Abstracting the Landscape Using Pastels
with David Shkolny
DESCRIPTION: Explore the potential of soft pastel as an experimental medium! Learn how to push the medium while practicing bold new ways of abstracting the landscape through compositional shape, color and balance, and expressive mark-making. Be inspired by contemporary work and create your own unique approach.
$50 for members, $60 for non-members
MORNING
Introduction Power Point Materials, working with soft pastel
1. Demonstration small study
2. Creating small studies to possibly enlarge in afternoon
EARLY AFTERNOON
Selecting colour palette for ground
Using isopropyl alcohol and brush on sanded paper
Mixing media
Critique
LATER AFTERNOON
Continued work on larger piece
MATERIALS:
Set of soft (chalk) pastels - Unison, Sennelier, Schmincke are good brands, Nupastels (harder pastels) can be bought singly (UPDATE: Nupastel is discontinuing single sticks so might be hard to find) in different hues. More colour selection the better!
Soft Vine Charcoal - about 1/4” diameter
Kneadable eraser
ruler (approx. 18”)
Box cutter
wide masking tape - (optional -can bring narrower one too for masking off areas on paper)
small sketchbook and pencil
Pastel Premier sanded paper (comes in different colours, Italian Clay is the best neutral) ! - 1 (or two) 20 x 26 inches sheets or package of 12 x 16 inch
Luxarchival is also a great paper especially for underpainting- only comes in white in a variety of sizes
Large drawing board to tape paper to - approx. 18 x 24 inches or larger
Basic colours in acrylic and variety of sizes of acrylic brushes and palette. Softer watercolour brushes are optional
