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Painting Fast And Furious & The Deep Dive
Whether you paint with laser focus high realism or you are an off-the-wall abstract artist these courses will give the building blocks and principles that relate to all forms of painting no matter what medium you paint in.
While you're busy creating art, your friendly hosts at Casa Buena will be working hard, ensuring that your stay is a memorable one. Outstanding food, accommodations, and field trips will satisfy your desires for both comfort and adventure.
Acrylic Landscape Painting - Beginners
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This weekend workshop is designed to introduce students to all the basics of acrylic landscape painting. You will learn all about: gridded photo transfer, composition, colour mixing, lighting, values, and more, applying this knowledge while creating your very own masterpiece of Norman Creek. Even if you are starting out for the first time, this course is meant to be a fun and relaxed weekend where you can be creative and build your artistic confidence in a safe and comfortable environment.
Create Compelling Light in the Landscape
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Bring life to your paintings by getting the lighting right. Achieve a striking sense of light in your work with demonstration and guidance from Gaye Adams. This two-day intensive will be all about getting the light to read in the landscape and will include instruction, demos, and paint alongs. If you are having trouble getting a compelling sense of light in your landscapes, this is the workshop for you!
Mount Edith Cavell Workshop | Heather Pant
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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.
Valentine’s Weekend Paint Your Friend!
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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.
Watercolour & Gouache Together!
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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!
Deceive The Eye | The illusion of 3D
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.
Introduction to Gelatin Plate Printing | With Ashley Gaboury
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.
Design for Painters | With Lori Lukasewich
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.
Beyond Watercolour | With Rich Williams
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.
Paint The Figure - From Your Own Photo Reference!
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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.
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