DIANA COIDAN

TEACHES PASTELS

7/26/2020
@1-6pm 

5 hours
lesson 

painters (16+) with at least 1 year experience

instruct in PASTELS
Disclaimer:
Reservation made less than 24 hours before the class will not be accepted. A master class is subject to cancellation if the registration of the class less than 5. A class cancellation notice will send via email at least 24 hours before the class starts. If cancellation happens due to low registration, a full refund of $15 will be issued to your original payment method. A reservation fee will not be refunded if you are absent for any reason. Class takers are required to bring their own art materials. The champion will only provide easels and trays. 
Class required art materials
Set of soft and hard pastels*, set of pastel pencils, pencil and/or graphite for sketching, pastel blenders, sharpener, if you have one, latex gloves (if needed), wipes and/or paper towels, smooth foam board or hard back board 16x20 or smaller, masking tape, and bull dog clips. Easels available in classroom. Pastel paper recommended is UArt Premium Sanded Pastel Paper by Uneeda Enterprises. Instructor will supply one 9x12 grade paper for each student. Additional larger pastel paper student will need to purchase. Optional:  you can use instructor’s photos to create your masterpiece. 

*I recommend new students unfamiliar with pastels, obtain an inexpensive 15-stick set of Gallery Soft Pastels from Jerry’s Artarama as well as Pastel Pencils. Students are welcome to use the pastels set aside for new students that I have on-hand
Statement
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Drawing and painting at an early age, I can't remember when I wasn't at an easel. I developed throughout the years a love of pastels, and find that my paintings can be most expressive in this medium. In a capture a moment of inspiration with movement, sketching can be a challenge since I am fascinated with the sky and water. 
I paint my works in my home-studio, but they begin either on location with a brief sketch and/or referenced photos. With movement of water and the changing cloud formations, I need a continuous shooting of images. These referenced materials pull the scene back into my memory giving me a sense of the place and feeling the scene. I begin sketching lightly on my preferred choice of paper, Uart Premium Sanded Pastel Paper, 600 Grade. This grade of tooth I use primarily because of the easiness it accepts soft pastels, and I can utilize my blending stroke to capture the movements I want. 

I basically use soft pastels such as Terry Ludwig, Schmincke, and Unison because their extra softness and smoothness enables me to blend and flat stroke one-layer pastels easily. I do not use an under painting as I have in the past, and this paper does not need a spray fixative when complete. I love the results I can obtain with pastels and focus mainly on this medium either though I am a multi-media artist.
exhibitions & awards
artist contact
Website
http://dcoidan.fineartstudioonline.com/
Email
nadioc@aol.com
About The Artist​

A Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, award-winning pastelist, Diana Coidan, has been an accomplished and experienced full-time professional artist for over thirty years.  Although she works in many mediums, working in soft pastels is her most expressive, offering her the rich color, variety, and immediacy to paint her award-winning pastels.  A Business College graduate, Diana retired from an administrative position to pursue her love for art. Self-taught and after many painting/pastel workshops with well-known instructors, she discovered her own pathway to expression in pastels and developed her own signature style with strikingly realistic results. Diana's paintings focus on movement with various sky/cloud formations, rhythm of the sea in its many forms, and marine life, all evident of her unconscious attraction to blue.   
 
Recognized by many well-known jurors in local, regional, state, national and international level exhibitions, Diana has been awarded place and purchase awards for many of her pastel pieces. Her work can be found in private and corporate permanent art collections in the Raleigh, NC area, including Duke Health Raleigh hospital's permanent art collection and Wells Fargo Corporate Offices. With over thirty-five solo and numerous group shows to her credits, she additionally has completed four commissioned wall murals along with seminar and brochure illustrations.  She was selected for the Best of State and National Artists Book receiving an Honorable Mention for a pastel, and her nautical pastel works are in the 2013 publication of Painting North Carolina, A Visual Journey by Kimberlee Maselli, Coastal Plains chapter.     
 
A Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Pastel Society of North Carolina, Associate Member of the National Association of Women Painters, Watercolor Society of North Carolina, Associate Member of Womens Painters of the Southeast, Fine Arts League of Cary,  Carteret County Arts & Crafts Coalitition,  and a founding member of the Cary Gallery of Artists Diana’s work can be found at Bev's Fine Art, Raleigh, Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary, Mattie King Davis Art Gallery, Beaufort, and Arts n' Things in Morehead City.       
 
Recent work involves selecting past original acrylic on canvas paintings and transforming them into new work using fractal algorithms, line, form, color and structure. A highly detailed digital image emerges.