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Been wanting to learn to paint with soft pastels or polish your existing skills? Join me for a two-day course with structured, easy to follow lessons focusing on: different pastel strokes, underpainting techniques, working with warm and cool colors, understanding values. You will work from your own photos while interpreting with your own “artistic voice.” Demonstrations and individual instruction will be given as I share tips, techniques and ideas.   3/2/2024 – 3/3/2024$165.00   The Village Gallery of Arts1060 NW Saltzman Rd.Portland, Oregon 97229United States https://villagegalleryarts.org/event/gretha-lindwood-2-day-workshop-pastel-fundamentals/   [...]

North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill100 Old Mason Farm Rd., Chapel Hill   Dates: 1/26-28, 2024Time: Friday and Saturday – 9:30-4:30, Sunday – 1:15-4:30Cost: $225 ($202 for North Carolina Botanical Gardens members)   Landscape painting offers the artist a playground of visual opportunities to experiment with color and structure. Students will immerse themselves in learning about composing a landscape, establishing a value structure, how and when to use warm and cool colors (temperature) and how and when to mute colors (chroma). Students may work in either chalk pastels or oil paint.   Each class will begin with a demonstration; one day in oil, the next in pastel. [...]