Pastel painting workshop takes artists from line to design

    As part of the First Friday events each month, Prairie Wind Art Center in Holyoke is offering an Art Discovery Event Friday, June 1, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nancy Dee will offer a pastel workshop for interested beginning or intermediate artists who want to learn more about the medium.  
    Artists should take advantage of this chance to spend the morning learning about the soft pastel medium and explore the artist’s view of light — the concepts of light and shadow interacting with a simple subject. Then after lunch, the group will start a landscape painting focusing on how the play of light affects color selections.  
    What is pastel? It is a pure pigment whose particles, when seen under a microscope, look like colorful, multi-faceted diamonds. Reflecting and refracting light like a prism, these particles provide the medium with intense color and luminance.  

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