Workshops
Pastel Workshop
Expand your Colour Expression – Exploring Pastel Painting
Winter 2021
January 21st – February 25th
Full – waiting list
Thursday Evenings – 6 sessions, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Chester Art Centre
This class celebrates the pastel medium in its application and approaches. Discover an array of techniques that can be achieved with this exciting medium. Exploring colour and light, designing strong compositions, improving your observation skills, creating the illusion of depth, and mastering lost and found edges will be the focus. Under-painting with acrylic and/or watercolour is explored. Leave your comfort zone to simplify your approach to achieve exciting colourful impressionistic paintings. Demonstrations are designed to give students the tools to develop an understanding of this medium.
Pastel Workshop
Pure Pigment at your Fingertips: Painting with Pastel
Winter 2021
February 23rd – March 30th
Full – waiting list
Tuesday Evenings – 5 sessions, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Lunenburg School of the Arts
This class celebrates the pastel medium in its application and approaches. Traditional techniques will be the foundation of instruction, colour and light the focus. Discover how to solve problems of composition and colour, create the illusion of depth, and master lost and found edges. Under-painting with acrylic and/or watercolour is explored.
Artist quality pastels produce intense colour with an immediacy that most other mediums can’t match. Demonstrations are designed to give students the tools to develop an understanding of this medium.
Acrylic Workshop
Pushing Colour and Light – Painting with Acrylic
Winter 2021
January 12th – February 9th
Full – waiting list
Tuesday Evenings – 5 sessions, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Lunenburg School of the Arts
Learn to paint expressive, impressionistic acrylic paintings that capture the colour, light and essence of a scene. Stretch your creativity, get out of your comfort zone to push past what you see to what you’d like to express.
Make value and negative pattern work for you to produce paintings that have strength and depth. Show the Artist’s hand with bold brush strokes, and “unexpected” colour.
Canvas prep, composition, and underpainting approaches shared. Colour mixing with a touch of theory to kiss local colour bye bye, it’s time to turn up the chroma!
Explore varnish techniques to make your work glow.
Pastel Workshop
Pure Pigment at your Fingertips: Painting with Pastel
Fall 2020
November 10th – December 8th
Full – waiting list
Tuesday Evenings – 10 sessions, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Lunenburg School of the Arts
This class celebrates the pastel medium in its application and approaches. Traditional techniques will be the foundation of instruction, colour and light the focus. Discover how to solve problems of composition and colour, create the illusion of depth, and master lost and found edges. Under-painting with acrylic and/or watercolour is explored.
Artist quality pastels produce intense colour with an immediacy that most other mediums can’t match. Demonstrations are designed to give students the tools to develop an understanding of this medium.
Acrylic Workshop
Pushing Colour and Light – Painting with Acrylic
Fall 2020
October 6th – November 3rd
Full – waiting list
Tuesday Evenings – 10 sessions, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Lunenburg School of the Arts
Learn to paint expressive, impressionistic acrylic paintings that capture the colour, light and essence of a scene. Stretch your creativity, get out of your comfort zone to push past what you see to what you’d like to express.
Make value and negative pattern work for you to produce paintings that have strength and depth. Show the Artist’s hand with bold brush strokes, and “unexpected” colour.
Canvas prep, composition, and underpainting approaches shared. Colour mixing with a touch of theory to kiss local colour bye bye, it’s time to turn up the chroma!
Explore varnish techniques to make your work glow.
Acrylic Workshop
Pushing Colour and Light – Painting with Acrylic
Winter 2020
January 13 – March 23
Full – waiting list
Monday Evenings – 10 sessions, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
Location: Lunenburg School of the Arts
Learn to paint expressive, impressionistic acrylic paintings that capture the colour, light and essence of a scene. Stretch your creativity, get out of your comfort zone to push past what you see to what you’d like to express.
Make value and negative pattern work for you to produce paintings that have strength and depth. Show the Artist’s hand with bold brush strokes, and “unexpected” colour.
Canvas prep, composition, and underpainting approaches shared. Colour mixing with a touch of theory to kiss local colour bye bye, it’s time to turn up the chroma!
Explore varnish techniques to make your work glow.