Discover the beautiful medium of soft pastel!
Learn the fundamentals of color theory and develop your drawing skills. Get inspired by classic still-lifes, the figure, or photographs. Classes include demonstrations, lectures, and real time individual feedback.
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Eva Nikolova is a Bulgarian‐born visual artist who works in drawing, painting, printmaking, hand‐drawn animation and cameraless photography. She holds a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Southern Illinois University and MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work, which is in the permanent collections of Temple University, The Amity Art Foundation, Manhattan Graphics Center, Arkansas State University and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, has been exhibited nationally as well as in Germany, England, Canada, Scotland and India. Nikolova is the recip ...
Eva Nikolova is a Bulgarian‐born visual artist who works in drawing, painting, printmaking, hand‐drawn animation and cameraless photography. She holds a BFA in Painting/Printmaking from Southern Illinois University and MFA in Printmaking from Indiana University, Bloomington. Her work, which is in the permanent collections of Temple University, The Amity Art Foundation, Manhattan Graphics Center, Arkansas State University and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, has been exhibited nationally as well as in Germany, England, Canada, Scotland and India. Nikolova is the recipient of over 20 scholarships, fellowships, grants and awards, and has participated in fully‐funded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Drawing for Beginners
Drawing with Pastel
Watercolor Painting (Beginner/Intermediate)
Drawing and Painting
Maceo W. Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan in December of 1942. He grew up and was educated there, studying art at Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 1967 he left Detroit to attend graduate school at the University of Iowa’s renowned Printmaking Department under the master printmaker Mauricio Lasansky whose influence upon him remains to this day. During this time he also met and married his wife, artist Patricia Wynne. After finishing his Master’s Degree he spent a number of years teaching college art in Detro ...
Maceo W. Mitchell was born in Detroit, Michigan in December of 1942. He grew up and was educated there, studying art at Cass Technical High School and Wayne State University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 1967 he left Detroit to attend graduate school at the University of Iowa’s renowned Printmaking Department under the master printmaker Mauricio Lasansky whose influence upon him remains to this day. During this time he also met and married his wife, artist Patricia Wynne. After finishing his Master’s Degree he spent a number of years teaching college art in Detroit. In 1974 he and his wife moved to New York City where he continued teaching off and on until 1990 from which point he pursued a solo art exhibition career in the United States and Europe. He has had many exhibits in France, Germany, Belgium and the United States.
Drawing with Pastel: The Still Life
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