographs lack lster, depth, and emotion? In this three-day workshop, stdents The relationship between natre and the artist is as old as time. Viewing natre as the inspiration for novelists, poets, composers, and painters, we will explore the why s of painting an expressive landscape and will work with ways to delve deeper into the sol of or landscape paintings. When we know why we paint and how or own sol connects to the process, we are able to create more intitive, emotional paintings, and the qestions of composition, format, and color become easier to answer. Join Lyn, and help each other discover a more meaningfl and personal approach to painting the Landscape. lynasselta.com will learn to take their boring photos and create new compositions that pop with light, color, and feeling. We will layer, crop, and combine references to create new sorce imagery. Pastel techniqes will focs on experimental nderpainting, embroidering or paintings with color, and methods to bring light into or landscapes. Bethany will demonstrate daily, along with giving plenty of personal attention at each easel and ample time to paint. bethanyfields.com bethanyfieldsblog.com 1. For all workshops, fll payment is reqired at the time of registration to reserve yor place. This is the only method to reserve a place in a workshop. If a workshop is fll, there will be a wait list with admission based on first come, first served. 2.If yo cancel yor workshop 35 days prior to the workshop, we will refnd the fll workshop fee 3.If yo cancel yor reservation 34 days or fewer prior to the workshop, there is no refnd nless we are able to fill the slot from a wait list. If this happens, yor fee will be retrned mins a $50 handling charge. 4. Cancellation notice to PSA is by , fax, or phone dring work hors only. PSA starts conting from PSA s receipt of the notice of cancellation dring office hors. Office hors are posted on the website and on the office voice mail. 5. There are no exceptions to this policy. PSA Workshop School Payment & Refnd Policy Please contact the PSA office in advance of the workshop date for yor spply list: psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org

9 Register Now for Workshops! FEES for workshops: one-day workshops $125; two-day workshops $275; three-day workshops $475. FALL 2018 WINTER/SPRING 2019 FALL 2019 Sept The Prosaic Landscape Made Poetic Richard McKinley PSA-MP, HFH April Windows to Abstraction Marcia Holmes PSA-MP Oct Oct 20 On Color! Unity & Form Casey Klahn PSA Emerging from the Dst of Failed Paintings Anna Wainright PSA-MP Jly PSA Destination Workshop in the Hdson River Valley Sally Strand PSA-MP, HFH Sept Pshing the Creative Limits of Pastel Richard McKinley PSA-MP, HFH Oct Pastel Portraits from Life in the Classical Realist Tradition Carol Pebbles PSA Oct. 19 Good Vibration Expanding Yor Color Expression Gigi Horr-Liverant PSA-MPH Jan Mar Architectre in the Landscape Liz Haywood-Sllivan PSA-MP Small bt Mighty: The Power of the Color Stdy in Pastel Landscape Painting Jacob Agiar PSA Oct. 20 Oct Panpastels: The Pastelist s Secret Weapon Karen Israel PSA-MP Finding the Sol of the Landscape Lyn Asselta PSA-MP April 5-7 Atmospheric Interiors in Pastel Sandra Brshell PSA-MP Nov Captred, References Re-imagined Bethany Fields PSA PASTEL WORKSHOPS Registration Form (Please Print) Name Address City State Zip Telephone (Day) (Eve) Date of workshops yo wish to attend: Amont enclosed (To register, a check for the fll amont of each workshop mst accompany this form.) Please make checks payable to: PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 15 Gramercy Park Soth, New York, NY PSA now accepts credit cards. Please call the office for details.

10 THE PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA OFFERS CLASSES Pastel Society of America offers on-going, yearrond classes in landscape, still life, and portraitre and figre at the PSA School for Pastels in or stdio at the National Arts Clb (NAC) in New York City. Classes are small a maximm of 12 stdents enabling instrctors to develop a oneon-one rapport with each participant. The hands-on classes are taght by professional artists and personalized for each stdent wherever they are in their artistic practice. The crriclm of each class emphasizes the basics of drawing, composition, and color theory and an open aesthetic exchange among stdents. Stdents have the opportnity to exhibit their selected work annally in the Trask Gallery at the NAC. A professional artist serves as awards jror. Scholarships are given as an honor of achievement. PSA School offers stdents enrolled in a sixweek session the option of sing the stdio dring office hors, when the stdio is otherwise nreserved. The price for a six-week session, which mst be completed in eight weeks, will be $160. Single classes are $40. Pastel Society of america

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12 PASTEL CLASSES Diana DeSantis PSA-MP PORTRAITURE, LANDSCAPE, STILL LIFE Wednesdays, 9 am to 12 pm Captre the inner thoghts of a person, an exciting shard of light on an early morning landscape, or the sparkle of a focal point in a still life. Diana DeSantis, an international award winning pastelist and oil painter will teach landscape, still life, and portraitre in rotating segments of six classes each, sing a sanded srface to attain a beatifl, lminos painting. All levels welcomed. dianapastel@gmail.com Janet A. Cook PSA INTRODUCTION TO PASTEL STILL LIFE AND LANDSCAPE Tesdays, 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm Master the medim of pastel. This class will introdce yo to the essential information needed to draw and paint still life and landscape sing pastels. Demonstrations and individal instrction will be given. Topics covered inclde fndamentals of pastel, drawing, nderpainting, light and shadow, composition, color theory, and basic perspective. Janet Cook is an award-winning pastel and oil painter who reglarly exhibits her paintings in New York City galleries and msems. janetacook.com Please Please contact contact the PSA the PSA office office in advance in advance of the of workshop the workshop date date for yor for yor spply spply list: list: psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org

13 Wennie Hang PSA FLOWERS, FACES AND FABRICS Wednesdays, 1 pm to 4 pm Explore a variety of approaches in pastel with emphasis on strctre, stroke and pressre in limited palettes applied in layers to create delicate, lminos and nanced compositions. Wennie Hang, an award-winning artist who has taght pastel in New York City for over ten years, will provide weekly demonstrations and individal gidance as the focs for each six-week segment shifts from floral stdies, to faces and portraitre from a live model, to fabric and drapery arrangements, revealing the effects of light and shadow on varied srfaces. wenniehang.com Page 13

14 PASTEL CLASSES Maceo Mitchell PSA-MP COLOR & COMPOSITION Thrsdays, 1 pm-4 pm In this class, the award-winning instrctor will cover the basics: how to se color to achieve harmonios effects and the se of the color wheel. There will be an emphasis on organizing the elements that make for a good composition. Along with improving their drawing, the stdents will be encoraged to se their imaginations to develop their own style. maceoartsl.com Simon Levenson INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING FOR PASTEL Thrsdays, 6 pm-9 pm Stdents will improve their skills in the fondation techniqes that nderlie all representational drawing. Starting with monochrome (single color) drawings, stdents will focs on proportion, vale, and composition. Color theory with then be introdced in a clear and nderstandable way to improve on their single color drawings. Finally, stdents will focs on different techniqes specific to pastel, inclding rendering different materials with this very special medim. simonlevenson.com Please contact the PSA office in advance of the workshop date for yor spply list: psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org

15 Register Now for Classes! FEES: Six-week session $160; single class $40. Intimate classes with one-on-one instrction. Classes ongoing year rond. Day Time Genre Instrctor Tesdays 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm Intro to Pastel Still Life & Landscape Janet A. Cook PSA Wednesdays 9:00 am to 12:00 pm Portraitre, Landscape, Still Life Diana De Santis PSA-MP, HFH Wednesdays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Flowers, Faces and Fabrics Wennie Hang PSA Thrsdays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm Color & Composition Maceo Mitchell PSA-MP Thrsdays 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm Introdction to Drawing for Pastel Simon Levenson PAStEL CLASSES ONGOING YEAR ROUND Registration Form (Please Print) Name Address City State Zip Telephone (Day) (Eve) Classes yo wish to attend: Amont enclosed (To register, a check for the fll amont of each class mst accompany this form.) Please make checks payable to: PASTEL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 15 Gramercy Park Soth, New York, NY PSA now accepts MasterCard, Visa, Discover Card, and PayPal in payment for yor des and for a class or workshop. Please call the office for details. Pastel Society of america Page 15

16 WRITTEN CRITIQUE SERVICES The Pastel Society of America s expanded critiqe services better serves the needs of member and non-member artists. We have for PSA-Master Pastelists with expertise in different genres, one of which may be particlarly relevant to the artist, available to conslt. Critiqe Services is now open to nonmembers as well as members $65 for non-members, $50 for members. Artists will receive a 350 word or more evalation of their paintings, focsing on drawing, color, vale, techniqe, and composition, all aimed at expanding artistic options and prodcing paintings of high competitive qality. Artists interested in this service may send a CD or flash-drive with three infocs jpg images to the PSA office. Each image shold be photographed or scanned withot frames or matting as a 72 dpi, 1200 pixels or more on the longest side file. Inclde, if yo can, no more than three additional images of sorce materials, sch as a photo references or drawings that relate to the sbmitted art work. For additional information please visit the website at or s at psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org or contact the PSA office at (212) Elaine Agstine PSA-MP, is nationally known for her vitality of color, strength of composition, and versatility of sbject matter. She paints award-winning colorfl landscape, vibrant still life, and energized abstract paintings. elaineagstine.com Robert Carsten PSA MP, is an award winning workshop instrctor, exhibition jror, and contribting athor to The Pastel Jornal and The Artist s Magazine. Trained at the Rhode Island School of Design, Robert is a master of a broad range of creative techniqes and sbjects. robertcarsten.com Front cover, Windowsill by the Sea by Sally Strand Nancie King Mertz PSA MP, received a BFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana. Her plein air pastels earned her a 2015 cover of The Pastel Jornal and a growing national reptation for rban scenes, interiors with figres, and scenic landscapes. nanciekingmertz.com Pastel Society of america Daggi Wallace PSA MP, specializes in contemporary portraits and realism. A native of Berlin, she now lives in Los Angeles. Her pastels create a narrative sing strong composition and lighting to provoke emotions and social consciosness. daggistdio.com Please contact the PSA office in advance of the workshop date for yor spply list: psaoffice@pastelsocietyofamerica.org