Learn how to use pastels to bring your beloved pet to life in a special painting. Create a piece of art for your home, or gift to a friend during the holidays,
Bev will tech techniques to create fur and other tips to help you capture your pet’s unique personality. Learn how value, composition and layering of color all contribute to making your painting a successful outcome.
Bring in a photograph of your pet or an animal you would like to paint. Headshots are easier then full body. The instructor will have extra photos to use, if you don’t have your own to work from. Let’s have fun and enjoy this vibrant colorful medium and how it works.
BENEFITS:
-In this class you will come away understanding values and composition painting techniques
-How to portray realistic hair on an animal
-Complete a finished painting to take home or share as a gift
-How to portray realistic hair on an animal
-Complete a finished painting to take home or share as a gift
FORMAT:
In-Person – Classroom
INSTRUCTION METHOD:
- Presentation
- Hands-On
AGES:
- Adults 18+
EXPERIENCE LEVEL:
- Novice
- Intermediate
PREREQUISITES:
You do need to know how to draw to take this workshop.
WHAT TO BRING:
Photograph of your pet.
REGISTRATION / RSVP REQUIRED?
Yes
FEE REQUIRED?
Yes
FEE AMOUNT:
$125 includes all materials
INSTRUCTOR NAME:
Beverly Carlson-Bradshaw
INSTRUCTOR BIO:
Beverly has been drawing from a young age while growing up in Montana on a farm. She then moved to Seattle, WA and had her own interior design firm for 20 plus years. She still works part-time in design but now has made her pastel paintings a priority. Bev is self-taught but has taken workshops from notable pastel artists in the past 4 years. Bev has won awards through Camelback juried shows. Her artwork is shown at The Finer Arts Gallery in Cave Creek, AZ
