Art Workshops Summer 2008 – Pastels and Drawing
Lorenzo Chavez
Pastel Landscapes From Life
Intermediate to Advanced
June 16-20, 9:30am-4:30pm
$550 plus tax
This workshop will cover the
fundamentals of landscape painting in pastel, including composition, values,
masses, focal points, edges, drawing, and color. Pastel’s consistent colors 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 every day, creating small pastel field studies. Lorenzo
will demonstrate and will offer individual attention and critiques.
Born in New Mexico, Lorenzo Chavez now resides in Colorado with his family.
He graduated with honors from the Colorado Institute of Art, and continues to
find inspiration for his landscape paintings in the intoxicating wide-open spaces
of the American West. Lorenzo was honored with a successful one-man show at
the C.M. Russell Museum, and he participates in many national invitational
group exhibitions. His work is frequently featured in Southwest Art, Artists of
the West, The Artist’s Magazine, and Pastel Journal. Three new books include
his work: Pure Color: The Best of Pastel (North Light Books, 2006), Plein Air New
Mexico (Richeson, 2006), and Landscapes of Colorado (Fresco Art Publications,
2007). Lorenzo’s work is represented by six galleries in the U.S.
Ramon Kelley
Pastel and Oil Painting, Portrait and Figure
Advanced
July 7-11, 9:30am-4:30pm
$650 plus tax (includes model fee)
While accomplished in many media and most genres of subject matter, Ramon Kelley is best known for his exquisite pastel portraits and figure studies. Oil and pastel students will have the opportunity to work on still life, figure studies, and portraits under Kelley's direction. The class will consist of demonstrations and individual instruction. Topics to be addressed include value, color temperature, looseness vs. detail, and layering color in pastel without making mud.
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 25 years, he and his family have made their home in Denver, where Kelley has built an award-winning reputation in various media, including oil, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, pastel and sculpture. Ramon is a member of the National Academy of Western Art, Oil Painters of America, and The American Watercolor Society. In 1985, the Pastel Society of America named Kelley a Master Pastelist, and in 1986 the P.S.A. elected him to the Pastel Hall of Fame. His work is represented in public and private collections around the world.
Students must have portrait drawing or painting experience.
Roberta Remy
Drawing the Features of the Face
and the Portrait
All Levels
July 14-18, 9:30am-4:30pm
$575 plus tax (includes model fee)
This class will focus on how drawing differs from painting and specifying the language of drawing. Consideration will be given to materials and techniques. Each student will receive personal attention, including a discussion of individual goals for their future work in continuing to hone their skills and find their own voices.
Because the facial features are the essential focus of a portrait, the workshop begins with a demonstration of the drawing of the eyes, beginning with the modeling of the eye socket and brow ridge. Then the details of the eyes themselves are drawn in, with the emphasis on the effect of light and shade. The nose is is presented as a construction based on planes, each of which receives light in a different way. Cast shadow, shadow, halftone, reflected light, and highlight all play their 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 planes of the lips.
Roberta Remy is an award-winning artist whose representational paintings 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, The Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has taught still life and portrait painting for more than 15 years in Santa Fe and across the country. Remy was the subject of a 1999 article in Southwest Art entitled "In a New Light." Her work is also featured in International Artist's book How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Life and Florals. Remy is currently represented by the Edward Dare Gallery in Charleston, SC.
Doug Dawson
Pastel
All Levels
July 21-25, 9:30am-4:30pm
$575 plus tax (includes model fee)
Doug Dawson has been teaching art for more than 30 years. He has been an instructor at the Colorado Institute of Art since 1978, and was one of the founders of the Art Students League of Denver. He has taught art workshops in The U.S., Mexico, and Suriname.
This workshop will cover both landscape and character painting. A student may study either or both topics. Each day begins with a demonstration illustrating different approaches to pastel painting. Throughout the demonstration Doug provides a continuous monologue, explaining his thoughts during the painting process. After the demonstration, students are given time to try their hands at the skills illustrated. Dawson goes from student to student giving individual instruction.
Dawson, recognized as a Master Pastelist by the Pastel Society of America, is a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Pastel Society of the Southwest. He received the "Best of Show" award at the International Association of Pastel Societies' juried exhibition in 1997. Dawson has exhibited his work in several museum shows in the U.S. and abroad. He is represented by the Ventana Gallery, Santa Fe; Telluride Fine Art Gallery, Telluride, Colorado; and the Corpus Christi Art Connection, Corpus Christi, Texas. Dawson's work has been featured in American Artist, Pastel Journal, and Southwest Art. He is the author of Capturing Light and Color with Pastel, published by North Light Books.
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