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FINE ART PASTEL PAINTING
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2025 Classes:
Learn the joys of soft pastel painting with Liz Kenyon
Learn to work with vibrant color, manage composition, expand rendering techniques, and create special subject matter.
Liz demonstrates each day and gives you one-on-one attention. She sets up a challenge, goes into the basic principles involved in the process, then helps you apply those to your work. Beginning to advanced levels are all welcome.
Students say her classes "Allow them to stretch beyond their normal comfort zone".
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Pink Pot in Soft Pastels
Saturdays 9-12
Oct 4 – Nov 1, 2025
Scottsdale Art School
With Soft Pastel sticks and sanded papers you will paint images of colorful pottery.
Focus in on the slick shiny surface as it turns away from the light. Blend, glaze, and layer to produce transparency and dramatic effects.
Subject matter includes colorful fresh produce, abstract selfies, giant flowers and impressionistic landscapes.
Increase the ‘sizzle’ and richness of your colors.
This is a 'how-to' technique class.
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All levels.
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Printed references furnished
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Work at your own pace
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Expect weekly demonstrations and friendly class participation
Registration or Info:
or call 480.990.1422
Class Location:
3720 North Marshall Way
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
You can Expect:
Truly enjoying the fun of painting with soft pastels.
Loosen up your edges with blending, layering and glazing.
Experiment with the effects of an underpainting or toned papers and let your inborn sense of color take off into unknown, abstract backgrounds.
Not an expert yet? Liz will guide you with demos and printed references to get you started.
Liz's workshops are technique classes that also include extra projects for the advanced artists.
Previous 2024 Class
"Core"
Paint forms photographed in strong, natural sunlight and isolate that edge of light and shadow. This makes pastel painting strikingly powerful.
Practice layering and glazing techniques that exaggerate illumination and transparency. Describe dreamy, leafy backgrounds as well as background settings of reflective glass containers, and dried-up old newspapers. Expand the 'sizzle' and richness of your colors. This is a 'how-to' technique class.
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All levels.
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Printed references furnished
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Work at your own pace
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Expect weekly demonstrations and friendly class participation
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