WORKSHOPS
Zen of Watercolour
Instructed by Lillian Loponen
$110 (supplies included)
Monday evenings, 6:30–8:30pm
February 1 and 8, 2010
Lillian Loponen carries with her 32 years of working with watercolour. In this course Lillian takes the student on an adventure of exploration in watercolour techniques, imaging and design concepts. Watercolour play is the focus used to explore the medium; gently taking the student away from preconceived ideas of what art is and into intuitive imagining and design. The hope is to change perspective on what creativity is. The final product is a cropped view of student work suitable for exhibition, art cards, a journal book cover, etc. No art skills are necessary and no drawing is required.
Put a Lid On It!
Instructed by Lynne Sofiak
$175 (clay not included)
Saturday, February 27, 12-4pm
Tuesday, March 2, 7-10pm
This workshop will explore making wheel thrown lidded vessels from storage jars to casseroles and teapots with various types of lids. We will look at the purpose and fit of different styles of lids and practice throwing a variety of them. Students will need to be able to centre and throw cylinders.
Instructed by Larry DuGuay
$255.00 (clay and glazes included)
Thursday evenings, 7–10 pm (7 classes)
February 25–April 8, 2010
Participants are introduced to wheel throwing and hand building techniques such as slab and coil work. Students will have the opportunity to choose from a variety of glazes to finish works. Have fun learning and take home wonderful functional pottery or beautiful works of art!
Introduction to iPhoto
Instructed by Davy Joly of Meadia Solutions
Tuesday evenings,
March 2 and 9, 7-9pm
$155 - add $25 if you need
us to supply
you with a computer
Learn to create media-rich digital projects and share them online with
a few clicks. Featuring images from around the world, the focused lessons
cover organizing and sharing your photo library to produce photo albums and
astonishing prints.
Who Should Attend: This class is designed for educators, students, professionals,
and others who prefers hands-on and interactive instruction to best explore the
functionality of the iLife applications, especially iPhoto.
What You Will Learn:
• Organize and edit images in iPhoto
• Turn your photos into cards, picture books, calendars, or a web gallery
Prerequisites:
• Basic knowledge of the Macintosh OS
FOR THE KIDS!
March Break Kid’s Castle Camp!
Instructed by Sandra Storey
March 15-19, 9am-4pm
$295 (supplies included)
Please remember a healthy lunch and snacks
Enter into a medieval world of knights, dragons, wizards, princesses, castles and court jesters! Campers will enjoy role playing; building up their kingdom, creating their own coat of arms and banners and maybe slay a dragon or two! Students will work with clay, paper clay and a variety of media.
Registration limited to 8 students.
March Break Variety Camp
Instructed by Mary Beattie, Andrew Sharp,
Lise Merchant, Mary Hudgin and Emma Barr
March 8-12, 9am-4pm
$295 (supplies included, for ages 8-12)
Please remember a healthy lunch and snacks
A chance to create hand drawn and claymation animations
with Andrew; Lise will teach you how to dye wool fabric
with Kool Aid, design and hook a 4” rug/mat using your
very own hand-dyed fabric, try needle felting with Mary
Beattie; a book binding project with Mary Hudgin and
collage, mixed media and colour mixing and theory with Emma.
Registration limited.
Hand-Build a Clay Lamp
Instructed by Holly Wilson
$195 (includes supplies)
Sunday, March 14, 10am-4pm
Wednesday, March 24, 6-8pm
Sunday, March 28, 10am-2pm
Hand-build your own very unique and personal ‘mood’ lamp of clay. This lamp will have pieces of glass, marbles, semi-precious stones, beads and bottle tops set into it. The light base will be inside the lamp and shine through the set-in glass/stones.
This workshop will consist of 6 hours Sunday for construction, 2 hours for oxide/glazing 10 days later (work needs to completely dry before bisque firing) and a 4 hour Sunday for final assembly.
Glass, marbles and stones will be available, but bring in your own special pieces to make it individual.
Getting Started with Oil Painting
Instructed by Emma Barr
$215 (supplies not included)
Tuesday evenings, 7–9:30 pm
February 23–March 30, 2010
Oil paint is a lovely, buttery and exciting medium to work with. It can increase color mixing ability and luminescence in paintings. Discover the very basics over six classes with seasoned painter and teacher, Emma Barr.
There are a variety of materials and other mediums at your fingertips, which when combined with the versatility of oil paints, gives you a variety of interesting ways to begin an oil painting. Certain drawing and painting mediums are compatible with oil paints and when utilized, will make your painting experience interesting and enjoyable!
Learn how to handle brushes, set up a painting palette, discover oil compatible mediums such as paint thinners, charcoal, toned grounds/supports, water-soluble pencils and acrylic under painting.
Don’t forget to ask for the supply list when you register.
Acrylic Painting
Instructed by Emma Barr
$215 (supplies not included)
Monday evenings, 7–9:30 pm
April 6–May 11, 2010
Join seasoned local artist Emma Barr for a fun and comprehensive introduction to acrylic painting. This course is suitable for the beginner or self-taught intermediate. Using acrylic paints, you will explore the heart and soul of painting: color, form, expression, pictorial space and content. You will have the unique opportunity to paint from whatever inspires you personally. Enhance your technical skills in brush handling and using acrylic mediums in addition to acrylic pigments. Don’t miss this great opportunity to be introduced to acrylic painting from the ground up. The next piece of art you hang on your living room wall just might be your own!
Supply list available upon registration.
Portrait Sculpture
Instructed by Sandra Grace Storey
$225 (supplies included)
Sculpting - April 10 & 11, 10am-4pm
Surface finishing - April 20, 6-8pm
The focus of this week-end intensive will be the use of clay as a sculptural material to create a portrait bust. Students will make a number of small studies and then begin work on their main project, to be completed by the end of class on Sunday. Work will be dried and fired before students return for one evening to finish the surface through the application of stains, oxides and/or glazes. We will have a model to work from for a brief time but will be working also with photographs, mirrors and movement.
Using Clay Slip
Instructed by Lynne Sofiak
$175 (some supplies included)
Mondays, April 12 & 19, 7-10pm
Saturday, April 24, 12-4pm
This workshop will cover “Clay Slip” from mixing it to colouring it. Students will explore many of the different ways of using and decorating with slip including slip trailing, wiping, painting, stamping and stippling.
Batik, Print and Bind
Learn 3 different disciplines while creating your own personal journal!
Instructed by Karen Rhebergen,
Meshell Melvin and Mary Hudgin
$190 (includes supplies)
Batik, Thursday, April 15, 7-9:30pm
Print, Thursdays, April 22 & 29, 7-9:30pm
Bind, Thursday, May 6, 7-9:30pm
Participants’ will use the batik process to create two possible journal covers in Karen Rhebergen’s class. Meshell Melvin will lead students in printmaking. You will develop an original design, carve it out of a soft lino block and print several variations. Mary Hudgin will help you to mount your batik cover on a canvas backing and using an outside stitching technique, students will sew together signatures, created from their individual prints, to complete a journal.