A pastel landscape workshop exploring how underpainting builds texture, depth, and atmosphere to bring your scenes to life.
Whether you’re new to pastel or a seasoned professional looking to refresh your approach, this workshop offers inspiring ways to bring greater depth, emotion, and vitality to your landscape paintings.
Using underpainting on UART Premium Sanded Pastel Paper, learn effective ways to create texture and atmospheric conditions in your landscape paintings, offering an opportunity to bring the landscape to life in more interesting and meaningful ways.
UART Premium Sanded Pastel Paper will be supplied to each student for the workshop.
2026Fri, May 29 - Sun, May 31
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Lyn AsseltaBeginner to advancedPastels (soft & hard)
UART Workshop with Lyn Asselta: "Texture and Atmosphere in the Landscape"
Whether you’re new to pastel or a seasoned professional looking to refresh your approach, this workshop offers inspiring ways to bring greater depth, emotion, and vitality to your landscape paintings.
South Freeport Congregational ChurchFreeport, ME
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$325.00 for 3 days
A pastel landscape workshop exploring how underpainting builds texture, depth, and atmosphere to bring your scenes to life.
Whether you’re new to pastel or a seasoned professional looking to refresh your approach, this workshop offers inspiring ways to bring greater depth, emotion, and vitality to your landscape paintings.
Using underpainting on UART Premium Sanded Pastel Paper, learn effective ways to create texture and atmospheric conditions in your landscape paintings, offering an opportunity to bring the landscape to life in more interesting and meaningful ways.
UART Premium Sanded Pastel Paper will be supplied to each student for the workshop.
Lyn Asselta
www.lynasselta.com/Lyn is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA) and a Master’s Circle recipient of the International Association of Pastel Societies. She is the founder of the First Coast Pastel Society (FL), a Member of Excellence of the Southeastern Pastel Society, and is a member of the American Artists Professional League.
Being an active plein air painter, she enjoys participating in plein air events, especially those that benefit anything having to do with land conservation. In 2009, Lyn had the honor of being an Artist in Residence for the National Park Service at Acadia National Park in Maine. Her work was featured in the February 2016 issue of Pastel Journal and her painting “Blue Morning, Crescent Beach” appeared on the cover.
Now living in a small village in midcoast Maine after 35 years in Florida, Lyn is inspired daily by new landscapes and changes of season. Her work is represented by Gleason Fine Art Gallery in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St. Augustine, FL, The Lucy Clark Gallery in Brevard, NC, and Maine Art Hill, Kennebunk, Maine.
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