$SSW: Richard Vander Meer: Pastel: Brilliant Landscape in Soft Pastel

Brilliant Landscape in Soft Pastel
Thursday EVENING Workshop

• Subject: Landscape
  
• Medium: Soft Pastel
  
• Levels: Beginner, Intermediate
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $17.50
  - Non-members: $20.00
  
• OPTIONAL User Fee: $5 - Use of Instructor's Pastels (This is meant for those who DO NOT own pastels.)

Using one of our Oro-Medonte's landscapes as inspiration, the student will explore the unique qualities of soft pastel, it's brilliance and sketchy feel.

The student will be taken through all the steps necessary to produce a competent 'works of art' from the initial composition, to the mid application of local colour, and finally the details and highlights.

About the Artist:

Born in Barrie in 1958, Richard has been painting and drawing since he was ten years old, developing his abilities on a self-taught basis until enrolling in the Fine Arts Department at the Ontario College of Arts four year program.

Since graduating in 1990, Richard has since opened and operated a small business in Orillia, Ontario.

Richard is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards throughout his career including:

- 1988 John Alfsen Award for Proficiency in Fine Art
- 1989 Dorothy Steven's Award for Proficiency in Painting and Drawing
- 1991 Best in Show, Watercolour and Pastel, Kempenfest, Barrie
- 1992 Best Traditional Painting, Midland Arts Festival

Richard's work was chosen to be in a movie 'Where the Heart is', filmed in Toronto, and commanded the highest price in a charity silent auction held at the Ontario College of Art in 1989.