Pastel & Oil Landscapes with Lorenzo Chavez
This workshop will cover the fundamentals of landscape painting with pastel, including composition, values, masses, focal point, edges, drawing and color. Pastels’ consistent colors lend themselves naturally to outdoor studies and indoor studio work. Weather permitting, the class will be outdoors every day working on location creating small pastel field studies. Chavez feels that working from life is the best way to gain the skills and knowledge to improve your landscape work. This workshop is for those who already enjoy working with pastel or who desire to experiment with this medium.
* Pastel and oil
* Instructor demonstrations
* Individual attention and critiques
* Portable easel and transportation necessary
All demonstrations will be in pastel.
Friday, Saturday, Sunday, June 6–8, 2008 $425
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Lorenzo Chavez was born in New Mexico and now resides in Colorado with his family. He graduated with honors from the Colorado Institute of Art in 1983. He participates in many prestigious national invitational group exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America in New York, Artists of America Show in Denver, the Coors Western Art Show, Northwest Rendezvous group, Albuquerque Art Museum, Bradford Brinton Museum, Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Art Museum, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Loveland Museum, and the Gene Autry Museum in Los Angeles.
Recently, Lorenzo has participated as a guest artist with the Plein Air Painters of America, the Laguna Plein Air exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum, and in the "American Art in Miniature" exhibition at the Gilcrease Museum.
Lorenzo was honored with a successful one-man show at the C. M. Russell Museum. His work is featured in popular publications such as Southwest Art, Artists of the West, Art-Talk, The Artist's Magazine, and the Pastel Journal. Two new publications feature his works: Pure Color: The Best of Pastel (North Light Books, 2006) and Plein Air New Mexico (Richeson, 2006). He is a distinguished workshop instructor of pastel landscapes. Lorenzo's work is represented in six galleries in the United States and is included in many private and corporate collections both nationally and internationally.
Supply List
Pastels - largest assortment of colors possible; Rembrant pastels are a fine pastel to begin with; conte crayons, earth tones
Paper - Canson, gray tones (cut into approximately 12”x 16”, 11”x14”, 9”x12” -to fit drawing board)
Drawing board - approximately 12”x 16” , 11”x14” , 9”x12” ; light in weight, such as masonite or birchwood
French easel (Julian™) - half box
Small sketchbook - 5"x7"
Masking tape - 1"
Kneaded eraser
Paper towels
OTHER USEFUL SUPPLIES
Wide-brim hat - for shade and to reduce glare from direct sunlight. It is helpful if the inside of the hat is a dark material - this reduces the glare from reflected light.
Sun block/Bug repellent
Drinking water
Recommended Readings:
Elementary Principles of Landscape Painting – John F. Carlson
Composition of Outdoor Painting – Edgar Payne
The Elements of Drawing – John Ruskin
Composition in Art – Henry Rankin Poore
Composition – Arthur Wesley Dow
Painters and the American West – Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Desert Dreams-The Art and Life of Maynard Dixon – Donald J. Hagerty
Claude Monet Life and Work – Paul Hayes Tucker
Alla Prima – Richard Schmid
Richard Schmid Paints Landscapes – Richard Schmid
Hawthorne on Painting – Charles W. Hawthorne
Gruppe on Painting – Emile Gruppe
The Art Spirit – Robert Henri
Landscape Painting – Sir Alfred East RA
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945
Pass to Taos and Santa Fe – Julie Schimmel & Charles C. Eldredge
Landscape Painting – Birge Harrison
Sacred Paint-Ned Jacob – Sandra Dallas