Daily Desert: Starting Your Own Daily Creative Practice with Oil Pastels

Learn how to use oil pastels as a foundation for beginning your own daily art practice!

This workshop offers practical art skills and mindfulness exercises as a foundation for beginning a daily, reflective art practice with an artform which is both accessible and portable. You will take away a finished oil pastel landscape and learn the following techniques:

• blending
• layering
• sgraffito

Open to beginners to advanced participants. Come curious and ready to learn! Light Refreshments will be provided.

About the Artist:

Hayley Rawnsley is an LA-based, abstract landscape artist capturing the beauty of the California wilderness to explore the themes of untamed joy and creative resilience in desolate seasons and spaces. With a degree in graphic design, Hayley combines her deep knowledge of color and composition into bright and balanced paintings that invite you to engage with the quiet spaciousness of the desert. Her recent 100 day creative challenge on Substack, “Daily Desert Art Reflections”, experiments with bold colors and geometric shapes to offer daily moments of contemplation and refreshment.

*All proceeds go to the artist and cost of supplies.

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