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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...
Painting a bird with Judith Madsen
The idea was to create feathers using a palette knife to show the black canvas below.
Spring Art Challenge - Connections - any medium and our choice of subject matter.
Barbara Dressler won over everyone's hearts with her lovely painting of her grandson connecting with a monkey through their eyes.
Mixed Media Workshop with Janice Hofman
Janice brought stencils, stamps, PAPER and lots and lots of collage items. Most of us used her materials and had great fun composing a...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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.
