Soft Pastel Course: Clouds, Waves and Flowers

Learn key landscape techniques with master landscape pastel artist


Caroline Reid Artist
Caroline Reid Artist
Instagram followers 12k followers

3 x 2.5 hours Class size 1 to 2 guests    

  $450 (Afterpay & PayPal Pay in 4 available)

Are you disappointed with your landscape paintings? Are your clouds, waves or flowers dull and flat?
Upgrade your skills with a master pastelliste in her home studio!
In this art course, you will learn specific skills to conquer these problem areas in landscape-inspired artworks with soft pastel.
Each week we will focus on techniques to ensure that can achieve soft colourful clouds, transparent waves, and the delicate petals of flowers with shadows and subtlety.
Join me in my well-equipped studio. You'll discover how to bring your landscape artworks to life.
Through some skill-building exercises, and some theory, you'll receive one-on-one tuition to master these key elements of landscapes.
What you'll get
Over the course of three weeks, you will be provided with 7.5 hours of expert tuition to master these key elements of landscape painting.
Knowledge required
Suitable for intermediate artists with their own pastels.
What to bring
An apron, blue masking tape and some wet wipes. Your own soft pastels set.
Mandatory:
  • Either their own range of pastels or this recommended set Sennelier Soft Pastels 30 landscape plein air L'Ecu half sticks (approximately $120). Available from SoftPastels.com in Newcastle.
  • If you already have a range of soft pastels, please contact the tutor to check they are suitable
  • Please do NOT purchase semi-hard or student-grade pastels like Mungyo or Rembrandt.
Session repeats

This class series runs over 3 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.

Location

8 Nott St, Fraser ACT

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Caroline Reid Artist
Caroline Reid Artist

Instagram followers 12k followers
female Women-owned

An Invitation to Paint What You Love
My art story began with ants.
When I was four or five, I remember lying flat on my belly in the hot, sandy dirt of the Western Australian bush, mesmerised by hundreds of red bull ants racing around their underground city. I watched them meet and gesture with their stick-like legs, disappear down tunnels, and re-emerge carrying twigs, leaves, and heavy clods of wet clay — which, in my imagination, they used like cement to build their world.
I was utterly absorbed. I wanted to know what was happening beneath the surface — so much so that I poked around with a stick, until the ants burst out in outrage to defend their home. When one bit my big toe (and if you know bull ants, you’ll understand), I ran howling back to the house.
As Mum patched me up, I couldn’t stop talking — about the ants, the tunnels, the hidden chambers underground. She simply said, “Draw it for me.”
So I did. A horizon line. Wriggling tunnels beneath. Stick-leg ant people. Balls of dirt. Eggs and baby ants tucked away in secret places.
That moment felt like magic.
Since then, I’ve never stopped being fascinated by the land — by dirt and mud and water, by what lies on the surface and what flows unseen beneath it. Earth makes me feel grounded. At peace. At home.
That’s the spirit behind my masterclasses.
I invite you to come and paint where you live — your own land, your own light, your own textures and stories. Together, we’ll slow down, look closely, experiment freely, and translate the character of place into expressive, personal work. You don’t need to travel far to find inspiration. It’s already beneath your feet.
Come and explore it with me.

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