Demonstration Series with Robert E. Wood
Fridays 6-9pm, April 9th - May 14th
Note: Sessions may run longer than 3 hours
Attendees will benefit from watching 6 consecutive Friday Night Demonstrations by Robert Wood, covering a wide variety of subject matter (including landscape mountains, forests, water, floral, and more). Potential attendees should be aware that this demo series will be filmed for DVD release. During the process Robert will be communicating in detail the steps he is going through in creating each painting - from subject matter selection, composition, colour mixing, brushwork, to deciding when a painting is finished and capturing "The Big Picture"...
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Painting Lesson by Doug Swinton
Be it monsters under the bed or skeletons in the closet, for any artist there is nothing is quite as frightening and intimidating as staring at a blank sheet of paper or the vastness of an empty canvas. Since the day I read Painting as a Pass Time I have always agreed with Winston Churchill's analogy that painting is just like War. "To fight. To go into battle against multiple forces. And to go into combat one must be prepared."
Five simple things to consider before you paint:
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 My father is 82 years old and has been painting with watercolours since he was ten. He is largely a self-taught artist. From the age of ten he has used Winsor and Newton brushes and watercolour paints. About twenty-five years ago he was able to obtain a Winsor and Newton Series 7, No. 14 Kolinsky sable brush after a wait of about a year. Even back then these brushes were extremely rare. He has painted with his beloved No. 14 nearly every day since he acquired it and it was his favourite brush. He looked after it extremely well and although the tip was slightly worn it was otherwise in perfect condition.
Two weeks before Father's Day this year he went to get his No. 14 brush and could not find it. He searched and searched to no avail. Then my mother, Evelyn, said with trepidation, "I hope it didn't mistakenly end up in the wastebasket (right underneath his painting table) and then in the incinerator with the contents when you burned last week!" I think the blood nearly froze in his veins at this point because this was possible. He went out to look and shortly afterward a very quiet and heartbroken man returned with the charred remains of his No. 14. He was literally speechless with remorse and sadness at the loss of such a beautiful and rare brush. Sure enough, during a painting session, he had laid the brush down on his work table and it had quietly rolled off the table and into the wastebasket without my father realizing it. It then got buried under paper and wads of paper towel.....
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