Class Calendar

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Botanical Drawing and Painting
Sep
17

Botanical Drawing and Painting

3 Tuesdays - September 17th, 24th and October 1st 2024

Online - Dickinson Art

Learn how to choose colours more accurately for botanical art in this short series designed for beginner and intermediate students.

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Botanical Drawing & Painting Fruit & Vegetables
Sep
11
Botanical Drawing and Painting

Botanical Drawing & Painting Fruit & Vegetables

In collaboration with

Botanical Drawing & Painting

Fruit & Vegetables

Online

Four Wednesdays Sept/Oct

September 11th, 18th, 25th and October 2nd

10:00AM - 12:00PM 

Improve your drawing skills to capture more realistic depictions of vegetable forms in this four-session series. Instructed by artist and educator Katharine Dickinson 

Explore drawing and watercolour techniques for botanicals, mixing and matching subject natural colours, and applying washes and dry brush details. Recordings of these online sessions will be accessible to participants for a limited time.

Art supplies to bring with you:  2H, HB and 2B pencils, pencil sharpener, multimedia sketchbook, printing paper (for drawing exercises), a sheet of 9x12 watercolour paper (hot-Press) for a detailed study, paint palette (white ceramic), watercolour paint set (Windsor & Newton or similar), set of watercolour brushes or #4 and #8 (round with a point)  

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Botanical Drawing and Painting
Aug
13

Botanical Drawing and Painting

3 Tuesdays - August 13th, 20th and July 27th 2024

Online - Dickinson Art

Learn how to choose colours more accurately for botanical art in this short series designed for beginner and intermediate students.

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Plein Air - Vancouver Parks
Jul
10
Watercolour Landscape Painting

Plein Air - Vancouver Parks

Plein Air

CANCELLED

Watercolour Landscape Painting Outside

Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. (Location to be confirmed)

Date: July 10th

Time: Wednesday 10:00Am-3:00PM

Price: $99 (one day session)

Enjoy the spontaneous process of watercolour painting from life, outside this summer in Vancouver parks.

Brush drawing

Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world.

During the month of July and August, I plan to offer a series of LIVE “Plein Air” (painting outdoors) workshops where we meet in Vancouver Park locations in the lower mainland.

Session 1 - July 10th

Quick Studies

The emphasis will be to work at your studies quickly, responding to nature by looking and recording what you see.

Develop your observation drawing skills and simplify the natural world. Translate the complexities of nature into abstractions of a tree shape and form, find the patterns in shrubbery and foliage, the variety of colour in flowers. Pull it all together into a composition, using leading lines and the division of space within a landscape scene.

North Shore Vancouver

This course includes an introduction to the following skills and techniques for watercolour sketching Plein Air

Observational Drawing

Learn the basics of drawing what you see

  • Observational drawing

  • Explore composition: Thumbnail drawing sketch compositions of the landscape surroundings

  • Tonal value: Translate drawing to monochromatic studies

  • Working with colour: Using key attributes of colour appearance - determine hue, saturation and value in your work

  • Painting techniques: Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint

Painting techniques

Washes, glazing, drybrushing, wet-in-wet and a variety of experimental ways to apply paint

Travel light: Bring your travel box-set of watercolours, watercolour paper sketchbook, water brushes, bull clips to hold sketchbook paper and a fold away chair. Supply details on registration.

A maximum of six participants per class. Please email for information if you are interested in taking this series of classes.

Bring supplies you like to work with.

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Botanical Drawing & Painting Flowers
May
8

Botanical Drawing & Painting Flowers

In collaboration with

Botanical Drawing & Painting Flowers  

Live In Class & Online

Six Wednesdays in May

May 9th and 22nd Classroom 10:00AM - 1:00PM

May 15th and 29th Online

10:00AM - 1:00PM 

Improve your drawing skills to capture more realistic depictions of flowers in this four-session series. Instructed by artist and educator Katharine Dickinson 

Explore drawing and watercolour techniques for botanicals, mixing and matching a flower's natural colours, and applying washes and dry brush details.This series will be presented in a mixed format, alternating between onsite and online sessions. Recordings of the online sessions will be accessible to participants for a limited time.

Art supplies to bring with you:  2H, HB and 2B pencils, pencil sharpener, multimedia sketchbook, printing paper (for drawing exercises), a sheet of 9x12 watercolour paper (hot-Press) for a detailed study, paint palette (white ceramic), watercolour paint set (Windsor & Newton or similar), set of watercolour brushes or #4 and #8 (round with a point)  

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