Oil Pastels for Everyone with Chester Kasnowski
Although Cray-Pas, the first oil pastel, was introduced in the 1920s, it wasn’t until Picasso asked Henri Sennelier to create professional oil pastels, circa 1945, that the world had a truly new art medium. The Sennelier oil pastels are richly pigmented pastels with a creamy consistency. They adhere to paper, canvas, wood, metal and glass. The experience simulates drawing with oils. The colors are bright, highly saturated and long lasting if maintained correctly. They have little comparison with dry or soft pastels in look, feel or technique. Although oil sticks provide an oil paint surface, this medium can be applied more directly and quicker than oil paints. Oil pastels travel easily. Learn the basics of this exciting medium. This course will introduce you to oil pastels and will have you painting new colors, shapes and perhaps develop ideas for your other color works. Technique demonstrations, group and one-on-one instruction will be accomplished. For beginners and seasoned artists as well. Minimum 6/Maximum 12 students. Download a materials list HERE.
Chester Kasnowski trained in traditional art practices and theories, has always embraced and practiced contemporary art movements that showed promise and hope in adding to tradition. He has excelled in and exhibited conceptual art, computer art, and video art during 1970-1985. Returning to his roots in painting, he now produces and exhibits highly charged visual works that speak of values found in the visual world, art history, and arts future based on strong foundations. Kasnowski earned degrees from the Dayton Art Institute and Tulane University. He has taught art for more than thirty years, lectured, written art reviews, given workshops, and was a curator of education at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has received many awards and exhibited his works world-wide in solo and group shows. His works are in numerous private collections as well as museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in NYC, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. www.artbykas.com
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