André Rios Art

Hi everyone, I am a professional artist from Portugal 🎨 and this year I am starting a club and pastel painting workshops in different cities in the Netherlands.
🖌️On the 11th of May I will give two workshops at once in Amsterdam, and these will be my first events in this beautiful city, so I will be glad to see you there!

At 10.00 am you will be able to paint a realistic cup of coffee ☕ at the cosy Café de Oude Werf in the centre of Amsterdam, and at 7.00 pm you can ‘fly into the clouds’ ☁️☁️ by painting a picture of a beautiful sky at the cosy place Zamalia Experience, also in the centre of Amsterdam.
Below, in the photos you can find all the details, addresses and conditions of participation. No prior experience is necessary at all, it's just important to want to relax a little and create a beautiful painting that you can take home with you! ✨
To sign up, please write out in private messages or through the form on my website, which you can find on my page. Thank you very much for your attention and I look forward to meeting you at my workshop!

✨Links for events:

☕ Café In Pastel Workshop: https://www.andrerios.art/cafe-in-pastel
☁️In The Clouds Workshop: https://www.andrerios.art/in-the-clouds

The pastel club is a place where you can gather with fellow students and amateur artists to draw and paint with pastels under the guidance of André Rios, a professional pastel artist.

All styles are welcome! From expressive, bold and impressionistic mark making with pastel sticks to hyper-realistic drawing with the pastel pencils, we embrace all of the diversity within the medium of pastels.

Everyone is free to pick their own subjects and André will guide, teach various techniques, give tips and help you improve your skills throughout our group painting sessions.

If you’re new to pastels, want to try out the classes or just have an occasional pastel painting day feel free to join us for a single day session!

📌Location: Gigant, Apeldoorn
📆Time: Saturdays from 14:00 to 16:00

More info at:
www.andrerios.art/pastelclub

In every artwork there is an opportunity for the artist to learn from what is being born in the "canvas".
I always try to remain open to what is coming through and this has become a part of my artistic practice.

For all of our history we've been giving meaning to sounds, words and images as we've been striving to describe "reality" from our human perspective. Just like images, words are tools to expand our thought and perceive connections within our collective knowledge. The word "no" is a word that expresses more than a negation, it's a metaphisical line drawn to separate, cut and that's when one becomes two or when a blurry line becomes a sharp one.

In my drawing "iON" I reflected the text "NO!" by curiosity and this led me to the idea of an ion, an atom that can have a positive charge or a negative one. I found this message to be very inspiring as we can also be like an ion and charge ourselves with positive or negative charges.

What do you think about it?

New original pastel artwork in the making.
This one is a perfect example of how experimentation can lead to a profound thread of meanings.

More soon....

Hello, everyone!

If you don't know what to do this Saturday, I invite you to a hyper-realistic painting workshop in the centre of Apeldoorn from 13:30 to16:30. In these 3 hours you will create your first hyper-realistic pastel painting on a subject that will be a surprise for you.

The price of 60 euros includes all materials, so you just need to bring a good mood with you and the desire to create! No prior experience is needed and the workshop is open to anyone over the age of 12 and you will go home with a finished painting at the end.

If you'd like to sign up for this (or any other Saturday), drop me a line in private messages or my personal email, which you can find here:

Hyper-realistic Drawing Workshop Cursushuis | GIGANT | Apeldoorn Volg interessante creatieve cursusssen in het Cursushuis van GIGANT! Dans, Circus, Schrijven, Theater, Fotografie, Muziek en meer.

"1899 Special"
35x25cm
Pastel on Pastelmat paper

This tulip season I will be teaching a very special workshop that will take place at every wednesday throughout the season. On this workshop, you will be able to create and take home a painting of a tulip that will never wilt and will be a beautiful reminder of your visit to the tulip region in the Netherlands. You don't need to have any previous painting experience or art supplies, all you need is a good mood and a desire to create art! Check out Tulip Barn's website for more information and to reserve your spot: https://thetulipbarn.com/art-in-the-barn/

Work in progress.
35x25cm
Pastel on pastelmat paper.

Work in progress.
35x25cm
Pastel on pastelmat

"Twix - The Sencond Coming"
35x25cm
Pastel on pastelmat

"Searching For The Soul"
Pastel on Pastelmat
25x35cm

Hi everyone! I'm very excited to bring you some awesome news!
I just started offering pastel painting/drawing classes online!

For my online classes you only need a simple setup for our video call and you can enjoy our lessons from the comfort of your own home/studio. How cool is that?

You can read more and check my rules and conditions here:
www.andrerios.art/lessons

Fell free to get in touch if you want to ask any question!

"Maro - Road In Pan!"
Pastel painting 30x30cm

"Take me home"

22x22cm
Pastel on pastelmat
2023

Hello everyone! Today I would like to share a very important work for me, namely the painting "Take Me Home" (pastel, 22x22cm). I created this painting to recreate the emotions of an animal that is looking for its new owner in every person passing by on the street.
The problem of stray dogs is very important in our world, and as a native Portuguese (there are a lot of strays and abandoned by owners animals in Portugal), I am very happy that I now live in the Netherlands, the first country in the world that does not have a single stray dog because of well-thought policies and practices.
Each of us can do our bit to help solve this problem and together we can make this world a better place!

P.S. This piece is an original work I made for sale, so if you would like to "take home" this painting, please email me in private messages or through my website. If you would like to commission a portrait of your pet or if you are an artist and would like to have online private lessons, please check out my website; maybe I can be of some use to you!
https://www.andrerios.art/

"My Pikachu" 24x30cm
Pastel on pastelmat paper.

Work in progress.
"My Pikachu" 24x30cm
Pastel on pastelmat paper.

The final result of my portrait of Mocha.
Pastel on pastelmat 24x30cm.
Quite a lot of detail for a small piece!

Work in progress of Mocha.
Pastel on pastelmat 24x30cm.

I look forward to sharing the final result soon 💙

Pleased to share this portrait of this Beagle I recently completed. Created using soft pastels & pastel pencils on 30x40cm Pastelmat paper.