Category: <span>Workshops</span>

Creative Adventures in Fabric Painting with Pipi Tustian: Transforming Cotton into Art

John Hofman described the act of urban sketching as drawing on location with minimum equipment. He gave us a handout that illustrated many different ways to get the illusion of depth.

He went on to show examples of many artists that succeeded in quickly drawing and sometimes enhancing their piece…

Our talented President, Patty, gave us a challenge to play on black gesso and have fun for exactly 30 minutes. She demonstrated, then we were all given the same photo and asked to do the same.

Here are the results along with a few extras.

Terri Bowen conducted our October workshop on portraits. We critiqued a variety of artists, while learning from a multitude of creative approaches that record the impressions of a human face.

Our Sept. workshop was cutting edge, palette knife painting with our very own Rich Williams.

Rich demonstrated watercolour in a forest of hands-on, loose landscapes. Everyone absorbed the demos, then wielded their own knife…

Colour with Purpose Workshop by Courtney LeBaron

Our exercise was first to challenge ourselves by making a grid with a limited colour palette using one or…

Doug Swinton did a workshop on “Setting Yourself Up for Success: The Art of Pre-Painting Preparation.”

We learned the essential steps to prepare for a successful painting, from planning composition and selecting colours, to choosing…

More “Facing the Group” results. This was obviously a popular workshop with the many excellent portraits.