Workshops and Classes

Members are encouraged to participate in the 2, 3, or 5 day PPSCC Workshops offered each year which are led by locally and nationally recognized professionals. All workshops are sustained by fees and offered on a first-come, first-served basis with a limited enrollment. Some workshops may recommend varying degrees of experience, but PPSCC strives to present workshops across a wide range of topics specific to work in pastels. Details are announced in quarterly editions of our newsletter, Pastelink, and on our website. Members are offered a discount on all workshops and courses.

Winter / Spring Workshops for 2012

Our Winter and Spring workshops for 2012 will offer you a variety of subjects, formats and venues! You showed us that you liked the format of a one day workshop, so we are offering three more from which to choose. We are also continuing to offer two day weekend workshops for the more in-depth learning experience. And to reach more of you, we are adding the Falmouth Artists Guild to our workshop locations. Some of our most popular instructors will be teaching this year, so be sure to sign up early.

January 21
Amy Sanders: Techniques & Tricks for Vibrant Realism

Wish to work in the Realism tradition? This workshop will focus on an exploration of technical tricks and tips to aid you in creating realistic paintings. You’ll learn to zero in on what you actually see instead of what you think you see. You’ll learn to widen your range of values with a few simple tools. If you have any questions or concerns, you can email Amy in advance at aksanders@comcast.net.
Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable.
$60 Members • $80 Non-Members

February 25 FULL
Christine Bodnar: Push that Color!

Many artists want their work to be more dynamic and eye catching. This workshop will help you develop the skill to edit what you see to the most basic of elements which forces you to paint the essence, not the details. Using dramatic color to emphasize that translation brings excitement to a painting. Decision making on design, color, and composition will be the focus of this workshop.
Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable. $60 Members • $80 Non-Members

March 24 and 25
Liz Haywood-Sullivan FULL
Looking Up: Variations on the Landscape Sky

"Fanfare" by Liz Haywoord Sullivan

The sky is the most emotional element in a landscape painting. This workshop will cover how to create different lighting effects, moods, and focus by concentrating on the expression of the sky and clouds above. Each day will start with a demonstration, then you will work at your easel with plenty of one-on-one instruction, ending with group critique.
Falmouth Artist Guild, Falmouth.
$180 Members • $220 Non-Members
 

April 28 and 29 FULL
Jeanne Rosier Smith: Loosen Up!

Do you long to loosen up? This is something many of us strive for and yet we still somehow can end up with tightly controlled paintings. Ironically, the bold, graceful, loose stroke looks easy, but anyone who's aspired to it knows otherwise. There are significant steps we can take, however, to make our paintings bolder, looser, and more assured. This workshop will help you shake off that tendency to meticulously describe, tightly render, or overwork your paintings. Emphasis will be on planning, composition, creative underpainting, and confident color choices.
Falmouth Artist Guild, Falmouth.
$120 Members • $160 Non-Members

May 12
Deb Quinn-Munson: Light in the Landscape

Let the light really shine in this one-day workshop! We will focus on the effects of light in the landscape with emphasis on the shapes and values created by sun and shade. The demo will include an underpainting and finish with pastel.
Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable.
$60 Members • $80 Non-Members
 

Registration:

To preregister for the above workshops, please send an email to betsy@betsypaynecook.com. Subject of the email should read: PPSCC workshops. In the message please identify the title and date of the workshop(s) you are preregistering for.

IMPORTANT : First come, first served is based on the receipt of your
check holding your spot in workshop(s), mailed to Betsy Payne Cook, 43 Brewster Road, Mashpee, MA, 02649. Your email preregistration
does not hold your spot; full payment is required. Include check(s) for each workshop with fee(s) made payable to PPSCC. Make sure you include your name, phone number and email. You will receive confirmation of your place in the workshop by email when your check is received.

Registration fees are non-refundable unless a waiting list for that
workshop provides for someone to take your place. There is a
$10 cancellation fee per workshop.

New!
STAN SPERLAK WORKSHOP AT
SCORTON MARSH, SANDWICH: May 5 - 7, 2012
ART, NATURE, LIFE AND FUN!!!

NOTE:  THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL

Stan’s workshops have been called Art Adventures. Students from beginner to advanced are sure to find many new ways to expand their creative abilities through the use of pastel and Stan’s constant guidance.

Stan believes in working from life first, and understands the artists need to also work in the studio. Here he excels in teaching students how to see, analyze and re-interpret a scene, how to bring from within yourself paintings that reflect your emotion and connection to your subject and produce believable images. Stan constantly weaves lessons from life, history and nature into all his critiques and lectures. You will come away from the workshop with a new appreciation of the world around you.

One of Stan’s major tenets of painting is synthesizing your subject, through yourself and onto the paper with your pastels. His demos are fast and accurate “studies” that will teach you about working within your instincts. Almost never taking his eyes of the subject he will capture the spirit and sense of day within moments. Of course there are times to paint with more control, but many students find that working this way has vastly improved their abilities to be more exciting and original.

During breaks in the workshop, Stan often covers the business of being an artist, marketing, presentation and framing.



_{The Story of the Moon, by Stan Sperlak}

This exciting plein air workshop will begin Friday May 4th at 6:00 pm with a pre workshop orientation and reception featuring a demo and lecture by Stan Sperlak at the East Sandwich Grange Hall, 91 Old County Road, East Sandwich, MA. Saturday and Sunday May 5 & 6th plein air workshop on location followed by a paint along day with Stan on Monday May 7th.

Don't miss this dynamite workshop experience!!!!!

To preregister, please send an email to Ed Chesnovitch at ecart@comcast.net
Subject of the email should read: SPERLAK.

IMPORTANT : First come, first served is based on the receipt of your check holding your spot in workshop, mailed to Ed Chesnovitch, PO Box 1169, East Sandwich, MA 02537. Your email preregistration does not hold your spot; full payment is required.

Registration fees are non-refundable unless a waiting list for that
workshop provides for someone to take your place. There is a
$25 cancellation fee per workshop.

Make a check for $295 members**** / or $325 non members payable to PPSCC, (Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod), and send it to:
Ed Chesnovitch, PO Box 1169, East Sandwich, MA 02537.
On the memo line please write the SPERLAK.
****Please note that 2012 member dues must be update to receive members