This course will introduce the basic concepts of oil and acrylic painting and provides a solid background for further exploration. The classes will cover technical information, composition and space, and colour values. Beginning with simple studies students will quickly progress to completed paintings in full colour.
Instructor: Naz Ikramullah
Fee: $205
Wednesday: 13 h 30 – 16 h 30
Sep 15 – Nov 10
9 sessions | 27 hours |
This is a class for those who have some drawing skills. We will do paintings in oil or acrylic. Exercises include still life, painting from photos, portraits, landscapes, abstracts and a visit to the National Gallery of Canada. We start with the colour wheel and under-painting and by the end of the course you will paint a finished painting.
Instructor: Agnes Ivan
Fee: $240
Wednesday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 15 – Dec 1
12 sessions | 36 hours
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This course will serve to introduce painting to students who have had no exposure to this medium. It will begin with an introduction to the essential materials of painting and demonstrations of preliminary preparations such as building a stretcher, stretching and priming canvas, setting up the work area, and mixing colours on a palette. The latter part of the course will focus on the handling of paint and the use of techniques to facilitate painterly representation of what the student sees. Information about colour and composition will augment the creative process.
Instructor: Lucia De Marinis
Fee: $240
Thursday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 16 – Dec 2
12 sessions | 36 hours
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This course deals with the discovery of colour: how to paint crisp, clear colours full of light without them becoming mud. Colour theory and psychology will also be addressed in this course. A series of various exercises will initiate the student to fully understand colour and also its course in art history.
On peut adéquatement résumer ce cours comme à la recherche de couleurs claires sans qu’elles ne deviennent boueuses. Théorie, psychologie et histoire de la couleur seront également discutées. Divers exercices sont au menu afin d’apprivoiser l’étudiant(e) à la couleur et aussi à l’histoire de l’art.
Instructor: Yves Laroqcue
Fee / coût: $230
Tuesday / mardi: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 14 sep – Nov 23 nov
11 sess. / cours | 33 hours / heures
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Emphasis will be placed on drawing, design, composition, colour mixing and color relations. The course will consist of still lifes, landscapes, an abstract, the painting of a head by Delacroix and finish with a portrait of a live model.
Instructor: Gerald Smith
Fee: $250
Thursday: 18 h 30 – 21h 30
Sep 16 – Dec 2
12 sessions | 36 hours
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This course is for those who are at a turning point of their painting culture. The pertinent questions are: what should I paint? Why I am repeating? Why am I imitating? Where is my creativity? In brief, how can I become authentic as an emerging artist? It is within this framework that we will try, all together, to answer these crucial questions.
Ce cours s’adresse aux peintres qui posent ce questionnement : quoi peindre? Vers où aller ? Ai-je tendance à répéter ? Ai-je tendance à « imiter »? Où est ma créativité? Bref, comment être unique dans ma démarche picturale ? Comment être unique comme peintre émergeant ? C’est dans un cadre des plus motivants que nous tenterons ensemble de répondre à ces questions si cruciales à la pratique de l’art.
Instr./ prof.: Yves Larocque
Fee / coût: $230
Wednesday / mercredi:
18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 15 sep – Nov 24 nov
11 sess / cours | 33 hours / heures |
This course is for students who wish to expand their artistic boundaries and develop an individual and focused approach to painting. Through personal projects students will gain new painting experience and a deeper understanding and greater clarity of vision in their work. The instructor acts as critic and guide in an informal workshop atmosphere.
Instructor: Blair Sharpe
Fee: $240
Wednesday: 13 h – 16 h
Sep 15 – Dec 8
12 sessions | 36 hours
No class on Sep 29 |
This course is for students who wish to expand their artistic boundaries and develop an individual and focused approach to painting. Through personal projects students will gain new painting experience and a deeper understanding and greater clarity of vision in their work. The instructor acts as critic and guide in an informal workshop atmosphere.
Instructor: Blair Sharpe
Fee: $240
Thursday: 18 h 30 – 21h 30
Sep 16 – Dec 9
12 sessions | 36 hours
No class on Sep 30 |
This course focuses on the essential skills involved in painting with oils and acrylics. With the instructor’s guidance, students will work on projects of their own choice, will learn painting techniques, gain practical information and will receive feedback on their work. Formal issues concerning technique, colour and composition will be discussed.
Instructor: Andrew Fay
Fee: $250
Wednesday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 15 – Dec 1
12 sessions | 36 hours
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This course focuses on the essential skills involved in painting with oils and acrylics. With the instructor’s guidance, students will work on projects of their own choice, will learn painting techniques, gain practical information and will receive feedback on their work. Formal issues concerning technique, colour and composition will be discussed.
Instructor: Andrew Fay
Fee: $250
Tuesday: 9 h 30 – 12 h 30
Sep 14 – Nov 30
12 sessions | 36 hours |
This class will focus on learning to draw and paint the human form, working progressively through lessons with charcoal, acrylics and into a work on canvas. Attention will be on colour and the elements of line, tonal values and the structure of the human form and thus providing a channel for the students self expression.
Instructor: John Sadler
Fee: $320
Monday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 13 – Dec 6
12 sessions | 36 hours |
Create from and learn to use the landscape to make expressive paintings. Contemporary and traditional methods will be explored in the painting medium of your choice. Students will meet at inspiring outdoor painting locations. Studio work and gallery visits will follow when it gets to cold.
Instructor: Rob Hinchley
Fee: $240
Tuesday: 13 h 30 – 16 h 30
Sep 14 – Nov 30
12 sessions | 36 hours |
This course focuses on the landscape and students will work in class using sketches and photographs as reference material. The course also examines the importance of drawing, composition and colour theory (put into practice) through practical exercises. Demonstrations by the instructor will also occur on a regular basis. Teaching is based on progressive, logical steps each lesson.
Instructor: Blair T. Paul
Fee: $255
Sunday: 13 h – 16 h
Sep 12 – Dec 5
12 sessions | 36 hours |
Figurative artists often communicate particular ideas and explore style in direct response to the model. In order to articulate a personal vision students will undergo completing three projects in which they begin by producing their idea using one figure and move toward creating a scene of action. As drawing and painting abilities advance students explore figure painting within contemporary and historical contexts.
Instructor: Mahshid Farhoudi
Fee: $315
Tuesday: 13 h – 16 h
Sep 14 – Nov 30
12 sessions | 36 hours
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Personal style, intent and meaning applied to four works, each extending over three consecutive sessions with the same model and pose but each featuring a different design strategy and content. Risk taking, composition, responsive observation, design and technique for effective communication and arresting paintings (oil, acrylic, watercolour). National Gallery visit.
Instructor: Pamela Lasserre
Fee: $315
Wednesday: 9 h – 12 h
Sep 15 – Dec 1
12 sessions | 36 hours |
A course designed to teach all aspects of painting or drawing a portrait. Emphasis will be placed on proportions, colours, the head from different angles, skin tones, and the importance of values of light, dark, colour, and perspective.
Instructor: David Kearn
Fee: $310
Thursday: 13 h – 16 h
Sep 16 – Dec 2
12 sessions | 36 hours |
A series of twelve classes, which will consist of six, two week sessions of painting a portrait from a live model. The anatomy of the head will be stressed as a means of achieving a likeness. Samples of great portraits, past and present will be examined. There will be a critique after each completed portrait.
Instructor: Gerald Smith
Fee: $320
Tuesday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 14 – Nov 30
12 sessions | 36 hours |
This course is an exploration of the concepts of painting as they apply to portraiture. It will focus on developing the skills necessary for representation of the human face as derived from observation. The painting process will involve a study of perspective, light and volume, contour, proportion, scale, colour balance, and the figure-ground relationship. The objective will be to capture a likeness while at the same time invoking the personality and spirit of the subject, and ultimately using the painting experience to express something fundamental to the student’s own vision and creativity.
Instructor: Lucia De Marinis
Fee: $300
Monday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 13 – Dec 6
12 sessions | 36 hours |
This course will explore the lustrous and visceral medium of encaustics. Students will begin by becoming acquainted with mixing pigment and wax and adjusting transparency and opacity. Class projects will involve the layering of colours, working with brush stroke as well as creating texture and relief with pottery tools and collage. Participants will have the opportunity to incorporate drawing, fabric, sewing and found elements into compositions. The course will conclude with an independent project in which students can employ their favourite techniques.
Instructor: Jenny McMaster
Fee: $210
Monday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 27 – Nov 22
8 sessions | 24 hours |
The process of creating abstract work is not as easy as it looks and developing visual art projects with a definite focus is usually the most difficult of all. This course’s sole focus is to create or start to create a series of art work based on developing unique images and seeing how far it is possible to go for each student. The focus discussion is asking key questions as a starting point for projects and development process in the student’s artwork and to look at the reasons behind abstraction.
Instructor: Adam Davidson
Fee: $255
Wednesday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 15 – Dec 1
12 sessions | 36 hours |
Successful art is not the only idea it is the use of your materials to express. By using the brush, texture and colour to display your emotion or interpretation of the image to be captured on the canvas. From experimentation of the materials used and the action of the painting process is the main basis for expressionism.
Instructor: Adam Davidson
Fee: $255
Tuesday: 18 h 30 – 21 h 30
Sep 14 – Nov 30
12 sessions | 36 hours |
Painting with ink and brush, also called “Sumi-e” and based upon the Breathing Brush Method developed by Ottawa Sumi-e artist, Mme. Tomoko Kodama. You will learn to create the unique strokes that combine to become an ink painting in the Asian style. As you progress, you will understand and appreciate how this innovative method makes it easy for North American students to create beautiful ink works, in classical as well as contemporary styles.
Instructor: Heather MacDonald
Fee: $175
Monday: 18 h 30 - 20 h 30
Sep 13 – Nov 22
10 sessions | 20 hours |
Painting with ink and brush, also called “Sumi-e” and based upon the Breathing Brush Method developed by Ottawa Sumi-e artist, Mme. Tomoko Kodama. You will learn to create the unique strokes that combine to become an ink painting in the Asian style. As you progress, you will understand and appreciate how this innovative method makes it easy for North American students to create beautiful ink works, in classical as well as contemporary styles.
Instructor: Heather MacDonald
Fee: $145
Friday: 10 h – 12 h
Sep 17 – Nov 5
8 sessions| 16 hours
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This class will offer a sound introduction to the use of watercolour. Students will learn colour mixing, brush handling and other techniques through exercises based on still life, photographs and painting from the figure. Three model sessions.
Instructor: Don McVeigh
Fee: $260
Tuesday: 9 h – 12h
Sep 14 – Nov 30
12 sessions | 36 hours |
In this course students will be introduced to basic approaches to watercolour, using the brush as a drawing tool and applying washes. A minimal palette and mixing colours will be emphasized and individual instruction given according to students needs.
Instructor: Leonard Gerbrandt
Fee: $240
Monday: 18 h 30 – 21h 30
Sep 13 – Dec 6
12 sessions | 36 hours
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The mystique of the medium is unraveled through talks, practical application, group critiques and indepth discussion and demonstration of the tools and materials used by this artist/instructor. Materials will be discussed during the first day of classes.
Instructor: Morton Baslaw
Fee: $240
Wednesday: 9 h 30 – 12 h 30
Sep 15 – Dec 1
12 sessions | 36 hours |
The mystique of the medium is unraveled through talks, practical application, group critiques and indepth discussion and demonstration of the tools and materials used by this artist/instructor. Materials will be discussed during the first day of classes.
Instructor: Morton Baslaw
Fee: $240
Saturday: 9 h 30 – 12 h 30
Sep 11 – Dec 4
12 sessions / 36 hours
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Individual instruction related to student’s expressed interests and goals, to increase proficiency in working with water-based media. Emphasis will be on design, simplification and use of value and colour, as well as to enhance the student’s personal expression in watercolour or water based media.
Instructor: Leonard Gerbrandt
Fee: $255
Wednesday: 9 h 30 – 12 h 30
Sep 15 – Dec 1
12 sessions | 36 hours
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