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Adult Painting Night at The Cat
Join us on Thursday, March 8th at 7:30 at The Cat Pub and Eatery, 3513 Dundas Street West to create a painting like the one above. We will start with an introduction of Canadian artist, Tom Thomson and take a look at some of his art and then it will be your turn to create […]
Runnymede In-Class Session – Inspired by Manet
This week we are spending time with the kindergarten classes at Runnymede Junior and Senior Public School and teaching them about Edouard Manet and Impressionism. Students learned about Manet’s life and career and then created their own spring floral pieces using watercolour paint, oil pastels and acrylic paint. The colours of spring filled our […]
Books for Artists to Learn and be Inspired by…
I wanted to share a few of my favourite books that explain the elements of art and design in an easy to understand way. The first one is by Molly Bang, Picture This: How Pictures Work. Ms. Bang found that after writing, illustrating and publishing many books she struggled with the basic knowledge of how pictures […]
Inspired by Norval Morrisseau
“I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy.” -Norval Morrisseau This week we have been celebrating the life and career of legendary painter, Norval Morrisseau. Students used a scraping technique for the background and then used various colour of acrylic […]
Spring Session Registration
The Spring session registration is now open for the following schools: Swansea Public School: Monday at lunch – Mar 26 – May 28 Wednesday at lunch – Mar 28 – May 16 Friday at lunch – Apr 6 – May 25 Humbercrest: Tuesdays at lunch – Mar 27 – May 15 Humber Valley Village: Wednesday […]
Inspired by David Langevin
“ I wanted to know I could achieve any effect that I could imagine. I wanted complete expressive freedom…” – David Langevin David Langevin currently lives and paints in Kamloops, British Columbia. He was born in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and began drawing and painting even before he started school. After high school he […]
In-class Session Inspired by Cressida Cowell
This afternoon we had the pleasure of working with the students of Mr. Cunneen’s class at Blessed Sacrament. We learned about the author and illustrator, Cressida Cowell who created, the How to Train Your Dragon book series. Students used sharpies to draw their dragon eyes and scales. To create the colourful eye they used both […]
Inspired by Arthur Lismer
“It is necessary that… we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds….” – Arthur Lismer Today at Blessed Sacrament we were inspired by the Group of Seven artist, Arthur Lismer to make our own waterscape paintings. Our afterschool class used chalk […]
Adult Painting Night – The Cat Pub and Eatery
Last night we hosted an adult painting night at The Cat Pub and Eatery at 3513 Dundas Street W. We had a wonderful turnout and created our own winter landscapes inspired by the Canadian artist, Lawren Harris. We used oil pastel, watercolours, resist techniques, and acrylic paint. Fan brushes helped the artists create their trees. […]
A Visit to Fern Avenue Public School
This morning we had the pleasure of visiting Fern Avenue Public School. We spent some time with Mrs. Nitsis’s grade 1/2 class and presented Canadian artist, Lawren Harris. The students learned about his life and career and his time as a member of the Group of Seven. The students used soft pastels to create multi […]