Penticton Art Gallery

Penticton Plein Air 2014

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Date: September 27 – 28th, 2014

Time: Registration & Check-in 9:00 am – 10:30 am / Competition 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Cost: $20.00 early registration/$25.00 day of registration

Who: This is an open call to all artists, from amateur to professional.

Location:  Penticton Art Gallery, 199 Marina Way, Penticton, BC. (map)

Description:

For the Official Rules go to our webpage at:

http://www.pentictonartgallery.com/scms.asp?node=666

This is not a competition. This is an opportunity for artists to gather and celebrate the arts in a beautiful town.

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kimberly plein air

Kimberley Plein Air Workshop

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Date:

  • August 5th with Jim Robertson
  • August 6 & 7th with Doug Swinton

Location: Kimberley, BC

Costs:

  • $90 for August 5th (includes lunch)
  • $195 for August 6 & 7th (includes two lunches)

Description:

Grasp the bigger picture!  Attain skills that will build confidence and allow you to put boldness in your outdoor work!  We will spend 2 days learning the 5 dominant fundamentals needed to approach plein air painting. Through quick small studies (4 a day) you will gain the skill needed to put some punch in your on location work:  Composition, Landing a Centre of Interest, Value, Patterning, and Temperature Control.   Come swing a big brush with confidence!

Registration and Supply List are available at the Kimberley Arts Council Website, www.kimberleyarts.com

 

 

About the Instructors

Doug Swinton

Doug Swinton is an established artist and teacher whose drawings and paintings may be found in several BC and Alberta art galleries.   Doug also co-owns Swinton’s Art Supply, Instruction & Framing, where for sixteen years he has taught “more about Art than [he] ever thought possible.”  Although Doug “never intended to make art a career, it just kept happening.”  Doug’s landscape paintings of prairies or mountains are notable for their “slathering of thick viscid paint” and the “sensual and visceral” feelings which they convey to his viewers.  Doug is a skilled art workshop presenter and is always exploring new directions like “the ever elusive leopard [that] slips away and changes its spots.”

Jim Roberston

Brush in hand, the rest of the world just fades away. Jim Robertson draws on inspiration from the past, the present, but mostly from life itself, from which exciting shapes and colour take form.  Jim interprets subject matter spontaneously, impulsively and loosely with a love of negative space and dramatic use of colour. Born on the west coast of Canada, Jim Roberts formal training includes Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver Film School, and numerous artist led workshops. He currently paints full time in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia.

 

Paint Out :: Ashcroft

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Date: September 16, 17 & 18th, 2014

Location: Ashcroft, BC

Time: TBA

Cost: $30

Description:  Please join us September 16,17 & 18 2014 for our Second Annual Plein Air Paint Out in beautiful Ashcroft, BC.

This is an opportunity for a lot of fun, a chance to meet other artists and just share in the sheer joy of painting.  Ashcroft and the surrounding area offer spectacular vistas and unique landscapes.  This event is open to all artists who would like to paint plein air.

Please feel free to contact Jo-Anne at 250-453-0073 for further information or email us.

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William Rogers – Figure in the Landscape with Oils

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Date: September 12 to 14, 2104

Location: Bear Valley Highlands in the Okanagan near Vernon.

Cost: $390

Description:

This workshop will focus on including figures into your landscapes in a believable way. It will start with some practical theory on the topic and develop into practicing figures in oil paint or other opaque media, then incorporating these figures into the landscape as part of the composition. The idea is to have a landscape with figures rather than a portrait, so gesture drawing will be emphasized to help achieve a natural, unposed look in the work. The artist will demonstrate and have a model to use for the demonstrations and class work. There will be lots of individual help and constructive critiques to help your work improve to a new level

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William Rogers – Watercolour Figure in the Landscape

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Date: September 9 to 11, 2104

Location: Bear Valley Highlands in the Okanagan near Vernon.

Cost: $390

Description:

This workshop will focus on including figures into your landscapes in a believable way. It will start with some practical theory on the topic and develop into practicing figures in watercolour paint, then incorporating these figures into the landscape as part of the composition. The idea is to have a landscape with figures rather than a portrait, so gesture drawing will be emphasized to help achieve a natural, unposed look in the work. The artist will demonstrate and have a model to use for the demonstrations and class work. There will be lots of individual help and constructive critiques to help your work improve to a new level.

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