Description
Watercolour Exploration Week – 5 Day Art Retreat w/ 4 Different Instructors
Monday, August 11th – Friday, August 15th
10:30 AM – 4:00 PM
$495 ($395 + $100 Supply Fee)
Class Limit: 15 Students
Summer Week-long Retreat at Artelier!
Looking for a creative getaway not far from home? Why not spend a week at Artelier exploring and experimenting with a diverse range of materials?
This week we’ll be diving head first into watercolour. Learn a variety of techniques from 4 different instructors, each a master of their own styles and strategies. Whether you’re looking to expand on your skill set, or try something completely new, Watercolour Week is the retreat for you!
Watercolour lovers can find solace in trying different techniques such as wet-on-wet or painting on Yupo paper instead of cotton rag. If that’s not enough, you will also explore how to compose an image into a watercolour painting, colour mixing and so much more. Discover your new favourite medium!
5 days of artmaking with 4 different instructors!
Take one class, or sign up for the whole week!
Monday: Join Ada Wong and create and develop your own composition, based on or own photo. Dive deeper into colour mixing and finding your palette to create a expressive landscape painting.
Tuesday: Karen Bishop will show you how to approach watercolour on Yupo paper! Yupo is a plastic paper and unlike silk and cotton, does not absorb water. Let Karen show you how to approach painting on this surface while utilizing its unique and expressive properties!
Wednesday: Join landscape artist Julie Drew and capture the essence of the thunderheads over canola fields and wheat fields.
Thursday: Creating the illusion of glass in watercolour can be captivating. Francis will show you how to create a photo realistic image in watercolours.
Friday: Join Francis for another image in watercolour. In this class, the instructor will be teaching you how to paint a familiar summer landscape in Alberta – A Prairie Landscape.
About the Instructors:
Ada Wong, watercolour artist, was trained with old master oil painting techniques while she was growing up. She knew almost instantly that her art journey had begun a new chapter when she encountered the fluidity of the watercolour medium. Since then she has taken a journey filled with adventures….
For the past 30 some years, she has been teaching in different cities in Canada.
To see more of Ada’s work, check out her website: www.adawong.ca
Check out more classes with Ada!
Karen Bishop has been a professional artist for more than 15 years. She has been painting on Yupo for several years. Karen used to co-own Daffodil Gallery in Edmonton. She is a busy, enthusiastic artist and instructor.
To see more of Karen’s work, check out her website and Instagram:
Website: karenbishop.ca
Instagram: @karenbartist
Julie Drew waits and listens, letting the details of the world around her speak beauty and wonder. Adding her own distinct expression using watercolor and mixed media to capture the depths and nuances of color, light, and shadow, she creates paintings that proclaim peace, mystery, and wonder.
Her passion for art led to a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, USA in 1987. Julie has been painting for over 35 years. In 1997, Julie moved with her family to Edmonton, Alberta. Although Julie works predominantly in watercolor, she also uses mixed media with her own handmade paper. Julie teaches watercolor, mixed media, acrylic, oil and papermaking. Her art work has been exhibited around Alberta.
To see more of Julie’s work, check out her website and Instagram:
Website: www.JulieDrew-ArtandFaith.com
Instagram: @shedrewit_artandfaith
Check out more classes with Julie!
Francis Marte is a realistic watercolourist with years of professional experience. He has participated in various exhibits and has been featured in international watercolour publications. Francis possesses a strong sense of artistry, consistently displayed in all his art pieces. He is a well regarded watercolour instructor for emerging watercolourists.
To see more of Francis’s work, check out his Facebook and Instagram:
Facebook: francismartewatercolours
Instagram: @francismartewatercolours
Check out more classes with Francis!
Student Supplies:
- Any extra materials or supplies you would like to use
- Suitable art clothes, hand towel, notebook, snack, drink
You will receive a 20% discount on all art supplies, from your registration until the end of the series!
Artelier is located at 10045 81 Avenue NW, Edmonton (back alley entrance). The workshop space is one block south of The Paint Spot.
Watercolour Exploration Week: 5 Day Art Retreat, Edmonton, Alberta
