Connecting Eyes, Heart & Hand: The Value of Value, from Start to Finish with Natasha Isenhour
September 4 - 7, 2024
9 am - 4 pm
$725 + 6.88% NM Sales Tax
A note to our students: To ensure that the workshop will not be canceled, we kindly request that you sign up as early as possible. Please note that if the minimum number of students required is not met three (3) weeks before the first day of class, the workshop will be canceled. However, we offer a full refund in the event of a canceled workshop, so there is no monetary risk for you. Please take some time to review our cancellation policy.
About the Workshop
Skill level: Beginners are welcome with some hands-on experience in your medium, up to intermediate and advanced artists.
Materials used: Pastel and oil
Overview:
How important is “Value” in a successful painting you may ask? From beginners to advanced students, value seems to be one of the most difficult concepts for artists to articulate in paint. I will teach you how to take this very foundational and easy-to-understand concept into the more difficult task of conveying the idea in your artwork. I will show you how to take this basic concept beyond its rather straightforward definition and fold it into your process. I will be showing you the dynamic nature of dark passages in your paintings how to create movement in the shadows, to how to highlight sunlit passages with dynamic color instead of flat light.
Regardless of where you are in your journey, a beginner (with at least basic hands-on knowledge of your medium), or a more experienced painter looking for a way to step up the quality of your work, this workshop will be incredibly valuable to your practice.
About Natasha
Contemporary American Realist Natasha Isenhour expresses her emotional response to unpopulated spaces with an edgy lonesome starkness that defines the very essence of her work in oil and pastel. Isenhour exhibits throughout the southwest and teaches several sold out workshops each year, both en plein air and in studio.
Selected events and Awards:
2024, serving as judge for the Austin Pastel Society, awards judge and workshop instructor, Pastel Society of Colorado Mile High 30th International Exhibition and instructor at IAPS, International Association of Pastel Societies Convention.
In Spring of 2023, Terry Ludwig Pastels LLC released “Natasha Isenhour Essential Alchemy Set of 60 pastels,” and she served a second year as faculty for PACE, Plein Air Convention and Expo in Denver. In August 23, she won an honorable mention in the OPA (Oil Painters of America) Summer Online Showcase. Highlights of 2022 included an Award of Excellence in the OPA Regional Exhibition in Dallas and a 5-week solo museum exhibition at the Taos Museum and Fechin Studio in Taos, NM.
Represented by:
Ventana Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM and others.
Affiliations include:
Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, American Women Artists and Plein Air Painters of NM.
Distinguished Member Pastel Society of NM.
Member of Oil Painters of America, Salmagundi Art Club, NYC and California Art Club.
What’s Included
Bluebird Studios offers an array of complimentary food and beverages during our workshops. Attendees can enjoy an ice breaker the evening before the first day, complimentary continental breakfast served every morning, complimentary unlimited beverages, and afternoon treats each day. We also offer catered lunches brought to the studio or the plein air site (optional for $20), and lastly, our complimentary signature lunch of Frito Chili Pie on the final day. We will spoil you!
Supplies
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