Shenandoah Valley Art Center presents Painting Floral Still Life in Pastels with Julia Lesnichy. Join Julia Lesnichy in exploring color and technique in pastel painting. The focus of this class will be colorful floral still lifes! Julia will show you how to balance colors and values and use an impressionistic technique of breaking colors. She will instruct you in using colors and values to create depth and contrast. Students of all levels are welcome. They may use their own or the artist's reference photos. Students should bring their own pastel sets and paper. Recommended are Unison landscape pastel set and a hard Nupastel set plus UART pastel paper of any size.
Julia Lesnichy works in oil and pastel as an artist in Crozet, Virginia. She creates mostly plein air landscapes, indoor and outdoor still life and florals. She also enjoys creating portraits of people and animals in oils as well as soft and oil pastels. (Register: Email, Text, or Call instructor at (434) 806-3134 or julialesnichy@aol.com, Fee: $65, Thursday, February 12, 11:00a.m. – 3:00p.m., 416 Classroom, 416 W. Main St., Waynesboro, VA 22980)