The Creative Power of Pastels
9/12/202510:00 AM - 4:00 PM EST
Location: Art Place Studios, 2015 Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville, NC 28791
Event Description
Instructor: Beverly Kies
Date: 9/12/2025
Time: 10 am - 4 pm
Member: $95 Non-Member: $105
Enjoy learning the creative powers of pastel. You can learn to translate what you see into what you paint, through palette selection, use of certain materials, picking correct values (colors), composition, plus blending and layering of colors. We will start with sketching from a provided photograph, blocking in and building up shapes, leading to a painting you can hopefully be proud to take home. It would be good to have some drawing skills to take this workshop.
There will be a break for lunch; we recommend bringing a bagged lunch.
Supplies you'll need to bring:
Beverly is an accomplished pastel artist, living in Henderson County for 21 years. At the age of 5, Beverly's mother (a watercolor and oil painter) sent her to the Atlanta School of Art. This early passion eventually led to a degree in Art Education from The Ohio State University. Her paintings represent a medley of work, celebrating animals, places, and people. Pastels have always been Beverly's chosen medium, where she enjoys a certain playfulness in her renditions, using vivid colors and expressive strokes. She has spent the last nine years teaching pastel at Blue Ridge Community College, where she shared with her students techniques which has made her successful. "I love the spontaneity of this medium, the feeling that I am drawing and painting at the same time, the intensity of color. My goal is to translate this to my students."
Date: 9/12/2025
Time: 10 am - 4 pm
Member: $95 Non-Member: $105
Enjoy learning the creative powers of pastel. You can learn to translate what you see into what you paint, through palette selection, use of certain materials, picking correct values (colors), composition, plus blending and layering of colors. We will start with sketching from a provided photograph, blocking in and building up shapes, leading to a painting you can hopefully be proud to take home. It would be good to have some drawing skills to take this workshop.
There will be a break for lunch; we recommend bringing a bagged lunch.
Supplies you'll need to bring:
- If you have your own sets of pastels (hard and soft), please bring to class.
- Plus 2 foam core boards (16 x 20) to tape your paper to
- Nupastels (hard) and soft pastels
- Paper towels
- Moist hand wipes
- tape or clips to fasten paper
Beverly is an accomplished pastel artist, living in Henderson County for 21 years. At the age of 5, Beverly's mother (a watercolor and oil painter) sent her to the Atlanta School of Art. This early passion eventually led to a degree in Art Education from The Ohio State University. Her paintings represent a medley of work, celebrating animals, places, and people. Pastels have always been Beverly's chosen medium, where she enjoys a certain playfulness in her renditions, using vivid colors and expressive strokes. She has spent the last nine years teaching pastel at Blue Ridge Community College, where she shared with her students techniques which has made her successful. "I love the spontaneity of this medium, the feeling that I am drawing and painting at the same time, the intensity of color. My goal is to translate this to my students."