Painting with Pastels - Jean Wolf

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Join Jean in honing your skills and recognizing your individual style in the growing, beautiful medium of soft pastels. This class will address basics like composition, mark making, the importance of edges, with a focus on sketching to identify simple shapes and values. As a recently retired graphic artist, Jean will also feature instruction of digital tools, including Procreate and Notan. This class is for all levels. Basic drawing skills recommended. Materials required Pastels: a collection of around 100-125 pastels, varying in levels from hard to soft, high saturation/chroma to neutrals, and a good range of values in each color (light to dark). Paper surfaces. We’ll be exploring various surfaces in the class. Bring your favorite to the first class. If you don’t have a favorite, I recommend UArt 500 grit as a good standard option. Sketchbook. Any size that’s comfortable for you. I use mine for sketching and note taking. Grayscale markers. I recommend 4-5 distinct values. Tombow is a good brand. Black Ink Pen. There are many out there. I use Pigma Micron in various sizes, 005-01. White Pen. I use a Gelly Roll for finer lines and a Faber-Castell Pit Artist Pen for thicker marks. Masking tape iPad (optional but encouraged if you have one) Contact Information Instagram: @jeanbateswolf Facebook: @jean.wolf.fine.art Website: jeanwolffineart.com Email: jeanwolfarts@gmail.com Based in Herndon, Virginia, Jean Wolf is an artist working in soft pastels, oils, and watercolors. With an eye toward Impressionism, Jean strives for paintings that evoke a sense of place, a precious moment captured in time. Jean studied art at Kent State University under a fine art scholarship and has furthered her studies through workshops with many notable artists in South Carolina, Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon, and Northern Virginia. After a lengthy career as a graphic designer, Jean is spending all her time and focus on fine art painting. She has exhibited in juried exhibitions at AiM Gallery, in Middleburg, VA; The Arts of Great Falls, in Great Falls, VA; Art at the Mill, in Clarke County, VA; and Art Space Herndon, in Herndon, VA. Class cancellation due to teacher illness, school closure, or inclement weather will be rescheduled for Feb 18.