Class Dates and Scheduled Lessons, 2019
All Class days require an 18hr advance RSVP, with my subsequent verification.
(Text: 707-235-7708, Email: [email protected])
(Regularly scheduled classes - $45/class; $65 if you will use my supplies. Periodic Plein Air days - $35/class. Please help me to plan the class, and RSVP at least 24hrs prior to attending. Contact me on my ‘contact’ page. Thank you. Images posted here are not necessarily the ones we will use for the class.)
Check regularly for class updates
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On Hiatus for the remainder of July. Classes resume again in August (1st & 3rd Tuesdays; 2nd & 4th Friday). If you will be painting at home in July, and would like feedback and instruction, consider taking advantage of my Online Coaching. Hit the back button or close this page to return to my Workshop/classes page, and scroll down to find more info on Online Coaching.
Text (707-235-7708) or visit my website’s “Contact” page, to give me your name and email address if you would like to receive Online Coaching, or to be added to my class newsletter list, where you will receive updates on Pastel Tapas classes.
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Tuesday, July 2nd, 1:30-4:30
One of a Kind Gallery Or en plein air
115 E. Railroad Ave, Port Angeles
Let’s plein air paint today! We will meet at Jardin du Soleil in Sequim (3932 Sequim Dungeness Way) and hopefully catch the last burst of red from their gorgeous poppies that are mingled in with the lavender. They have other wonderful structural elements, like a quaint cottage, white lattice potting shed, rusty bike and potted plants. You will find a great composition from any angle. I will demo how to start with a contrasting underpainting, and then layer colors, pushing and pulling the colors in and out, giving you a lush, painterly look.
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Friday, June 28th, 1-4pm
342 Guiles Rd., Sequim
The Lavender Festival is just around the corner. Let’s paint lavender today! I will talk about how to achieve interest and depth in your lavender through a complementary under-painting. We will also study the growth habit of the plant and how to paint the lavender rows, with effective perspective and gradation of purple, giving a sense depth. An added bonus: Let’s introduce some vibrant red poppies to our scene!
If you were at last Tuesday’s class, no problem, you can choose from another reference photo, and continue to practice the same skills you learned then.
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Tuesday, June 18th, 1:30-4:30
One of a Kind Gallery
115 E. Railroad Ave, Port Angeles
The Lavender Festival is just around the corner. Let’s paint lavender today! I will talk about how to achieve interest and depth in your lavender through a complementary under-painting. We will also study the growth habit of the plant and how to paint the lavender rows, with effective perspective and gradation of purple, giving a sense depth.
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Friday, June 14th, 1-4pm
342 Guiles Rd, Sequim
Weather permitting, we will plein plein air paint today, on the property of Keith and Kryztyna Ross. There are many lovely scenes to choose from. I will begin the class talking about the benefits of plein plein air painting, and will give you some hints on how to increase your success outdoors. I will be following the weather, if it looks like we will need to be indoors, I will post an alternate image.
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Tuesday, June 4th, 1:30-4:30
One of a Kind Gallery
115 E. Railroad Ave, Port Angeles
Today we will pick up where we left off on our last Tuesday class, and complete the landscape of flowering, spring trees. If you were not at last week’s class, you may still join us and work on your own composition or try some spring trees, too.
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Friday, May 31st, 10am-1pm
Not the typical Pastel Tapas class, but a more informal gathering. I will be available to give feedback and assist you at your easel ($25) but you will have a lot of freedom to do your own thing. You may come and join us at no charge if you do not need feedback and instruction.
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Friday, May 24th, 1-4pm
342 Guiles Rd, Sequim
Weather permitting, we will plein air paint today, on the property of Keith and Kryztyna Ross. There are many lovely scenes to choose from. I will be following the weather, if it looks like we will need to be indoors, I will post an alternate image
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Tuesday, May 21, 1:30-4:30
One of a Kind Gallery
115 E. Railroad Ave., Port Angeles
A new day and new location for Pastel Tapas. Join us today to paint spring trees. We will focus on flowering trees today - cherry, ornamental plum and dogwood. Learn to achieve depth while using the light and bright colors of these blossoms. You will become acquainted with their unique shapes and growing habits, and of course, be introduced to, or gain more practice on sky-holes. Intermediate and advanced pastelists may join us and work on the image we will be using, or bring your own and get feedback and help while you work.
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This class rescheduled for 5/24
Friday, May 10th, 1-4pm
342 Guiles Rd, Sequim
Weather permitting, we will plein air paint today, on the property of Keith and Kryztyna Ross. There are many lovely scenes to choose from. I will be following the weather, if it looks like we will need to be indoors, I will post an alternate image
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This class rescheduled for 5/21
Tuesday, May 7th, 1:30-4:30
One of a Kind Gallery
115 E. Railroad Ave., Port Angeles
A new day and new location for Pastel Tapas. Join us today to paint spring trees. We will focus on flowering trees today - cherry, ornamental plum and dogwood. Learn to achieve depth while using the light and bright colors of these blossoms. You will become acquainted with their unique shapes and growing habits, and of course, be introduced to, or gain more practice on sky-holes. Intermediate and advanced pastelists may join us and work on the image we will be using, or bring your own and get feedback and help while you work.
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Friday, May 3rd, 1-4PM
342 Guiles Rd., Sequim
Canceled due to Irrigation Festival Activities
Weather permitting, we will do a plein air today on the property. There are some wonderful spring flowers blooming that would be so nice to capture in pastel before they are gone. If the weather is not conducive, we will paint the yellow composition below.
If we cannot plein air today, we will focus today’s class is the color yellow with the following landscape. Reinforcing the skills from last week, we will continue to work on layering and grasses, as we build a composition with wonderful depth and interest. I will show you how to achieve believable shadows and highlights with this color that can sometimes be tricky. You will learn how to keep your yellows sunny and lively. Continued practice on trees and sky-holes is on the plate today.
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Friday, April 26th, 1-4PM
342 Guiles Rd., Sequim
As we continue on, in the spring theme, we will learn to paint a field of flowers, focusing on the color red! I will show you how to paint highlights on red that will make your subject pop! Another skill level we will cover, is learning to choose appropriate colors, and the drawing and details that will work well in the distance, giving the allusion of depth. There will be opportunity to practice those pesky sky-holes, too. Class begins with a very specific practice on the mark-making and techniques necessary for this composition.
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Friday, April 19th
No Class
Have a blessed and joyful Easter!
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Friday, April 5th, 1-4PM
342 Guiles Rd., Sequim
We will start the month of April beginning a focus on spring! Adding more vibrant color to our landscapes, I will show you techniques to make painterly marks in your grasses and fields, that suggest spring flowers. As the grasses are growing, everything is green. Today we will discuss how to paint a green landscape, without it becoming too monochromatic or garish. We will begin class with fun warm-up exercises that will support the specific techniques and mark-making we will learn today.
Matanzas Vineyard, Santa Rosa, CA. Dungeness Bay
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Friday, March 29th, 1-4PM
342 Guiles Rd., Sequim
Today’s lesson will begin with mark-making warm-up excerses. Then, you willl have more opportunity to practice cliffs and bluffs, as I review how to use planned and definitive marks to ‘carve’ the shapes out of the underpainting. We will also use this same technique to render very believable and realistic rocks and boulders. These skills and techniques will be used as we work on a local landscape.
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Deception Pass. Alpine Lake, CA
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Friday, March 22nd, 1-4PM (12-1PM, Beginner’s Pastel Introduction. Please RSVP)
342 Guiles Rd., Sequim
Following the beginner’s introduction, at 1PM will begin with a fun abstract warm-up. Then I will show you how to do cliffs and bluffs. We live in an area where there are some amazing cliffs near our bays, the strait and ocean. Learn how to lay down an underpainting and then how to use the pastels to ‘carve’ the sand and rock formations out of the shadows.
Salt Creek
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Friday, March 15th
Day and Location Change!
Friday, March 15th, 1-4PM
342 Guiles Rd., Sequim
This class will practice trees and bushes in mass, and reflections on water. We will begin the class by reinforcing some of the basics in pastel mark-making with some fun exercises, and then move to doing a pastel landscape. Each step of the composition will be demonstrated as you follow along.
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Tuesday, March 5th
(1-4PM, Shipley Center)
In this class we will continue to practice some of our mark-making on grasses, and poplar and other autumn trees. I will demonstrate each step as we go. The class will begin with a quick intro for any beginning students, and then some warm-up exercises geared for the beginner and ‘not-so-beginner.’ We will move to painting a landscape from the underpainting, all the way through the final touches. Techniques and skills specific to this particular landscape will be taught.
“Snowberry Drift” Pastel on Sanded Paper
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Tuesday, Feb. 26th Imagine Snow
(1-4PM, Shipley Center)
We made a change to the projected lesson, and chose to paint a non-snow scene. I covered some of the basics in mark-making, and then we painted a fall scene taken from Dungeness Wildlife Refuge. We discussed some basics in color theory, and I gave examples on how to avoid making ‘mud.’ We covered bare winter trees, color gradation in a blue sky, perspective on drawing a path, showing distance with a pathway leading into the scene, using a fixative as a tool for adding texture, and making believable marks on grasses.