Seabrook Island Artist Guild (SIAG) welcomes Dee Beard Dean –
Demonstration – October 7 @ 1:30 pm at Oyster Catcher
Workshop – October 9 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm at Oyster Cather
Dee Beard Dean has been painting all her life. Her work has become highly collectible throughout the United States. She studied art at Grand Rapids College, Kendall College of Art and Design, and the New York Academy of Art.
After marriage, she moved to the Florida Keys where she became a professional painter and passed the gift of painting to her son, John Beard, who is now a successful artist. Before gaining recognition as a portrait and landscape painter, Dee was a well-known fashion designer manufacturing her own clothing line with a national label. Dee is a passionate and prolific artist who has studied with many renowned artists and is nationally recognized for her painterly landscapes and her expertise in watercolors, oils and pastels.
Her greatest inspirations have come from painting en plein air (or on location) where her eye for color and composition, and her elevated senses guide her hand in creating paintings filled with evocative light and dramatic shadows. She founded the Plein Air Painters of the Southeast (PAP-SE), a professional organization of acclaimed plein air artists living and working in the southeastern United States.
She is a signature member of AIS (American Impressionist Society), a signature member of ASMA (American Society of Marine Artist), ELPA (Eastern League of Plein Air Painters), the Salmagundi Club, and many other organizations. She resides in Charleston, South Carolina with her husband, Dr. Nicolai Chalfa. Her first book “Painter By Providence” is in publication.
Artists will receive challenging group and individualized instruction in studio painting. Dee will observe the artists’ works and help them to improve rather than change their individual styles. The emphasis will be on learning to see value changes, color temperatures, and composition. We will be building arrangements of abstract shapes that will form a strong foundation for the painting. There will be extensive studies on color temperature and value that will make the students’ paintings “sing” and vibrate with evocative color. There will be short lectures and demos in the mornings.
The remainder of the day will be spent studio painting and Dee will be working with everyone on an individual basis. Instruction will be with oils; however, all mediums are welcome. The workshop is geared toward intermediate and advanced artists who are striving to bring their work up to a new level. Supply List: The selection of colors to include on your palette is a very personal choice. You may use your own favorite colors or the following palette the instructor will be using.
Please contact Tina Mayland, tinamayland@mindspring.com to sign up for the workshop or with any questions.
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-Submitted by Bonnie Younginer, Seabrook Island Artist Guild
(Image credit: Dee Beard Dean)