Corey Pitkin Zoom Workshop "Portraits in PanPastel"

Portraits need to feel alive. The duty of an artist is to not only capture the likeness of the subject but also to breath live onto the page by capturing the moment. When your formal portraits feel dead and stodgy you need to break out and rediscover the joy in sketching: there you will find the immediacy of the pastel medium. Using PanPastels and Sofft tools Corey Pitkin will guide students through his methods for using PanPastel as a sketching tool. Photo reference will be provided.

Materials:

PanPastels, 1 dark color (Corey will be using 380.3 Red Iron Oxide Shade)

Sofft tool, square tip

Strathmore 400 Series Toned Sheets or Canson Mi-Teintes Drawing Paper (Corey uses the Strathmore Toned Tan or Mi-Teintes' Sand color)

White pastel pencil

kneaded eraser

blending stumps

paper towels

optional: Tombow Mono Zero Refillable Eraser, round.

10 am - Meet and Greet

10:15 - First demo - basic techniques, finding the likeness and creating structure

12:30-  Lunch

1pm - Second demo - advanced techniques, details, adding other pastel types

3 pm - Feedback

You as always invited to paint along or observe.