Fabulous Colour, Getting to Know Your Paint
TWO SESSIONS: Thursday MORNING Workshop

• Subject: Stretching Paper and Getting to Know Your Paint  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $35.00
  - Non-members: $45.00
  

You will learn:

1) How to properly stretch your watercolour paper.

2) Colour Basics: How to create unified and harmonious paintings with a limited palette.

About the Artist:

Sandra Derry is a self taught artist and has learned the art of watercolouring, coloured pencil, pastel and graphite through reading books, watching videos, and lots of hours practicing the techniques she has acquired.

She strives to produce realism in her paintings and drawings.

Inspired by her parents, who are both artists, she has painted since an early age.

She started drawing professionally in 1990, selling pastel portraits of children. It was during that time she discovered watercolours. She fell in love with the medium and was able to achieve the vibrant colours and details she longed to paint. Recently she has fallen in love again, this time with the coloured pencil and graphite mediums.

Sandra has taught since 2004 doing workshops and gives weekly lessons. She has also written several digital books on how to watercolour.

Keep It Simple, Paint Shapes Not Objects
SINGLE 3 HR. SESSION: Thursday MORNING Workshop

• Subject: People with Umbrellas, Rain 
  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $20.00
  - Non-members: $25.00
  

Learn to paint an atmospheric approach to painting a rainy day with Sherryl Hopper. 

About the Artist:

Sherryl Hopper has been a watercolour artist for the past 35 years. She has never had any formal academic education, but has taken many workshops over the years with very talented and competent artists in the United States and Canada, and continues to do so. 

REPEAT WORKSHOP
Keep It Simple, Paint Shapes Not Objects
SINGLE 3 HR. SESSION: Thursday AFTERNOON Workshop

• Subject: People with Umbrellas, Rain 
  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $20.00
  - Non-members: $25.00
  

Learn to paint an atmospheric approach to painting a rainy day with Sherryl Hopper. 

About the Artist:

Sherryl Hopper has been a watercolour artist for the past 35 years. She has never had any formal academic education, but has taken many workshops over the years with very talented and competent artists in the United States and Canada, and continues to do so. 

'SURPRISE' Texture Challenge for Both Instructor and Students
THREE SESSIONS: Monday AFTERNOON Workshop
(NOTE: NO Session on Family Day)

• Subject: Learn Techniques to Create the Realistic Texture of Aged Wood and Rusted Metal
  
• Medium: Acrylic
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $55.00
  - Non-members: $65.00
  

Both the Instructor and students will be challenged by a 'SURPRISE' image which will be supplied at the beginning of the class by the Workshop Coordinator.

Barb Ritchie will explain how she plans her painting, by choosing her composition and colours based on the photo. Barb will do a demonstration to show how she follows her plan to complete a pleasing painting. Students will paint throughout the demo with assistance and advice from Barb.

Two paintings will be completed during this workshop.

About the Artist:

Barb has actively participated in local art events since the 1980’s. This has included exhibiting at galleries, juried shows, outdoor art festivals and studio tours as well as instructing workshops. She has been active in the Barrie Art Club for many years.

Birch Trees and Downy Woodpecker
FOUR SESSIONS: Thursday MORNING Workshop

• Subject: Birch Trees and Woodpecker
  
• Medium: Coloured Pencil
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $70.00
  - Non-members: $80.00
  

Learn how to create a soft background, a beautiful birch tree with peeling textured bark, rich dark branches with leaves, and the amazing Downy Pecker with his bright red cap. 

About the Artist

Open Studio for NEW or UNFINISHED Paintings
THREE SESSIONS: Thursday EVENING Workshop
(Note: No Session on February 14th)

• Subject: Any and All Genres
  
• Medium: Soft Pastel
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $55.00
  - Non-members: $65.00
  

Let's keep those resolutions going and work to resolve and COMPLETE one or more of those abandoned paintings that we all have!! Clear your space and your mind to make room for future paintings.

You are also welcome to begin a new painting in this workshop. There will be plenty of demos given and then even more demos as requested.

About the Artist

Kim Martin works as a full-time pet portrait artist and received the honourable designation of Master Pastelist (MPAC) from Pastel Artists of Canada in 2013.

She continues to share her experience by conducting workshops and also teaching out of her own studio.

Expressive Portrait and Figure Watercolour
ONE FULL DAY:  SATURDAY Workshop

• Subject: Portrait and Figure
  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00
  

Atanur Dogan will help you find your own unique style. He will explain and demonstrate several different watercolour techniques.

About the Artist:

Atanur Dogan: International Watercolor Society (WS) Founder and President

Atanur is a watercolor artist with Turkish/Canadian dual nationality. He graduated from Dokuz Eylul University in Turkey, majoring in painting and sculpture.

He is best known for his portraits and figures and has a distinctive painting skill. The artist's forceful brush strokes evoke the life and particularly the tribulations of his subjects. He has mastered the difficult medium of watercolor, utilizing contrasts in color and in depth to create striking effects. He enjoys painting people of different ethnicities, with a focus on their faces and body language and what these express.

Atanur has participated in more than 200 exhibitions worldwide and teaches workshops around the globe. In 2004 he hosted an international exhibition entitled "Peace Through Art", and then established the International Watercolor Society in 2012. The message of love and peace is distributed internationally through the art of watercolor.

In just 6 years, International Watercolor Society has become one of the most active art societies in the world with 90 country branches. Atanur and his team also opened IWS galleries, IWS Educational Centres, IWS Research Centres and have published an IWS International magazine. Every year the society country branches organizes international watercolor festivals, exhibitions and workshops. Atanur travels to every country supporting each IWS activity. His goal is to make watercolor one of the most popular painting techniques around the world.

Portraits in Graphite
FOUR SESSIONS: Monday MORNING Workshop

• Subject: Portrait Drawing
  
• Medium: Graphite
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $70.00
  - Non-members: $80.00
  

Lynda Giles will guide you with step by step instruction in portrait drawing. 

About the Artist

Reflecting on Water
ONE FULL DAY: SATURDAY Workshop

• Subject: Water
  
• Medium: Acrylic (Oil)
  
• Levels: Intermediate, Advanced
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00

About the Artist:

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.

Colour Theory for the Figure Painter
THREE FULL DAYS:  FRI, SAT, & SUN Workshop

• Subject: Painting the Figure
  
• Medium: Oil (Acrylic)
  
• Levels: Intermediate, Advanced
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $195.00
  - Non-members: $240.00
  

We all understand bits of colour theory, but do you have enough to make it useful to you in your daily painting? This three day workshop will focus on colour theory, simple palettes and colour mixing, so you can learn how to solve your colour problems before they happen.

About the Artist:

Brian Smith graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto in 1969. Since then he has been a professional, award-winning graphic designer and a practicing fine artist focusing on both classical and abstract drawing and painting from the figure. In January 2005, Brian was awarded the title of Honourary Drawing Master by the Drawing Society of Canada.

Brian has taught classes and workshops on life drawing, portraiture and figurative abstraction for over 30 years and has been on the faculty of many colleges as well as conducting Master Classes in his own studio.

Stunning Sky and Water
ONE FULL DAY:  SATURDAY Workshop

• Subject: Sky/Water using Wet on Wet Technique
  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00
  

Participants will be taught how to paint bold and direct brush strokes using the wet on wet technique with a large brush. They will be able to create stunning sky and water scenes that glow.

About the Artist:

Hi-Sook Barker is a full time teacher known for floral and landscape using an impressionistic style. She is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour (cspwc). She currently teaches at several locations throughout the Durham Region. Her works can be found in collections across the world.