by taswann | Jan 17, 2018 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.” – Tom Thomson Yesterday we spent a lovely afternoon with the students at Blessed Sacrament in our Group of Seven art group learning about the Canadian artist, Tom Thomson....
by taswann | Jan 16, 2018 | Previous Posts, Projects, Uncategorized
“We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.” -Lawren Harris Students were inspired by the work of Canadian painter, Lawren Harris and created their own winter landscapes. They used watercolour techniques...
by taswann | Jan 14, 2018 | Previous Posts, Projects
“Before I found art, I had no sense of the future. I could have ended up in a dead-end job or even jail, not because I was violent but because I was thoughtless. Then I found this. It is all I wanted.” – Kim Dorland This Friday we introduced our senior class at KCS to...
by taswann | Jan 10, 2018 | Previous Posts, Projects
There were dozens of lakes, many of them not on the map. For identification purposes we gave them names. The bright sparkling lakes we named after people we admired… to the swampy ones, all messed up with moose tracks, we gave the names of the critics who...
by taswann | Jan 10, 2018 | Previous Posts, Projects
“It’s been fun, I’ve had a lucky life…” – LeRoy Neiman We started off our Winter session with inspiration from the American artist, LeRoy Neiman who was born on June 8, 1921 in St. Paul, Minnesota. His father, Charles Runquist, an unskilled...
by taswann | Dec 6, 2017 | Adult Classes, Previous Posts
Recently we had a wonderful night at The Cat Pub on Dundas with a group of women from Mums and More. We were inspired by the artist, Lisa Congdon and spent the evening making our own Birch tree paintings. They experimented with many supplies...
