North Nanaimo Library Show 2017

The people at North Nanaimo Library have been kind enough to offer our group the opportunity to show our work. Currently there are 30 beautiful pieces on display for you to enjoy while you search for your next good read, or to take home with you if you fall in love. Please feel free to go have a look, the show will be on until November 20th.

North Nanaimo Library is located at 6250 Hammond Bay Road (250) 933-2665

The library is open Mon-Thurs 10am-8pm

Fri-Sat 10am-5pm

Sun 12:30-4pm

Today we had an Art Journal Workshop professionally done by Charlotte and Laurie. They displayed and demonstrated a variety of techniques and ideas. Harald gave us an interesting extra lesson.

The resulting paintings from Dennis Brown's workshop on mix media.

Dennis Brown hosted an excellent mixed media workshop called "Out of the Ordinary".

For our first workshop of the fall season, Sara Robichaud, a GOLDEN Certified Working Artist, gave us an interactive Demo on some of the newest Golden products.

Our summer sketchbook challenge was to:

Include at least one animal portrait encountered during the summer. It could be a wild or farm animal or a domestic pet. Include at least...

Tom and Marie hosted the last plein air of the season at their beautiful home by the ocean. We enjoyed a tasty potluck luncheon to finish it off. Click the slider for more.

First Time at Top Bridge Park for Plein Air

Harald opened his garden and home to a lovely day of plein air, pot luck lunch and his art gallery interior.

Bowen Park gathering for Plein Air

Plein Air at Marilyn's

The weather held off and we had a great turnout to sketch and socialize in an amazing garden filled with colour and objets d'art. An...

Group Photo at our End of the Year Picnic

Melinda Wilde demonstrated her wet on dry watercolour technique in creating a forest scene, backlit with that lovely electric moss one sees in the spring.

The Spring Challenge required us to use our imagination and be inspired by a piece of childhood poetry.

The following photos show the admirable results.

Patty gave us an excellent Demo on Zentangle Art

Gelli Plate Demos by Charlotte, Lynn and Rosina

Vida was the winner of the 2024 Winter Challenge.

It was to create a painting in whatever medium; representative, or abstract, and repeat it as a different season. She is shown here with...

Patt Schrivener showed us her step-by-step process for creating simplified figures

using scraping techniques and negative painting, She developed further interest and patterns using stencils and collage.

Bonnie Stebbings instructed us in how to make collage papers to use in an abstract mixed media painting.

Rich Williams on Composition Rules

He gave us a thorough presentation of Edgar Payne's many Rules of Composition by discussing a variety of paintings, including some of the...

Christmas Party 2023

We had a good turnout to meet, chat, eat amd have fun with a few games run by Liz. We exchanged handmade Christmas cards and took part...

Our Self Portrait Challenge turned out to be quite popular.

With 15 entries, it proved difficult to pick a winner however, Laurie Zuvich garnered the most votes to win. Congratulations, Laurie!

Watercolour Christmas Cards -

Patty had us create a snow scene with sheep from a youtube tutorial by Karen Rice; Rosina helped us do a light bulb glitter card.

Critique by Vida

Usually, once a month, one of our members gives a critique on any paintings that are submitted. One per person is allowed. They discuss...

Janice Evans workshop in watercolour entitled "Painting loose and loving it".

After a thorough discussion of materials and the process that she uses in plein air, Janice gave a short demonstration of mark making and...

Mark making youtube workshop by Jennine Close

Very ably presented by Patty McRory.

Vi Wawrykow was the winner of the summer sketchbook challenge,

which was to use at least three pre-prepared pages when working outside.

Plein Air Summer 2023

A kick in the creative with Joanne Barwise

She led us step by step in being inspired by the great painters before us. We did a page of asemic writing to loosen up, turned it over...