Award winning pastel artist, Melanie Stimmell, will lead you through an exploration of Soft Pastel. You will learn the basic techniques of layering, scumbling, blending, and glazing to create depth and visual interest. Melanie will guide you through the tricks she uses on paper and the asphalt while you expand your visual perception of color.This class is for Beginning to Intermediate. All supplies provided.

A Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the only woman to have won the title of Maestro in both Italy and Germany, Melanie Stimmell specializes in bringing old master's Renaissance artistry to the modern vision of her clients through dramatic asphalt paintings in soft pastel. For the past 11 years Melanie has been creating soft pastel masterpieces and leading workshops for street painting festivals, cultural and children's charity events around the world. In addition, Melanie has been teaching children in Southern California through the Los Angeles Music Center and the Orange County Performing Arts Center for the past 5 years.

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