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Mark making youtube workshop by Jennine Close
Very ably presented by Patty McRory.
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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".
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.
Our summer sketchbook challenge was to:
Include at least one animal portrait encountered during the summer. It could be a wild or farm animal or a domestic pet. Include at least...
Tom and Marie hosted the last plein air of the season at their beautiful home by the ocean. We enjoyed a tasty potluck luncheon to finish it off. Click the slider for more.
First Time at Top Bridge Park for Plein Air
Harald opened his garden and home to a lovely day of plein air, pot luck lunch and his art gallery interior.
Bowen Park gathering for Plein Air
Plein Air at Marilyn's
The weather held off and we had a great turnout to sketch and socialize in an amazing garden filled with colour and objets d'art. An...
Group Photo at our End of the Year Picnic
Melinda Wilde demonstrated her wet on dry watercolour technique in creating a forest scene, backlit with that lovely electric moss one sees in the spring.
The Spring Challenge required us to use our imagination and be inspired by a piece of childhood poetry.
The following photos show the admirable results.
Patty gave us an excellent Demo on Zentangle Art
Gelli Plate Demos by Charlotte, Lynn and Rosina
Vida was the winner of the 2024 Winter Challenge.
It was to create a painting in whatever medium; representative, or abstract, and repeat it as a different season. She is shown here with...
Patt Schrivener showed us her step-by-step process for creating simplified figures
using scraping techniques and negative painting, She developed further interest and patterns using stencils and collage.
Bonnie Stebbings instructed us in how to make collage papers to use in an abstract mixed media painting.
Rich Williams on Composition Rules
He gave us a thorough presentation of Edgar Payne's many Rules of Composition by discussing a variety of paintings, including some of the...
Christmas Party 2023
We had a good turnout to meet, chat, eat amd have fun with a few games run by Liz. We exchanged handmade Christmas cards and took part...
Our Self Portrait Challenge turned out to be quite popular.
With 15 entries, it proved difficult to pick a winner however, Laurie Zuvich garnered the most votes to win. Congratulations, Laurie!
Watercolour Christmas Cards -
Patty had us create a snow scene with sheep from a youtube tutorial by Karen Rice; Rosina helped us do a light bulb glitter card.
Critique by Vida
Usually, once a month, one of our members gives a critique on any paintings that are submitted. One per person is allowed. They discuss...
Janice Evans workshop in watercolour entitled "Painting loose and loving it".
After a thorough discussion of materials and the process that she uses in plein air, Janice gave a short demonstration of mark making and...
Mark making youtube workshop by Jennine Close
Very ably presented by Patty McRory.
Vi Wawrykow was the winner of the summer sketchbook challenge,
which was to use at least three pre-prepared pages when working outside.
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Our Winter Challenge was to capture the mystique of a winter scene in any medium. Marilyn Strongitharm's piece,
Our fun, year-end Christmas Party was held on Friday.
Christmas Cards Workshop
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".
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.
Our summer sketchbook challenge was to:
Tom and Marie hosted the last plein air of the season at their beautiful home by the ocean. We enjoyed a tasty potluck luncheon to finish it off. Click the slider for more.
Kim kindly opened her garden and home up for our Plein Air held on July 12.
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