Full-day workshops are fast paced and intensive, with a specific learning focus, and fun! Watch this page for new opportunities.
Upcoming Workshops:
Working LARGE; Working RAW: 4-day workshop
These workshops are an opportunity to create LARGE and RAW. Bring your surfaces, acrylic paint and other media and your best ideas; you will have 4 full days to work and create alongside a group of your creative peers.
Gerrard Art Space (GAS), 1475 Gerrard St. E.
Session #1: August 6 - 9, 2019
Session #2: August 26 - 29, 2019
10 am - 4 pm daily
Workshop fee: $300
Back by popular demand. These 4-day workshops proved extremely popular last summer, so let’s do it again. This year, in addition to working LARGE, you are encouraged to try something RAW. Raw is open to interpretation: consider working on a surface that feels raw – raw canvas tacked to the wall, a piece of raw plywood, delicate raw linen, raw burlap coffee bag….. get the idea? Or maybe your subject matter feels raw and expressive. Can you make your colours feel raw?
For these multi-day workshops, participants will be able to leave materials and tools at the gallery for the duration of the workshop, no need to pack up each day.
These workshops are designed with “freedom” at the core. You are invited to experiment – work as large (or small) as you like, as raw (or tame) as you like, work indoors or out. It is like going to summer camp, without leaving home.
Click here for all the details: suggested supply list, summary of dates and times, and more.
To register: complete the form at the bottom of this page.
Just Do It ..... Portraits: 1-day workshop
New for fall 2019, I am very excited to have this opportunity to work with Artbarn School!
Artbarn School, 250 Eglinton Ave W, Suite 101
Sunday September 22, 2019
10 am - 4 pm
Fee: $139
This hands-on portrait painting workshop is designed to help you build the confidence to add people to your artwork. Explore how to use colour to express passion and attitude, how to use value to create mood, and how surface building techniques can convey energy and movement. Abstraction in all its forms will be encouraged. Please note that this workshop focuses on expressing mood and feeling, with minimal emphasis on capturing the likeness of an individual.
This workshop is suitable for artists at all levels who wish to explore abstracted portraiture. Enthusiastic beginners are welcome.
To register for Just Do It.... Portraits: click here to connect directly with Artbarn School.
To register for the Working LARGE; Working RAW Workshop: complete the form below to contact me. Be sure to first review all the important details by clicking here.
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Past Workshops:
Working LARGE: 4-day workshop
Gerrard Art Space (GAS), 1475 Gerrard St. E.
August 27 - 30, 2018
10 am - 4 pm daily
Inspired by the recent Mitchell/Riopelle: Nothing in Moderation exhibition at the AGO, this workshop is an opportunity to create LARGE. Bring your canvas(s), acrylic paint and other media and your best ideas. You will have 4 full days to work and create alongside a group of your creative peers.
LARGE will be interpreted differently by everyone; this is an opportunity to take it up a step (or two). Consider working in diptychs, triptychs, or similar; or work on paper (connect several sheets?) or other material, or consider working on raw canvas tacked to the wall. Participants will be able to leave materials and tools at the gallery for the duration of the workshop, no need to pack up each day. For those wanting to drip or pour, there is a laneway out back.
Just Do It! Getting Started
This workshop is designed for people whom I have not previously worked with. While working through various exercises you will be introduced to concepts and processes that will build your courage and knowledge, empowering you to freely experiment with your paint and tools. You will be surprised at what you are able to do. Suitable for beginners as well as experienced painters who wish to move towards a loose and free style.
Mood: Faces and People
This workshop focuses on capturing attitude and emotion while portraying the human element in your artwork. Here is an opportunity to paint people and faces using abstract and expressive techniques with acrylic paint or mixed media. Please note that this is NOT a portrait painting class, and will focus on capturing the mood rather than creating a likeness of an individual.
Fun with Colour
This workshop explores the power of colour to express mood, passion and beauty. Learn to talk the language of colour, practice mixing colours with confidence, explore warm vs. cool colours, transparent vs. opaque colours. A series of exercises will encourage participants to use colour boldly and expressively, or gently and peacefully, as you create meaningful abstract artwork.