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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.
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
