A Walk through the Principals of Design,  Monday Sept 17, 2018 6:30-10pm $62.15 Materials & HST included -ARTiculations

This workshop will help students understand  more about the   Elements (tools to make art)  and Principals (how to use the tools to make art)of Design.  The Elements consist of: Line, Shape, Form, Colour, Value, Texture & Space. The Principals are: Pattern, Contrast, Emphasis, Balance, Scale, Harmony, Rhythm, Unity & Variety.  We will explore these concepts with several  simple images of the students design. Feel free to bring a sketchbook of idea. This workshop will generate several small studies for larger works.

Landscape Techniques,Monday Oct 15,2018  6:30-10pm, $62.15 Materials& HST included -ARTiculations

We will be learning many paint techniques that help create a landscape. Techniques we will try  are scumble, graduated blend, stipple, spatter, dry brush , impasto paint with a palette knife, schlapitka and sgraffito. We will create a constructed landscape and then work from  some images by the Group of Seven and Monet to explore traditional and more direct techniques of landscape painting. IF you have a photo you want to work from that is also welcome too.

Composition through Collage, Monday Nov. 12, 2018 6:30-10pm, $62.15 Materials& HST included -ARTiculations

What elements make a good composition? In this single night workshop explore the many layers of collage along with exploring placement to explore composition. Using tissue, fabric, magazines, coloured papers, gel and matte medium along with clear packing tape. Materials will be supplied but if you have images, letters, fancy paper, fabric, lace,  you want to incorporate bring it along .

Realism to Abstraction, Monday Dec. 10, 2018  6:30-10pm, $62.15 Materials& HST included -ARTiculations

How does one create an abstract painting? Walk through the steps from a known reality to its abstraction, using the seven principals of design to help guide you. Working from  real a still life  or  photo references you bring .   We will explore different sizes and shapes of surfaces as well as how to hone our compositional skills- stretching and shrinking aspects of our original image. The studies and finished works will be abstracted views of something that was once tangible and real.

 Acrylic ExplorationFriday Sept. 28-Oct. 19 1230-330pm,4wks. $220.35 includes first day Materials & HST -ARTiculation

If you have taken painting classes and have some ideas but feel you need guidance this is the class for you.  Take your painting further with interesting techniques and paint strategies. Come with your ideas and even incomplete works you just don’t know what to do with. This course is for the student with some painting background who wants next steps in painting. Any subject matter you are interested in is encouraged, from still life, to landscape,  abstract to portraiture. Come with your ideas and we will help further your painting. In the first class we will go over paint techniques, basic colour theory and compositional practices. Then in future weeks we will  apply these principals and concepts to either  new or existing works.

Materials List: you really need at least the items in bold.All of the below items can be purchased at Articulations store. Materials  for the first class will be supplied by Articulations. Please bring all materials each week to class.

Paint:Golden-Holbein–big tube of titanium white, mars black, light and medium yellow,red,magenta ,ultramarine blue, pthalo blue. The more colours you have, the more variety and less mixing you do but more disharmony in painting, pick colours you like. Opaque paints can cover up or mask areas you wish to rework.

Variety of brushes: –round synthetic no 4 or 6 or 10, flat hogs hair 6,8, 10 or 12  Other items: palette, palette knife , pencil, erasure,  (H2O containers, mister, paper towelYogurt or sour cream containers with lids work great as paint can be saved for next week.

Surfaces:2-3- stretched canvases/canvas boards , size: minimum 9 x 12, or existing canvases any size.

Landscape Painting, Friday Oct. 26-Nov. 16 ,1230-330pm, 4wks. $220.35 includes first day Materials & HST -ARTiculations

We will be learning many paint techniques that help create a landscape. Techniques we will try are scumble, graduated blend, stipple, spatter, dry brush, impasto paint with a palette knife, schlapitka and sgraffito. We will create a constructed landscape and then work from some images by artists. We plan to be exposed to art by the Group of Seven, the Impressionists and more current artists like Kim Dorland. Your own explorations and paintings from these inspirations are the goal.  We will learn how to translate a small images on to a larger canvas along with how to create the perfect composition using a composite picture you create. Working from photographs of real places is expected in weeks 2-4.

Materials List: you really need at least the items in bold. All of the below items can be purchased at Articulations store. Materials  for the first class will be supplied by Articulations. Please bring all materials each week to class.

Paint:Golden-Holbein–big tube of titanium white, mars black, light and medium yellow,red,magenta ,ultramarine blue, pthalo blue green shade ,  burnt sienna,yellow ochre, raw umber,permanent green . The more colours you have, the more variety and less mixing you do but more disharmony in painting, pick colours you like and that are opaque.

Variety of brushes: –round synthetic no 4 or 6 or 10, flat hogs hair 6,8, 10 or 12 Other items: palette, palette knife , pencil, erasure,  (H2O containers, mister, paper towel) Yogurt or sour cream containers with lids work great as paint can be saved for next week.

Surfaces:mixed media paper pad/paper for studies plus, at least 2-3- stretched canvases or , canvas boards, size: minimum 9 x 12, landscapes tend to be on rectangles canvases but not essential.

 Composition through Collage,Friday    Nov. 23-Dec. 14,  1230-330pm, 4wks. $220.35 includes first day Materials & HST -ARTiculations

What elements make a good composition? In this workshop explore the many layers of collage along with exploring placement to explore composition. Using tissue, fabric, magazines, coloured papers, matte medium along with clear packing tape. We will create several collages.  We will explore transfers, glazing, stencils and stamping as well to create fully mixed media images.  Your own images, letters, fancy paper, fabric, lace,  you want to incorporate  should be brought as well.Laser printed items are successful for transfers and collaging , ink get images will smear. Materials will be supplied in week one.

Materials List: you really need at least the items in bold. All of the below items can be purchased at Articulations store. Materials  for the first class will be supplied by  Articulations. Please bring all materials each week to class.

Main items: scissors,stencil cutting knife, healing board  glue stick glue, matte medium, small chip  or hogs hair brush for applying medium, pencil, erasure, mixed media paper pad/paper .Yogurt or sour cream containers with a lids works great as matte medium can be saved for next week.

Suggestions To collage with, tissue paper, magazines, photos, letters, receipts, playbills, sheet music, maps, fabric, lace, yarn, wrapping paper, wall paper

 

 Abstract Painting, Friday Jan. TBD1230-330pm, 4wks. $220.35 includes first day Materials & HST -ARTiculations

In this supportive, introductory acrylic painting workshop we will investigate & create several abstract works based on different painting techniques, artists & their styles. Learn a variety of techniques including: scumble, sgraffito, smaffito, masking off for hard edge, stipple, impasto, combing, scraping, dripping, spattering  & high relief build up with inclusion painting using modeling paste. This course is suitable from beginner to an advanced student.

Materials List: you really need at least the items in bold. All of the below items can be purchased at Articulations store. Materials  for the first class will be supplied by Articulations. Please bring all materials each week to class.

Paint:Golden-Holbein–big tube of titanium white, mars black, light and medium yellow,red,magenta ,ultramarine blue, pthalo blue. The more colours you have, the more variety and less mixing you do but more disharmony in painting, pick colours you like.  Modeling Paste Speedball or Holbein  

Variety of brushes: –round synthetic no 4 or 6 or 10, flat hogs hair 6,8, 10 or 12

Other items:-masking tape, palette, palette knife , pencil, erasure, (H2O containers, mister, paper towel)Yogurt or sour cream containers with lids work great as paint can be saved for next week.

Surfaces:mixed media paper pad/paper for studies plus, at least 2-3- stretched canvases/canvas boards, or wood (surface should be rigid) size: minimum 12 x 12, abstracts tend to be on square canvases for more variety in ways of hanging but not essential.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colour Theory for the Practicing Artist  Part 1 

  Nov3,  2018, Feb 2 or  May  4  2019 . from 11-5  pm ( bring your lunch and all materials) Fee $124.30 (includes Taxes and surfaces only) Limited Space Please book Now!     Location:  ARTiculations  2928 Dundas Street west   www.articulations.ca

Colour Theory for the Practicing Artist  Part 2 

  Nov 10,  2018, Feb 9 or  May  11  2019 . from 11-4  pm ( bring your lunch and all materials) Fee $107.35 (includes Taxes and surfaces only) Limited Space Please book Now!     Location:  ARTiculations  2928 Dundas Street west   www.articulations.ca

IN Part 1: In this full day workshop students will explore how colour works in relation to  its neighbours on the colour wheel. We will paint our way through true primary , secondary and tertiary colours along with homologous, analogous and complementary colours. Along the way we will gain some language about colour from hue, warm , cool,   tint, tone, intensity , simultaneous contrast, luminosity and what each colours value is on the grey scale.   We will also look at Colour Theorists, Itten, Munsell,  and Goethe. This is a hands on workshop where you may use the paint you already have to create useful colour wheels and value scales that help you further understand what your chosen palette can do .

IN Part 2: In this second workshop the use of colour in practical exercises will help hone the skills of  what colours to use when . We will look at creating depth, space,  lustre ,  luminosity as well as the theory of extension  and Simultaneous contrast.

If you are wanting to explore colour theory in its truest sense then using gouache** is the best medium to be working in  as it dries  quickly, matte (with no sheen) , is opaque, and does not flake. Turner and Pebeo are great brands. Reeves is  inexpensive  but may flake. We want paint to be ideally opaque and matte so  the hue won’t be influenced by the surface or by the shininess of the paint.   **Colour theory can be done in  any paint medium; watercolour, oil, tempera,  and acrylic; however all of them have their own challenges. Watercolour should not have the use of white as the paper acts as the white and paint is transparent but does dry quickly. Oil paint takes a  long time to dry and can act quite transparently with a sheen and turns muddy quickly. Also more brushes are needed as clean up is challenging . Acrylic comes in many brands  that  varies in sheen,  transparency and opacity along with “open paints” that are sticky and take a really long time to dry.  Tempera of a low quality will mix unevenly with a gritty nature and can flake off after it dries.

Materials list:
2H or HB pencil
Palette that can hold many  colours at once (several  plastic yogurt lids are great )
#2, #4, talkyon round tipped brush and or #4, #6 talkyon flat tipped brush – it makes a smoother surface than hogs hair brushes
2-3 Water containers, paper towels
The colours needed for this workshop are: (titanium) white, (ivory) black , primary yellow, primary red and or magenta, primary blue or cyan. If true primaries are unavailable then owning cadmium red medium, magenta, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow medium, ultramarine blue, pthalo blue( green shade)  or cyan are your best options .Exploring other yellows, reds and blues are great ways to further  what your personal palette does. 

 Meditative Dot Painting Workshop   will return in the fall 2018.  .  1230-430pm Adult- 4hrs- Fee: $62.15

Learn about the Australian Aboriginal dot painting technique. Using  small sticks and dowels of various sizes to create an intricately patterned tile. No painting experience is necessary. This is a great technique for those interested in pattern, rhythm and colour mixing. The state of being is altered through music and the simple action of painting dots to become a meditative state.