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"Looking forward to next month and new friends at my in-person pastel portrait workshop in the Blue Ridge Mountains.   A few spots are left in my class at Kanuga Watermedia Workshops at the Montreat Conference Center. Paint pastel portraits with me while your family enjoys the 4,000 acre campus, treks miles of mountain trails, or kayaks in the lake. Quite. Secluded. A beautiful place to reflect, study, and create.   Workshop Dates: March 23—28, 2025. Contact Director Megan Miller Williams at 828-964-3968. https://www.kanugawatermediaworkshops.com   Luana Luconi Winner, PSA, PSNC, IAPS/MC     Portrait Society of Atlanta, Juried Member / Past Editor of FOLIO     Portrait Society of America, NC [...]

A Full-Day Zoom Workshop in Two Three-Hour SessionsFriday, April 5, 2024, 10am – 5pm$175Note: All proceeds will go to the Pastel Society of North Carolina General Fund.   This day will set you on your way to sketching and painting faces with confidence. Artists of all levels of experience will find useful, basic, and essential instruction of the construction of the head. With these indispensable notes, you will begin to enjoy painting portraits without hesitation.   The lessons and demonstrations will begin with focused attention on each individual feature of the face. Simple diagrams willbecome your maps to understanding shape, construction, proportion, and uniqueness of [...]

Luana Luconi Winner is part of the faculty of RealismLive. She will be doing a Pastel Portrait on Beginner Day on November 10th. There is a bonus offered if you are signing up for the conference before October 15th. It will include a Josh LaRock Demo, a Todd Casy Demo, a Gregory Mortenson Critique, Daniel Sprick Studio Tour, And a Pre-Event Q&A with Mary Whyte.    Please click here for more information.   [...]

Luana Luconi Winner is part of the faculty of RealismLive. She will be doing a Pastel Portrait on Beginner Day on November 10th. There is a bonus offered if you are signing up for the conference before October 15th. It will include a Josh LaRock Demo, a Todd Casy Demo, a Gregory Mortenson Critique, Daniel Sprick Studio Tour, And a Pre-Event Q&A with Mary Whyte.    Please click here for more information.   [...]

Come to Art of the Carolinas at the North Raleigh Hilton on November 11, 12 and 13 for Luana’s three different workshops. You can signup for: Thursday (Pastel Workshop TH2101) – “Precious Things: The Still Life,”  Friday (Pastel Workshop FR2101) – “Pastel Portraits, and Saturday (Oil Workshop -SA2101) – “Floral Still Life in Oil.” Go to https://www.artofthecarolinas.com/222-luana-luconi-winner?order=product.datetime.asc to find out more about each of the exciting day-long workshops. See you there!   [...]

Get Dusty – How to Pastel with No FearWorkshop Fee: $139Skill Level: AllTime: Thursday, November 14, 2019 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at Retail Store   New to art, new to soft pastel, experienced but need a refresher, transitioning from another medium? This is the class for you. Find the sheer joy in making marks again as you did when you were a child.    Quality exercises to calm fears of trying something new will be interspersed with substantive, fundamental pastel painting information – covering how to use hard and soft pastels, papers and surfaces, how to make changes, diversity of applications methods both wet and dry. Leave [...]

Dear Friends and Artists, the PSNC board has decided to have the Holiday Gathering at the home of Luana Luconi Winner on Sunday, December 9th from 2pm to 5+. Please bring your favorite, delectable holiday plate to share. Plan to come even if you and multiple family members are on your way from another gathering or to another gathering. The more the merrier. We will send an email to the membership with address and directions closer to the date. In the meantime, put the date on your calendar! [...]

Luana Luconi Winner is the featured International Artist Interview in PANZ bimonthly magazine of the Pastel Society of New Zealand. The August – September 2018 issue has a two page article and 12 images covering a few highlights in Luana’s career and travels.   View the article, in PDF. [...]

August 26 – October 1, 2018Grace Centre Gllery, Mills River, NCJuror: Luana Luconi Winner   Online Entries are Open! Deadline July 1, 2018   Download the Prospectus   Download the Digital Entry Form (or print and mail in form on the prospectus… all images must be submitted online as described in the Prospectus)   Full information and links are available on the home page of the APS Website… www.appalachianpastelsociety.org, show is for Members only… but you can join or renew at the time of entry.   For full program information, meeting dates, plein air outings, exhibitions, directions to meetings and events: Contact phone numbers and email addresses of coordinators are  on our [...]

This special opportunity is being sponsored by the Appalachian Pastel Society in conjunction with the APS 2018 Juried Member Show. Click HERE for workshop details and registration.   Line, Design, Color and Composition - A workshop opportunity to learn from a Master!     [...]

Luana Winner presented a power point program and display of 10 paintings done on location and those completed after returning from China. [...]

“Departures” Solo Show at Roundabout Art Collective Gallery, 305 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, NC 27605   Opening Reception First Friday, February 6, 2015 6pm -9pm    Though known best as a premier portrait painter, Ms. Winner will present paintings which are a departure from her typical genre. No people will appear in these designs a slightly abstracted look at reality with the simplicity and predominance of designs that depend on circles, square, and triangles.   [...]

Luana Luconi Winner has just returned from a week in Cincinnati at the video studios of F+W Media North Light Publishers. The company that contracted and distributed her book “Painting Classic Portraits: Great Faces Step by Step” last year, filmed three DVDs illustrating demonstrations from the second chapter of the book about the easy way to construct the features of the face.   Created for beginning to intermediate artists, the DVDs will be available worldwide in 3 months by purchase, live streaming, or chapter downloads through NorthLightShop.com and Amazon. [...]

Luana Luconi Winner will be the speaker for the March PSNC program. This will be a lecture / demonstration of her pastel techniques for rich, classical portraits. More of this information is available in Luana’s new book “Painting Classic Portraits: Great Faces Step by Step” recently published by F&W Media / North Light Books. Chapter Three, devoted to color charts depicting mixtures for skin, hair, and eyes, is translated completely into pastel in the book. Come and see how decisions are made early in the planning stages that affect the beautiful, timeless finish.  www.WinnerStudios.com  919-834-2447 [...]

Workshop Opportunity – Cape Fear Studios, 148 Maxwell Street, Fayetteville, NC 28301   Come spend some fact-filled, hours with Luana Luconi Winner as she navigates through students’ most vexing issues with paint. All levels of student will benefit from Luana’s demos, lectures, critiques, and hands on instruction.   The first day will include drawing, proportion, color mixing exercises, and painting.   Portrait instruction will be the main focus of the workshop, but a still life will be offered for those who would rather devote time to more brilliant color.  During Day 1 lunch period, students should bring lunch and some finished or in-progress artwork of any medium or subject matter for critique.  [...]

From her series titled “The Children of Collodi,” Luana Luconi Winner’s 20 x 16 pastel of 30 Pinocchios called “Hanging Around” was accepted into the Pastel Society of America annual exhibition at the National Arts Club in NYC.   180 pieces were selected from over 1,000 entries this year.   The town of Collodi, Italy is where Pinocchio was written and sits right next to the town of Lucca in Tuscany where Luana’s grandparents were born.   [...]

Luana Luconi Winner participated in the 18th international juried exhibition at the International Association of Pastel Societies in Albuquerque, NM.  Her painting “Children of Collodi: Gathering” was one of 85 paintings chosen for the exhibition in June 2011.   She will also be participating in the national exhibition Pastels by Invitation 2011 at the Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA on Cape Cod. Forty-nine national leaders in pastel including Albert Handell, Jimmy Wright, Claudia Seymour, Maggie Price, and others will be exhibited from August 4th – September 2nd, 2011. Each artist will exhibit one piece. Luana’s painting is “Captain’s Table."   [...]

Luana Luconi Winner will be teaching a Pastel workshop called PASTEL PYRAMID at Artspace on Saturday & Sunday, June 11 & 12 from 10am – 5pm. The cost is $175 ($155 members/teachers)   Create beautiful pastel paintings by beginning with the foundation of color, studying temperature in tints and shades, and developing solid drawing skills. Step-by-step you will build from the drawing and underpainting, to the large geometric design and shapes, to the carefully edited details, to sophisticated light, to the finished painting. Organize your materials, your thoughts, your references, and your story images. Come and enjoy the versatility of pastel. Supply list will be [...]

Finding Your Artistic VoiceThursday, March 26 – Saturday, March 28,  10am–5pm dailySkill Level: AllYew Tree Center for Art and Culture, 604 S Elm St, Greensboro, NC 27401   The Nude: An Advanced ApproachSaturday, April 4 – Sunday, April 5, 10am-5pm dailySkill Level: intermediate to advanced at painting the figureJerry’s Artarama, Wake Forest Road, Raleigh, NC(800) 827-8478, Ext.156 or (919) 876-6610   Great Faces! ©Thursday, April 16 – Saturday, April 18,  10am-5pm dailySkill Level: AllBurke County Arts Council, 115 Meeting Street, Morganton, NC 28655   Finding Your Artistic VoiceThursday, May 14 – Saturday, May 16, 9am–4pm dailySkill Level: AllArts & Things Gallery, 704 Evans Street, Morehead City, NC [...]

Location: Artspace Studios 214 and 215 at 201 East Davie Street in Raleigh, NCDate: Saturday, September 27th and Sunday, September 28th from 10am to 5pmCost: $185.00,; Fee may be paid by mailing check or requesting PayPal invoice for Credit Card.   This color mixing class will give you confidence to create beautiful skin tones for future portrait and figure work. Study includes general ethnicities and distinctive color families. Each chart will contain color formulas for: skin in shadow, local color, and in light; hair in shadow, light, and highlight; lips.   Oil / Acrylic / Pastel colors will be forwarded as you sign up. Chart paper will be [...]

May 31 and June 1Drawing: The Foundation 10 am—5 pm, Saturday and SundayLearn the foundations of drawing. Work from a life drawing model in several different drawing techniques and tools. Instructor will supply all materials for this workshop. Course # 70795 is $160 at Sertoma Art Center, Raleigh, NC. For sign up call 919.420.2329.   June 7 and 8Painting People10am—5 pm, Saturday and SundayThis is the course that will have you painting people the easy way! Subject specific class, open media, all levels. Artists may bring in any media to work from live models Course # 70796 $220 at Sertoma Art Center, Raleigh, NC. [...]