“Cute Squirrel” Pastel Workshop with pastel artist Tetyana Aleksenko.
Sunday, May 5, 2024, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
During a one-day workshop with Tetyana Aleksenko, we will learn how to create beautiful squirrel. Tetyana will demonstrate how to use a specific pastel paper, soft pastel colors, and create a cute animal. We will cover some basics of color theory and composition and teach about animal drawing techniques to paint realistic squirrels. All supplies included.
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Tetyana Aleksenko’s Bio
Tetyana Aleksenko is a Ukrainian-born pastel artist who now lives and works in The Woodlands, Texas. Tetyana gets inspired by Texan nature, its beauty, and its endless variety of shapes and forms. She believes that her mission as an artist is to find unusual aspects of everyday life and to add some joy and beauty to this world.
Tetyana Aleksenko has always loved drawing and painting but spent most of her adult life working in the biomedical field. Tetyana’s journey as a pastelist started in 2020 when she discovered Unison pastels and could not stop painting after that. She has studied academic drawing, composition, watercolor, pastel and oil painting in an online art school and is a student of well-known pastel artists Elena Tatkina and Irina Klimova. Tetyana is an Associate Member of Pastel Society of America and a board member of Pastel Society of Southeast Texas. She continues to attend pastel workshops and demos o f other artists in order to improve her skills as an artist and to learn new techniques.
Tetyana Aleksenko started showing and selling her artwork in April 2022 during Arts for Rural Texas Exhibition in Fayetteville, Texas, and since then actively participates in local and national pastel exhibitions and competitions. Along her recent awards are a Second Place at the 3rd International Winter Show at Degallery (Bryan, Texas), Honorable Mention at “Sunlight through the Prism” Texas Art Exhibition 2023 at the Woodlands Art Gallery, and Honorable Mention at the Art of The Pastel International Show 2023 (Fayetteville, Texas). Tetyana’s paintings can now be found in private collections in the United States and abroad.
Website: www.taleksart.com
