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This botanical monoprinting workshop is a great way to celebrate spring foliage and flowers, and try your hand at gelli printing in a fun, easily accessible, low stakes way using plants, acrylic paint and a gelli plate. All rudimentary materials will be provided for success! Participants will go home with 4-5 original, really cool prints. Note: More serious artists are welcome to bring their vision, their own acrylic paints, and printing papers. Any acrylic paint and any paper will work.
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Currently only a rumour... but we are doing our best.
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Out of stockIt's officially SPRING! Discover the beauty of spring flowers with watercolour. n this 3-hour workshop, you’ll learn how to paint blooms with ease and enjoyment. With guided, step-by-step demonstrations, you’ll explore foundational techniques like layering, blending, and gentle brushwork to create soft texture, depth, and flow in simple floral compositions. This session is beginner-friendly and designed for anyone looking to build confidence and enjoy painting flowers in a loose, expressive style — without the pressure of perfect realism. You'll be well on your way to painting your way through spring, and beyond! MATERIALS List for Loose Florals in Three Hours
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Learn how to capture the colourful worlds of birds and blooms! You will explore acrylic painting techniques used to capture different textures -- from feathers to foliage. Learn to mix colours to create vibrant nature-inspired artworks. We'll complete a new piece every two weeks (i.e. two classes will be dedicated to each painting). You will gain skill and confidence as you work from sketch and composition, to painting in the shapes and adding final details. After eight sessions, you'll complete the course with beautiful work to be proud of. Click here for the materials list
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Back AGAIN by popular demand! Dedicated time to just paint with others in Studio One. Get out of the house, and take your Monday evenings to create anything you wish in this completely informal setting for optimal comfort and focus. This studio time, open to members and non-members, is the perfect opportunity to work on pieces from classes you're taking, or whatever you like. These precious hours involve no formal instruction whatsoever, but feel free to offer / receive feedback and encouragement from others, (as you wish).
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Growth happens when we allow ourselves to stay open, curious, and flexible in the unknown. This class encourages imagination and experimentation. Moving beyond technical skill, students are encouraged to explore using paint, tools, recycled materials and more in this class. Click HERE for the materials list
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Join Jacintha to follow along in her step by step approach to painting the glory of seasonal florals. Focus will be on creating impressions of loosely styled compositions in varied and vivid palettes. Learn to capture on canvas the beauty of our spring and summer florals in their resplendent beauty outdoors as well as bouquets of garden fresh cuts. Learn the art of layering with multiple brush strokes while using varied techniques to capture movement and light to create paintings that sing! MATERIAL LIST Spring 2026 OAS
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Unlock the fundamentals of portrait drawing in this hands-on portrait sketching class. This course will guide you step-by-step through the essentials of capturing the human face, basic facial proportions, techniques for sketching eyes, noses, mouths, and ears, understanding light, shadow, and shading to create depth, how to observe and draw from photographs, tips for capturing expression and personality in a portrait. There will be live demonstrations, personalized feedback, and practice exercises to build confidence and skill. Beginners welcome!
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This class — perfect for beginners — is ideal because Tim (president of Oakville Sculptors and Woodcarvers Guild) will be joined by one or two additional instructors at every class. Everyone will have lots of individual attention to move step by step to complete potentially three projects — an owl, a fox, and a relief carving of a flower — over the course of six weeks. All materials (cut wooden blanks, hand carving tools, sandpaper, protective gloves) are provided. Just come and enjoy something new!
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Out of stockThis course is structured around process. Each class will focuses on one mental state of painting. Students will learn when to push, when to wait, and when to stop. Week one- Seeing and Block-in. Week two- Development 1, Form, Colour and Confidence. Week three- Development 2, Atmosphere, Space and Restraint. Week four - Finish & Reflection, Clarity, Emotion and letting go. Click HERE for Spring 2026 Materials List for P Cheung
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With a focus on the principles of composition, this course delves into the importance of visual set up, values and brush strokes to create aesthetic and emotive paintings in a classical manner. You’ll work initially to create pencil sketches that will evolve, with the instructor’s guidance, into fully developed paintings. With attention to light and values, colour, shape, placement and proportion of elements and the harmony of brush strokes, you’ll learn how to develop works that are visually strong as well as both fulfilling and meaningful. Some previous painting experience is helpful. Materials List
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Our half year membership fees are now in effect, and are valid until August 31, 2026. In addition to program discounts, members are welcome to join us in studio any Friday (year round) to enjoy open studio time in our creative community.
