Current Workshops
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Rita Kirkman
November 6 - 8, 2020 Virtual Workshop via Zoom |
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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.
You must be a MAPS member to register during our early registration period. Click here to renew your membership or join MAPS.
You must be a MAPS member to register during our early registration period. Click here to renew your membership or join 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.