Pastel artist Lesley Harrison demonstrates her techniques at July's ACAA meeting

Pastel artist Lesley Harrison demonstrated her techniques for creating realistic animals at the July 13 meeting of the Amador County Artists Association.  Harrison works exclusively on velour paper, using a variety of dry pigments to achieve her lifelike images. Conte and pastel pencils, along with soft and hard pastels, were the tools that brought the image of a black horse to life.

She spent a great deal of time on the eye of the horse, stating that “if you get the eye right, you can be forgiven most anything else.”  The artist teaches classes locally and throughout the country.  Her schedule of classes and images of her work can be found at www.harrison-keller.com, where she also offers step-by-step lessons to be completed at home.

Creating the eye...

Completing the eye.