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Janet Pedersen – Exploring Buildings with Paint (Recording)

Date recorded: Thursday, April 10, 2025

Level: All

Medium: Acrylic

Presentation Type: Talk/demo

The daughter of an architect, Janet has childhood memories of sketching houses and building views with her family. She can recall moments, covering paper-mats in diners with black-inked sketches, figuring out perspective or more interestingly—imaginary houses.

Janet continues to paint the building subject, and finds inspiration in architectural details and how the light and shadow produces interesting angles on a building structure. She lives in a neighborhood where the buildings are over 100 years old and when the light falls ‘just right’ on one of these old relics, Janet jumps in.

Janet will share imagery for inspiration, what she’s looking for in a composition, and finding ‘the story’ in an architectural subject.
She will share footage to show her process.

Free!

An award-winning artist, Janet Pedersen exhibits her work widely. Recently, several of her dance-themed paintings were chosen to be part of the State Department’s ‘Art in Embassies’ program, celebrating the universal joy and borderless beauty of dance. The exhibition will be on loan for three years at the Residency of the U.S. Ambassador to Poland, Mark Brzekinski. She teaches ongoing adult workshops through The Art Annex in Park Slope, Brooklyn, as well as private tutoring. She lives in the neighborhood of Park Slope in Brooklyn, NY, next to Prospect Park where she can often be found painting.

Spring Fling! '25 Online Events:

  • Spring Fling! Festival 2025

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  • Lucy Marks – Let’s Talk Loose Landscapes! (Recording)

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  • Patty Voje – Lost and Found: Recovering Your Creative Identity (Recording)

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  • Kathleen Denis – Exploring Creativity with Acrylics: Textures, Tools, and Surprising Layers (Recording)

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  • Larry Calkins – Inside the Mind of a Creative: Building Stories in Mixed Media (Recording)

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  • Janet Pedersen – Exploring Buildings with Paint (Recording)

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  • Catherine Bobkoski – Expressive Watercolor Flower Sketching (Recording)

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  • Yana Beylinson – Quantum Leap Your Art: Mindset Shifts for Creative Breakthroughs (Recording)

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  • Soo Hong – Love Across Mediums (Recording)

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  • Richard K. Blades – Palette Knife Painting Demo (Recording)

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  • Philip Frey – Alla Prima Still Life (Recording)

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  • Linda Robertson – Painting in Encaustic Demo & Talk (Recording)

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  • Susan Greenstein – Drawing with Your Non-Dominant Hand Challenge (Recording)

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  • Molly Hashimoto – Sketching and Painting Flowering Trees with Water Media (Recording)

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  • Jean Mackay – Sketchbook Happy Hour (Recording)

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  • Charles Spitzack – The Art of Woodcut Printmaking Demo (Recording)

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  • Paul Bailey – Colour Unleashed (Recording)

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  • Brian McPhee (13 Broken Horses) – Telling Stories: Creating a Narrative with Multiple Images (Recording)

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  • Brooke Olivares – Learn to Observe and Paint the Moments that Move You (Recording)

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  • Nina Antze – Creating Form in Colored Pencil: Drawing a Spring Flower (Recording)

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  • Barbara Fugate – Color Connections (Recording)

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  • Richard Suckling – Edit the Motif to Capture the Essence (Recording)

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  • Mel Williamson – The Loose Portrait (Recording)

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  • Al Gury – The Painters of Montmartre and the Birth of Modern Art in Paris (Recording)

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  • Abby Ober – Gouache Abstracts 3 Ways (Recording)

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