Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Thur 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Levels: Advanced,Professional
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $185.00
Non-Member: $215.00
An advanced pastel class for the artist who wants to learn how to do the hard things with pastel-create light effects like sunset colors, create atmospheric storms with rain and dark clouds, paint clear glass and shiny metal objects, and capture a human face with life-like skin tones. Each day a different skill and challenge! Class starts with a demo then artists work independently on your own painting. Some classes are still life, some are based on a live model, some are based on photo references (you can bring your own or choose from supplied references). Must have had a beginning pastel class first, a working knowledge of how to use pastel, and a desire to grow your skills.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Thur 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Levels: Intermediate,Advanced
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $185.00
Non-Member: $215.00
Take your pastel painting to the next level with new techniques like soft blending to create light effects like sunsets, textural layering like seagrasses and special effects like mist & fog, gleaming light, and iridescent sparkle. Work from my photo to learn the technique, then your own photo to perfect the technique and make it your own. Learn amazing tricks and techniques from a pro! Take home samples of Mount Vision Pastels, and Ampersand Pastelbord. Prerequisite: a beginning pastel class or workshop. Ages 17 and up.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Mon 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Levels: Beginner
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $185.00
Non-Member: $215.00
Learn the same way the Old Masters learned, and how they taught their apprentices. Students will start with basic composition skills by working from direct observation. Draw your subject, then paint it. Learn traditional skills like sight-size drawing, color mixing and color theory, color temperatures and values, and study how light falls on objects and people. This class is progressive, starting with basics like shape and form, then brush skills and exercises to learn the purpose of different brushes, and working from limited palette, and grisaille (painting in shades of gray). Practice tonality by painting shapes and blocks then translating that to complex shapes like seashells and still life. Work from Caravaggio’s values and chiaroscuro painting, Rembrandt’s edges and forms, Sorolla’s color temperature, and DaVinci’s proportions. Perfect class for a motivated beginner who wants to learn the skills to paint and develop their own style. Students will be working on easels in this class.
Ages 17 and up.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Mon 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Levels: Intermediate,Advanced,Professional
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $185.00
Non-Member: $215.00
Ready to take your painting to the next level? Want to learn how to paint portraits, still life, and interpret a photo reference? This is the perfect class for someone who has had a beginning painting class and isn’t sure what to do next. Each class in this 6 week session will focus on a different technique and theme. Bring your favorite medium like oil, acrylic, watercolor, or pastel and choose your favorite subject to paint. Each class will start with a demonstration of a new technique, like how to paint a portrait in pastel or oil, or interpreting a photo to make an Impressionistic painting, or creating the illusion of perspective using color, value, and line. Your challenge will be to incorporate the new technique into your own work. Choose from still life (or model) provided, your own reference photos, or provided photos. Make sure you have a beginner’s class in your medium before taking this one. Class will be on easels in a studio with controlled lighting and still life. You can choose to stand or sit during painting.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Sat 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Levels: Beginner
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Learn the basics of drawing including starting with simple forms, seeing and capturing 5 values to shade accurately and create the illusion of realism. Learn how to "sight" to get proper perspective and the illusion of depth. Get your own copies of proportion charts and learn how portrait painters to Renaissance kings and queens were able to get accurate likenesses. Draw from direct observation and create beautiful, dimensional sketches! All materials supplied. Ages 17 and up.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Sat 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Levels: All Levels
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Get a crash course in proportions of the human head, capturing a likeness, and techniques to simplify facial features. Work from proportion charts developed by court portrait artists in the Renaissance era, for profile and full face. See how beautifully proportionate human beings are, then make a detailed sketch of a profile portrait, and a full face portrait from a photo reference (supplied). Once you get the hang of it, we will work from live models using pencil and charcoal. Open to beginners and advanced. Materials supplied, or bring your own pad of charcoal paper, 2B or 4B pencil, charcoal or conte’. Ages 17 and up.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Sat 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Levels: All Levels
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Make a lovely seashell and sea glass mosaic that looks like resin-but it isnt! Easy to follow instructions, all materials supplied. Choose from templates for a wave, heart, mermaid tail, starfish, or freeform design. Bring you own special beach treasures to include. Makes a great souvenir from your time at the beach!
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Mon 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Levels: Beginner
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Learn to use pastels to make beautiful and realistic paintings from direct observation. Learn about pastel hardnesses, paper tooth, and substrates. Layer pastel to create your own color wheel from primaries, and how to use a complementary palette. All materials supplied! Ages 17 and up.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Sat 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Levels: All Levels
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Learn how to paint a portrait in pastel from a live model! Start with proportion basics, watch a live demonstration, then paint your own version of the model. One-on-one help and lots of demonstrations and individual attention. Ages 17 and up.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Sat 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Levels: All Levels
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Learn to see color according to temperature and paint warmer and cooler colors instead of using black and white to tint and tone. Work from an all-white still life and paint it without using pure white. Really challenges you to see color differently-and to make your paintings more interesting and colorful. Open to all mediums, bring your favorite and do exercises then a finished painting.
Instructor: Joyce, Shawn Dell
Day of Week: Fri 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Levels: All Levels
Location: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Member Tuition: $80.00
Non-Member: $100.00
Make your own colorful pet portrait! Really fun and simple method-similar to paint-by-numbers. Bring a printed b&w photo 8x10 or larger and learn how to transfer it easily to canvas. Work from dark to light using acrylic paint on canvas. All materials supplied.