Deb's Pastel Portrait Class Testimonial

We received another email from another satisfied artist who took Deb's Pastel workshop. We thought we'd share it with you:

"Dear Deb,
I took your portrait class a couple of months ago and found it to be very inspiring and right on.  I am sending you my first attempt on my own and what I learned from doing it on my own.

By Marie Rockey

First you were right!  You were right about a lot of things.  I made all of these mistakes and I laughed each time I realized my mistake.

• 1) Do not use photo paper for your grid picture. It is glossy and you cannot mark well on it.
• 2) Do make sure your photo is the actual size you are going to draw.  Mine was not and it was very difficult to improvise.
• 3)  Make sure you have a very crisp picture the size you need.  Mine was blown up from a very small snapshot and all the lines and details were fuzzy.
• 4)  DO NOT use black pastel to draw the Grid Lines, no, no, no!
• 5)  And finally DO NOT eat cheesy rice or anything close to the picture you are drawing.  Of course I choked on it and I am lucky my subject has a very speckled complexion because some of that is oil stains.

 I am looking forward to attempting another one,  and this time, I will be more prepared.

Again, I totally enjoyed the time spent with you in the class and hopefully will be doing another in the future.

Fondly,

Marie Rockey"

Join us this weekend for another one of Deb's FANTASTIC Pastel workshops! Call the store or stop by for more info. 

D.K. Richardson's Pastel Portrait Workshop

Cow Dog by Denise Beard

A recent student of one of D.K. (Deb) Richardson's pastel workshops sent over a nice email, which we wanted to share. We also wanted to say congratulations to Denise, who won 1st Place at the New Braunfels Art League Gallery with her pastel portrait of a good-looking dog. Congrats, Denise!

She also chronicled her experience with Deb's workshop on her blog. You can see step-by-step some of the skills that she learned by clicking here.

Her email to Deb:

Deb, 
I won my first 1st place ribbon tonight for a pastel. It was at the Texas Show at the New Braunfels Art League Gallery.

I painted Cow Dog using the techniques learned in your workshop, so thank you very much!!

As I was heading to hang the ribbon on the painting, the painting was being whisked to the desk to be sold to a lady from Austin!!! Jubilation and disappointment in one fell swoop. I wanted to just take in the idea of a blue ribbon hanging on one of my paintings for awhile---that will be occurring in my imagination.

Just wanted to share my good news.
Have a great evening. Denise Beard

D.K. will be offering another Pastel Portrait workshop in September. Sign up now at the store and be on your way to your first blue ribbon painting!

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