Lorenzo Chavez

www.LorenzoChavez.com
Landscapes in Pastel or Oil

June 10 - 13, 2010

Medium: Pastel
Level: All Levels
3-Day Outdoor Class

This workshop will stress the fundamentals of landscape painting outdoors.

Pastel is a great sketching medium—its consistency of color and quick handling are valuable when working outdoors.  The importance of simplifying the landscape and composing on location will be discussed and applied.  Theme emphasis, values, colors, edges, emotional involvement, atmospheric and linear perspective will be discussed.

All three days will be spent in the field where we can observe and study the outdoors first hand.  This is the single most important method for improving landscape painting skills.

Demonstrations and critics will be conducted on an individual basis.  Plenty of personal attention is the goal of the instructor.

Lorenzo Chavez finds inspiration in the intoxicating, wide, open spaces of the American West.  Raised in New Mexico, Lorenzo now resides in Colorado. Lorenzo was honored with a one-man show at the C. M. Russell Museum. He participates in many prestigious exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America, Artists of America, Coors Western Art Show,  Albuquerque Art Museum, Bradford Brinton Museum, Panhandle-Plains Museum, Colorado Springs Fine Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum and the Gene Autry Museum.  Lorenzo was a guest artist with the Plein Air Painters of America and exhibited in the American Art in Miniature show at the Gilcrease Museum.

Feature articles have appeared in Southwest Art, Artists of the West, The Artist's Magazine, and the Pastel Journal. Three new books feature his art: Colorado Landscapes, Pure Color: The Best of Pastel and Plein Air New Mexico. Lorenzo is represented by galleries and many private and corporate collections both nationally and internationally.