Christy Pilkinton’s workshop format includes demonstrations in oil and pastel, color, study of the Old Masters, professional portrait procedure, posing and lighting of models, choosing painting positions, arrangement of materials and easel, canvas preparation. She also covers methods of painting (masses, values, color, texture, etc.), methods of observing and understanding color, color mixing in oil & its application to pastel, portrait palettes of the Old Masters and Impressionists revealed, professional portrait artist’s palette explained and discussed. Pastel instruction included mastering pastels, choice of materials, types of surfaces, techniques, framing, composition, pricing, working from photographs, promotion and critique of artists work. Christy Pilkinton’s workshop format includes demonstrations in oil and pastel, color, study of the Old Masters, professional portrait procedure, posing and lighting of models, choosing painting positions, arrangement of materials and easel, canvas preparation. She also covers methods of painting (masses, values, color, texture, etc.), methods of observing and understanding color, color mixing in oil & its application to pastel, portrait palettes of the Old Masters and Impressionists revealed, professional portrait artist’s palette explained and discussed. Pastel instruction included mastering pastels, choice of materials, types of surfaces, techniques, framing, composition, pricing, working from photographs, promotion and critique of artists work.
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Christy Pilkinton’s workshop format includes demonstrations in oil and pastel, color, study of the Old Masters, professional portrait procedure, posing and lighting of models, choosing painting positions, arrangement of materials and easel, canvas preparation. She also covers methods of painting (masses, values, color, texture, etc.), methods of observing and understanding color, color mixing in oil & its application to pastel, portrait palettes of the Old Masters and Impressionists revealed, professional portrait artist’s palette explained and discussed. Pastel instruction included mastering pastels, choice of materials, types of surfaces, techniques, framing, composition, pricing, working from photographs, promotion and critique of artists work.

    I have loved art since childhood and have been blessed with opportunities to study with some of the great masters of our time, beginning with local artist & teacher Shirley Pharris. Shirley introduced me to internationally known portrait artist and master pastelist Daniel E. Greene. I was fortunate to serve as his assistant & class coordinator for Nashville workshops and accumulated over 225 hours under his instruction in New York & Nashville.  I have attended workshops, lectures & demos with the following master artists to date:
  • Barbara Applegate
  • Igor Babailov, M.F.A.
  • Wendy Caporale
  • Judith Carducci
  • Margaret Dyer
  • Cedric Egeli
  • Calvin Goodman
  • Daniel Greene, N.A.
  • Charles Gruppe’
  • Ray Kinstler, N.A.,AWS
  • Michael Shane Neal
  • Richard Schmid
  • Burton Silverman
 
 
    I will continue to be a student of art as long as I live, sharing the same desire as that of the great Michelangelo, "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
A member of the Monthaven Art Society, American Society of Portrait Artists and the Fellowship of Christians in Portraiture.
I am currently accepting commissions for paintings in pastel and oil.
I am also accepting beginning and advanced students. See class information page.

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