Register: Pastels for Beginners and Intermediates with Susan Bosworth
Date/Time: Wednesdays, April 22 to May 13, 9:30 am – 12:30 pm (4 weeks).
Fee: $180| $170 for Glastonbury Arts members
Classes are open to all - Become a Glastonbury Arts member and take the member discount on every class taken as a membership benefit.
Class Summary: This class is for both new and intermediate pastel painters. For beginners, the focus will be on starting your journey into the wonderful medium of pastels. You will learn about the materials, including hard and soft pastels, the wide array of papers from low to highly sanded, and time permitting, we will make handmade boards. Also covered will be underpainting, safety, gridding techniques and framing. The importance of building a solid foundation in pastel or any medium cannot be overstated. At the end of this class, you will have mastered the key elements of creating a strong pastel painting and have learned enough about the necessary materials to take the next step forward in your journey. For those students who are already familiar with pastels, the focus will be on revisiting the process of planning your painting from start to finish, learning new techniques and completing a painting (or paintings) with as much help as you would like from the instructor. At each session the instructor will do a short painting demonstration using both still life and reference photos. At the end of each class there will be a critique of each student’s work.