LOOK UP!

Look UP! 4 day intensive workshop Daily Hours 9am 3:30pm

MAXIMUM STUDENTS -6      Smaller group ensures more personal mentoring time per student.

**This workshop is best for students with at least one year of experience. 

 STUDENTS WILL LEARN

In this four-day pastel workshop,  Tobi will share her approach for building believable clouds and luminous skies. Students will learn how to build dynamic color relationships and incorporate unique application techniques.

• Students will address the importance of the sky and earth-plane relationship in a composition and learn how to transform a simple sky into a well thought out design. 
• Tobi will demonstrate techniques using brushes in her approach to working with PastelMat paper, which allows you to paint with a dry medium. She developed this technique for creating cloud like textures.
• There will be a strong emphasis on learning how to choose the correct color values and saturation needed to  create skies with luminosity. Students will learn Tobi's unique process for building a color story before beginning a painting.

Tobi believes that one learns best by first observing and then working independently. First day students will watch short, detailed explanations and teacher demonstrations, then work on quick corresponding exercises which integrate the information with hands-on experience and teacher support. 

Tobi will take students through a step by step process for each painting. One of stormy clouds and the other of a luminous sunset, both utilizing the concepts introduced on the first day.

WORKSHOP SUPPLIES 

 It is critical to have the appropriate pastels for the workshop. Many of the exercises use specific colors to teach value, and temperature, or teach color relationships. A carefully curated palette of 41pastels and four sheets of 11x14 PastelMat paper will be available as a kit.

Over the years, Tobi has observed that beginning students have not yet acquired a collection of quality pastels, with a range of values, hues and saturations  to complete a successful painting. 

Her carefully curated color palette will supply all the pastels needed for the exercises and the specific color values, hues and saturation needed to teach her unique color story system and complete two paintings. She has given careful consideration to the pastel brand quality and value when making her decisions and has arranged with the manufacturers to purchase at a teachers discount for the pastels and paper to ensure the most affordable price possible. 

WORKSHOP KIT  includes 41pastels, Schminke, Mount Vision, Great American, Girault and four sheets of 11x14 Pastel Paper.

Kit materials are purchased three weeks prior to the workshop and distributed first day of workshop. 

Kit cost -$235 can be paid by cash, check or Venmo @Tobi-Clement-2

Questions regarding the Kit?   Email: [email protected]

WORKSHOP LOCATION  

Tobi's Art Studio  

2108 Calle Tecolote  Santa Fe NM 87505

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 LOOK UP!  June 16-19th 2027 

4-day workshop $410 plus tax = $445

Preferred method of payment - Check , Cash or Venmo ID @ Tobi-Clement-2

If choosing any of the above methods to pay, please email me with following information.I will need your name, email and phone number and which workshop you are interested in, and method of payment in order to reserve your space in a workshop.   [email protected]  

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CANCELLATION POLICY

A full refund is available if the cancellation is made at least one month before the start date.

 THE INSTRUCTOR

Tobi Clement is an internationally recognized and professional award-winning pastel artist, known for her expressive skies. Tobi's work was featured on the cover of the annual French publication, Pratiques De Arts #50 magazine in 2019, and was invited as one of fourteen American artists to participate in a special all-woman Pastel exhibition in Montluçon, France in 2022, honoring American Women Pastellists.
She is a Distinguished member of the Pastel Society of New Mexico (PSNM), and a Signature member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico (PAPNM). Tobi was featured in the 2020 June/July & August/September Pastel Journal with a two-part educational editorial. PleinAir Magazine showcased Tobi in an educational editorial in the November 2020 issue, as well as several special editorials throughout the years.

TESTIMONIALS

"Although I was a beginner having not used pastels in 20+ years, I felt comfortable and accepted by instructor and the more advanced participants. I couldn’t have asked for a better group. Tobi provided one on one attention which was very helpful. It was a delightful experience and I learned so much about pastels vs acrylics. Highly recommend!" Karen

Look UP! Santa Fe 2023

"I highly recommend Tobi Clement as a pastel painting instructor for both beginner and advanced artists. Not only is Tobi a talented artist and teacher, but she is fun and inspiring. The class was filled with moments of concentration, laughter, disappointment (at our own blunders) and joy. Her demos are filled with teaching moments that we took to our own easels to practice. I will take another class from Tobi at the first opportunity!" Laura

"Her passion for pastels and teaching is glaringly obvious. The nice thing was, from my vantage point (the back corner … by choice I might add) I could study at my own pace and watch Tobi work the room. She gave everyone so much confidence in their painting abilities with coaxing and praise. I would gladly study with her more. I finally got back to my easel and am tackling another sky with help and reminders from Tobi’s handouts. Thank you!" Kirk