TNCS Thumbnails and Color Studies: how to save money and frustration with your pastel journey!

TNCS: Thumbnails Color Studies*. These are pastel artists’ best friends, as utilizing the discipline of slowing down to Plan, Discern, Decide and Proceed, can save hours of wasted time on compositions that don’t work, and ideas that we don’t really love!  During this two day class, we will work from photo references and life to create a series of black and white thumb nails, value, and color studies of a landscape scene and a floral. We will evaluate the merits of each, then decide why we would want to develop a particular design.  Each participant will have hands on experience with the process: how to find the most important 5-7 shapes in any given composition, how to crop for a more dynamic composition, how to plan and execute a composition using a variety of palettes, and how to proceed with a painterly rendering.