Grasses, Fields and Wildflowers
FOUR SESSIONS: Thursday EVENING Workshop

• Subject: Nature
  
• Medium: Oil (Acrylic)
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $70.00
  - Non-members: $80.00

Undulating hills, grassy knolls and fields dotted with wildflowers. Let’s capture the beauty of rural Ontario.

This workshop will teach you about aerial perspective, effective brushstrokes, and believable colour.

About the Artist:

Cathy is a professional oil painter who owns and operates her own art gallery in Midland, ON. She is a prolific painter, completing approximately 100 paintings a year. She teaches daily at her gallery, and offers a unique monthly Mentorship Program to interested painters. Cathy’s paintings have been collected worldwide.

Expressive Portrait and Figure
ONE FULL DAY:  THURSDAY 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.

Artistic Expression Through Portraiture
ONE DAY ONLY:  SATURDAY ALL DAY Workshop

• Subject: Encouraging Expressive Portraits
  
• Medium: Drawing Media (charcoal or conte)
  
• Levels: All
• Registration:
  - Members: $45
  - Non-members: $60
  
  Model fee to be paid at class - approx. $10 (BRING CASH)
  

About the Artist

Anne is a graphic designer, life-drawing artist and portrait artist.

Anne graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto in 1985 with a diploma in Communication and Design, studied at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, and continues to study at the Haliburton School of the Fine Art, OCADU and attends and schedules independent workshops. She has been drawing from life for over 40 years and has been teaching life drawing for more than seven years. Anne organizes an Open Studio Life Drawing session which has run for thirteen years; and continues to offer workshops on drawing and painting, inviting visiting artists to teach. Anne teaches life drawing at the local integrated arts high school; offers individual and private classes and, when her schedule permits, teaches life drawing classes.

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Liven Up Your Snowscenes
ONE FULL DAY:  MONDAY Workshop

• Subject: Using colour variety and loose brushwork for Winter landscapes with more pzazz.
  
• Medium: Acrylic
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00
  

Snowscenes don't have to be painted in just blues and greys. In this workshop Marianne will demonstrate how she uses lively, loose brushwork and a variety of colour to convey an attractive snowscene.

Winter skies and landscapes can be challenging. We will overcome this by using some techniques to convey the shadows and highlights on the snowdrifts of this magical season, while retaining some enticing aspects of the leftover fall grasses and some evergreen and deciduous trees.

About the Artist:

Marianne was born in England but spent much of her childhood in Malaysia. The stunning scenery and abundance of exotic animals and plants heightened her love of nature and keen interest in drawing and painting. As a teenager, her artwork was selling in local galleries and department stores. Marianne settled in Canada in 1980 and lives in Schomberg, Ontario.

As a full time artist and a sought after art instructor Marianne is never without her sketchbook or camera, always looking for new subject matter for her stunning closeup paintings of flowers, ethereal landscapes and abstract images. Marianne also enjoys taking on commissions of subject matter that she may not otherwise paint. Some of these have been commissioned for publishing purposes and her work has been licensed for Giclée reproductions, needlepoint designs, greeting cards and fine porcelain.

Marianne’s art education in England has been furthered by studies at The Haliburton School of the Arts and courses and workshops with many respected artists.
 

Fall 'MYSTERY' Workshop: Oil or Acrylic
INSTRUCTOR is a SURPRISE!!!

ONE FULL DAY: THURSDAY Workshop

• Surprise Instructor!
  
• Surprise Subject!
  (NOT a Hallowe'en theme/painting)
  

• Levels: All
  
• Medium: Oil or Acrylic
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-Members: $60.00
• Door Prizes!
  
• Spooktacular treats provided!
  

Non-objective Abstract Art
ONE FULL DAY:  WEDNESDAY Workshop

• Subject: Experimentation and Play
  
• Medium: Mixed Media (Acrylic)
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00
  

Fear is often what holds us back from creating with gusto! In this class Susanne Clark will give you fresh and playful ways to enter into creating non-objective work.

You will learn how to create interesting texture and pattern, develop both structure and randomness into your work and incorporate a variety of mixed media.

About the Artist:

A New Zealander by birth Susanne has lived and exhibited in many different places before moving to Toronto in 2009. Her work is non-objective, colourful, multi-layered and textured.

Primarily a painter, Collagraph Printmaking is her other passion. Her paintings and Collagraph Handprints are in collections in NZ, Canada, Europe and the USA.

Landscape Scene
SINGLE 3 HR. SESSION: Wednesday AFTERNOON Workshop

• Subject: Focus on Perspective, Colour Values and Other Elements of Art
  
• Medium: Acrylic
  
• Levels: Beginner, Intermediate
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $20.00
  - Non-members: $25.00
  
  

Sylva Sroujian will discuss elements of art - color, shape, value, texture as well as perspective.

About the Artist:

Sylva Sroujian is a Richmond Hill, Ontario based artist. Although her education and career were in business, she has always had a great passion and keen interest in arts since her childhood. Art has now become her second career. Her love in nature and its limitless beauty inspires her paintings. Sylva paints with acrylic as well as with oil and cold wax. She deeply enjoys bringing her visions to life. Her love of colour blending allows her to create landscape paintings in her own unique style.

She is a member of the Richmond Hill Group of Artists at Mill Pond Gallery, MGA, NGA, SOYRA, as well as Art Square Gallery Café. She exhibits her work at several art exhibitions around the Greater Toronto Area.

Rooftops and Chimney Pots
ONE FULL DAY:  SATURDAY Workshop

• Subject: Heritage Architecture in a Cityscape
  
• Medium: Watercolour
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00
  

We will be examining watercolour with a “dry brush” approach to the medium that involves a little more control of the paint, using less water. Small areas of thin transparent washes are applied, and depth of colour and shadow are built up using subsequent transparent layers.

A subdued “Last Light” at twilight time with snow-capped rooftops and trees will create our atmosphere and setting. Debra bases her stylistic approach to the medium on British watercolour artists of the early 19th century. Google artists John Sell Cotman and Thomas Girtin for example.

About the Artist:

Debra Tate-Sears is a watercolour artist from the Kingston area whose Romantic compositions are based on an interpretation of "the picturesque" in the pastoral landscape and in the streets and back lanes of Ontario's older towns and cities. Debra uses a precise, analytical examination of the components of landscape elements and the fundamentals of the "Romantic" principles of painting. The result is a composition that is often brooding, haunting, and at the same time, strangely inviting.

Learn a Quick, Loose, Useful Way to Paint or Sketch
ONE FULL DAY:  WEDNESDAY Workshop

• Subject: Landscape Painting on Raw Masonite
  
• Medium: Acrylic
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $48.00 ($45 + $3 material fee = masonite panel)
  - Non-members: $63.00 ($60 + $3 material fee = masonite panel)
  
  

Learn to paint /sketch in a loose way reminiscent of David Milne’s work. A useful technique for sketching as well as for a finished work. The masonite provides a mid tone that will accent  and unify the whole work. Fast drying, durable and easy to care for and carry in the field.

About the Artist:

Ed Novak has been part of the Muskoka art scene for over 30 years. Ed paints in watercolour, oils and acrylics. Winter is spent enjoying the great light and painting still life's, often with glass objects. Then during the outdoor season he mostly paints landscapes and gardenscapes. Ed has taught painting classes from kindergarten to university level. The classes are fun.

Compositional Theory
ONE FULL DAY:  SATURDAY Workshop

• Subject: Creating Strong Compositions for Good Picture Making
  
• Medium: All Mediums (Your Choice)
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00
  

Students will learn the difference between formal and informal compositions. Subjects discussed will include how to lead the eye through an image by creating primary, secondary, and tertiary focal points.

This course applies to any medium and includes approaches for very figurative works all the way to abstraction.

We will discuss how the old masters used visual techniques to keep the viewer involved in the subject. We will also discuss peripheral vision and how to create atmosphere combining colour and edges that lead the viewer into the subject.

About the Artist:

At the moment, Andrew is painting and teaching, and focusing on these two things keeps him busy on a regular basis. Prior to this, Andrew was a full-time illustrator, art director and owner of a design firm.

Andrew has travelled extensively throughout Europe and spent many hours painting on location En Plein Air. He has also spent the better part of a seven year stay in Vienna, Austria painting in the cafes there.

Notan to Colour
ONE FULL DAY:  WEDNESDAY Workshop

• Subject: Exploring Notan and Colour
  
• Medium: Acrylic
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00
  

Notan is the basis of all good design. It is the Japanese term for the light/dark principle of design. Throughout history people have used notan to design walls, railings, masks, paintings, pottery design and more.

During the morning of this workshop participants will refer to personal references to paint small black and white sketches. The notan sketch that has the best balance of black and white shapes will form the basis of the composition for the painting you choose to do in colour.

Colour: In the afternoon participants will explore the Newton colour wheel which is based on the primary colours. After a brief demonstration of colour mixing, the workshop will be a hands-on exploration of colour as participants plan a painting based on the primary colours.

About the Artist

Nancy describes her painting style as expressionist. She says this because her paintings are intensely personal. She interprets the landscape rather than convey the details of the scene. She employs several design principles. She mixes primary colours. Her compositions are simple and direct. She uses both soft and strong outlines, simple shapes and bold colours. Depending on the subject matter, she uses brushstrokes of opaque colour or a glazing technique of transparent colours.

Colour is probably the most important part of her explorations as an artist.

Fresh Wilds
ONE FULL DAY: SATURDAY Workshop

• Subject: Floral
  
• Medium: Mixed Media
  
• Levels: All
  
• Registration:
  - Members: $45.00
  - Non-members: $60.00

Push the boundaries of expressive drawing and mixed media! Begin the day with skill-building exercises that ignite courage, awe and wonder in the creative process.

Taking inspiration from the colours and textures of the natural world, we will explore the basics for experimental material combinations, layering with water-based paints and drawing media.

About the Artist:

Sharlena Wood is known for her art material product knowledge, enthusiasm and support in the local artistic community with Curry’s Art Store/Art School, Wallack’s Art Supplies, Tri-Art Acrylics, and now worldwide with Craftsy Sympoz Inc. online classes. Sharlena continues to share her passion through collaborative event art, instruction, commissions and creative endeavors in Toronto, Ontario.