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Margaret Dyer
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Figure in its Environment
Medium: Acrylic and Collage
Level: All Levels
Location: Studio
Status: Open for Enrollment
Deposit is $450, balance due 30 days before arrival
Day Student Tuition: $975 + Materials fee & Ct Sales Tax
5-Day Package*: $1,950 - $2,650* + Materials fee & Ct Accommodations Tax
*Your 5-Day Workshop Package includes:
Workshop Tuition, lodging, dinner 2 nights (welcome and farewell), breakfast and lunch each day, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer.
For your independent dinners, there are many restaurants with a wide variety of cuisines and price points, within comfortable walking distance of the Inn, plus Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s.
You can choose a room to yourself (single occupancy) or double your fun, bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
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Rates & Enrollment
About This Workshop
Figure in its Environment
Students may work with oils and/or soft pastels.
We will explore drawing, composition, anatomy, proportion, value, color and medium application. Emphasis will be on developing form using light and shadow. My step-by-step method will help you simplify the complicated. If you are bewildered by color or are wanting to speed up and become looser in your work, you will definitely benefit from this class.
At the end of the first day we will have a short photo session with the model. Students can use their digital camera, smart phone or iPad to photograph her. From the many pictures they take, they’ll choose several to work from during class. If using a camera or phone to photograph, we can print out your photos for your reference. If you photographed with an iPad, you may work from the iPad. I do not want you working from your phone.
Please bring $15 cash to the class for the model fee.
Class Schedule:
First day
9:00 - 10:00 – Demonstration
10:00 -12:00 – Morning session with model
12:00 - 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 - 3:30 – Afternoon session with model
3:30 - 4:00 - photo session
Following day(s)
Working from photos
9:00 – 12:00 – Morning session with photos
12:00 - 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 - 4:00 – Afternoon session with photos
Model can show up at 9:45
Friday morning.
In addition to the model fee, I think it’s a good idea to suggest to people to bring cash to tip the model for her photo session. In that half hour of shooting, people can get as many as 200 photos of the model, giving them images to work from for months in their home studios.
About Margaret Dyer
Born in New York, Atlanta based Margaret Dyer is a Master Pastelist with the Pastel Society of America; she is in the Masters Circle of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS); and she is a Member of Excellence with the Southeastern Pastel Society. Some of her many awards are:
2022 First Place, Southeastern Pastel Society
2021 Best of Show, American Impressionist Society Associate Members Exhibition
2021 Honorable Mention, American Impressionist Society Members Exhibition
2019 Best Impressionist Painting, National Oil & Acrylic Painters Society Small Works Exhibition
2018 First Place, Southeastern Pastel Society International Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
2014 Best of Show, SE Pastel Society International
2013 Best of Show, IAPS Online Exhibition
Margaret has been featured many times in The Pastel Journal, American Artist, International Artist and The Artist magazine. You can also find her in “Pure Color-The Best of Pastels” I and II.
In the June 2002 issue of The Artist’s Magazine, the author wrote:
“Dyer is adamant about what she wants to portray: beautiful—not overtly provocative—figures in action. She tries to avoid languid, sentimental posturing, and prefers to show her model in an unguarded moment, when she’s not worrying about the ‘right pose.’ Dyer’s attention is caught by telling gestures, such as a direct gaze or a hand on a hip… Above all, Dyer seeks to establish an atmosphere and mood particular to the developing painting
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$450 deposit is due at the time of registration.
Remaining balance is due 30 days before your retreat start date
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