In class we will create 3-5 beautiful seasonal greeting cards.  Add colorful ribbons and yarns to enhance our creations. I will be sharing how to make fabulous gifts and decor for the holidays, such as framed pictures, wrapping paper, and festive place mats for the dining table.  Students are asked to bring your own glue sticks, scissors, hole punch and colored pencils for some added touches to your oil pastel works.  Learn this fun, exciting, easy,  technique working with a handmade template, that you are able to use over and over again!  See you in class! 

Look at the fabulous work that the students came up with during our 2nd session together. Students worked with a pre-drawn template of a fan tail hawk and a template of the shapes of a mountain, pine tree, and sun.   I always let my students choose their own favorite colors to work in and I give them ideas about composition, discussing foreground, middle ground, and background.  There is also the directional flow that is really important to consider when working with a smudge.  The more "Smudging" one does the better one gets. Like anything else we do in life.  If you never give up, you never fail!  

This is what we created in the 1st Session of our May 2023 "Older American's Month" FREE ART Classes.  All students were given the same template pattern and came up with their own color combinations and creations.  It is exciting for me to see the variations in "smudge" styles and compositions.    I am learning as much as my students what it is to LOVE a SMUDGE!

This is the happy group that met in May 2023 "Older American's Month" FREE ART Classes funded in part by the Nevada Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts.  Great fun Ladies. Thank you for joining me on this journey of creating Art with a Smudge!  Let's get together again soon!  

Celebrating "Older Americans Month"
The Art to be shown is working in the Oil Pastel "Smudge" technique invented and taught by Nevada Roster Artist + Communities Carol Foldvary-Anderson.

​This exciting technique entails working with a hand-cut template and understanding positive and negative shapes. Students started with the same/similar template and came up with some exciting variations on the same theme.  Come cheer these Artists on!  Refreshments Served!

​Program funded in part by the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

It was my first time attending Older Americans Month and what fun I had offering the grant funded FREE ART CLASSES to adults 55+!  Much gratitude to the Nevada Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts in their support of my art & efforts to share the Oil Pastel Smudge technique to the community! 

Won't you join me in creating fun, unique exciting art in the "Smudge" method.  Contact  www.NevadaArtists.org to sign up or take a photo of their QR code. Ages 13+!   See you in class! 

Many thanks to the Nevada Arts Council
​and the National Endowment for the Arts
​Spanish Springs Library Spanish Springs, NV

It is a requirement that participants are able to attend all 5 sessions,
with the Artist Show/Reception included.
Contact me ASAP only 10 spaces Available!  [email protected] / ph: 775.721.5338

The (NAA) Nevada Artists Association will be hosting a 1 day workshop "Fun with a SMUDGE!"
I will be teaching the basics of the technique, as you can see in the flier, you can go in all different directions and have fun doing so! Register at www.NevadaArtists.org today.  Ages 13 and up are encouraged to apply.  The fee includes all materials. All that is necessary to bring to class is a pair of pointed scissors and an open mind to experimentation, play and to learn something new!  See you on April 23rd! 

Creating Mandalas seems to help me to relax, and to focus, on the many things that are taking place in my life.   I usually create my Mandalas in pen and color pencils.  This image is a Mandala I created a while back.   I cut two shapes to make my template, can you guess what they might be?