|
Lyn Asselta: Exploring the Expressive Landscape
November 1-3, 2019 Hampton Inn & Suites Richmond/Virginia Center 1101 Technology Parkway, Glen Allen, VA 23059 Richmond, Virginia THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL, BUT YOU MAY STILL REGISTER
FOR OUR WAITLIST We are now accepting registrations from both MAPS members and non-members. If you'd like to become a member, click here to go to our Membership page. |
"The Last Gasp" by Lyn Asselta
|
"Exploring the Expressive Landscape"
A 3-day studio pastel landscape workshop with Lyn Asselta PSA, IAPS EP
In this fun, fast-paced workshop, we'll explore ways to create more effective, expressive landscape paintings by focusing on things like intent, mood, composition, color and atmosphere. Painting is so much more than just copying a photograph or trying to draw what we see in front of us! Using lots of short painting exercises along with a few longer painting sessions, you'll find new tools to help you make better decisions while you paint. Even more importantly, you'll learn new ways to think about your painting process. Be prepared to stretch your brain as well as your painting muscles!
About Lyn Asselta Lyn is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA), an International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Eminent Pastelist, a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Eastern League of Professional Artists and American Women Artists. She is the founder of the First Coast Pastel Society (FL) and is a Member of Excellence of the Southeastern Pastel Society. Her award winning paintings have appeared in shows and exhibitions throughout the United States, and in invitational exhibitions in France and China. In 2009, Lyn had the honor of being an Artist in Residence for the National Park Service at Acadia National Park in Maine. Her work was featured in the February 2016 issue of Pastel Journal magazine and her painting "Blue Morning, Crescent Beach" appeared on its cover. She has also been featured in Pratique des Arts magazine and Plein Air magazine. In 2018, Lyn published her first book, Seeing the Landscape, a collection of her paintings and prose. Lyn travels extensively to teach both studio and plein air pastel landscape workshops.
Living and painting in the nation's oldest city, Saint Augustine, Florida, Lyn's work is represented by Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St. Augustine and Ponte Vedra, FL. She is a Unison Colour Associate Artist, representing Unison hand made pastels. Lyn also has developed four signature pastel sets for Jack Richeson & Company, which can be purchased through links available on her website. To learn more about Lyn, visit her website at lynasselta.com.
Living and painting in the nation's oldest city, Saint Augustine, Florida, Lyn's work is represented by Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St. Augustine and Ponte Vedra, FL. She is a Unison Colour Associate Artist, representing Unison hand made pastels. Lyn also has developed four signature pastel sets for Jack Richeson & Company, which can be purchased through links available on her website. To learn more about Lyn, visit her website at lynasselta.com.
|
"Pastel Portraits Using the Verdaccio Method" A 1-day studio pastel portrait workshop with Emily Christoff Students will learn about the fundamental materials and techniques for drawing portraits in pastel pencil on tinted sanded paper, using a process called “Verdaccio". Verdaccio is an underpainting technique which originates from the Italian fresco painters of the early Renaissance. Green is the complementary color to red, and placing these two hues close together or on top of each other in a painting can create dynamic effects. We will be using dry pastel pencils instead of oil paint. The combination of using a green base and many light layers of pastel creates a luminosity to the skin. Emily will provide the 11 x 14” photos for this workshop to enhance the focus on learning this method. |
|
About Emily Christoff When Emily draws she listens to the music that has had the most impact on her life. This music inspires her to create pieces where the viewer can feel her own personal emotional response to song. Painting the figure immersed with a decorative patterned background represents the spirit becoming submerged in the phenomenon of music. She also believe that the mingling of photo-realism with decorative elements plunges the viewer into a deeper state of consciousness. Her intention is to first seduce the viewer with her technique, then catch them unaware by the story of the piece, which is autobiographical in nature. The viewer is then thrust into a mysterious narrative in which there is significant information, but not quite enough clues to finish the story. She wishes for them to create their own fantasy conclusion about what she personally experiences when listening to music.
Emily received her Bachelor’s in Fine Art from Bowling Green State University in Ohio where she focused on life drawing. While still in art school, she began selling portraits as a career. She has taught portraits since 1984 and continues to support herself with portrait commissions and teaching privately. She currently teaches pastel classes at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, teaches pastel workshops and teaches privately from her home studio in Newport News, Virginia. Emily's work has been honored in many regional and national exhibits, including the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Pastel Society of America Enduring Brilliance exhibits and the 2018 IAPS web show, and her pastel work was published in "Strokes of Genius 10: Best of Drawing". She is a member of many art organizations including MidAtlantic Pastel Society, Portrait Society of America, International Guild of Realism and a Signature member of Pastel Society of America. To learn more about Emily, visit her website at emilychristoff.com.
Emily received her Bachelor’s in Fine Art from Bowling Green State University in Ohio where she focused on life drawing. While still in art school, she began selling portraits as a career. She has taught portraits since 1984 and continues to support herself with portrait commissions and teaching privately. She currently teaches pastel classes at the Charles H. Taylor Arts Center, teaches pastel workshops and teaches privately from her home studio in Newport News, Virginia. Emily's work has been honored in many regional and national exhibits, including the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Pastel Society of America Enduring Brilliance exhibits and the 2018 IAPS web show, and her pastel work was published in "Strokes of Genius 10: Best of Drawing". She is a member of many art organizations including MidAtlantic Pastel Society, Portrait Society of America, International Guild of Realism and a Signature member of Pastel Society of America. To learn more about Emily, visit her website at emilychristoff.com.
Upcoming Workshops
Jacob Aguiar: April 18-20, 2020
Rita Kirkman: November 6-8, 2020
Rita Kirkman: November 6-8, 2020