Soft Pastel Weekend Workshop - Backgrounds, Lighting & Colour Choices with Maxine Thompson - All Levels (Workshop Code MTPAS3)

Weekend Workshop: Soft Pastel Workshop - Backgrounds, Lighting & Colour Choices

Come and learn from a tutor with over 35 years’ experience working with soft (chalk) pastels.

Maxine Thompson is a generous tutor whose demonstrations will equip beginners to advanced students to do a variety of exercises over the weekend, adapting the lessons to suit the wants and needs of the students. Maxine Thompson has Master Pastelist Status in Australia and New Zealand so we are very fortunate to have a tutor of this level.

Maxine will guide you through a number of soft pastel skills, for example: applying pastel to suitable papers, different strokes for effects, colour mixing, layering to create texture for skin, fur, feathers grass etc. She will help you tackle often troubling areas like choosing backgrounds and making correct lighting and colour choices.

During the weekend you will also learn or brush up on skills that are transferable across all art forms including shadows/light, perspective, contrasting tone, texture and observation all while having fun throughout the lessons!

Maxine’s experience means she is able to cater for very beginning students while extending intermediate to advanced students in areas of their choosing.

BYO lunch, snacks and drink bottle. A materials list will be supplied after booking and there is the option to buy materials (including paper & chalk pastels) from the tutor during the weekend.

Workshop is $190 per person (+ booking fee of $6) - Running the weekend of February 14th & 15th. Class will start setting up at 8:30am with a 9am start, finishing at 4pm each day. Workshop will take place at the Ōtorohanga Museum, 15 Kakamutu Street, Ōtorohanga or the Referee Rooms, Rangaparie Street. TBA