Cecelia Jurgens – Watercolour Sketchbook

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Date: September 5 to 7, 2104

Location: Bear Valley Highlands in the Okanagan near Vernon.

Cost: $450

Description:

This three day workshop will be all about introducing you to or expanding  your skills of capturing your surroundings and experiences in your own treasured sketchbook.

We will take full advantage of this beautiful location –  Bear Valley Ranch in the Okanagan Valley – to work “plein air”, developing our skills on a wide and exciting variety of subject matter. Our mission will be to experience the diversity of our surroundings and capture the essence and our memory of that moment while having a lot of fun!

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Dominik Modlinski – Secrets of Colour

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Date: May 30 to June 1, 2104

Location: Bear Valley Highlands in the Okanagan near Vernon.

Cost: $450

Description:

Three days of inspiration and innovation where brushstrokes radiate with luminescent light and the brilliant hues of the Canadian and worldwide landscapes.  Dominik Modlinski’s work reflects his travel into remote areas of fast diminishing earth’s wilderness. The sources of his ingenuity are the never-ending supply of material that nature affords and the realities of our endangered environment.

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Penticton Plein Air Group

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Penticton Plein Air Painters are moving to our Fall schedule.

Starting October 15th, 2013 we will be meeting just once a week on Thursdays, at noon. Bring along your painting materials, warm weather gear, a snack and some hot beverages.

We will continue to meet at the Starbucks by Quality Greens at the north entrance to Penticton, BC. If the weather does not cooperate we will move indoors to Shatford Centre, meaning too much rain or wind or snow!

Check by Lloyd Gallery on Front Street for event updates! As always, our paint outs are free and everyone is welcome whether an experienced hand or a beginner. There are no dues or fees and there is only one rule…to have fun!

 

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Scholarship to Plein Air Workshop in Rocky Mountains

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Instructor: Jerry Markham
Date: July 19-22, 2013
Location: Okanagan Valley

I am excited to offer a scholarship program where one spot in my plein air workshop in the Rocky Mountains is provided free for someone between the ages of 17 and 25, from Canada or the USA, who is currently enrolled in an art program and interested in pursuing art as a career. We also provide $500 towards accommodations and some art supplies.

I have a passion for painting the landscape as well as helping artists that are just getting started. I had a difficult time finding the training I was looking for when I got started in this career, and I believe that painting the landscape from life is the best way to become a better landscape painter. For those reasons I am offering this scholarship.

This is a unique opportunity to paint in the Canadian Rockies where Carl Rungius, John Singer Sargent, the Group of Seven, and other masters have painted. In the workshop I will teach the fundamentals of landscape painting in some of the most beautiful places in the Rocky Mountains, including Moraine Lake, Bow Lake and Lake O’Hara. My hope is that this experience will help educate people in not only how to paint the landscape, but also the importance of painting from life and experiencing nature first hand in art, and learning about the artists that have come before us. I also hope to inspire others to continue to paint, enjoy art and move forward in their artistic endeavours.

Entry deadline for scholarship: April 15, 2013

For details see http://www.jerrymarkham.com/scholarship.html

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Rocky Mountains with Jerry Markham

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Instructor: Jerry Markham
Date: July 19-22, 2013 & July 22-25, 2013
Location: Okanagan Valley
Cost: $600 + tax

In this workshop we will follow in the footsteps of master painters, such as John Singer Sargent, Carl Rungius and J.E.H. MacDonald, through their travels of the Canadian Rockies, painting at Bow Lake, Lake O’Hara and Moraine Lake.

At Bow Lake we will paint in the same places as Carl Rungius, to study what he saw and why it is important to study the masters to better understand our own work. At Lake O’Hara we will stand at Sargent’s Point and paint one of the most beautiful, and most painted, places on earth. Painters from around the world have come to paint and study these wonders of mother nature. We will study the works of some of these artists and then learn to create our own interpretation of these majestic places.

You will receive a lot of helpful info and tips on landscape painting, plein air painting, and how to paint mountains, as well as on painting techniques such as creating compelling compositions, working with values, edges, color, and more.

Length: 3 days + evening presentation and meet & greet

For more details see http://www.jerrymarkham.com/summer-plein-air-workshop.html or call Leah at 250-558-0350.