January - 2019

Winter Challenge 2018

Congratulations to Kim Challis, the winner of the 2018 Winter Challenge.

Fall Challenge 2018

The Challenge - Still Life & Shadow This year the fall challenge was creating a Still Life. Using one of our new photo references or sketches we collected over the summer, we were to prepare a piece that uses shadows and highlights to enhance the form of our objects, bringing a sense of cohesiveness to the piece while illustrating a light source. Congratulations to Barb Dressler for winning this year's fall challenge!

Rich Williams Prize Contest

Liz Astill was the final winner in a highly contested vote of many excellent paintings from his workshop. There was a 4 way tie between...

Rich Williams Workshop on Quilted Trees

Rich handed out a couple of small sample sketches for us to use or we could use one of the three he provided or our own. Click for more:

Full Figure Sketching Workshop

Rosina, Susan and Beth volunteered to pose for a session of quick figure sketching.

Brenda Pon was the well deserved winner of the winter Mixed Media Challenge.

It was to produce a mixed media artwork with a restricted palette of no more than 3 colours.

Christmas Party 2022 superbly organized by Liz Astill

We exchanged handmade Christmas cards and gifts; played a few art related games and feasted on all sorts of goodies....click on photo for...

Library Dispersion

Due to lack of storage space, the age of many books and the ease of research on the internet, we decided to disperse with our many...

Pastel Still Life Workshop with Day Gray along with a bonus, full portrait of Flo.

Mixed Media Demo by Vida Newington....

with contributions by Brenda Pon - a semi abstract on the subject of “Autumn“. The base was a gridded soft wash of acrylic using a...

Trees in Abstract Workshop with Caroline Morrison - with class results....

Summer Challenge 2022

4 part Sketch book Challenge: Monochrome with new medium; Urban scene with figure(s); Moving water; and Unconventional tool. Must...

Plein Air 2022

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Patricia Banks Watercolour Workshop - an Oriental Poppy...

Art Garage Sale

The art garage sale was fun and allowed folks to trade in stuff they don’t use for stuff they might want to use. Bonus: we earned in...

The Spring Challenge -to simplify a busy photo- was won by Laurie Zuvich. Congratulations, Laurie!

Eileen Williamson did an acrylic workshop with a Garry Oak scene

Flag with Leaves and Heart

Our group set up on Canada Day 2017 at Swy-A-Lana Park with a 3’ x 4’ canvas and encouraged the community to stamp colourful leaves on it...

Acrylic Workshop with Cindy Mawle Mar. 25, 2022

Marilyn Strongitharm co-ordinated the donation of more than 100 works of art to Nanaimo Shelters...

Nanaimo News Bulletin Josef Jacobson Feb. 19, 2022 12:35 p.m. When Marilyn Strongitharm first started approaching local artists about...

Winter 2022 Challenge: Passages to Move the Eye towards the Focal Point

Congratulations to Coni Long for her painting entitled "Dressing Up". Click each to enlarge.

Neurographic Art Feb. 4th via Zoom

Coastguard Cottages in ink pen and watercolour by Lois Davidson via zoom

Peter Sheeler Videos via Zoom Jan.14 & 21...

Christmas Party 2021

A big thank you to the many elves that were involved: elf Vida for her amusing activities; elves Liz and Mary Jo for the planning of...

Nanaimo Art Walk 2021

Nine of our members took part in a very successful Art Walk held at the Convention Centre. Click for more.

Watercolour Workshop with Daniel Elliott

Daniel discussed how he became an artist and the tools that he uses. He gave us pointers as he demonstrated painting a landscape scene in...

Viewfinder Challenge

With very few entries due to the poor weather, Margaret Tew was the winner, using a viewfinder to create a work of art that depicts where...

Daniel R Elliott “Winds of Change” - Oct 8, 2021

The exhibit explored the impacts of colonization and how healing can be achieved. Daniel gave our group an excellent interpretation of all

2021 Plein Air

Mixed Media Challenge Sept. 2021

Congratulations, Marilyn Strongitharm!

May 2021 Challenge

What you learned from Mike Lathrop. The winner was ....

Mike Lathrop Workshops April 23 and 30, 2021

Click to see his finished painting.

Laurie Zuvich - winner of the Spring 2021 Challenge.

The challenge was to pick a complementary colour scheme, then using those two colours and black and white, create a work of art. You...

Rich Williams Prize Contest

Rich Williams Workshop on Quilted Trees

Full Figure Sketching Workshop

Brenda Pon was the well deserved winner of the winter Mixed Media Challenge.

Christmas Party 2022 superbly organized by Liz Astill

Library Dispersion

Pastel Still Life Workshop with Day Gray along with a bonus, full portrait of Flo.

Mixed Media Demo by Vida Newington....

Trees in Abstract Workshop with Caroline Morrison - with class results....

Summer Challenge 2022

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