Humber Valley Art Club (at Neilson Park)
Painting: The Rules and How to Break Them
Painting is rife with rules: a virtual torrent of shoulds and shouldn’ts. Yikes! While all artistic rules exist for a reason, none is absolute: art thrives on the unexpected, sublime solution that renders rules moot. Each day we’ll take on one of painting’s key tenets: after a brief lecture with inspiring masterwork examples, you’ll be challenged to create work harnessing the truth of the rule, and then, discerningly, break that same rule. Regardless of experience, this workshop will deepen your appreciation for why the rules exist in the first place, as well bolstering your creativity in pushing beyond them.
The best broken rule is an understood rule: Learn. Apply. Comprehend. Transcend!
Wednesdays, 10am–3:30pm, January 9 – January 30 (4 weeks)
Register HERE or call 416-621-8660.
Neilson Park Creative Centre: Courses
Collage and Mixed Media
This course is designed as an ongoing investigation into the nature and potential of this versatile, visceral medium. With inspiring examples by collage masters, individual and group discussion and plenty of set and open-ended exercises, we’ll delve into a variety of artistic ideas and issues through collage.
Thursdays, 9:30am-12:30pm, January 24 – February 28 (6 weeks)
Register HERE or call 416-622-5294.
Watercolour: Contemporary Approaches
Break out of the mold and use watercolour like you’ve never before! Through inspiring contemporary examples and open-ended creative challenges, explore and exploit watercolour’s strength, delicacy and versatility as a medium of NOW, not just yesteryear. Nary a barn or split rail fence in sight!
Thursdays, 1–4pm, January 24 – February 28 (6 weeks)
Register HERE or call 416-622-5294.
Neilson Park Creative Centre: Workshop
Art Alchemists
Get creative while giving your wallet a rest in this decidedly low-budget and hi-fun workshop. Through stimulating challenges, we’ll endeavor to transform everyday base materials into artistic gold with use of the most important artist’s materials of all: head, heart and hands.
Saturday and Sunday February 9-10, 9:30am-4pm.
Register HERE or call 416-622-5294.
Visual Arts Mississauga: Courses
Authentic Drawing (Try it You'll Like It)
Learn to draw with a variety of dry media such as graphite, conté and charcoal. Through carefully-scripted explorations, you’ll be nurtured and supported in finding just exactly what turns your artistic crank — and winding it up into full-blown wonderful! You bring an open mind, VAM supplies the rest! Materials Included!
Mondays, 1–4pm, January 7 – March 4 (8 weeks; no class February 18)
Register HERE or call 905-277-4313.
Abstraction: More Approaches
Forge a little further into the realm of abstraction, exploring what might lie around a few more artistic corners! Through examples, group discussion, hands-on exercises, and above all, plenty of fun — you’ll try many new ways of working, seeing and thinking. Let’s see how far this rabbit hole goes!
Mondays, 9am–12pm, February 4– March 4 (4 weeks; no class February 18)
Register HERE or call 905-277-4313.
Markham Group of Artists: Member's Day
Composition Pointers
Have you ever wondered why some paintings “work” better than others? Underpinning every successful piece of art is a successful application of composition: whether intentional, intuited, or by sheer luck. In this fast-paced and informative lecture, you’ll learn many key compositional principles and see examples of how they’ve been applied in masterworks old and new. Hands-on sketchbook exercises along the way will help you intentionally apply the principles. By increasing your knowledge and understanding of composition, you’ll strengthen the impact and visual sophistication of your work, and take it to the next level.
Saturday, February 2, 10:15am - 12pm Varley Art Gallery
Details HERE.
Markham Group of Artists: Workshop
Art Alchemists
Get creative while giving your wallet a rest in this decidedly low-budget and hi-fun workshop. Through stimulating challenges, we’ll endeavor to transform everyday base materials into artistic gold with use of the most important artist’s materials of all: head, heart and hands.
February 16, 10am - 3pm
Details HERE.
Painting: The Rules and How to Break Them
Painting is rife with rules: a virtual torrent of shoulds and shouldn’ts. Yikes! While all artistic rules exist for a reason, none is absolute: art thrives on the unexpected, sublime solution that renders rules moot. Each day we’ll take on one of painting’s key tenets: after a brief lecture with inspiring masterwork examples, you’ll be challenged to create work harnessing the truth of the rule, and then, discerningly, break that same rule. Regardless of experience, this workshop will deepen your appreciation for why the rules exist in the first place, as well bolstering your creativity in pushing beyond them.
The best broken rule is an understood rule: Learn. Apply. Comprehend. Transcend!
Wednesdays, 10am–3:30pm, January 9 – January 30 (4 weeks)
Register HERE or call 416-621-8660.
Neilson Park Creative Centre: Courses
Collage and Mixed Media
This course is designed as an ongoing investigation into the nature and potential of this versatile, visceral medium. With inspiring examples by collage masters, individual and group discussion and plenty of set and open-ended exercises, we’ll delve into a variety of artistic ideas and issues through collage.
Thursdays, 9:30am-12:30pm, January 24 – February 28 (6 weeks)
Register HERE or call 416-622-5294.
Watercolour: Contemporary Approaches
Break out of the mold and use watercolour like you’ve never before! Through inspiring contemporary examples and open-ended creative challenges, explore and exploit watercolour’s strength, delicacy and versatility as a medium of NOW, not just yesteryear. Nary a barn or split rail fence in sight!
Thursdays, 1–4pm, January 24 – February 28 (6 weeks)
Register HERE or call 416-622-5294.
Neilson Park Creative Centre: Workshop
Art Alchemists
Get creative while giving your wallet a rest in this decidedly low-budget and hi-fun workshop. Through stimulating challenges, we’ll endeavor to transform everyday base materials into artistic gold with use of the most important artist’s materials of all: head, heart and hands.
Saturday and Sunday February 9-10, 9:30am-4pm.
Register HERE or call 416-622-5294.
Visual Arts Mississauga: Courses
Authentic Drawing (Try it You'll Like It)
Learn to draw with a variety of dry media such as graphite, conté and charcoal. Through carefully-scripted explorations, you’ll be nurtured and supported in finding just exactly what turns your artistic crank — and winding it up into full-blown wonderful! You bring an open mind, VAM supplies the rest! Materials Included!
Mondays, 1–4pm, January 7 – March 4 (8 weeks; no class February 18)
Register HERE or call 905-277-4313.
Abstraction: More Approaches
Forge a little further into the realm of abstraction, exploring what might lie around a few more artistic corners! Through examples, group discussion, hands-on exercises, and above all, plenty of fun — you’ll try many new ways of working, seeing and thinking. Let’s see how far this rabbit hole goes!
Mondays, 9am–12pm, February 4– March 4 (4 weeks; no class February 18)
Register HERE or call 905-277-4313.
Markham Group of Artists: Member's Day
Composition Pointers
Have you ever wondered why some paintings “work” better than others? Underpinning every successful piece of art is a successful application of composition: whether intentional, intuited, or by sheer luck. In this fast-paced and informative lecture, you’ll learn many key compositional principles and see examples of how they’ve been applied in masterworks old and new. Hands-on sketchbook exercises along the way will help you intentionally apply the principles. By increasing your knowledge and understanding of composition, you’ll strengthen the impact and visual sophistication of your work, and take it to the next level.
Saturday, February 2, 10:15am - 12pm Varley Art Gallery
Details HERE.
Markham Group of Artists: Workshop
Art Alchemists
Get creative while giving your wallet a rest in this decidedly low-budget and hi-fun workshop. Through stimulating challenges, we’ll endeavor to transform everyday base materials into artistic gold with use of the most important artist’s materials of all: head, heart and hands.
February 16, 10am - 3pm
Details HERE.
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