Loosen up your Watercolour workshop with Allison Watt

Nov. 20 and 27, 2020 via Zoom

"I need to loosen up!" is a common thing I hear from students. In these two sessions I will

give you some ways to loosen up your own paintings: letting the water do the work, using

large brushes, using resist, splattering, glazing to intensify, negative painting to keep shapes fresh.

Kommentare

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.

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...

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: