May 12, 2012 Meeting Features Color Theory with Peggy Taylor
Appalachian Pastel Society Presentation and Workshop
Color Theory Made Fun and Real
Peggy Taylor
WNC Ag Center
1301 Fanning Bridge Rd.
Fletcher, NC 28732 (right outside Asheville)
“I paint colorful scintillating impressionist paintings in regular size and miniature for my enjoyment and yours.”
This incredible and invaluable workshop further explores what we think we know about color and makes color theory exciting and applicable to the pastel medium. While we continue to educate ourselves about how to use, look and and understand color, our skills and eye can get stuck. Peggy will guide us through a refresher of the basics and introduce us to a deeper understanding of how we can each use more color to our advantage.
The morning presentation will be a discussion, the afternoon workshop will have us challenging our own color ideas and styles.
Peggy Horne Taylor began painting in 1980. She owned a dessert catering company called “Eatable Art.’’ A comment from one of her customers inspired Peggy to leap from frosting to canvas and 30 some years later she is still creating art on non-edible surfaces. Today she is devoted to painting colorful scintillating oil and pastel impressionistic works in both regular size and miniature. Formerly the Director of Willow Wisp Farm Studios, a small art school in Fairview, NC; specializing in plein-air painting, Taylor currently operates her studio and gallery with the same name and teaches art classes.
Peggy Taylor has studied with many nationally known artists, but she credits the time she spent studying with Lois Griffel of the Cape Cod School of Art for the direction her art has taken in the past 15 years. Her work is at The Design Gallery in Burnsville, NC, and Willow Wisp Farm Studios & Gallery in Fairview, NC. Taylor is a juried member of artspecifier.com.
Peggy is an invited painting advisor for the HIghlands Art Union and she is a Signature Member of the Western North Carolina Plein-air Painters. The highlight of her career was being asked to participate in a private exhibition for His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah ibn Turki Al Saud in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia. She is in the book “Best of NC Artists 2005.”
Morning Presentation 10am –Noon (free)
Afternoon Workshop 1pm to 4pm ($45 members/$55 non-members)
Register on-line and you may pay for the workshop using PayPal!
CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Miriam M Hughes
610-389-0058 – cell
www.miriamhughes.com
artdog @miriamhughes.com