Name: Pastel Workshop: Focus on Clouds
Start: 2025-04-16T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-16T14:00:00-04:00
Location: The Art Supply Depo Sylvania

$60.00
Instructor: Mary Jane Erard
Ages: Adults and mature teens
Skill level: All
Date: Wednesday, April 16, from 11:00 - 2:00 pm
Learn how to create more realistic clouds and cloud-scapes. In this course, Mary Jane will lead you through a series of exercises designed for the beginner through advanced artist. This course will be taught using pastels, but the lessons learned can be applied to any painting medium.
Instruction will cover working with pastel materials, composition, color, adding highlights and shadows, as well as general techniques for create more convincing clouds and skies. Group demonstrations will be provided and individual instruction is tailored to each student's knowledge base of pastel and objectives.
Students should bring or buy the following materials to participate in this course:
Pastel Mat paper. Can be purchased in a tablet of 12 sheets at The Depo, or in single sheets.
About the Instructor:
Mary Jane Erard is an award-winning artist painting mostly in soft pastel and mixed media with acrylic. Her works are usually rural landscapes of the US and Europe. Mary Jane's artwork is owned by many private collectors and included in several corporate collections. She has exhibited in many group and solo exhibitions since the mid 1990s. Ms. Erard's artwork has been published several times in national magazines and books including Best of American Pastel Painters and Southwest Art magazine. Mary Jane is a juried member of the Pastel Society of America. For over 20 years, Mary Jane has been represented by the Collector's Corner at the Toledo Museum of Art.
In addition to her painting career, Mary Jane is a sought after art educator in Ohio and Michigan. As a working professional artist, Mary Jane offers helpful insight to private students who are looking for both art instruction and helpful career advice in the visual arts.
Mary Jane Erard is a co-creator of the 2020 Drive Through Art Loops and the 2021 Art Loop Art Fairs. She is also the co-creator of the Schedel Gardens Art Loops. And Mary Jane was nominated as "Best Art Teacher" in the 2021 and 2022 Toledo City Paper's annual "Best of Competition".
She has served as a juror for many exhibits and competitions including, a 2017 judge for the AICUO's Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts for the State of Ohio, the Crosby Festival of the Arts, and the 2021 Ann Arbor Art Festival in Michigan.
Cancellation Policy: We will refund 50% for any cancellation made at least eight days before the class. If you cannot attend after registration, you are welcome to gift your tuition to a friend at no charge. We do not transfer tuition from one class to another.