**IN-HOUSE WORKSHOP**
Creating an Emotional Response to Your Painting

3 HR. SINGLE SESSION WORKSHOP:
MONDAY Workshop

• Subject: Painterly Boathouse
  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels:
  - Beginner (**MUST Have Some Experience - Required**)
  - Intermediate
  - Advanced
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $35.00
  - Non-members: $50.00
  
  

A discussion on what happens when you paint what you love, followed by a step by step painting process of the boathouse photo.

About the Artist:

Sherryl has been a Watercolour artist for many years and has taken numerous workshops with several talented and well respected artists both in Canada and the U.S. whom she has admired throughout her career and continues to do so.
“Art inspires Life”

**IN-HOUSE WORKSHOP**
Fur & Feathers with Feeling,
Drawing & Painting Animals
in Watercolour

FOUR SESSIONS / 3 HOURS EACH
THURSDAY Workshop

• Subject: Animals, dogs, horses, wild animals, birds
  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels:
  - Beginner (Basic knowledge of watercolour required.)
  - Intermediate
  - Advanced
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $140 (equals $35 per 3 hour session x 4 classes )
  - Non-members: $200 (equals $50 per 3 hour session x 4 classes)
  
  

Bring in your photo references from a variety of sources. You will be shown how to focus on the important aspects you need to enhance the emotion you felt when you found the photo. Keep the photo simple without too much background. Different animals display their emotions in various ways. Learn how to render these amazing subjects well, as you experiment with different techniques. Fur and feathers react differently to watercolour than they do to pencil, or acrylic. This workshop is broken up into 4 sessions, each 3 hours long.

Note: This class is geared to intermediate and advanced. Beginners are welcome, however a basic understanding of watercolour is needed. Everyone will progress and be challenged according to their own level.

Dorothy Wintle is a fine artist having had many years of experience working as a painter, capturing the essence of some of nature’s best landscapes and has worked in Canada and in the States studying and producing portraiture of animals and people. With over 10 years of formal training, not to mention the many years of working as an artist, she is offering art classes both in person and online. Her home is now in Barrie, Ontario. She has many years of experience as an art instructor. Some of the institutions she taught at are:
The Toronto District Board of Education for 7 years
Lol Art, 2 years
Framing Dames, in Toronto as an instructor and facilitator of children’s summer art camps and weekly art classes for all ages
Toronto Zoo Watercolour workshop
Senior art classes with Toronto Parks and Recreation
Private classes
Private online classes

**ONLINE WORKSHOP**

Advanced Zentangle - High Focus Tangles

3 HR. SINGLE SESSION WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY Workshop

• Subject: Advanced Tangle Patterns
  
• Medium: Drawing Media
  
• Levels:
  - Beginner (Zentangle basics required.)
  - Intermediate
  - Advanced
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $35.00
  - Non-members: $50.00
  

This workshop is designed for participants who have some experience with Zentangle basics and are interested in continuing their journey discovering more advanced Tangle patterns.

DEMO: In preparation for this advanced Zentangle workshop, exploring High Focus Tangles, Chari-Lynn will do a refresher of the Basics of Zentangle at the next Art Journal drop-in. This will be held online on March 28th at 10:45 am.

About the Artist

Chari-Lynn is a Three Year Honours Graduate of Georgian College School of Design and Visual Arts. She is a Certified Zentangle Teacher since 2010 and has taught a variety of mediums around Southern Ontario including Haliburton School of Design and Visual Arts, ArtSpark, Blue Mountain Foundation for the Arts, The Barrie Art Club and a number of private and public institutions.

**IN-HOUSE**
Frame Your Watercolours & Other Mediums WITHOUT Glass

3 HR. SINGLE SESSION WORKSHOP:
MONDAY Workshop

• Subject: How to Transfer your watercolour paintings AND other mediums to a Birch Panel (Also transfer graphite, charcoal and coloured pencil.)
  
• Medium: Mixed
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $35.00
  - Non-members: $50.00
  
  OPTIONAL FEE: $10.00 - Includes use of Instructor's Matte Medium and Krylon Workable Matte Fixative and Krylon or Windsor Newton Gloss Spray
  

Sherryl Hopper will show you how to quickly and economically frame your watercolour  and other mediums (graphite, charcoal and coloured pencil) onto a birch panel (without glass). Cost effective way to frame - when trying to sell or to give as a gift (no cost of an expensive frame with glass). A more modern look.

**MEMBERS**: This method will allow you to display other mediums in the Barrie Art Club tent at the Kempenfest Festival, as well as any other shows or displays you wish to participate in (framed without glass).

About the Artist:

Sherryl has been a Watercolour artist for many years and has taken numerous workshops with several talented and well respected artists both in Canada and the U.S. whom she has admired throughout her career and continues to do so.
“Art inspires Life”

**ONLINE WORKSHOP**
Trilliums for Spring - A Negative Floral

2 SESSIONS / 3 HOURS EACH
WEDNESDAY Workshop

• Subject: Ontario white trilliums using negative painting techniques.
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $70.00
  - Non-members: $100.00
  
  

Working from a photo reference and drawing, participants will create a watercolour painting of white trilliums. This will be a step-by-step paint along, focusing on creating depth using negative painting techniques.    

Nancy is an award-winning artist, teacher and juror. She is a Co-President and Director of the Toronto Watercolour Society (TWS) and Past President of the Society of York Region Artists (SOYRA). Nancy has exhibited her work in many solo shows and juried group shows including TWS Aquavision, IWS, Art Aurora, Society of York Region Artists (SOYRA), and Blue Mountain Foundation of the Arts (BMFA) shows. She has received several First Place, Honourable Mention and People's Choice Awards.

Nancy has been a guest instructor for many art societies such as the Banbury Group of Artists, Don Valley Art Club and the Marsh Street Painters, Clarksburg. She gives workshops and teaches regular sessions of classes at the Aurora Cultural Centre. Nancy has been an instructor at the Haliburton School of the Arts for many years.

**IN-HOUSE WORKSHOP**
Interpreting Colour in Light and Shadow
Workshop Photo is Shown
(second image)

FULL DAY WORKSHOP
SATURDAY WORKSHOP

• Subject: Colour in Light and Shadow
  
• Medium: Acrylic or Oil
  
• Levels:
  - Experienced Beginner
  - Intermediate
  - Advanced
  

• Registration:
  - Members: $50.00
  - Non-members: $65.00
  
  

This in-house workshop is best suited for the experienced beginner, intermediate and advanced painters.

The workshop focuses on how light and shadow affects chroma. Sam will discuss the importance of developing your observational skills to read and interpret colour in varying light. Editing the composition will also be discussed and tips on using various tools and techniques. Artists can use their preferred medium.

Image will be provided by the instructor. However, students are expected to bring their own printed copies or work from tablets or devices. More experienced artists can use their own images if they prefer.

Demo will be painted in acrylic. Constructive criticism, encouragement and puns are also included.

Sam Paonessa AOCA, OSA is a graduate from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto. His career as a professional artist spanned over 30 years with Hallmark Cards.

During that period Sam traveled and painted plein air landscapes in North America, Italy and Morocco. As an active member of the Ontario Society of Artists he has been sharing his valuable experience gaining recognition as an accomplished painting workshop instructor for numerous art groups across Ontario.