Anna Mastronardi Workshop
Transcending the Color Pencil Medium
DATE: April 21, 2012
10am - 5pm
COST: $110
SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate
Transcend the traditional look, feel and concept of color pencils by learning to push this medium into a far richer and relevant form of fine art expression. Learn techniques of layering and color mixing that make your color pencil work feel more like a brush or liquid medium. Intermediate drawing skill and knowledge of color is required to benefit from this class.
Anna Mastronardi's Bio
Anna works in oil and oil sticks, wax-based color pencils, and mixed media. She has exhibited nationally in galleries and museums for over 25 years. Her work is featured in corporate collections, and she is an integral part of the arts community. She is regularly featured in auctions for PONCHO and Museum of Northwest Art, and was a selected artist for “Fate of the Forest” 2011 exhibition at Whatcom Museum.
The innovative technique she employs for her wax-based color pencil work is unrivaled for its tactile and liquid surface, and has received recognition for its extraordinary quality. Her oil + oil sticks on canvas work is a bold and unconventional style that utilizes both oils and oil sticks to increase the textural qualities of surface and magnify chromatic strength.
She attributes her intensely intricate approach to the influence of her early years in native Italy, and now resides on Whidbey Island where she has had her woodland studio for the past 14 years.“My work is a contemplation of the voyage we share.
