Current Workshops
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Rita Kirkman
November 6 - 8, 2020 Virtual Workshop via Zoom |
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This workshop is now full. You may still register for the waitlist
by clicking on the registration button below.
Note: Due to the current COVID-19 situation, this workshop will be virtual using the Zoom platform.
Rita's workshop will focus on working small, quickly, and in a series. Rita will also demonstrate underpainting with accurate values using warm-toned primers helping to capture light (and texture). There will be individual critiques each day. In these critiques Rita will include an emphasis on improvements in compositions. We will be limiting the workshop to ensure that Rita has enough time to give each student sufficient feedback, just as we do for an in-person workshop.
Registration is now open for the waitlist for non-members of MAPS.
Rita's workshop will focus on working small, quickly, and in a series. Rita will also demonstrate underpainting with accurate values using warm-toned primers helping to capture light (and texture). There will be individual critiques each day. In these critiques Rita will include an emphasis on improvements in compositions. We will be limiting the workshop to ensure that Rita has enough time to give each student sufficient feedback, just as we do for an in-person workshop.
Registration is now open for the waitlist for non-members of MAPS.
Pastels That Glow
Rita's classic pastel workshop focuses on painting small and often to rapidly improve your skills and expand your knowledge. Learn to capture light and loosen up with Rita's innovative under-painting technique. Receive helpful hints and tips from Rita’s 40 years of experience with pastel. Instruction emphasizes composition and techniques for a small format, value and temperature control, how to creatively interpret your photos and how to stay productive with your art within a busy lifestyle. Grow your grasp of values, temperature, color and composition in a relaxed and fun atmosphere! Frequent "Daily Painting" practices are emphasized. For beginner to advanced.
Rita's classic pastel workshop focuses on painting small and often to rapidly improve your skills and expand your knowledge. Learn to capture light and loosen up with Rita's innovative under-painting technique. Receive helpful hints and tips from Rita’s 40 years of experience with pastel. Instruction emphasizes composition and techniques for a small format, value and temperature control, how to creatively interpret your photos and how to stay productive with your art within a busy lifestyle. Grow your grasp of values, temperature, color and composition in a relaxed and fun atmosphere! Frequent "Daily Painting" practices are emphasized. For beginner to advanced.
About Rita Kirkman
Rita Kirkman has been using pastel since she was 11 years old and had her first paid portrait commission at 17. She began her working career sketching quick portraits at amusement parks and then began a commission business drawing detailed pencil portraits from client photos. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988.
Kirkman has improved her own style and technique with pastel through independent study and workshops with renowned artists each year. This effort has been consistently rewarded with major awards in national and international competitions. Her work has been featured in the Pastel Journal and the Pratique des Arts Spécial Pastel and published in many others. She is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America and an Eminent Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel Societies. Her portraits and paintings are in private collections all over the world, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Africa and Australia.
Rita has published two books of 100 miniature pastel animal portraits, "Cows, etc." Volume 1 and Volume 2, and was recently featured in the Pastel Society of the West Coast's Spring 2020 magazine.
Rita Kirkman has been using pastel since she was 11 years old and had her first paid portrait commission at 17. She began her working career sketching quick portraits at amusement parks and then began a commission business drawing detailed pencil portraits from client photos. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988.
Kirkman has improved her own style and technique with pastel through independent study and workshops with renowned artists each year. This effort has been consistently rewarded with major awards in national and international competitions. Her work has been featured in the Pastel Journal and the Pratique des Arts Spécial Pastel and published in many others. She is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America and an Eminent Pastelist with the International Association of Pastel Societies. Her portraits and paintings are in private collections all over the world, including the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Africa and Australia.
Rita has published two books of 100 miniature pastel animal portraits, "Cows, etc." Volume 1 and Volume 2, and was recently featured in the Pastel Society of the West Coast's Spring 2020 magazine.
Upcoming Workshops
Tony Allain: "Creativity Untamed; From Sketch to Frame"
Winter 2021 - Date TBD
A one day Zoom workshop designed to help you go beyond your photo reference in your painting.
"Have you ever wanted to bring a looser and more painterly feel to your work loaded with juicy colour and flooded with light? Join me and I will share some of my working methods concentrating on painting landscapes, seascapes, figures and still life subjects that delight you and excite the viewer. Using ... sketches and thumbnails along with our reference material we can bring some fresh colour and a more painterly feel to our works." - Tony Allain