Class Description: Exploring Pastels - Beginning and Intermediate Pastel Workshop with Tom Tomasek

Class Description: Exploring Pastels - Beginning and Intermediate Pastel Workshop with Tom Tomasek

Class | Available

All Levels
8/2/2025 (one day)
10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Sat
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$110.00
Member Discount Available

Class Description: Exploring Pastels - Beginning and Intermediate Pastel Workshop with Tom Tomasek

Class | Available

Join award winning pastel artist, Tom Tomasek for an exploration of pastel technique that can be applied to studio work as well as plein air painting.  Utilizing sanded surface pastel paper and odorless mineral spirits, this process begins with the development of a strong under painting and evolves with the application of each additional pastel layer.


The properties of various pastel brands and different painting foundations will be covered.  The special considerations for pastel presentation, such as matting and framing will be

demonstrated at the conclusion.  


All supplies are included.

Please note - the registration fees listed in the annual class booklet were in error.  The actual price for this class is $110 (Non-Members) and $99 (Members).

Tomasek, Tom
Tom Tomasek


While growing up in rural Michigan, I was instilled with an appreciation for the land that surrounds us.  I feel my mission as a landscape painter is to document these places.  Whether it is the spectacular views around the Great Lakes or the more ordinary scenes we pass by every day, I feel they are all important.  The paintings are then a way for me to return to that place and hopefully take other viewers there as well. 


EXHIBITIONS, JURIED / SOLO:

*ANN ARBOR ART CENTER, ANN ARBOR. MI
* DENNOS MUSEUM, TRAVERSE CITY, MI

*MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS, MIDLAND, MI
* SAGINAW ART MUSEUM, SAGINAW, MI MUSKEGON MUSEUM OF ART, MUSKEGON, MI MICHIGAN GOVERNOR'S RESIDENCE, LANSING. MI LANSING ART *GALLERY, LANSING, MI SHIAWASSEE ART CENTER, OWOSSO, MI
* MAIN STREET GALLERY, LELAND, MI ARTWORKS GALLERY, BIG RAPIDS, MI
* ANTON ART CENTER. MT. CLEMENS. MI LOWELL ART GALLERY, LOWELL, MI STUDIO 23. BAY CITY, MI GALLERY 1212, LANSING, MI

*515 GALLERY, CLARE, MI

*HOLLAND ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY, HOLLAND, MI
*CUNTON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY, ST. JOHNS, MI
*MICHIGAN INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, LANSING. MI 


EVENT PARTICIPATION:

ART FROM THE LAKES, ARTIST EXCHANGE PROGRAM WTH MICHIGAN SISTER STATE, SHIGA PREFECTURE. JAPAN KARAHASHI GALLERY, OTSU, JAPAN FUJI HONKE GALLERY, ISHO, JAPAN


GREAT LAKES BAY PLEIN AIR FESTIVAL. SAGINAWART MUSEUM, SAGINAW. MI FISHTOWN PLEIN AIR. LELAND. MI


WET PAINT DAY, FLINT INSTITUTE OF ART, FLINT, MI POP UP ART, LANSING, MI ART TRAIN USA. DEMONSTRATING ARTIST


PUBLISHED WORK

"ART OF THE SLEEPING BEAR DUNES*, FINE ART BOOK

"PASTEL JOURNAL" MAGAZINE, PASTEL 100 COMPETITION

"MY CITY" MAGAZINE, FLINT, MI FEATURE ARTICLE RESIDENCIES

GOLDEN APPLE ART RESIDENCY, HARRINGTON, MAINE


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS, ADULT EDUCATION, INTERLOCHEN, MI
SAGINAWART MUSEUM, SAGINAW, MI
SHIAWASSEE ART CENTER, OWOSSO, MI
MID-MICHIGAN ART GUILD. LANSING.
MI ARTWORKS GALLERY, BIG RAPIDS, MI
Oliver Art Center, Frankfort, MI