Eucharistic Pastel Still Life Painting
March 15, 2024
​St. Gregory the Great Parish Center, 3rd Floor

Artist-in-residence Sarah Crow led a 3 hours still life workshop using objects related to the Eucharist such as grapes, bread, and a chalice. Participants will learn the technique of soft pastel ‘painting.’ 

Participants created beautiful images with no previous experience working with pastels.

About the Instructor

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Sarah Crow is a sacred artist who has mastered Baroque oil painting techniques (see her reproduction of Caravaggio’s Calling of Saint Matthew here). She is a former lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently the artist in residence at St. Gregory’s Hall where she maintains an active studio of both sacred art commissions and representational paintings.