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Learn all about pastel, its history, its place in art, and most importantly, how to work with this most demanding and rewarding medium.  No other medium can match pastel's tonal range and immediacy. The class will focus on creating finished works in pastel, from life or from reference photos. Emphasis will be placed on Design, Value, and Color.

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Students should bring as many pastels as they can get their hands on, but Don will be providing a full set of Unison pastels for students to share while in the classroom.

Students are encouraged to obtain Wallis pastel paper or other sanded pastel paper; however Don will have sheets of Wallis paper available for purchase at his cost.

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Don Rantz has been professionally creating works of art since 1990. In addition to his work in pastel, Don has also worked in wood, wax, oil, and watercolor. A native Arizonan, he studied Fine Art at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, California.

He has won awards for his pastels at the Phippen Museum Western Art Show and Sale in Prescott in both 2006 and 2007. In 2006 won the Ruth Richeson Unison Pastel award in the annual Pastel Journal's Pastel 100 competition.  He participates in numerous art shows and he has been the guest artist at the Arts Prescott Gallery and shows his work in the Collector's Room at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum in Tucson.

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