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The New Skins! Learn to create and use Acrylic image transfers and Acrylic skins in your Artworks! with Victoria Wallace

This workshop features the opportunity for artists to discover the secrets behind making perfect acrylic image transfers and using their own custom created acrylic skins in their art works. These lesser known hip and haute practices are liberally used in the latest, greatest avant-garde works of acrylic art. Don’t deny yourself these must-know techniques being used in modern acrylic paintings – whether mixed media, abstract or representational – try on the New Skins!

Location: Luc Sculpture School and Studios, 663 Greenwood Ave/Danforth,Toronto
To register: Victoria Wallace or Scott Delaney 705 536-3051 or 745-6587 or 416.461.7936 info@yorkartistsguild.ca
Date: Saturday May 26, 2012, 10am to 1pm

Art With A Story - A mixed media painting workshop with Jeanne Krabbendam

Learn in one day a range of different mixed media painting techniques to create your stories on canvas. The course includes lots of information and hands-on exercises that enable you to explore this narrative art form. Jeanne will introduce you to the use of acrylic paints, modeling paste, acrylic gesso's and mediums, transfers, lifting techniques, collage, the use of fabrics, tissue paper and other techniques to create expressive, unique and dramatic paintings which tell stories. No painting or drawing experience necessary.

Location: North Shore Arts Council - Maplewood House, 399 Seymour River Place, North Vancouver
To register: contact Jeanne Krabbendam Visual Artist E: jeanne@axion.net P: 604 434 1367 W: www.jeannekrabbendam.com
Date: June 2, 2012, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm

Acrylic Coaching with Peter John Reid

Partner with this supportive and positive teacher and take your own art to the next level! Committed to assisting participants achieve based on their individual goals, Peter has unwavering faith that every artist has the ability and deserves to be their best. He is equipped with a knowing of when to ask, when to encourage, when to praise and when to positively challenge and push you past the barriers to a rewarding result. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Southampton Art School
To register: Phone: (519) 797-5068 Email: artschool@bmts.com Web: www.theartschool.org
Date: June 3, 2012

Creating Your life Workshop with Shirley Mancino

This Workshop is a powerful and delightful way to create your reality through paint and photos. By creating your life in a concrete painting you ingest the vision of what your heart and soul desires, and lo and behold, over time you will see this happening in your life. The process of making a vision board is incredibly clarifying: which images you choose, which you leave out, where you put the images and what else you include... all these things reveal unconscious attitudes we carry. Carl Jung said "The soul speaks in images." You'll learn simple ways to create interesting color & texture on your board or canvas, how to add images, personal photos& verbal photographs. Create your life painting using fabulous in liquid acrylics and other media with Shirley Mancino, an artist who will guide you through the ins and outs of this most easy, fun and fabulous way to shift your world. Shirley simplifies the principles and elements of design in this joyful collage process.

Location: Shirley's Studio in Westport Ontario
To register: Tel: 613-273-2984 or Email: smcgroup@yahoo.com
Date: June 9-10, 2012, 9 – 4 pm
Material list: visit www.shirleymancino.com

Acrylic Techniques with Peter John Reid

Learn how to turn a nice photo and a blank canvas into a work of art that is all you. This hands-on course begins with the approaches and decisions that allow you to compose a plan uniquely your own. From there, brush and paint techniques will be demonstrated, and how they can (and will!) support what you want to bring to your painting. Each morning is dedicated to techniques, discussions, exploration, and practice. Afternoons are filled with working on individual canvas(es) and applying what has been learned to personal works under the watchful eye of a seasoned professional. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Southampton Art School
To register: Phone: (519) 797-5068 Email: artschool@bmts.com Web: www.theartschool.org
Date: June 11 to 15, 2012

Capturing Water in the Haliburtons with Peter John Reid

In this acrylics course, Peter will help dispel the belief that water is one of the hardest subjects to paint. You will learn to capture the varying energies of water - from the tranquil to the rushing flow of a cascade - by truly seeing the subject, the colours and the various techniques we can use. Mornings will be spent learning the ebb and flow of water while the after-noons will be spent working on your own projects with individual assistance. Instructor Peter John Reid is a contemporary painter exhibiting in several galleries throughout Ontario. An exceptional and often-sought educator, Peter’s classes are packed with information, inspiration, and laughs that will leave you enriched (and exhausted!) by class’s end - but, oh so glad you attended!! His definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: on Brady Lake near Carnarvon in Haliburton
To register: ***** COURSE IS FULL ****
Date: June 15th to 22nd, 2012

Painting with Mozart - An Acrylic Workshop with Claudia Jean McCabe

Good composition is the most critical component in the creation of fine art. As Mozart was the composer of his music, you alone are the composer of your paintings. As you create your visual symphonies with liquid acrylics, all the design elements of rhythm, harmony, intriguing discord, volume, shape, balance, and asymmetry must be considered. And when colour choices are added to the mix, the music of abstracted design becomes the painter’s renewed inspiration. With a little help from Mozart, of course! Some painting experience would be helpful although beginners are welcome.

Location: Loyalist College, Belleville Ontario
To register: Tel: (613) 969-1913, ext. 2467 email: hcockerline@loyalistc.on.ca or visit loyalistfocus.com
Date: June 22-24, 2012

MIXED MEDIA: Expressive Drawing & Painting with Sharlena Wood

Take a break from the traditional and spend a 3-Day art escape exploring the beautiful integration of acrylic painting and charcoal drawing techniques. Use accented coloured washes with line to create depth and form, resulting in remarkable 3-D illusions on paper! The drawing and painting techniques learned can be applied to any subject matter, and are accessible for all levels including beginners. Each participant will leave with a finished work of art, and will be inspired to continue pushing the boundaries of these two established disciplines in the modern expression.

Location: Loyalist College, Belleville Ontario
To register: Tel: (613) 969-1913, ext. 2467 email: hcockerline@loyalistc.on.ca or visit loyalistfocus.com
Date: June 22-24th, 2012 (3 days)

Faux Encaustic Workshop with Victoria Wallace

Artists: have you ever marvelled over the depth and richly layered colours of art works created in the encaustic medium – pigmented beeswax – but strayed away due to the hassle and prohibitive cost of materials? Well, here is your chance to experience the beauty of the encaustic process without the inconveniences – with a Faux Encaustic workshop – in acrylics! Canadian Acrylic and Encaustic artist and art educator, Victoria Wallace will show you how to imitate the appearance and lush look of encaustics with Tri-Art Mediums and paints in a workshop coming Saturday, June 23, 10am to 1pm 2012.

Location: Luc Sculpture School and Studios, 663 Greenwood Ave/Danforth,Toronto
To register: Victoria Wallace or Scott Delaney 705 536-3051 or 745-6587 or 416.461.7936 info@yorkartistsguild.ca
Date: June 23, 2012, 10am to 1pm

Acrylics – Just Paint! A Novel Idea! with Claudia McCabe

Apparently rules were meant to be broken and this workshop is about the delight found in breaking rules and making your own… and then breaking them again just to see what might happen! It’s about pushing liquid acrylic paints around in response to intuitive invitations to play, to dare, to experiment, to become. And then, without limitation, it’s about getting back to you by giving yourself the glorious permission to just paint! What a novel idea!

Location: Loyalist College, Belleville Ontario
To register: Tel: (613) 969-1913, ext. 2467 email: hcockerline@loyalistc.on.ca or visit loyalistfocus.com
Date: July 9-13, 2012

Painting Water in Acrylics with Peter John Reid

In this acrylics course, Peter will help dispel the belief that water is one of the hardest subjects to paint. You will learn to capture the varying energies of water - from the tranquil to the rushing flow of a cascade - by truly seeing the subject, the colours and the vari-ous techniques we can use. Mornings will be spent learning the ebb and flow of water while the after-noons will be spent working on your own projects with individual assistance. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: ArtSpark - 207300 Hwy 26 at Christie Beach Road - see website for map
To register: Phone: 519 599-6947 Email: barbmacleod@bmts.com Web: www.artspark.com
Date: July 14- 15, 2012

Acrylic From Start to Finish with Peter John Reid

If you want to continue sabotaging yourself as an artist, this course is NOT for you. If you want to continue to hide your efforts in the closet or paint over them again and again, definitely don’t sign up! This course will take your painting from start to finish. Using colour, composition and form, learn how to maximize your ideas. Participants should have some previous painting experience. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Southampton Art School
To register, visit: www.theartschool.org
Date: July 23 – 27, 2012 (5 days)

Acrylic From Start to Finish - Colour, Composition & Depth - with Peter John Reid

If you want to continue sabotaging yourself as an artist, this course is NOT for you. If you want to continue to hide your efforts in the closet or paint over them again and again, definitely don’t sign up! This course will take your painting from start to finish. Using colour, composition and form, learn how to maximize your ideas. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Southampton Art School
To register: Phone: (519) 797-5068 Email: artschool@bmts.com Web: www.theartschool.org
Date: July 23-27, 2012

Acrylic Coaching with Peter John Reid

Partner with this supportive and positive teacher and take your own art to the next level! Committed to assisting participants achieve based on their individual goals, Peter has unwavering faith that every artist has the ability and deserves to be their best. He is equipped with a knowing of when to ask, when to encourage, when to praise and when to positively challenge and push you past the barriers to a rewarding result.

Location: ArtSpark - 207300 Hwy 26 at Christie Beach Road - see website for map
To register: Phone: 519 599-6947 Email: barbmacleod@bmts.com Web: www.artspark.com
Date: July 30, 2012

Painting Beautiful Skies with Peter John Reid

Skies can be extraordinary - learn to understand the forms, capture the subtle colours and the painting techniques for eye captivating paintings. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: ArtSpark - 207300 Hwy 26 at Christie Beach Road - see website for map
To register: Phone: 519 599-6947 Email: barbmacleod@bmts.com Web: www.artspark.com
Date: August 8-9, 2012

People-scapes/Landscapes With Panache - with Shirley Mancino

This workshop will feature the bold and free exploratory techniques mentioned above, and will also include simplified approaches to painting abstracted figures as well as figures in the landscape. Participants will learn how to superimpose representational subjects on top of textural and abstract underpaintings while maintaining the essential mystery. Participants have the choice to maintain the illusion or build the image to quasi-representational detail. Relax, play, and reconnect with your joyful creative self.

Location: Shirley's Studio in Westport Ontario
To register: Tel: 613-273-2984 or Email: smcgroup@yahoo.com
Date : Aug 11-12, 2012, 9 –4 pm
Material list: visit www.shirleymancino.com

Power of Two – Acrylic Painting with Claudia Jean McCabe & Sharlena Wood

What a painting week this is going to be! Claudia Jean McCabe and Sharlena Wood have a combined 40 years’ teaching experience and bring with them an invaluable cache of acrylic painting information. This dynamic duo will share the secrets of a freer, more joyful way to paint through McCabe’s inspiring approach to the painting process and Wood’s extensive product knowledge. This long-requested workshop has been brought together in such a creative way as to encourage novice to master to paint as they never have before.

Location: Loyalist College, Amherst Island
To register: Tel: (613) 969-1913, ext. 2467 email: hcockerline@loyalistc.on.ca or visit loyalistfocus.com
Date: Aug 13-17, 2012

Making your Colour Work with Peter John Reid

Before you can mix a colour you have to be able to see it, this class will give you the practical ability to mix any colour and make colour the strongest part of your painting. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: ArtSpark - 207300 Hwy 26 at Christie Beach Road - see website for map
To register: Phone: 519 599-6947 Email: barbmacleod@bmts.com Web: www.artspark.com
Date: August 21-22, 2012

Acrylic Coaching with Peter John Reid

Partner with this supportive and positive teacher and take your own art to the next level! Committed to assisting participants achieve based on their individual goals, Peter has unwavering faith that every artist has the ability and deserves to be their best. He is equipped with a knowing of when to ask, when to encourage, when to praise and when to positively challenge and push you past the barriers to a rewarding result. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Southampton Art School
To register: Phone: (519) 797-5068 Email: artschool@bmts.com Web: www.theartschool.org
Date : August 23-24, 2012

Acrylic Coaching with Peter John Reid

Partner with this supportive and positive teacher and take your own art to the next level! Committed to assisting participants achieve based on their individual goals, Peter has unwavering faith that every artist has the ability and deserves to be their best. He is equipped with a knowing of when to ask, when to encourage, when to praise and when to positively challenge and push you past the barriers to a rewarding result. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: ArtSpark - 207300 Hwy 26 at Christie Beach Road - see website for map
To register: Phone: 519 599-6947 Email: barbmacleod@bmts.com Web: www.artspark.com
Date: August 25, 2012

Making your Colour Work with Peter John Reid

Great colour makes the painting, it isn’t an accident, this course will show you not to just copy your reference, take it and make your colour extraordinary. You’ll learn how to enhance your ideas and images though colour. This class is taught with acrylics (in class paints provided by Tri-Art Paint) but the colour lessons apply to all media. It is a great chance to try acrylics for the first time, is a fun filled course packed with learning, and a heck of a ‘good looking’ instructor. Peter's definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Geneva Park-Orilla, Ontario
To register: Contact: Barbara Clarke Email: sb.clarke@teksavvy.com Web: www.coaart.com
Date: Sept 14-16, 2012

Liquid Acrylics and Drawing: Experimental Extravaganza with Shirely Mancino

Learn to use wet and wild liquid acrylics and drawing as a vehicle for self-expression. By dripping, splattering, texturizing and sword fighting with other mixed media techniques including drawing with a brush, you will create stunning abstractions that you can then reincarnate into gorgeous representational works. Shirley simplifies the principles and elements of design and composition in this joyful workshop. Relax, play, and reconnect with your joyful creative self.

Location: Shirley's Studio in Westport Ontario
To register: Tel: 613-273-2984 or Email: smcgroup@yahoo.com
Date: Sept 15-16, 2012, 9 – 4 pm
Material list: visit www.shirleymancino.com

Mastering Techniques with Peter John Reid

Learn how to turn a nice photo and a blank canvas into a work of art that is all you. This hands-on course begins with the approaches and decisions that allow you to compose a plan uniquely your own. From there, brush and paint techniques will be demonstrated, and how they can (and will!) support what you want to bring to your painting. Each morning is dedicated to techniques, discussions, exploration, and practice. Afternoons are filled with working on individual canvas(es) and applying what has been learned to personal works under the watchful eye of a seasoned professional. Instructor Peter John Reid is a contemporary painter exhibiting in several galleries throughout Ontario. An exceptional and often-sought educator, Peter’s classes are packed with information, inspiration, and laughs that will leave you enriched (and exhausted!) by class’s end - but, oh so glad you attended!! His definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Southampton Art School
To register: Phone: (519) 797-5068 Email: artschool@bmts.com Web: www.theartschool.org
Date: September 17-21, 2012

Experimental Extravaganza: Collage with Shirely Mancino

This exciting workshop will help you break free and explore new directions in mixed watermedia. You will loosen up and explore the interesting effects and textures created by combining liquid acrylics with various other media, e.g. water-soluble crayons, soft pastels, acrylics. Discover ways to resurrect your unsuccessful watermedia paintings using collage and/or black ink, coloured pencil, gesso or gouache. You will be inspired to move from nature towards abstraction. Composition and design is a fundamental part of the session. Creativity, fun, and individual uniqueness will be emphasized.

Location: Shirley's Studio in Westport Ontario
To register: Tel: 613-273-2984 or Email: smcgroup@yahoo.com
Date: Oct 20-21, 2012, 9 – 4 pm
Material list: visit www.shirleymancino.com

Mastering Techniques with Peter John Reid

Learn how to turn a nice photo and a blank canvas into a work of art that is all you. This hands-on course begins with the approaches and decisions that allow you to compose a plan uniquely your own. From there, brush and paint techniques will be demonstrated, and how they can (and will!) support what you want to bring to your painting. Each morning is dedicated to techniques, discussions, exploration, and practice. Afternoons are filled with working on individual canvas(es) and applying what has been learned to personal works under the watchful eye of a seasoned professional. Instructor Peter John Reid is a contemporary painter exhibiting in several galleries throughout Ontario. An exceptional and often-sought educator, Peter’s classes are packed with information, inspiration, and laughs that will leave you enriched (and exhausted!) by class’s end - but, oh so glad you attended!! His definitive book on painting will be available for sale on the first day for $35. It is recommended that if you already own a copy, please bring it.

Location: Oakville Art Society
To register: Contact: Mary Driussi-Yaber Email: oasclasses@hotmail.com Web: www.oakvilleartsociety.com
Date: October 20-21, 2012