3-Day Workshop- October 8,9,&10, 2025 with Jill Stefani Wagner, "5-Step Approach to Pastel Painting"

Registration

• 3-Day Workshop with Jill Stefani Wagner "5-Step Approach to Pastel Painting" – $380.00
  In this workshop beginning and advanced students will explore ways to create unique, personal works of art. based on their own reference photos. Participants will learn how to find dynamic compositions with strong focal points and push color to enhance their vision. We will step away from the confinement of exact "copying" of reference materials and move toward our own interpretation of a scene.
  
  DAY ONE-will begin with a short demonstration using a tonal underpainting to create a halftone "structure" on which to build a pastel painting. We'll discuss how to crop into photos for various compositional options and how to loosely block in dark and medium areas that establish a value plan, before adding color.
  
  DAY TWO- will begin with another short demo using a colorful watercolor underpainting which features complimentary colors to create an impressionistic, "vibrating" effect. After creating several value sketches, emphasis will be on students painting loosely and using strong marks to strengthen their chosen composition.
  
  DAY THREE-Students will continue to improve heir painting skills on a new artwork, using one of the two underpainting techniques explained previously.