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Beginners Watercolour
Curious about watercolour and ready to give it a try? Spend a relaxing weekend learning basic watercolour techniques such as wet-in-wet, modeling forms, creating textures, saving the whites, and most important, letting the water do the work! Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11 10:30a - 3:30p Instructor: Bruce St. Clair |
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Shiny and Clear
How do you paint light reflecting off a metal surface, or flowers in a clear glass vase? Or maybe stones under water. This workshop is designed to demystify these common artistic challenges, as we tackle each of these visual phenomena. Sunday August 8, 9:30a - 4p Instructor: Bruce St. Clair |
One Week Workshops
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People in the Wild - Plein Air
One week workshop: Portraits in the Wild is an exciting opportunity to extend and grow your portrait and landscape painting skills. On days 1 & 2 we work outdoors with a model to set various photo opportunities under natural lighting and do reference drawings of the model and the location, including value and colour studies. August 16 - 20, 9:30a to 12:30p Instructor: Nancy Steele |
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Different Strokes for Different Folks!
One week workshop: Fly across your canvas from Canada to France and brush with the likes of MacDonald & Monet, Varley & Van Gogh! A 5- day fun, intensive acrylic painting techniques course exploring the palettes and brush strokes of The Group of Seven, The Impressionists & beyond! You can also challenge yourself and transform your ideas in mixed media. August 23 - 27, 9:30a to 12:30p Instructor: Karen Peperkorn |
Online Workshops
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Digitizing Your Art LEVEL 1: Capturing and Displaying Your Art Online
In this 2-part, 3-hour online workshop, students will learn step-by-step how to take the best quality photos of their artwork (paintings, prints, sculpture, and more) and showcase their images in various digital formats including social media and websites. Students will also learn how to edit, resize, and create digital prints of their artwork. No special software needed for this workshop. THIS IS A LEVEL ONE workshop--no experience necessary. Tuesdays 6:00p - 7:30p | August 3rd and 10th ONLINE Instructor: Paul Whittingham |
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Digitizing Your Art LEVEL 2: Capturing and Displaying Your Art Online
Continuing on from the previous workshop, this delves deeper into editing the photos of the artwork in both Photoshop and Photopea. Photography of sculptures will be reviewed more closely and how best to photograph them using different methods, including green screen. Dates TBD. Please email contact@ksoa.info for registration information Instructor: Paul Whittingham |
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Branding and Logos for Artists LEVEL 1: Creating a Brand that Reflects Your Work
In this 2-part, 3-hour online workshop, students will learn basic elements of branding and will create a unique, original brand for themselves as artists. Students will also be introduced to marketing their brand across various media. No special software is required for this workshop. THIS IS A LEVEL ONE workshop--no experience necessary. Thursdays 6:00p - 7:30p | August 5th and 12th ONLINE Instructor: Paul Whittingham |
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Branding and Logos for Artists LEVEL 2: Refining the Brand that Reflects Your Work
Continuing on from the previous workshop, this further develops the logo from the first workshop into more specific areas and types. A new design will also be created and developed. Diving deeper into Adobe Illustrator, further training on how to use the program effectively will be taught. Dates TBD. Please email contact@ksoa.info for registration information Instructor: Paul Whittingham |
