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This online course is designed to refine your practical understanding and use of soft pastels in conveying an array of botanical shapes, surfaces, and textures, inspired by masterful examples of 17th & 18th-centuries European artists. You will draw flowers from life, and learn to compose your own painted flower bouquet, balancing spontaneity and botanical accuracy, vividness of colour and subtlety of tone.
There are three live demonstrations with a duration of 1h30' each, plus extensive individual guidance and feedback exchange between one session and the next , so that you may further your drawing and painting skills, and increase your awareness of, and control over, your creative powers. You will have time to practise at your own pace, the entire course takes one month. Online via zoom link Next course Spring 2022 2014-2021 © All rights reserved. |
Reviews:
K: "Hi Radu, I thank you very much for the course demonstrations and your feedback and tips from the first week's homework, as this has helped me a lot compared to my first attempts with pastel. It is the same thing that I struggle with which I am aware makes possible those beautiful atmospheric effects and subtle transitions that look amazing when done correctly as you so aptly demonstrate, so I am determined to keep practicing!"
J: "Thank you so much for you detailed advice, I really appreciate it. I am so enjoying the course! Thank you."
L.: "Did I say how much I’ve loved being your student? I am sad to think that we only have the one session left, but my whole approach toward the relationship with flowers and nature and art history has been immeasurably changed, and for the better.
You have been able to express technique in ways that help me overcome some major technical stumbling blocks I’ve encountered."
K: "Hi Radu, I thank you very much for the course demonstrations and your feedback and tips from the first week's homework, as this has helped me a lot compared to my first attempts with pastel. It is the same thing that I struggle with which I am aware makes possible those beautiful atmospheric effects and subtle transitions that look amazing when done correctly as you so aptly demonstrate, so I am determined to keep practicing!"
J: "Thank you so much for you detailed advice, I really appreciate it. I am so enjoying the course! Thank you."
L.: "Did I say how much I’ve loved being your student? I am sad to think that we only have the one session left, but my whole approach toward the relationship with flowers and nature and art history has been immeasurably changed, and for the better.
You have been able to express technique in ways that help me overcome some major technical stumbling blocks I’ve encountered."