T4 Paint with Pastels Int/Adv

Course Description

For those who love painting with pastels and want to extend their existing skills with this expressive medium. Working at an intermediate to advanced level, you will bring depth and complexity to your compositions as you continue to discover what is possible with pastels. Your Tutor: Fiona Buchanan: I am a visual artist and teacher I work in a variety of media and teach in several different media as well. I trained as a large scale scenic artist in Perth and worked for many years here and in Melbourne as a mural and large scale painter. I love Western Australia and often travel in the Southwest of WA, a totally beautiful part of the world to gather reference material for my work. I am inspired to paint the ocean because of the sense of belonging to the Earth that it inspires. I love to paint portraits and to try to represent the emotion of the moment. I work in both pastel and paint. I work in three main areas: Still life, portraiture and seascapes. Each of these areas is a challenge and I love them all. About the Course In this beginner/intermediate class we will be using using a mix of soft and hard pastels on a variety of different papers and surfaces. We will explore a number of techniques with pastel including underpainting to colour the paper with watercolour. The use of watercolour as an underpainting technique will be explored in depth. The contrast between simplicity and detail as a composition tool will be explored. Some images will be supplied, and the first week we will all work from the same image. Bring along your own images as well and you will be shown techniques to re-create the image using this beautiful expressive medium. What you need to bring MATERIALS PAPER Loose sheets - one or more of Colourfix sanded paper. These can be coloured papers of your choice. PASTELS A set of Mungyo 36 or 48 half sticks is a good start. Also if you have them a good range of colours in soft pastels (Art Spectrum or Rembrandt) white, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, purple, light blue, dark blue, green, light ultramarine (in a couple of shades), turquoise. OTHER Pastel pencils one dark and one white. (suggest Pitt 181 blue or 173 green or terracotta and a white) Willow Charcoal thick and thin (optional) 1 kneadable eraser (Faber Castell) Rag and baby wipes Masking tape or bulldog clips Material Fee: $6 for paper for first project.