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The Figure in Pastel
Margaret Dyer
October 8-122012 / $650
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About the Workshop
In Margaret's workshops students are taught a traditional pastel painting technique. Working with live models, students explore drawing, composition, anatomy, proportion, value, color, and pastel application. Emphasis is on developing form using light and shadow. For those wanting to speed up and become less tight in their work, this is an excellent class to take. Students do not need prior pastel experience. Some drawing would be helpful, but is not imperative.
About the Artist
At a moment in 1970 when a model dropped her robe and stood naked in front of a class of wide-eyed eighteen year old art students, I found something in life I loved – the challenge to draw the living, breathing, continuously moving landscape of the human body. What started out as a challenge quickly became a passion. Ten years later, when I happened upon an artist’s dynamic pastels at a local exhibition, I knew I had discovered my medium. The subjects of my paintings are almost always people. They're my daughters, sisters, friends, and sometimes just a passer-by who caught my attention and was not frightened by my proposition to paint her.”
Margaret has lived in and around Atlanta, GA, since her family moved from New York in 1960. She attended the Atlanta College of Art (now SCAD) and furthered her studies under painters Roman Chatov and Kate Fetterolf. A Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America and award-winning member of the American Impressionist Society, Margaret has made her living for over 20 years selling her work and teaching workshops.
PUBLICATIONS
The Pastel Journal (Feb. 2011, Dec. 2005, Mar. 2002, Mar. 2001, Mar. 2000, May 1999)
American Artist Magazine (2010 Cover Competition, Jun. 2001)
International Artist Magazine (Jun. 2005, Aug. 2003, Sep. 2002
The Artist’s Magazine (June 2002)
Pastel Artist International (Jan. 2001)
“How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Figures” (2005 and 2004)
“Pastel Highlights 2” (2004)
“Pure Color: The Best of Pastels,” (2006)
Link: www.margaretdyer.com
