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    Open Studio

    11:00 am-2:00 pm
    02/13/2025
    The Art Stop Studio, 2nd floor
    1822 Penfield Road Penfield NY 14526

    $10 Thursdays 11:00-5:00

    Want room to sprawl out in a spacious art studio? Or maybe you want to draw and paint with other artists in a relaxed social studio. For $10 you can spend the day up in our large studio with other artists. Bring whatever supplies you want except for solvents and use the tables and/or easels, kitchen and bathrooms.

    No Open Studio during Winter and Spring Break, Feb 20th & April 17th

    Pastel Painting with Colette Savage

    6:00 pm-8:00 pm
    02/13/2025
    The Art Stop Studio, 2nd floor
    1822 Penfield Road Penfield NY 14526
    Next Session: 1/16/25 -2/13/25  
    Thurs 6:00-8:00
    $139 5 weeks

    Join Accomplished Instructor Colette Savage in this versatile beautiful medium. Get a beautiful softness similar to a Degas’, or photographic realism. Pastels are considered a form of painting, yet you have the control of a stick or pencil, making it more like drawing. Learn about different substrates to paint on and different types of pastels and how they react. Beginner to intermediate.  Please feel free to bring along any pastels, paper…which you currently own to our first class.  A materials list is attached, but DO NOT purchase any new materials until AFTER the first class.

    • Soft Pastels- Your choice of brands, with a large assortment of colors and value (dark and light). If you already own pastels, bring what you have.
    • Pastel Paper- Your choice of brand and type
    • Drawing Board- A piece of Masonite is fine
    • Masking Tape
    • Baby Wipes
    • Pencil
    • Eraser
    • Small disposable dish to place the pastels you are using
    • Glove in a Bottle- Or another type of barrier lotion
    • Several reference photos
    • Glassine of other smooth paper-used to cover and protect the painting

    Optional Items:

    • Inexpensive craft brush
    • Rubbing Alcohol