Workshops
A Crash Course in Acrylic Painting
If you’ve always wanted to try painting on canvas and can’t make the time, this is a great place to start. You will be guided through the painter’s process: the enjoyment of mixing colours, handling a brush and designing your …
Drawing and Painting on Mylar: Exploring “frottage”
Mylar (translucent matt acetate) is a receptive surface for “frottage”, a process associated with Max Ernst and the Surrealists. The artist rubs the paper with pencil or charcoal picking up the fine detail of any textured surface (coins, shells, leaves, …
Raw Art: A Radical Painting Workshop
Vicki Tansey guides this improvisational, wild-mind approach that takes you outside the traditional view of beauty. Explore the brut, physical qualities of metal, wire, wood, and textured cloth integrated with your usual paint materials to create more dimensional, textural images, …
Capture the Essence: Simplify your Compositions
Any artist who has felt that their paintings lack focus or seem cluttered can benefit from trying a “less is more” approach. Streamlining compositions, using a palette knife or large brush, and choosing color effectively are all ways to help …
Japanese Brush Painting
A workshop on Japanese brush techniques introducing traditional subjects such as bamboo, iris, chrysanthemum and plum. Using the brush strokes particular to these classical plant forms we will work in black sumi ink and then enhance with a limited palette …
Box Art Assemblage
An art form for tinkerers, anarchists and dreamers, these box assemblages are inspired by Joseph Cornell, David Hoffos and others. Explore a world of visual narrative, personal meaning and association as you assemble found objects and curiosities into a three-dimensional …
Printing without a Press
The most accessible printmaker’s workshop for artists who would like to bypass the need for a printing press and be able to continue working at home. Jump immediately into hand-rubbing original monotypes with a brayer or roller and water-based (richly …
Oil Pastel Portraits
Richly coloured oil pastels are the medium for this live model session in portraiture. A primer of techniques will help you make the most of your materials, from softly blended colour, fine lines and textured surfaces, to a method of …
Watercolour in the Park: Afternoon Light
Catch the long shadows and richer colour of afternoon and the early evening glint of sunlight through the trees. Painting exercises will focus on tonality, patterns of light and shadow and expressing this beautiful time of day through well-observed colour …
350, avenue Victoria, Montréal, Québec H3Z 2N4