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Your basic painting skill set is the foundation for this adventure that will have you exploring unusual additions to your painting arsenal as we work with varied materials, sources, and methods. With inspiring masterworks, discussion and plenty of artistic leeway, this course is guaranteed to get your creative juices flowing!
We FILL our world with stuff. Objects speak of our desires, hopes, fears, memories and follies. What better to construct art from?? Through masterworks, group discussion and structured but open-ended projects, this course helps you with all aspects — from artistic to prosaic — of making art from existing objects.Saturday and Sunday, April 27-28, 9:30am-4pm.
Reality is overrated! Learn to look at what interests you in ways that only you can. Through masterworks, group discussion, hands-on exercises, and most of all, plenty of fun — this course will expose you to new ways of working, seeing and thinking. Curious but unsure about abstraction? Start here!
Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26, 9:30am-4pm.
4 full days of exploration with a balance of contemporary examples to inspire, exercises to get your motor running, and open-ended challenges —all in a collegial and supportive environment with individual attention and group discussion — with plenty of creative leeway to take things in the directions you find most compelling!
Monday to Thursday, June 10-13, 9:30am-4pm.
​Throw back the curtain on the expansive world of dramatic depth! Soaring skyscrapers, zooming vehicles, narrow streets and broad cityscapes, right down to still lifes and everyday objects that look convincingly 3D! Whatever you want to draw, a basic working knowledge of perspective will make it look RIGHT. We'll learn the fundamentals of 1-, 2- and 3-point linear perspective and how they govern the sizing and placement of elements. Starting with basic geometric volumes, we'll then apply that knowledge to creating convincing drawings of a host of subjects, with a quick look at how lighting adds further drama. Get ready to go dimensional!
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Collage is both easier and more difficult than it looks! Learn the basics of creating successful collages though examples, discussion and plenty of hands-on exercises that will hone your eye for colour, value, composition and texture. We'll also explore the innate collage strengths of juxtaposition, narrative and surprise.
Building on your fundamental understanding of perspective, this course provides a framework to apply those principles to the kind of images you want to create! Each week we'll take on a different perspective challenge, always with plenty of creative opportunities to make it your own. This time it's personal!
An ongoing exploration into the realm of abstraction: what wonders may lie around the next 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!
Ever since Joseph Cornell made his exquisite art in boxes in the 40s and 50s, putting collections of interesting objects into customized boxes has been a vital part of art-making for artists of all stripes. Whether to tell a story, create a shrine, show a collection, pique our curiosity or make us laugh — you can do it visually — in boxes! Kicking off with inspiring examples of artist's boxes, we'll then dive into making your very own based on your themes and interests. From box and contents selection to optimizing composition, right down to the attachment prosaics — we'll cover everything you need to create your own fascinating boxed art. Come spend the day thinking inside the box!
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