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Classes & Workshops are Starting Soon or Continuing

3/23/2015

Worx of Art class in session

Private Instruction
-continues with grade 8 student until the end of June

Please check out my pages for updates to the programs offered this spring.

Islington Seniors' Centre - Dundas at Burnhampthorpe
- monthly art challenges, movies and demos
-working towards a group art show In the Eyes of the Beholder - Oct 2015 at The Assembly Hall

Franklin Carmichael Art Group - Islington/Albion
- Wire Sculpture workshop - April
Small Bird sculpture.

Visual Arts Mississauga - Riverwood Park
- Photo Inspired Painting resumes with new weekly challenges
- Wire bird Sculpture - large Goose May 24th

Worx of Art - Vaughan
- continuing personal advancement until June and then starting again in Sept. - Tuesdays 10 - 3:30

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Wire Sculpture Workshop at VAM

1/31/2015

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What a great day we had working on the wire birds

I had a full class of 8 students and they all brought a different take on the project. The results were nothing short of fantastic. I think they all enjoyed themselves becasue they expressed interest on another workshop and I am eggar to try another one - with a different lesson. I am writing out a Proposal for VAM today for the Spring session.

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Realism - ode to Alex Colville

11/14/2014

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I will be going to the Alex Colville Art Show at the AGO for the 5th time, next week. When I was younger I didn't appreciate his work - mostly I think that I didn't see the real thing - only prints. His work loses so much when it is printed.
In response to h is work, I tarted this painting. He loved animals, especially dogs.

This is Watchful 2014 - acrylic on canvas board
16x20 [41cm x 51cm]

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Fall Art Classes

10/12/2014

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Visual Arts Mississauga has a good season. All the instructors are busy. There is a new Director. My New classes are full and very intense. I think everyone is learning something.

Islington Art Group at the Seniors' Centre has the end of month critique, get together and either a movie or a demo.

Worx of Art in Thornhill has already produced good work in one month.

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Acrylic Ink Drawings - Paintings

7/14/2014

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Many images are coming to mind as I explore this new medium. I am working on many abstractions and a few realistic images. I started with straight pen nibs and then moved to brushes. Then the idea of using an oil pastel as a resist and effectively using a scratch-board technique has helped develop a fresh and free look.
Hope you enjoy them

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Instructor's Art Show at VAM - June 2014

6/9/2014

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The painting I put in the show is my Palette Knife Still Life - Possibilities 2013

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Winner - Snow Dog in Art Publication

5/17/2014

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Artists Network on line is a site I like and look at quite a bit. They have a few art competitions each year. This winter, shortly after finishing Snow Dog [2013 - acrylic , palette knife - 24x36], I saw their acrylic competition. I just learned that my painted was accepted.
The publication is: North Light Books' Acrylic Works 2: Radical Breakthroughs. Here is the link.

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Challenges

1/30/2014

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When I joined the on-line community at Paint My Photo I also joined a number of groups inside that site. One of them was the Abstract Group and January's Challenge was Black-White-Grey. Here is my effort.
This is done with palette knife, dry brush, modeling paste and acrylic paints.
Frost 2014 - 12x16 on canvas board.

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Winter - Workshops and Classes

1/25/2014

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At Visual Arts Mississauga

Wednesday Eve 7 to 10pm Workshop in Palette Knife.
It is going well. There are 9 students. Some are cautious and some are enjoying the freedom of using the knife and the mediums.

Thursday 1 - 4pm
Photo To Painting Class
13 students. It is a lively group and most are interested in a more modern interpretation of the photograph than realism.

At Worx of Art - Thornhill

A New Studio! - taking time to settle in and get used to the light - being a south light it can be intense now that it is low. 6 to 8 students

Islington Seniors' Centre - Etobicoke

watercolour - student work [Svetlana]

2 Classes- 9 - 11 & 12:30 - 2:30 Fridays. 13 to 15 students in each class. We have 3 new oil painters this year and a lot of people drawing.

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Painting & Drawing from Copy-right Free Photos

12/5/2013

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About a month ago I found an artist's website through a British artist I admire. The site is called Paint My Photo = PMP. Artists and students gather there to show their art and to get copy-right free photos to work from. It is a free site although I recommend offering them a donation for upkeep of the site,
I have recommended it to all my students because I am tired of worrying about their art sources. This site may also encourage them to take photographs and develop them into art.
A heads up - there is a new photography group who are sharing their work but you have to ask the photographers if you can use these pieces for art. It is the only part that you should be careful and respectful of copy-right.
Here a few of my efforts so far.