Juicy Fruits: Soft Pastel

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Juicy Fruits: Soft Pastel with Liz Kenyon

May 9-10, 2025 | Friday – Saturday

Times – 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
Experience – All levels of experience are welcome.
Registration – Click the Cancellation Policy tab above.
Location – Sedona Arts Center, Theatre Studio

Learn to create expressive, impressionistic, and bold soft pastel paintings. See how you can illuminate the shiny skin and rich darks of plump, juicy cherries. Build stronger colors. Define lively style with stems that sway. Have fun layering creamy dots that enhance your background and establish harmony in your final painting.

Feel confident with instructor demonstrations and provided printed references. All levels welcome.

This is a ‘how-to’ technique class.
All levels.
Printed references furnished.
Work at your own pace.
Expect demonstrations and friendly class participation.

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Liz Kenyon

Liz grew up in a small rural town called Watsonville in California. The instructors at the University of Arizona encouraged her with their insights on drawing and color. Her professional career after graduating included everything from working in design studios to owning her own ad agency, publishing firm, and illustration business.

Among Liz’s national clients were Post Cereals, Disney Studios, and Motorola. She also illustrated book covers for Harper Collins in New York for fifteen years, and when Liz wasn’t illustrating, she learned to paint with soft pastels.

She is now exclusively a fine-art, soft pastel painter. Continuing to teach workshops on pastel painting at Scottsdale Artist School and numerous venues in Arizona keeps her in touch with fresh viewpoints.

Liz’s fine art soft pastel paintings have been recognized locally, regionally, and internationally for more than 2 decades, receiving over 40 awards from juried shows and having 15 one-woman shows.

She is a signature member of the International Pastel Society and active in the Arizona Pastel Art Association.

Her work is highlighted in four books: Best of Worldwide Artists, Pastel, Volume I, Best of Pastel America, Volume II, Finding Your Visual Voice, and Pure Color: Best of Pastel Edition, plus numerous publications, including: Fine Art Collectors of America, Emerging Artists, 2009 as well as several web site collections.

MATERIALS

To ensure a great experience you will need great quality soft pastels. Here’s a list of brands that I use: You can bring a set or individual sticks.

Sennelier 1/2 sticks
Unison 1/2 or full sticks
Terry Ludwig
Rembrandt

See if you can find single sticks of NuPastels in “stem” hues like olive green, pale green, garden green, yellow and red.

PAPER

I will furnish, at no cost, a piece of Sennelier La Carte, Salmon toned, sanded paper 10”x 15” which I used in my original cherry pastel.

If you like another soft pastel paper such as Pastelmat please select a dark mid toned hue. Be sure it has grit.

1 sheet of glassine paper
I role artist tape,1/2” to 1” black or white to attach pastel paper to foam core board.
1 or 2 pieces of foam core board, 1/4 thick, 15”x 20”. Buy at local art store.
1 small sketch book for notes and sketches.
1 12” ruler.
1 charcoal stick, willow/ thin.
1 pair of scissors

Online supplier:

Dakota Art Pastels at dakotapastels.com

For any questions my email is liztration@cox.net

Website: lizkenyon.com

Cancellation Policy

Registration

Each student must enroll individually
Students may register online or by calling the Sedona Arts Center’s Administrative Offices in the Art Barn, toll-free at 888-954-4442 or locally at 928-282-3809
Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express are accepted or student may pay with cash or check by registering in person during office hours at the Art Barn

In-Person and Online Workshops

Payment in full is due upon registration, or a payment plan can be put in place by the student upon check-out through Sezzle.
There is a $125 Cancellation Fee for any cancellations made before April 9, 2025. Remaining balance will be refunded.
There are no refunds after April 9, 2025.
If Sedona Arts Center cancels the workshop for any reason, all payments made will be refunded in full.

Note: If traveling to Sedona, we strongly urge students to purchase refundable airline tickets or travel insurance in case of workshop cancellation due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen changes. Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for non-refundable ticket purchases or lodging fees.

Important Message

The Sedona Arts Center is not responsible for providing make-up sessions or issuing refunds, credits, or transfers for courses missed as a result of illness, emergencies, or other events beyond our control. There are absolutely no refunds after the cut-off date for any reason, unless the Sedona Arts Center has to cancel the workshop, then all fees paid will be refunded in full.

Hudson River Workshop student

“ I had such a great time at Liz Kenyon’s workshop! yeah Liz! It really was an exceptional experience getting to know all of the talented painters who were with me. I learned a lot about myself as an artist and the workshop inspired me to try to live a more art- filled life!”