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For novices to oil and acrylic, this course will introduce painting materials and techniques while simultaneously providing students with a way to explore the essential components of painting, such as colour, composition, and self-expression. |
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This course will introduce the basic concepts of oil and acrylic painting and provide 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. Students must choose either oil or acrylics and continue in that medium. |
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This course is for those who have not painted in acrylic or oils or water based oils. We will do mixing of colours, colour wheel, primary, secondary and complimentary colours. We will also do still life of fruit, flowers, portraits, landscape and cityscape, as well as abstract paintings. |
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Emphasis will be placed on drawing, design, composition, colour mixing and colour relations. The course will consists of still life, landscapes, an abstract, the painting of a head by Delacroix and finish with a portrait of a live model. |
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This course is intended for those of you who have had some experience painting and wish to work on specific projects of your own choice. With the instructor’s guidance, you can develop ideas and create substantial works in a creative atmosphere. Your imagination will determine the size and scope of the paintings produced. |
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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. |
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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. |
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This course is for students looking to try something new and expand their artistic boundaries while exploring a range of media such as painting, drawing, collage and printmaking.Through a series of in-class projects, students will learn some essential components of visual art, such as line, colour, and composition. Encouragement to develop skills and an individual approach will be an integral part of learning. A visit to the National Gallery of Canada is included, where inspiration from different artists, such as Picasso, Mattise, Dali, Georgia O’Keefe, and others will develop. |
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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. Watch your paintings develop as various nature-based painting subjects and mixed media will be covered. |
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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. |
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Personal style (choice of acrylic, watercolour, oil) communicating intent and meaning applied to four paintings, each over three consecutive sessions with same model and nude/partly draped pose. Design strategies, references to contemporary influences, and painting techniques; National Gallery visit. |
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This course is for anyone who would like to learn to paint the human figure. It will enable the student to capture the energy and vitality of the human form while refining his or her visual sensibilities and aesthetic methods. It will provide a discipline in learning to see better: the student will develop his or her sense of proportion and perspective, as well as the ability to see colour through variations in light and shadow. The figure will serve as a vehicle for self-expression, as the development of personal style and inventiveness in figure painting evolve gradually over the course of the semester. |
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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 color and the elements of line, tonal values and the structure of the human form and thus providing a channel for the student’s self expressions. |
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A series of ten classes, which will consist of five 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. |
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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. |
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This course will explore creating portraits in both acrylic and oil. The approach will balance technique with immediacy and show how these can be woven together to capture personality and likeness. Individual coaching in both mediums will be provided, based on each student’s needs and goals. The sessions will primarily involve live models and include demonstrations of the instructor’s approaches and techniques. |
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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. |
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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.
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This course is for the student that wishes to explore the great versatility of acrylic painting with mixed media. Learn to use acrylics both thin like dye and thick like cement. We will explore the painterly effects of glazing mediums, gel mediums, monoprinting, related colour theories, various collage methods and painterly textural effects using found materials. Traditional and abstract subjects will be explored in the studio. |
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This course is offered to all level of students. Instruction will emphasize rhythmic brush movements and encourage students to understand the simplicity of the brushstrokes. This non-traditional approach by the artist was developed with students from the OSA and “promotes a relaxed approach”. |
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A beginner-level brush calligraphy course, also called “Sumi-e”, based upon the Breathing Brush Method developed by Ottawa Sumi-e artist, Mme. Tomoko Kodama. You will learn to move the Sumi-e brush 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 new method makes it easy for westerners to create beautiful ink works. |
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Using watercolour as the prime medium, the course will explore the joy of creating free and vital portraits. The approach will balance control and technique with immediacy and spontaneity and show how these can be woven together to capture personality as well as likeness. Appreciation of other mediums will be included, as applied in conjunction with fluid-media techniques. Individual coaching will be provided based on each student’s needs and goals. The sessions will primarily involve live models and include demonstrations of the instructor’s approaches and techniques. Let the water flow!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.
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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. |
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The mystique of the medium is unravelled through talks, practical application, group critiques and in-depth discussion and demonstration of the tools and materials used by this artist/instructor. Materials will be discussed during the first day of classes. |
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