Margaret Ferraro, MPAC, Fine Art workshops
 Workshops are 1-5 days of intense learning in small groups. I love teaching in this format. It allows me to get to know my students, in order to help them find their creative potential. In a small group setting, I help students of all ages get over their fear, and enter a world of play and non-judgement.
Many years ago now, I decided to start teaching, and thought it best to make a commitment to what I knew and loved best. That would be drawing, particularily Figure Drawing (the formal training and practise of drawing from a nude model), and pastel. In recent years, I have also started teaching acrylic painting.
I teach all my workshops listed below at my home/studio where students can relax and take advantage of my particular set up—an extensive library of art books, viewing whatever is going on in my studio, a lifetimes collection and gizmos and gadgets for the discerning artist.
| I also teach at various venues anywhere I can travel. Right now that would include: |
| Art Holidays - Local & Away |
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| Haliburton school of fine arts |
Haliburton Ontario |
| The Barn |
Wakefield Quebec |
| Le Vieux Couvent |
Fraysinnet, France Plein air, landscape |
| The Watermill |
Posara, Italy, Plein air, landscape |
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| Workshops |
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| Introduction to Drawing |
2 or 5 day wokshop |
| Introduction to life drawing |
3 day workshop |
| Head, hands, feet, & figure |
3 day workshop |
| Contour and Value in Figure |
3 day workshop |
| Portraiture |
3 day workshop |
| Consolidating the figure |
3 day workshop |
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| Introduction to Pastel |
2 or 5 day workshop |
| Pastel 2 |
2 or 5 day workshop |
Pastel: The Painting Medium,
adventures in Underpainting |
5 day workshop |
| Pastel and the figure: Voice through colour |
5 day workshop |
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| Introduction to Acrylic Painting |
5 day workshop |
Check my Classes link for workshops currently scheduled. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, contact me directly by phone at
(613) 839-5241 or by e-mail at margferraro@xplornet.ca. If you would like to be on my mailing list, or have a particular interest, just drop me an e-mail, and I will put you on my mailing list when that class comes up.
Awards and Honours
"Ruffles in the Sun" PSEC Award 2010 |
2010
PSEC: Top award for Portrait and Figure at the Pastel Society of Eastern Canadas' National Exhibition.
Pastel Society of Eastern Canada,
Pastel Toujours, St. Antoine de Richelieu, April 2010
2008
Pastel Society of Eastern Canada National exhibition.
Oct. 31 til Nov. 9, Tudor Hall, Montreal, Canada.
2nd Place Awarded to Margaret Ferraro.
2002
Pastel Artists of Ontario annual juried exhibition
Kitchener- Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
2000
Pastels on High International Exhibition
Merchandise award
California, USA
1999
Pastel Society of America
New York, N.Y., USA
Scholarship
1998
Pastel Artists of Ontario Annual juried exhibition
Honourable mention
Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
1997
Pastel Artists of Ontario Annual Juried exhibition
Honourable mention
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
