2024
Classes and Workshops
To register For
in-person classes
Weekly CLASSES
Tuesdays- Power of Pastel
Starting again in January, 2024
9:30 – 12-30 pm
Learn everything you need to know about the pastel medium. All levels welcome.
Thursday nights- Open Figure Drawing with clothed model at the Greenville Center for Creaticve Arts
6- 8 pm. Every week. Join me Thursday nights! I’ll start off every evening with a “mini lesson” on the figure. All levels welcome for study. Just bring $10 for the model.
Workshops
The POWER of Pastel Workshop
I have been teaching this workshop now for over 10 years and it has affected so many pastelists. Learn how to control this medium through understanding “power”. No more “hard” or soft.” Trust me- it does not matter. In the workshops below I also teach my 5-layer technique to understand the pastel medium with each layer addressing a specific question to stay on track. Working with live models, the class will stress understanding light. The Law. The Rules.
You will never paint the same way again.
Workshops 2024
POWER OF PASTEL – ONLINE WORKSHOP
August 10-11th 9:30 – 4pm
Light and the model.
Register – [email protected]
$295 All levels welcome
Pittsburgh, PA
“Study with a Master” series
August- 23-25 9:30 – 4pm
Sweetwater Center for the Arts
Live models. learn about light and the structure of the head.
All levels welcome. Contact [email protected].
Greenville, South Carolina
September 14-15 9:30 – 4pm
Let me show you around my hometown while we study pastel!
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Connecticut
Connecticut Pastel Society
October 26-28 9:30 – 4pm
Study light and the model.
Contact – [email protected]
ONLINE WORKSHOP- Color and Composition
with Piedmont Pastel Society
October 24-25th 9:30 – 4pm
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Recordings of past online classes are available!
Classes for any level. These are recordings available from past live classes. Study the portrait over 2 days or learn about color or composition. All the information, but cheaper then the cost of a live class and the recordings are yours to watch forever.
Contact- [email protected]
“Christine, I bought the Power class and it has changed my life. I am doing my first portrait using you method and I love it! I am doing your Color class and then I am going to purchase your composition video. Thank you so much for making these available and for sharing you knowledge with us. -Sarah”
Composition
Composition is King. Learn how to take control of your painting. Masters used the “Pythagorean Theorem of Harmonic Divisions of the Rectangle” -and I can teach it to you. Sounds scary, but its not!
Recording- $100
Color
Learn all you ned to know about color. Go beyond “complimentary” colors and understand how to use color harmonies. Each attendee gets to send a painting in beforehand to “knock it into a color harmony” to see the before and after effects.
Recording – $100
Portrait Workshop
Learn my 5-layer technique and every thing you need to know about light. The Law. The rules. Ever wonder if you have problems with your paintings from working from photos? I can tell, now you will too. All levels.
Recording $195
Pastel LIVE
It was my honor to be part of PASTEl LIVE this past summer.
Here is the link to my demo and interview with Eric Rhodes on his daily Art School LIVE broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/live/cy5GGVEc6JQ?si=8IktRy7FL8_DXjms