Instructor: Jakki Kouffman
Monday - Friday
August 3 - 7
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Painting with pastels is, quite simply, the most direct way to apply color to a surface. Located at the intersection of drawing and painting, dry pigment pastel allows you to mingle and overlay marks on textured surfaces leading to surprisingly dramatic effects.
Join us this August for five lively days of pastel painting at Castle Hill’s Edgewood Farm and at nearby marinas, marshlands and at other scenic overlooks. Starting with a review of pastel technique and surfaces, we will drill down on the importance of value (light/dark), hue (color choice), intensity (brightness/dullness) and composition. Whether you have an established style or are simply searching for your artistic voice, this workshop will provide clear guidance for understanding the medium in the context of landscape space. Short demonstrations, as well as daily individual and group critiques, will help solidify your Cape Cod landscape painting experience in memory and in practice. Painters at all skill levels are welcome to join.
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Jakki Kouffman is a Signature Member of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. She was a longtime Signature Member of the Pastel Society of New Mexico, and Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, and she was elected a Master Pastellist with the Pastel Society of America in New York. Kouffman has also won top prizes at regional and national arts organizations, including First Place (twice) at the All Cape Cod Show at the Creative Arts Center in Chatham; First Place (Pastel) and Best in Show at the Cape Cod Art Center in Barnstable; First Place (Oil/Acrylic) at MasterWorks of New Mexico, Best in Show at Acrylic Painters USA in Florida, and three prizes at the Pastel Society of America in New York City. Kouffman has taught classes and workshops in more than a dozen States and in western Canada, and her work is in collections throughout the United States. Kouffman is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, where she was awarded a Sachar International Fellowship for one year of sculpture study in Pietrasanta, Italy. After completing her grant year, she studied pastel painting for four years with master artist Daniel Greene at the Art Students League of New York.