Workshops

Pastel Workshop

Pure Pigment at your Fingertips: Painting with Pastel

Fall 2020

November 10th – December 8th

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

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

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.