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Workshops designed for You
Designed for artists like you who want to grow. Whether you’re new to pastels or refining your approach, you’ll gain tools and insights you can apply to your own work.
- 5 Hours of In-Depth Learning
- Virtual Interactive Classroom Environment
- Personalized Painting Critiques
- Recording provided after the workshop
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What Students are Saying...
Focused & Helpful
Paint with me in small live sessions designed to help you see landscapes more clearly and paint with confidence. These workshops are practical, approachable, and rooted in my actual painting processes. This is how I think and paint.
More importantly, though, I want to help you unlock your ability to see and think like a landscape painter, and to discover the natural beauty waiting to emerge from your finger tips.
Interactive & Inspiring
Each live workshop explores a specific landscape concept — light, atmosphere, structure, or color — through direct demonstration and guided painting. You’ll watch the decisions unfold in real time and learn how to simplify complex scenes into paintable ideas.
But, more than that, I hope to bring you inspiration and motivation. If you need fresh ideas and reasons to create, my pastel painting workshops are perfect for you.
Discover Topics that Generate Creativity:
Reflections and Currents: Capturing Water in Pastel
In this workshop, we’ll set aside the idea of “painting water” and focus instead on what’s really there: colors, shapes, values, and edges. When you stop thinking about water as a special subject, it becomes easier to see the simple visual relationships that create the illusion of reflection and movement. We’ll discuss what to pay attention to, and just as importantly, what to ignore.
Through demonstration and guided practice, you’ll learn how to develop layers of depth and movement. The goal is not detail for detail’s sake, but capturing the feeling of water in our dusty medium with confidence and restraint.
Make Your Pastels Sing: Simple Color Harmony
Let’s take the confusion out of color by looking at how it actually works in practice. You’ll learn how the modern color wheel differs from what many of us were taught, and why understanding those relationships makes color choices feel more natural and intentional. Rather than memorizing rules, we’ll focus on seeing harmony and contrast in a simpler, more usable way.
We’ll also talk about how to choose a limited color palette that supports mood, light, and atmosphere using helpful tools available on your smartphone. By learning to select colors with purpose, your paintings will feel more cohesive, confident, and expressive without relying on guesswork.
Build Your Painting: A Structured Approach to Pastels
It is challenging trying to find consistent improvement and predictable success if you don’t have a solid plan for creating a pastel painting. So let’s create one together! In this workshop we’ll explore a simple approach: building your painting in easy to understand steps. Once you have a firm process in mind then experimentation and beautiful paintings become much more feasible.
We will cover key topics, including establishing a foundation with your underpainting, learning how to not overcommit and build too quickly, and when and how to finish a piece. And we’ll have fun and explore!
Captivating Compositions: Learning to See Beyond the Dust
Composition is (almost) everything. You can get the colors, values, shapes, everything else right, but a painting falls flat if the composition is not engaging. But good composition can feel a bit mysterious.
Let’s pull the curtain back and make it simpler. We’re heading outside where Clint will show you how to find interesting compositions, how to take photos of them, how to edit those photos to experiment and prepare painting ideas, and then how to execute those ideas in studies and final pieces.
Timberline: Painting the Personality of the Mountains
We’ll explore what gives mountain landscapes their sense of presence, scale, and character. The focus will be on understanding form, value, and atmosphere, and how subtle shifts in color and edge can suggest vast distance and changing elevation. You’ll learn how atmospheric perspective helps separate planes and create believable space.
We’ll break mountains into clear layers of depth, from foreground structure to distant ridgelines, using simplified shapes and thoughtful color choices. The goal is to build paintings that feel grounded and expansive, capturing the bold personality of the mountains.
What You Will Need
The following materials list applies to all workshops. I like to keep it simple.
- Three sheets or panels of your preferred pastel surface (I work on sanded paper, but bring what you are comfortable using)
- Blending tools of your choice (fingers are fine)
- Your pastels, of course
- Optional – isopropyl alcohol (any grade/concentration) in a misting spray bottle, and a one inch wide paint brush (a cheap house painting brush works great)
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