My soft pastel workshops are about developing skills, gaining confidence but also about engaging with your environment. Recognising the extraordinary in your everyday wanders gives people a chance to share that escape with others via their artworks. Have you found that art has given you both a new skill but also an ability to switch …
My New Spring Series
I am very excited to announce my new Spring Series. You can read more about the series and the subjects that we will be covering here. I’ve included some of my recent reviews, I hope you’ll enjoy them as much as I have. Thanks for all your enthusiastic support of my online ventures. Really enjoyed …
Nina Squire, the pastel artist, soft pastel workshops
Nina Squire – Soft pastel workshops. Here’s one of my favourite walks, the River Stour, it’s been the inspiration for several of my online soft pastel workshops using Unison Colour. The scenes below capture my favourite elements of rivers and moving water, there’s dappled light, tumbling hedgerows and sparkling pebbles that catch the light. There …
NIna Squire – Soft pastel painting workshops 2022
This is my second Autumn Series of soft pastel painting workshops. I’ve taken views I’d like to be in and used them as a way of sharing soft pastel painting techniques. My students results have been so encouraging. The series of workshops are flexible, they can either be taken as individuals or as a progressive …
My chat with Jackson’s Art about my love of Unison Colour Soft Pastels and work as one of their Associate Artists. Back in November, I had a call from Helen at Unison. “Would you be happy to go to Jackson’s Art HQ and talk about our pastels?” she asked. My answer was a resounding, “Yes, …
I’ve loved the community that has grown up around my online soft pastel workshops. I have put together a series of workshops for the Summer Series so we can work together building skills and confidence over the coming months. I’ll be covering the topics listed below as well as areas that come up during the …
The Unison Colour 5 Day Challenge
Helen asked, ‘Did you enjoy the 5 Day Challenge?” ‘Yes! I did.’ I said. ‘Book me at the same time next year!’ So here we are! I really loved working with you all on our Old Harry Rocks Five Day Challenge last year. I thought that you might be interested in hearing how it came …
I’ve been working with Unison Colour for since Lockdown 2020. Becoming a Unison Colour Associate Artist was a huge honour and I’ve been lucky enough to work with Unison on several projects. My 5 Day Challenge saw nearly 1000 people from all over the world create Old Harry Rocks! Helen Bullock, or Unison Helen, as …
The Sandbanks Pastel Workshop
The Sandbanks Pastel Workshop was the cumulation of months of planning for me. I had no idea that it would be as popular as it was. I was humbled by peoples enthusiasm. It’s been so inspiring for me as both an artist and tutor to see how enthusiastically both the community of a shared experience …
Old Harry cHallenge with Unison Colour
This month I ran a 5 Day Challenge with Unison Colour Soft Pastel. We hosted over 900 attendees from all over the world. I developed videos and PDF’s to support people in creating this beautiful scene of Old Harry Rocks, Studland. It’s a view I know well and I knew the image would be perfect …