3 Day Workshop
Mastering the Landscape Light in Canmore & Banff
August 23-25th. 2010
$395 USD
Oil, Pastel & Acrylic student's welcome . Beginner - Advanced
This 3-day workshop will be conducted for students who want to improve their color, composition and value skills. Through various exercises the students will have a deeper understanding of capturing the natural landscape light in a more precise way. Mother Nature provides us with a wealth of information and we will learn to edit and incorporate that into our plein-air paintings. The goal is to fully appreciate and understand how to capture and paint the beauty of Canmore, Banff and the surrounding areas. This is the most valuable tool a landscape artist has in developing larger compositions in the studio. These studies are the soul of our studio work...
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Earlier this spring we invited the watercolourist extraordinaire Alex Fong to do a workshop. For the Friday evening demo he painted a series of small paintings in between working on a larger piece. At some point in the process the larger one decided it wanted to get a bit unruly and didn't want to play fair.
Well after sitting in the corner on the bad boy easel for a spell, once back in Kelowna this painting got a stern talking to. I have posted what has emerged. A very well mannered polite unspoiled watercolour. That was a great lesson about not overworking a painting and just moving on, allowing things time to sort them selves out. We all know you need patience to do watercolour but it takes a real master like Alex to stop, put it away and wait to have a later look, with a fresh set of eyes.

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{Intoduction by Doug Swinton, Article by Jerry Markham}
HELLO. I have been writing this newsletter for 16 years, and this time I decided, while painting in Southern California, I should get a guest artist to write something so I can stay on the beach a little longer and paint. “What a great idea”, I said while eating a bag of Doritos and contemplating why my palm trees look like sticks with explosions on top. I can’t remember if we have ever had a guest writer or not. If anyone remembers, please jog my ever fading memory....................
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