Seabrook Island Artist Guild (SIAG) welcomes Beth Williams.
Demonstration – September 4 @ 1:30 pm at Oyster Catcher
Workshop – September 5 & 6 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm at Oyster Catcher
The SIAG is offering our first fall art guild demonstration and workshop in September. The free demonstration is on Thursday, September 4 at 1:30 pm at the Oyster Catcher facility. The two-day class and workshop is on Friday and Saturday, September 5 and 6 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Oyster Catcher facility.
The demonstration will be a wave demo. The class and workshop will be about landscape variations with soft pastel. This course will cover composition, color and variations of underpainting and texture techniques used to create a variety of effects using the same composition.
Students will bring a reference photo of a familiar scene or choose from reference photos provided by Beth. There will be handouts, lecture, demonstrations, critique, and question and answer sessions. Beth will also offer the use of a variety of underpainting supplies for this course. For an additional supply fee of $25, she can provide pastels, sanded paper and underpainting mediums. The supply list will be provided at registration. Guild members and non-members are welcome to register for the class.
To register for the two-day Beth Williams class and workshop follow the instructions below:
1.) Please email Tina Mayland at tinamayland@mindspring.com to let her know that you want to attend this workshop. She will put you on the list of attendees, but you will not be registered until she receives your check.
2.) Mail or drop off your check for $200 made out to the artist (not SIAG). Tina’s address is 2636 Persimmon Pond Ct, Seabrook Island, SC 29455. Please date your check the first day of the workshop.
Master Pastelist Beth Tockey Williams is an award-winning artist and Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, who served as the 2019 artist in residence at the Dry Tortugas National Park. Beth earned Fine Arts and Bachelors of Science degrees in Art Education from Texas Tech University. She also taught art for private and public schools, as well as for art museums across the country and abroad. Her work has been featured in The Pastel Journal “Pastel 100” competition in 2018 and 2019, and in The Pastel Journal: The Winter Landscape 2021 edition. In 2021, Beth achieved Master Circle status with the International Association of Pastel Societies.
Beth prefers to begin her paintings outdoors, observing nature and the fleeting effects of light on color, shape and texture in the landscape. Her marsh and dunes scenes have been described as sweeping, soulful and intuitive. She has long been renowned for her waves, and in recent years she’s launched a series of fire paintings that have earned her acclaim. The initial installment of the fire series sold out within two hours of its offering.
Though currently expanding into oil, Beth’s medium of choice is pastel, which she prefers for its rich, luminous color and velvety finish, allowing her to capture a strong atmospheric quality in her landscapes. She enjoys pastel for its pure color permanence and its flexibility in wet or dry technique, as well as for allowing her to paint or draw simultaneously on the same surface.
Beth’s work appears in the Charleston Artist Collective gallery, and at Atelier on Bay Art Gallery and Studio in Beaufort, SC, where Beth resides. She can be found online at bethwilliamspastels.squarespace.com, on Instagram @bethewilliamsart and on Facebook @Beth Williams Fine Art.
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-Submitted by Rod Morris, VP of Publicity, Seabrook Island Artist Guild
(Image credit: Beth Williams)