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Adult Art Workshops

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Adults & Seniors
Beginners & Advanced
All mediums

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Mount Edith Cavell Workshop | Heather Pant

Acrylic painting of a lake near a mountain.

Join Artist Heather Pant and create with her the Iconic Mount Edith Cavell using Acrylics on Canvas. Learn Heather's techniques and unique style in composition, lighting and colour. All skill levels are welcome, class limited to 12 participants. Register Today to secure your Easel.

Medium: Acrylics
Beginners - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, February 15, 2025
12:00 - 4:00 pm

Price: $200

Valentine’s Weekend Paint Your Friend!

Caricature of two people cooking supper.

Join us this Valentine's Weekend for an artistic adventure. Whether you're celebrating friendship, love, or simply the joy of creativity, this workshop offers the perfect setting to express yourself through art. Bring along a friend, family member, or your significant other, and get ready to capture each other's essence on canvas. Under the expert guidance of Mark Cromwell, you'll dive into the basics of portrait painting. Learn essential painting techniques, focusing on proportion, shading, and colour mixing.

Medium: Acrylics
Beginners - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, February 15, 2025
1:00 - 5:00 pm

Price: $179 (Includes two tickets!)

Watercolour & Gouache Together!

The words "Watercolour & Gouache Together" With a landscape painting behind it with trees and a path.

Ever wondered how to mix the delicate transparency of watercolour with the bold opacity of gouache? Gouache offers the versatility and vibrancy of watercolour with a touch of opacity, making it easy to create unique effects. Transform your artistic approach in this hands-on workshop by combining watercolour and gouache! You'll learn to select the right gouache colors, and master blending techniques. Some watercolour experience required. Experiment with the rich textures of gouache, enjoy expert guidance, and leave inspired to create more!

Medium: Gouache & Watercolour
Intermediate - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, February 22, 9:30-3:30
Sunday, February 23, 9:30-3:30

Price: $199

Introduction to Bouguereau 

amour+A+L'affut+William-Adolphe Bouguereau's painting of a Fairy child.

Dive into the elegant world of Bouguereau oil painting. This workshop is designed for art enthusiasts and budding painters alike who are eager to learn the techniques that define William-Adolphe Bouguereau's ethereal and lifelike paintings. Master the art of delicate layering that Bouguereau famously used to achieve his smooth, almost invisible brushstrokes.

Medium: Oil Painting
Beginners - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, February 22, 1:00-4:00
Saturday, March 1, 1:00-4:00
Saturday, March 15, 1:00-4:00
Saturday, March 22, 1:00-4:00
Saturday, April 5, 1:00-4:00

Price: $375

The illusion of 3D

Painting of snoopy laying on a red house.

In this workshop, you'll discover how to create realistic illusions using oil paints, transforming flat surfaces into lifelike objects. Trompe l'œil (French for "trick the eye") is a centuries-old art form whose roots date back to the ancient Greeks. Through step-by-step guidance, you'll learn how to manipulate light, shadow, and perspective to create the illusion of depth and dimension. 

Medium: Oil Painting
Some experience - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Sunday, February 23, 9:00-4:00

Price: $119

Introduction to Gelatin Plate Printing | With Ashley Gaboury

Gelatin Plate Print of  two birds.

Gelatin Plate Printing has taken the art world by storm. Create your own unique prints as Ashley Gaboury (GOLDEN Artist Educator) leads participants through the basic steps of mono-printing using a Gel printing plate and OPEN Acrylics. Discover how to layer and use the Gel plate effectively. Try Iridescent paints to create beautiful effects. Ashley will provide you with tips on how to incorporate layered pieces (Collage) into your own art. Teens & Adults are welcome.

Medium: Geli Plate Printing
Beginners - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, March 1, 2025
10:00 - 2:00 pm

Price: $84

Versatility of Gouache (Zoom Workshop)

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Discover gouache! An online workshop with Doug Swinton! Gouache is often called the “chameleon” of art mediums—and for good reason. It’s opaque like oil paint, dries quickly like acrylic, is water-soluble like watercolor, and is compact and easy to travel with, making it a versatile choice for artists of all levels.

Medium: Gouache
Beginners - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, March 9, 2025
11:00 - 1:00 pm

Price: $20

Zoom Workshop!

Design for Painters | With Lori Lukasewich

Design For Painters writing with a blue background that has a bird sitting on a hand on it.

Composition is the single most important part of any image. In this engaging workshop, we’ll jump into the essentials of composition and design, focusing on how these principles can be used to transform your paintings. You’ll explore fundamental concepts like balance, contrast, and focal points, and learn how to apply them effectively to enhance your use of space, colour, and form.

Medium: Watercolour or Acrylic
Intermediate - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, March 15, 9:30 - 3:30 pm
Sunday, March 16, 9:30 - 3:30 pm

Price: $199

Beyond Watercolour | With Rich Williams

Watercolour painting of a man standing in the woods.

Join Rich Williams and explore the possibilities of watercolour like you have not seen before. Take what you know about watercolour and then take a leap and learn many other unexpected possibilities exist. Approaching colour and using expected pigments as well as greys produce clear and bright watercolour that are not muddy. Learn creative ways to use watercolours properties with brushes and other non conventional tools to expand your work into new and exciting paintings.

Medium: Watercolour
Some experience - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
March 21, 2025, 6:00 - 8:00 pm (Demo Night)
March 22, 2025, 9:30 - 4:00 pm
March 23, 2025, 9:30 - 4:00 pm

Price: $349

Paint The Figure - From Your Own Photo Reference!

Figure painting of a woman picking berries.

Would you like to experience the “joy” of putting brush marks on canvas... without labouring overdrawing and measuring? In this 2-Day Workshop, all levels of artists who desire to bring ‘freshness & life” to their figurative paintings will learn to simplify a complex figurative photo (or scee) using Bobb approach to ‘starting’ a painting that... you will learn to “push ideas”, using your own photo references, look for “possibilities” in your work, and using our studies, bring our studio painting to life.

Medium: Oil or Acrylic
Some experience - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, March 29, 9:30 - 4:00 pm
Saturday, March 30, 9:30 - 4:00 pm

Price: $199

Exploring Modern Acrylics

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Join GOLDEN Artist Educator Ashley Gaboury and dive into intuitive artmaking. This workshop will help you gain a better understanding of the versatility of acrylics, colour harmonies and layering techniques. Ashley Gaboury will encourage you to be bold while developing layered abstract grounds that can be used as backgrounds for paintings or continue to grow into more dynamic abstracts. Discover how to use texture, lifting techniques, washes, glazes, and stencilling to add depth and create dimension in your paintings.

Medium: Acrylic
Beginner - Advanced Welcome

Event Date:
Saturday, May 10, 10:00 - 3:00 pm

Price: $89

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