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We are very excited to welcome Stephanie's Creative Courage class to OAS! This is a facilitated studio series that focuses on artistic exploration, finding inspiration, and nurturing your creative consciousness. Supported by a collaborative environment, students will be introduced to techniques in composition, colour, and expression. Bring your favorite supplies -- from drawing to painting to mixed media, from landscape to still life to figurative -- and more. Chose your own adventure – whether it’s a brand new project, or one already in progress that you would like support working on. One of the sessions during the series will introduce an unconventional approach or technique that students might wish to add to their pieces. We will also discuss the techniques of a few chosen artists. This mentorship series is perfect for people who have taken a few beginners' drawing or painting classes.
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Collage is the perfect medium to help you unleash your creative potential. Whether it's to tell a story, fine tune your design and compositional skills or to simply jumpstart your creativity, collage offers a highly expressive and personal form of art that anyone can do, as well as enjoy. This course will explore a wide range of subject possibilities whilst combining an assortment of mixed media and various transfer techniques. Emphasis will be placed on creative exploration and study of the Principles of Design. Basic Tool Kit for Collage Course
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What's even more fun than watercolour? Mixed media is a great way to enhance any watercolour painting, without the need for layers of glazes. In this unique workshop we play with gesso, micron pens, gold leaf, and other great substances to develop new styles and beautiful pieces that are completely original. Treat yourself to something different! MIXED MEDIA MATERIALS LIST
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Explore essential techniques that form the basis of realistic painting. Learn how to create strong compositions, observe light and shadow more accurately, understand color relationships, and render convincing textures. You will also gain practical and in-depth knowledge of color theory and color perception techniques, specifically within the context of realism—focusing on still life and landscape subjects. In this course, students can choose any reference they like in the style of still life or landscape and work on it in class, or they may use the references provided in class. By the end of the course, your skills will have significantly improved, and you'll feel more confident in creating your own artworks.
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So it's winter - let's lean into it and paint. Winter is a great time with so many different colours that one can use -- greys, blues, violets, turquoise. We will paint an new image every week, from snow covered fields, moonlit nights in the snow, trees, mountains, and cityscapes, while embracing the winter theme all the while. There will be a demonstration and painting time in every class, and then a week to complete the work at home. SupplyList 2026-Thusrday Class
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This is a facilitated studio series that focuses on artistic exploration, finding inspiration, and nurturing your creative consciousness. Supported by a collaborative environment, students will be introduced to techniques in composition, colour, and expression. Bring your favorite supplies -- from drawing to painting to mixed media, from landscape to still life to figurative -- and more. Chose your own adventure – whether it’s a brand new project, or one already in progress that you would like support working on. One of the sessions during the series will introduce an unconventional approach or technique that students might wish to add to their pieces. We will also discuss the techniques of a few chosen artists. This mentorship series is perfect for people who have taken a few beginners' drawing or painting classes.
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Want to up your painting game? Let's consider what we have been painting, and where we'd like to take it next. Robin will begin with a different focused demonstration each week -- clouds in the sky, water on the beach and crashing waves, trees near and far, green of all sorts in the landscape -- and anything else you are having trouble with. Robin is incredibly talented at honing in on what's working well in each artist's piece during his highly anticipated group discussions each week. Everyone comes away feeling validated, and knowing what steps to take next, resulting in real improvement. You'll even get time to paint! If you ever feel stuck, you will be amazed at what the reactions to your painting can bring -- and how you can get to the final work that you have been wanting to complete.SupplyList2025-MentoringLateFallOAS
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From elevating your painting, to framing, pricing, marketing -- and more. Shelley is ready to support you and help you take your watercolour practice more seriously!
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Out of stockJoin Barbara for a four week mentoring class as she guides you through the topics of composition, shape, value and colour, light and shadow as well as painting techniques. Expect Barbara to discuss various art related topics as she moves about the class and circulates through the studio for individual attention. Students should bring their chosen subject matter in either oil or acrylic. Participants can choose to work one one piece throughout the 4 weeks, or bring a new piece each week. The choice is yours, and Barbara is there to help you on your path to clarifying your voice. Bring your normal working supplies and chosen painting surface (plus any images that you would like to paint) as well as a cover for the OAS table. Materials List - Barbara Chapman - All
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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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Learn how to paint our magical winged neighbours! This fun and no-stress beginner class will guide you through how to capture the beauty of various local (and some more exotic) birds and butterflies. You'll learn how to use acrylic paint and techniques that you can apply to having fun at home, and your future practice. You will come out of this class with more confidence as a painter, and take pride in the pieces you create! Megan Hazen Fall 2025 Materials List OAS
