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Winter 2018 Newsletter
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Inspired by Emily Carr
“It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.” – Emily Carr In our class today at Blessed Sacrament Catholic School we were inspired by the Canadian artist, Emily Carr. We used chalk pastel, oil pastel and acrylic paint to create our own pieces inspired by her Plumed Firs painting. Emily Carr […]
Inspired by Kal Barteski
“I was suddenly very, very proud to live in Manitoba, to be Canadian and to have had the privilege of standing in such a precious place. We are so lucky to be here and I don’t think people realize it.” – Kal Barteski Kal Barteski is an internationally celebrated artist. She is a TEDx […]
Inspired by Yayoi Kusama
“My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.” – Yayoi Kusama The students at Kingsway College caught the Kusama fever that is taking over Toronto! The upcoming AGO show, Yayoi Kusama – Infinity Mirrors is experiencing an unprecedented demand for tickets and has been sold out in all the other cities who have […]
Inspired by Tom Thomson
“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. Students made their own birch trees in a winter landscape using […]
Inspired by Lawren Harris
“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 as well as acrylic paint and fan brushes to paint their trees. Lawren […]
Inspired by Kim Dorland
“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 […]
Inspired by AY Jackson
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 disparaged us.” -A. Y. Jackson Alexander Young Jackson […]
Inspired by LeRoy Neiman
“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 laborer, abandoned the family, and his mother, Lydia (Serline) Runquist remarried and LeRoy took the […]
Painting Night – Inspired by Lisa Congdon
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 […]