Join Jacintha for this end of the year wrap up session in a variety of subjects. Small - medium paintings to include different shapes and sizes of canvases. Let’s learn to create singles and pairings of still life, landscapes plus holiday themed birds and berries. Focusing as always on my style of bright and bold Impressionism. Click HERE for Materials List for Late Fall Krish
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Unleash your inner artist in The Timid Painter, a gentle introduction to acrylic painting for absolute beginners! In this relaxed and supportive class, you’ll explore basic techniques, colour mixing, and brushwork while creating simple, beautiful projects. Each session is designed to build confidence and creativity, with no pressure to be perfect—just enjoy the process of painting! Whether you’re new to art or simply nervous about getting started, this course will help you find joy and freedom with every brushstroke. Click HERE for Painting-Acrylics-Supply-List
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Discover the freedom and expressive possibilities of oil painting with a palette knife! In this five-week course, artist Maria Iva will guide you through creating vibrant, textured landscape paintings using only a palette knife—no brushes and no solvents. Through step-by-step demonstrations and individual guidance, you’ll explore colour mixing, values, composition, light, and texture, while learning to simplify landscapes and create depth with bold, confident strokes. Inspired by the Ontario landscape, Maria will share her techniques for painting trees, rocks, water, skies, and more, helping you loosen up, build confidence, and develop your own expressive style. Click HERE for Palette Knife with Maria Iva list of supplies Fall 2026
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Turn your travel memories into beautiful sketches or paintings! In this fun and creative class, you'll learn the basics of urban sketching and use your own travel photos as inspiration to create colourful scenes on paper. You'll learn to draw buildings, streets, and architectural details; understand perspective to create depth; add people, trees and elements to bring your scenes to life -- all while exploring expressive pen and ink techniques with watercolour. Some drawing experience will help, but no need to be an experienced artist. Just bring your travel photos and your memories! Click HERE for Watercolor Pen and Ink Class Materials List
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Out of stockFrom paper to picture, this course will teach the beginner the flow of water and paint. We'll discuss paper, paint, brushes and tricks fine artists use to complete several watercolour originals. Learn how much water to use, how to put on a wash, skies, flowers, fruit and scenery. Have fun while learning in a casual and friendly evening class. Click Here for Beginner Paint Materials List
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Dive deeper and build on the basics of watercolour such as colour mixing, techniques including graded washes and their combinations, wet in wet principles, assessment and strategy and planning, and knowing your image thoroughly through drawing. Technical exercises will be presented to strengthen those techniques. The depiction of space consistently (by assessing and presenting lighting and elements of perspective) will be addressed. Participants will be mentored toward completing any more challenging images of their choice, beyond their current capabilities. Learn to enJOY seeing everyday images as potential beautiful and inspiring watercolour paintings, and realize your many options for watercolour painting subjects that are both meaningful and challenging. Click HERE for Intermediate Watercolour Materials List David Foster
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Let perfection take a backseat while creating art. This is your permission to play, trust your instincts, and fall in love with the unexpected. Be inspired by the raw beauty of nature. Unlock the sensory snapshots already living in you: the crash of ocean waves, the intoxicating perfume of your favorite bloom, the hush of a mountain landscape that once took your breath away. Here, every "mistake" is just a doorway to discovery. Growth isn’t a straight line—it’s a thrilling, messy, glorious loop that transforms you again and again, just when you think you’ve arrived. All of this happens right at the edge of what you already know. And I’ll be right there beside you, cheering you on. Mixed Media, Acrylic, Oil. Art Supply List OAS Fall 2026 Judy Mayer-Grieve
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Have you ever wanted to learn to paint but were not sure where to start? Have you tried acrylic but you'd like to get more out of it? Then this course is for you! Over 8 weeks, we will familiarize ourselves with acrylic as a medium and all sorts of techniques we can use with it. We will cover everything from colour theory, to mixing techniques, to brushwork, to various art and design principles. Each week we will complete a small painting or paint sketch incorporating learned techniques. By the end of the course, we will have painted portraits, landscapes, abstract art, colour studies, and everything else in-between! Click HERE for the Materials List - Fall Tuesday AM Acrylic Painting Class
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Dive into the wonderful world of COLOUR! In this introductory course, you will learn the how's and why's of colour. Learn how to mix and use warm, cool and neutral tones through experiments on greyscales/grisaille and colour mixing techniques. Each class will include a lesson on a new aspect of colour theory, along with a painting demo and project to put the information into practice. Finish the class feeling more confident in your knowledge of colour and how to apply it into your art! Click HERE for the Intro to Colour Theory Materials List - Megan Hazen
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Unlock the power of the palette knife and transform your canvases into bold, tactile masterpieces. In this five-week course, you will learn to abandon the brush in favor of energetic, impasto techniques that emphasize texture, light, and depth. Whether you are focusing on wild forest scenes or serene water features, you will gain the confidence to create vibrant, expressive landscapes that truly stand off the canvas. Click HERE for Palette Knife with Maria Iva list of supplies Fall 2026
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Out of stockFrom paper to picture, this course will teach the beginner the flow of water and paint. We'll discuss paper, paint, brushes and tricks fine artists use to complete several watercolour originals. Learn how much water to use, how to put on a wash, skies, flowers, fruit and scenery. Have fun while learning in a casual and friendly evening class. Click Here for Beginner Paint Materials List
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OAS is thrilled to bring life drawing (with live models) to Studio Two on Tuesday evenings this fall. This eight week life drawing class will begin with fundamental drawing techniques applied to the human figure. Techniques taught will include: basic human anatomy, contour drawing, gesture drawing and chiaroscuro. The concluding drawings in the class will involve long poses where all techniques covered are cohesively combined. Click HERE for Life Drawing Supply List (The course price includes fees paid to models each week, as well as a Sheridan College art instructor). Click HERE for Weekly Course Outline for Life Drawing Course
