Karen
Chambers
Pastel
Workshops
- Pastel
Classes -
Pastel Lessons
Pastel
Workshop
"Painting
The Low Country"
September 30 through October 6,
2012
A
five (5) day plein air pastel workshop on and around Folly Beach, S.C.,
including a day of painting at Magnolia
Plantation.
Cost:
$625
Cost
includes: On
site instruction, lodging,
breakfast and lunch fixin’s. Suppers are a shared
expense: To
eliminate the additional expense of buying a meal every night,
you will be paired with someone to prepare one supper meal
for the rest of the group (no more than 11).
Lodging
is in a beach front house that has 7 bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths, 2 LR, 2 DR,
1 enclosed porch, and 1 upstairs outdoor porch. The house is also located
across from a marsh, and is just 15 minutes from downtown Charleston.
For more information,
please contact:
Karen Chambers
116 Sams Branch Road
Candler, NC 28715
For questions please call: (828) 665-8538 after 7 p.m., or
e-mail: karenpaints@hotmail.com
Pastel
Classes
On-going pastel classes
are open to all levels of students from beginner to advanced.
When:*
Classes begin January 2, 2012
and are on every Tuesday throughout the year.
Full day: 9:30 am-4:30 pm (includes 1 hour for lunch)
Half day: 9:30 am-12:30 pm
Where:
Squirrel's Nest Studio in Candler,
NC.
Cost:
$45 full day (five hours),
or $25 half day (three hours)
Suggested
Materials List:
1. A moisture resistant
type of pastel paper or watercolor paper. I recommend Art Spectrum Colorfix
in Burgundy and/or Elephant Grey. I have some for sale. You may use any
paper with which you have become familiar, just not white unles you tone
it first. I will demonstrate why.
2. At least a set of
pastels large enough for the you to not get frustrated over the lack of
light, middle, or dark enough pigment to complete your work successfully.
I recommend either a Rembrandt 60 Half-stick set or a Nu-Pastel 96 color
full-stick set, or both.
3. A rigid, non corrugated
support paper – big enough for a half sheet, 12” X 18”, or a full sheet,
19” x 25”. If you use less rigid paper the ribs of the paper will come
through in your painting.
4. Large Banker’s clips
(can purchase at office supply store) or drafting tape (tends to peel
paper less). Artist’s tape also works .
5. Charcoal for sketching
on the paper and a kneaded eraser.
6. An easel, either
a large tabletop or a free-standing easel tall enough so that one can
stand and look straight at their painting – not down.
7. Newspaper to catch
pastel dust as well as transport the final product.
8. Either ‘Invisible
Glove’ or “Art Guard” cream protectant, or rubber gloves for protection
against pastel absorption.
9. Landscape photos
you have taken or have permission to use from which to work. I will have
some with me, but if you have taken them there will be much more information
that you will remember. We will try to paint outside, when weather permits.
10. You may like an
apron or long shirt to keep your clothes from getting pastel dust on them.
A small cloth towel is great for wiping dust off your hands and pastels.
The above supplies may be purchased
from ASWexpress.com,
1/800- 995-6778, usually at the lowest price.
Early registration is suggested as pastel classes fill quickly and there
is a limit on class size to allow for individual instruction when necessary.
Registration and Payment:
Karen Chambers
116 Sams Branch Road
Candler, NC 28715
For questions please call: (828) 665-8538 after 7 p.m., or
e-mail: karenpaints@hotmail.com
I am looking forward
to seeing you,
Karen Chambers
Other
Pastel Classes*
If
the above pastel class schedule does not work for you, please contact
me to discuss something more convenient.
*For
information about private or group
lessons
in my studio, or
lessons "en plein
air,"
please contact me at (828) 665-8538,
or
email karenpaints@hotmail.com
Directions
Karen Chambers' Squirrel's Nest Studio in Candler, NC
1. Coming from either
the west or the east on I-40, get off on Exit 44 (Hwy 19-23, Enka-Candler)
and go towards McDonalds. Continue west on Hwy 19-23 to the Shell station
on your left- about 3 miles.
2. At that light, turn
left on Hwy 151 (Pisgah View Highway) Proceed for about 6 miles.
3. After you pass the
New Upper Hominy Fire Station (on your left), you will go to Davis Creek
Road on your right. There is a sign for the Pisgah View Ranch, with a
horse on it, a short distance before this road. Turn right and go approx.
3/4 of a mile to Sams Branch Road (it is after 2 verticle left hand curve
arrows).
4. Turn right onto Sams
Branch and go about 1/2 mile to a large silver mailbox on your right #116.
This will be right after the barn and pasture. My house/studio is the
gray house on the hill. The studio is located in the back. The people
at the Pisgah View Ranch, should you miss our turn, are my husband’s relatives
and know where we live. My phone number, should you get lost, is 828/665-8538.
Cell phones work infequently
up here.
Please call before you
come.
I Look forward to seeing
you,
Karen Chambers
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