Art Workshops Summer 2012 – Pastels and Drawing
Ramon Kelley
Portait and Figure
Advanced
July 9-13, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$650 plus tax (incl. modeling fee)
While accomplished in many media and most genres, Ramon Kelley is best known for his exquisite pastel portraits and figure studies. Students in this workshop will have the opportunity to work on still life, nude and clothed figure studies, and portrait under Mr. Kelley’s direction. The class will consist of demonstrations and individual instruction. Topics addressed will include values, color temperature, looseness vs. detail, and layering in pastel without making mud. Although demos will be in pastel and oil, students are welcome to work in any medium. Students must have portrait and/or figure experience.
Ramon Kelley traces his interest in art back to his grade school days in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he often filled the margins of his textbooks with drawings. After a four-year stint in the U.S. Navy he won a scholarship to the Colorado Institute of Art. For the past 30 years he and his family have made their home in Denver, where Kelley has built an award-winning reputation in various media, including oil, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, and sculpture. In 1985 the Pastel society of America named Ramon a Master Pastelist, and in 1986 the P.S.A. elected him to the Pastel Hall of Fame. www.kelleyfamilyfineart.com.
Doug Dawson
Pastel
All Levels
July 23-27, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$595 plus tax (incl. modeling fee)
This workshop will be divided between landscape and character studies. Character study refers to the art of painting people with the emphasis is on capturing the mood or quality of light or design, without any concern for likeness. (These are not nudes.) A student may choose to stay with character study or landscape for the full week if they wish.
Each day begins with a demonstration illustrating different approaches to pastel painting. As he demonstrates, Doug provides continuous commentary, explaining his thoughts throughout the painting process. After the demonstration, students have time to try their hands at the skills illustrated while Doug goes from student to student giving individual instruction.
Doug Dawson is recognized as a Master Pastelist by the Pastel Society of America, and he was the P.S.A.’s 2008 inductee into their Hall of Fame. He has taught art for over 30 years, in the U.S. and abroad, and was one of the founders of the Art Students League of Denver. He is represented by Ventana Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Total Arts, Taos, NM; Corpus Christi Art Connection, Corpus Christi, TX; Telluride Gallery, Telluride, CO; and Lewis Art Gallery, Omaha, NE. He is the author of Capturing Light and Color With Pastel, published by North Light Books. www.dougdawsonartist.com
Roberta Remy
Portrait Painting and Drawing
All Levels
August 6-10, 9:30am-4:30pm
$595 plus tax (includes model fee)
Come explore the materials and techniques of the old masters as they apply to drawing or painting the portrait. The class will focus on chiaroscuro, the principles of light and shade; values; transparency and opacity; edges; cool and warm color relationships; controlling color intensity; paint and brush quality; and atmosphere, the illusion of form in space. Because the facial features are the essential focus of a portrait, the workshop begins with a clear explanation of the proportions of the head. We begin with the modeling of the eye socket and brow ridge. Next, the details of the eyes themselves are drawn or painted in, emphasizing the effects of light and shade. The nose is presented as a construction based on planes, each of which receives the light in a different way. Cast shadow, shadow, halftone, reflected light, and highlight all play a part in creating the illusion of a three-dimensional feature. Finally, the mouth is presented as a simple exercise of studying the effect of light as it spills over the plane of the lips.
There will be demonstrations as well as painting and drawing from models. Each student will receive plenty of personal attention, including discussions of goals for their future work. Students will be encouraged to develop and attain their artistic goals of personal expression.
Roberta Remy is an award-winning artist whose representational paintings and drawings of still life, portrait, and the figure can be found in private and corporate collections in the U.S., Brazil, and Europe. She attended the Art Students’ League of New York, of which she is a life member, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is a member of the Oil Painters of America and has been repeatedly invited to show in the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art’s Miniature Show. Roberta has had numerous one-woman shows in her galleries. She has taught still life and portrait painting and drawing for over 20 years in Santa Fe and across the country. She has been the subject of articles in Southwest Art and American Art Collector magazines. Remy’s work is also featured in International Artist’s book, How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Life and Florals. She is currently represented by Edward Dare Galleries, Charleston, SC; and The Sandpiper Gallery, Sullivan’s Island, SC. www.robertaremy.com.
Lorenzo Chavez
Plein Air Oil and Pastel
Intermediate to Advanced
August 27-31, 9:30 am-4:30 pm
$595 plus tax
Come learn to understand landscape painting from outdoor inspiration to finishing a painting in the studio. This workshop will cover the fundamentals of landscape painting in oil and pastel, including composition, values, masses, focal point, edges, line, drawing, and color. Pastels and oils are classic media that lend themselves naturally to outdoor studies and indoor studio work, and Chavez feels that working from life is the best way to develop your skills and gain the necessary knowledge to improve your landscape work. Weather permitting, the class will work outdoors 3 out of the 5 days, creating small pastel and or oil field studies. Lorenzo will demonstrate each day and will offer individual attention and critiques.
Born in New Mexico, Lorenzo Chavez now resides in Colorado with his family. He credits his art career to an inherited connection to the colorful and historic American Southwest, as well as early exposure to the work of the Taos Society of Artists. He graduated with honors from the Colorado Institute of Art. Chavez regularly participates in invitational group exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America in New York, Artists of America show in Denver, Society of American Impressionists and Plein Air Painters of America. He had a one-man show at the C.M. Russell Museum and has participated in several of C.M. Russell’s art auctions. Several feature articles have profiled Chavez in Southwest Art, Artists of the West, The Artist’s Magazine, Pastel Journal, and, most recently, American Artist, February, 2010.
Lorenzo is a respected teacher of plein air painting, offering workshops, demos and lectures across the country. Chavez is represented by Grapevine Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK; Betsy Swartz Fine Art, Bozeman, MT, Abend Gallery, Denver CO and Mockingbird Gallery, Bend, OR. www.lorenzochavez.com
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