(Submitted by Chris Luna) Lorette C. Luzajic ( https://www.instagram.com/lorette.c.luzajic/) is an award-winning mixed media and collage artist who has lived in Toronto for 30 years. She is also a writer who founded The Ekphrastic Review, the flagship journal of literature inspired by visual art. We had a group of 15 DVAC members gathered in the…
Rose Tanner guided the members through her process of painting realistic birds in their habitat. The images chosen for the workshop were the Northern Cardinal and the Western Magpie. She began by encouraging us to set the mood, time of day and a sense of place that we want to create in our paintings. Equally…
Toronto based visual artist, curator and instructor Steve Rose demonstrated an interesting perspective to abstract art in acrylics and oils. Progressing from a series of startup exercises, eager participants were challenged with fresh approaches to landscape, a cherished and respected painting genre.They were shown how to utilize the natural and urban landscape as well as…
{submitted by Christine Hanson and photo by Louise Spiritcougar Lefebvre} The “Introduction to Pastels” workshop began with Margaret giving us a thorough explanation of different materials for pastel and why some are much better than others. Then she demonstrated various techniques for pastel: stroking, hatching, cross hatching, scrumbing, pointillism, blending and dry wash. We moved…
{Submitted by Eva Johnson who also organized the workshop} On Nov. 4 and 5, Laura Culic led us in our first workshop of the year. Fifteen fortunate participants learned how to mix cold wax with oil paint to create layer upon layer of colour and texture. Laura compared her paintings to archeology as she scratched…
Photos provided by Elizabeth Johnston. Professional artist Brian Smith conducted a 2 day workshop on painting the portrait using the Zorn palette. By utilizing this very limited palette, the decisions around colour, intensity and value become much simpler.
Photos from the wonderful Bianka Guna non-objective painting workshop. Photos courtesy of DVAC member Eva Johnson.
{Text and photos courtesy of Brent} The first DVAC workshop of the 2014/15 year was held on Saturday and Sunday November 22 and 23, 2014. The workshop, led by Joan McGivney taught club members about an easy way to transfer photos to the canvas. The photo is incorporated into a painting such that the photo…
{article submitted by Brent Arlitt, photos by Brent Arlitt and Eva Johnson] John David Anderson conducted a Plein Air painting workshop for interested members of the Don Valley Art Club on the weekend of June 7 and 8, 2014. The workshop was conducted at Sunnybrook Park on Day 1 and at Todmorden Mills on Day…
{Submitted by Joanne MacLean (text) and Larry McGill (photos)} On May 3rd and 4th a group of DVAC members enjoyed a chance to play and experiment with materials to intuitively explore mediums, textured papers, shapes, composition, colour and value. Camille Muller took us step by step through an interesting process, building layers of colour to…