Apr meeting

Monthly Meeting, Demonstration, and Workshop

MEMBERSHIP MEETING:

April 16, 2025 (Wednesday)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Demo: Theresa Deseve - Pastel

PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON A WAIT LIST, PLEASE CONTACT SARA MCELVEY, mckelveysara@yahoo.com

WORKSHOP:

April 22, 2025 (Tuesday), “BIG, BOLD, and BRAVE”, “Painting Prodigious Pastel Portraits”

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

Artist's Bio:

Teresa DeSeve is a nationally recognized pastel painter. Born in Beloit, Wisconsin in 1948, she moved to the Philadelphia area at age 15, and resides today in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Teresa attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and earned a BFA from Rosemont College. She is a Signature and Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America, a Signature and Crest Medal winner with the Philadelphia Watercolor Society, and a Signature member of the Philadelphia Pastel Society. Her work has been featured in the Pastel Journal magazine three times where she also won awards in the Pastel 100 Competition.

"I love to paint people. It's that simple. Every person is unique and unrepeatable. I try to find, as best I can, the spirit revealing and animating that person."

Workshop Information:

A little intimidated by working big?

Heart palpitations at the thought of doing a portrait?

Well, face both fears, and maybe surprise yourself too!

We will work from a live portrait model, using dark UART paper in size 24x36.

Preparatory studies and sketches done in the workshop will help us learn to

size the figure to the paper and loosen up.

There will be time for a 30 minute lunch, and a 30 minute critique at the close.

Supply List:

One sheet UART DARK 24x36, (available from Dakota Art Pastels online in 5 sheet purchases. I will have a limited number in class for $20/each)

Two 24x36 foam core boards

Spring Clips

Small set of NuPastel or Rembrandt

Your regular soft pastels

Paper Towel roll

Floor easel (not a table easel; can be a folding easel)

Plastic floor cloth

Folding side table

iPad or phone to photograph model

PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL! IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PLACED ON A WAIT LIST, PLEASE CONTACT SARA MCELVEY, mckelveysara@yahoo.com

PLEASE NOTE: The cost of workshops has been changed to $50.00 for members and $60.00 for non-members starting Oct 2024.

Workshop Registration

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