APS Presents: Susan Mayfield

“Painting Bold Skies In Pastel”

Saturday, May 10, 2025
Meeting and LIVE Demo 10am – Noon • Workshop 1:15 – 4:30pm
Registration now open
Workshop Fee is $60.00

Susan Mayfield is an artist known for her bold pastels and oils. A native South Carolinian, she moved to Salida, Colorado in 2007. Mayfield’s pastels have been in solo and group exhibits in galleries such as the Wells Gallery and the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, SC, the Joyce Robins Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, and the Red Piano Gallery in Hilton Head. Selected awards include a “Best in Show” and Southwest Magazine Award at the 2018 Mile High Pastel Society of Colorado National Exhibition, a Quick Draw Award at the 2017 Red Rocks Plein Air Festival in Moab, Utah, the Elizabeth Mowry Poetic Landscape Award at the 2017 Mile High Pastel Society of Colorado Exhibition. She was artist-in-residence at Palmetto Bluff, SC, in 2023 and is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of Colorado. Her paintings can be seen at the Sage Mountain Gallery in Salida, CO, and the Edward Dare Gallery in Charleston, SC in the summer of 2025. Visit her online: https://susanmayfield.net/

Morning Demo – “Painting Clouds and Skies in Pastel”

The focus of this demo will be making a landscape with a dynamic sky. We will explore ways of painting clouds and weather that add movement and energy to your pastel. Painting the changing weather or an approaching storm can be used to create a mood, or to express emotion and drama in your painting, or to simply add interesting visual and compositional elements to your pastel through cloud patterns and shapes.

Afternoon Workshop – “Painting Bold Skies In Pastel”

In the workshop we will be doing a landscape with a dynamic, interesting sky. We will work on various cloud shapes, and talk about the different types of clouds, the lighting of clouds that’s dependent on the sun’s position, the use of warm and cool colors in the highlights and shading of the clouds, using negative space painting to “cut around” clouds, losing and softening certain edges, and reinforcing other edges to make a believable sky, and putting all this together to make a powerful design and tells a compelling story.

Workshop cost is $60.00
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NOTE… that to view the morning DEMO or participate in the afternoon WORKSHOP, you must be a current APS Member. Current members will receive a link to the morning Zoom in their email. [The 2025 Membership Year began on January 1. Have you renewed?] IF YOU WISH TO RENEW OR JOIN, click the “JOIN/ RENEW” tab at the top of the page…or use the following link…https://www.appalachianpastelsociety.org/?page_id=142