Jen Evenhus Spring 2019 Workshop
The Beauty of IMPERFECTION
Saturday & Sunday, March 2 & 3, 2019
Location: Apache Shores Community Hall
14919 General Williamson Dr.
Austin, TX 78734
(The studio is located in Lakeway, TX)
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Registration opened Sunday, September 30: Seats are filled, including the wait-list. Don’t pay yet if on wait-list.
Total Cost: $275
$75 deposit is accepted;
Full payment due by February 1, 2019
Because striving for perfection leads to paralysis, Master Pastelist Jen Evenhus kicks perfection out the window, giving students permission to explore, experiment and play with pastel and other materials such as markers, brushes and graphite to create bold expressive works of art as we step fearlessly toward the unknown. Using timed exercises to loosen up and reveal your innate intuition forces us to use bold strokes with wild abandon, creating happy little accidents and mark-making that reveal your personal style.
Students will work with landscape photos provided by the instructor, with their own photo reference, with still life/floral objects, and weather permitting, do some plein air sketching.
We will use contemporary impressionist, expressionist and abstract styles as we explore shapes, composition, positive and negative space, bold vs neutral color and mark-making.
There will be plenty of challenging exercises, instructor demos, one-on-one coaching, critiques, discussions and painting throughout this intense fun workshop with PSA Master Pastelist Jen Evenhus. Come with an open mind and a willing spirit!
Jen is naturally drawn to designs and movement found in nature and everyday experiences, capturing their essence with simplification and exaggeration in contemporary impressionist and abstract paintings. Her work is known for its dynamic composition, bold use of color, negative painting and confident application. She is well-known for her 10-minute pastel paintings, which forces her to focus on composition, value, shapes and movement and most important, to not overwork, a great exercise her workshop students come to love.
As a Master Pastelist in the PSA, a Distinquished Pastelist in the NPS, an IAPS-Master Circle Member, and a Signature Member of PSWC, her work is published in Pastel Journal, American Artist, PSA Pastelagram and Pratique des Arts, a French magazine. Her work was chosen as the Pastel 100 Bronze Award winner in 2014, the August 2016 cover artist with a 10-page article on florals, and 2018 received a 5th Place Award for a still life in the Pastel 100 competition.
Jen is naturally drawn to designs and movement found in nature and everyday experiences, capturing their essence with simplification and exaggeration in contemporary impressionist and abstract paintings. Her work is known for its dynamic composition, bold use of color, negative painting and confident application. She is well-known for her 10-minute pastel paintings, which forces her to focus on composition, value, shapes and movement and most important, to not overwork, a great exercise her workshop students come to love.
As a Master Pastelist in the PSA, a Distinquished Pastelist in the NPS, an IAPS-Master Circle Member, and a Signature Member of PSWC, her work is published in Pastel Journal, American Artist, PSA Pastelagram and Pratique des Arts, a French magazine. Her work was chosen as the Pastel 100 Bronze Award winner in 2014, the August 2016 cover artist with a 10-page article on florals, and 2018 received a 5th Place Award for a still life in the Pastel 100 competition.
Learn more about Jen and see her work at www.jenevenhus.com and www.facebook.com/jennifer.evenhus.
Recent Workshops
Margaret Dyer Workshop, March 4-5, 2018
Margaret Dyer gave a workshop on her technique for figures in pastel. She teaches a simple step-by-step method. Working with live models, they explored drawing, composition, anatomy, proportion, value, color, and pastel application. Emphasis was on developing form using light and shadow.
Stephanie Birdsall Workshop, March 2-5, 2017
Stephanie Birdsall is a “Putney Painter”, founded by Richard Schmid and Nancy Guzik, painting with them for the last 10 years. She is a Master Pastelist with PSA and IAPS. She received more than 50 awards, has been featured in numerous publications, and on PBS.
She has taken her love for Plein Air into the studio and paints florals and organic still lifes, always from life being colonization of her natural light, primarily north. Along with three DVDs, she has become an international sought-after workshop teacher. Her workshops concentrate on color / light, composition, and brush strokes.
Other 2017 mini-workshops were held by Linda Dellandre, Jeannette Cuevas and Rae Andrews.