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Out of stockSo you bought a sketchbook - now what? This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to learn how to draw and record everything you see. Sketching is an integral part of being an artist. From daily life to paint planning ideas, this course will provide critical, lifelong skills from a master instructor. This is also a great way to jump off into painting. You'll learn the best and fastest way to draw, and add some colour sparingly in places. Sketching Supply list (doc says 2024 but the supply list has not changed)
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Materials for Abstract Watercolour with Shelley PriorAbstract ExplorationsHaven't you always wanted to let loose with your watercolours? Join Shelley and explore pattern, design, texture, mark-making and some gorgeous colour combinations. It's a great opportunity to try out new techniques, maybe even add a few other elements and just experiment. Shelley will help you get started with some ideas so you can learn to play like a kid again.
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Life Drawing This course focuses on drawing and sketching real-life subjects in the form of everyday objects as well as specialized cast statues. The cast statues include depictions of statues and wall decals from the renaissance, casted using white plaster cast. These objects and casts will inspire students to create vividly authentic sketches, allowing them to enrich their artistic talents. With attention to value, form, perspective and proportion, you’ll be sure to learn skills that will further your artistic journey and develop works fueled by technical skill.
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Join 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 - BChapman - mentoring
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Oh the stories they could tell! There are some absolutely fabulous textures in things that are old and worn. Grab your watercolours and paint rusty metals, weathered wood, tarnished copper etc. with amazing textures and colours that simply didn't exist when they were brand new. Join Shelley as she explains how to tackle these subjects to make them come to life on paper.
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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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Abstract painting is art that does not attempt to render reality but uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. In this fun, energetic course, you will learn a different strategy each week working on two paintings per week. Abstract Expressionist painting is fun for new and seasoned artists alike . You will paint ‘in the moment’ - no plans or expectations - enjoying the dance of shape, texture and colour and relying on your ‘gut’ for inspiration. It’s spontaneous, intuitive and fun and requires a spirit of risk.. Abstract Expressionism is always surprising. Over time Abstract Expressionist artists find their own style - much like their own handwriting or voice.This course will set you on that journey. Abstract Expressionist Painting Materials List and Course Breakdown
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Using twelve 12” x 12” wooden panels over four weeks, artists will be invited to participate in a set of activities and games designed to get the creative juices flowing. Artists will learn to appreciate the power of creative play to reinvigorate their art practice with energy and playfulness, the benefits of which will spill over into other aspects of their creative life. Using acrylic paint or watercolours (pre-mount your paper on the boards), pencils, wax, collage, stencils, modelling paste,printing, and crayons, artists will experiment with layering, varying degrees of transparency, and texture to create abstracted images of landscapes, faces, still lives and non-objective content. One key aspect of art theory will underpin the work in each of the, four weeks. Materials for 12x12x12 Abstracts
