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For our first workshop of the fall season, Sara Robichaud, a GOLDEN Certified Working Artist, gave us an interactive Demo on some of the newest Golden products.

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Sep 27, 2024
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Updated: Nov 9, 2024

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

Our monthly critique by Rich Williams had an excellent response of many lovely paintings - some of which needed very little critique.

At the “Facing” the Group workshop led by Diane Williams, we created a 5x7 portrait of a member of our Nanaimo Group of Artists. Several black and white images of selected "vectorized" faces......

(photo edits) were provided and we transferred these to canvas panels that were also provided. We used our powers of observation, our...

Vi, Lynn, Pam and Laurie provided samples of art they had done with Yupo paper along with giving instructions and demonstrations. At another table, Marilyn explained some techniques in using foil.

Rich Williams gave a very instructive and informative critique of a number of members paintings.

We had a second challenge this winter entitled - "New Light, New Life". It was a Draw - due March 14th. There were only 7 entries and Marlene won the draw.

February's workshop was with Joanne Ayley and was titled "Starting an Abstract Landscape on a Black Canvas".

She uses the "You Doodle Pro App" to both help her determine the shapes in her reference material and to help figure out her next steps.

Many members took part in a "self critique" on Friday. The majority of them were pieces that they had worked on in Trudy's translucent layering workshop using foil.

Here are some of the great results of Trudy's "translucent layering" workshop last week.

"Enhancing Your Artwork with Translucent Layering: A Workshop with Trudy Broadley, AFCA."

She demonstrated how to attach copper or gold leaf to our work to let the light pass through. This adds a vibrancy that is captivating! ...

Our Winter Challenge was to capture the mystique of a winter scene in any medium. Marilyn Strongitharm's piece,

voted the winner, managed to simulate the sparkle of fresh snow and mimic the sunlight dancing on ice.

Our fun, year-end Christmas Party was held on Friday.

Liz led us through a variety of creative, physical and mind bending activities before we feasted on our pot luck luncheon. Many...

Christmas Cards Workshop

This week three members, Rich and Diane Williams and Patty McRory demonstrated a variety of cards for us to try. They shared and gave...

Today we had an Art Journal Workshop professionally done by Charlotte and Laurie. They displayed and demonstrated a variety of techniques and ideas. Harald gave us an interesting extra lesson.

The resulting paintings from Dennis Brown's workshop on mix media.

Dennis Brown hosted an excellent mixed media workshop called "Out of the Ordinary".