"Pastel Portrait Painting" by Ingrid Egeli

A Special Two-Day Workshop on Painting the Pastel Portrait with a One Hour Live Demonstration by Ingrid Egeli

Cost: $ 245. Make checks payable to NBAL and mail to P.O. Box 0613, Titusville, FL 32782.

Where: North Brevard Art League, 1421 Draa Road, Titusville, FL 32796

When: Nov. 9 and 10, 2019 from 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM (with a one hour break for lunch)

Students will learn to paint a pastel portrait using the structural planes of the head There will be a special emphasis skull salient points. Achieving a likeness will also be covered. Further topics to be covered:

1. Setting up the gestural planes of the head using charcoal. 2. Arranging value patterns. 3. Blocking in color masses. 4. Finishing with edges. A live model will be set up for students to paint. Ingrid will give a one hour demo on Saturday morning.

Materials: A set of pastels that include a wide range of earth tones, soft charcoal, charcoal pencil, paper towels, a stiff oil brush (your worst one--picture the nastiest oldest paint brush you have--bring that), a hand held mirror, five sheets of Canson pastel paper (at least two of the sheets must be pearl grey), a drawing board, clips, water bottle, and lunch. (If you bring Nupastels, bring a razor blade.)

Bio: Ingrid Egeli was born in Annapolis, Maryland into a family of portrait artists. As an infant, her mother would put her in a basket under her easel while she was painting watercolors in downtown Annapolis. As soon as Egeli could walk, she set up an easel next to her mother's, and began painting. By the time she was five, she had sold her first pastel portrait for a dollar at the Cape Cod street festival in Hyannis, Ma.

'I was raised with a paintbrush in my hand,' says Egeli. Egeli studied anatomy and sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, figure painting at the Arts Students League of New York, and impressionism at the Cape Cod School of Art. She has studied with such renowned artists as Nelson Shanks, Ron Sherr, Natalie Italiano, Stephen Perkins, Henry Hensche, John Ebersberger, Ted Seth Jacobs, and Harvey Dinnerstein.

At age nineteen, Egeli secured her first commission to paint the headmaster of Severn School in Severna Park, Maryland. Today her portraits hang in institutions and homes throughout the United States. She has exhibited at the Wolfarth Galleries in both Washington, D.C. and Provincetown, Massachusetts, and at the McBride Gallery in Annapolis, as well, Egeli's work is displayed in the Johns Hopkins School of Health Collection in Baltimore. Egeli lives with her husband, Stephen Perkins who is a sculptor, and three sons in Melbourne Beach, Florida where she is an active member of the Brevard Art community and The Art Student Guild of Brevard. Egeli teaches painting workshops in herr backyard during the winter months in Florida, and is an avid supporter of the Brevard Ballet Academy and the Henegar Center for the Arts in Melbourne, Florida.