Linocut Printing Workshop

Instructor: Sherry Campeau

Saturday April 18th and 25th

12:00pm – 3:00pm
Max students: 10
Materials included

A 2-day workshop teaching the basics of linocut, from sketching your design, carving, and inking variations. This workshop is perfect for beginners, creatives looking to try a new medium, or anyone wanting a mindful, hands-on afternoon. The theme will be Quiet Spring Moments.

Course Fee: $95

Colour Narratives – Oil Painting

Instructor: Theresa MacKnight

Saturday, June 6th and Sunday, June 7th

9:30am – 4.30pm
Max students: 10
Materials NOT included (except canvases)

In this intermediate oil painting 2-day workshop, we will examine how painters use colour to create a feeling or “colour story”. Each participant will engage in constructing small arrangements inspired by pre-selected
works. These will become the subject for small oil paintings created from direct observation using a practical working method. We will focus on working with a full chromatic palette, colour mixing strategies, finding and drawing strong shapes, and ways to balance direct observation and the poetry of the painted surface.

Notes:
This is described as an intermediate oil painting workshop however those with some painting experience in painting/drawing with other mediums may find this a good way to explore oil painting. The working method we will be using is not appropriate for acrylic painting.

Canvas surfaces will be provided but participants should bring all other materials.

Sunbury Shores has wooden easels but you are welcome to bring your own portable easel if you prefer.

Course fee: $185

Please bring your own lunch.

MATERIALS LIST

Suggested Oil Colours:

Generally, I use a warm and cool of each primary. Cadmiums can certainly be substituted for alternatives such as Hansa Yellows as well as Naphthol and Quinacridone reds.

• – Titanium White
  – Cad. Lemon or other Cool yellow
  – Cad. Yellow Medium or other warm yellow
  – India Yellow
  – Cad. Orange Deep
  – Cad. Red Light or Deep
  – Alizarin Crimson
  – Ultramarine Blue
  – Phthalo Green or Phthalo Turquoise

Brushes:

I recommend a small variety of filbert and flat, natural bristle brushes sizes 2, 4 & 6

I find synthetic brushes are useful but only later in the painting process. We will rely heavily on the natural bristle brushes especially for blocking in.

Mediums:

Please bring two small containers of linseed oil (one for cleaning brushes and the other to keep clean as a painting medium).

Solvents:

Solvents are not really necessary but you might want a small closed lid container for Gamsol or other odorless studio-friendly solvent for end of day cleaning. Please no turpentine.

Palette:

Please bring a good-sized palette (wood, glass, plexi, paper palette pad). If you have a Mastersons palette box or other, this would be useful for storing and travelling with paint. If you don’t have any of these Sunbury Shores has some glass available for palettes.

Palette Knife:

Good palette knives are important. Please have one good one you are comfortable with (Liquitex, RGM, Sennelier & Gamblin are all good).

Rags:

Please bring some rags, shop towels and or paper towels.

Self-Portrait Workshop

Work with renowned artist Stephen Hutchings to explore and develop your skills with self-portraits using photographs.

Instructor: Stephen Hutchings

Friday, June 19th, 4pm – 7pm
Saturday/Sunday June 20th/21st, 9:30am – 4:30pm

Max 10 students
Materials included

One of the greatest challenges in drawing is achieving a realistic, life-size self portrait using graphite pencils. In this 2 ½ -day workshop, you will get that opportunity. You will use drawing paper with the features of your own face already lightly indicated on it. This establishes the overall positions of your facial features, thereby ensuring a more realistic result. Using a mirror and a photograph of your face as reference, you will draw your facial features and tones to complete your drawing.

Friday evening your face will be photographed and you will have the opportunity to study and draw details of examples of eyes, mouths and noses from photographs and from your own face using a hand-held mirror. Your photograph will be processed Friday evening so that on Saturday morning you will have a 12” x 18” sheet of drawing paper on which your features will be lightly indicated. Saturday and Sunday will see you finish your self portrait incorporating a full range of tones to achieve a realistic likeness. Throughout the weekend there will be demonstrations of material and technique, as well was numerous one-on-one interactions with the workshop leader.

FAQ’s

• This sounds scary, do I have to stare at my face?
  • Self-portraiture feels like a confrontation and can be uncomfortable. This is part of why Stephen has created the course around the photo process. You will mostly be looking at sections of your face and studying them as anatomical facts rather than looking at your appearance as a whole. 
  • Using your own face also sets you up with the ability to practice drawing with the most available subject you have– yourself! You aren’t just learning how to draw, you are also learning how to look and learning methods for practicing your drawing skills.
• Does it have to be a self portrait or can I draw someone else? 
  • It has to be a self-portrait using a photo taken by Stephen on Friday, June 19th. 
• Do I have to come in to have my photo taken or can I bring my own photo?
  • You must come in for Stephen to take the photo. This allows for everyone to start from the same place (same composition, angle, etc…). Stephen is also editing the photos to reduce them to minimal facial structure/features. We will not make exceptions to this process since we can’t guarantee consistency or quality of photos and it will add extra steps and disrupt his system.
• Why does it have to be a self-portrait?
  • The photos are reduced to a black and white, faint outline of your facial structure/features. Throughout the course you will use this print out and a mirror to study your own features in order to understand structure instead of working on proportions and placement.

Materials provided

Course fee: $235

Please bring your own lunch.

Artistic Growth Studio (formerly Jay Dampf Memorial)

Instructor: Theresa MacKnight

Monday,  July 13th – Friday, July 17th

9:30am – 4.30pm
Max students: 10
Materials NOT included

This is a unique workshop for people who wish to develop and grow their skills in painting and/or drawing and wish to work at their own pace or have specific goals or projects they wish to work on. 

Developed by the late Jay Dampf, a long-time artist instructor at Sunbury Shores, it’s an opportunity to enjoy dedicated time to work on your own practice while also benefitting from individual attention, guidance and critiquing with Theresa. Students bring their own work (drawing, painting in acrylic and oils, and watercolour), either in progress, or ready to start. At the beginning of the week Theresa will meet with each participant and discuss what they wish to accomplish, then start working toward their goals in a supportive, individualized way.  Students may choose to work in the excellent studio space at Sunbury Shores or may even choose to work plein air. Both options will be accommodated. 

Theresa MacKnight is a highly accomplished artist and art teacher. She has won numerous awards and been exhibited widely across New Brunswick and elsewhere. Theresa has an extensive knowledge of working in different mediums, and teaches with patience, encouragement, and consideration of individual needs. She has spent many years involved with SSANC as instructor, student, and exhibitor. 

Bursaries are available for this course!

Course fee: $525

Please bring your own lunch.

Materials Mix and Match: Exploring Drawing Materials and Surfaces

Instructor: Stephen Hutchings

Saturday, September 19th & Sunday, September 20th

9:30am – 4.30pm
Max students: 10
Materials NOT included

Course description, materials, and price will be released soon

Drawing and Process – COMPLETED

Instructor: Stephen Hutchings

First Session: April 11th – 12th, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Second Session April 25th,
Third Session: May 9th – 10th, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Max students: 10

This workshop consists of three sessions over a month. The goal is to integrate drawing, as both a creative act as well as a discipline, into one’s life. Over the course of four weeks, you will dramatically improve your drawing skills as well as achieve, unique, and important insights into you as a person as well as an artist.

First Session: April 11th – 12th, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

During the first day you will draw from photographs and objects, using both pencil (graphite) and charcoal. There will be a full discussion on the nature of these two dry media as well as mark-making, erasing, types of paper, composition, and so on. The second day of the first session will focus on identifying each participants particular interest in drawing, as well as the goals, plans, aspirations, and expectations they associate with their drawing practice. After that, a personalized program will be developed for each participant which they will execute over the next four weeks.

Second Session: April 25th, Remote Check-in

After two weeks, you will meet one-on-one with the workshop leader, Stephen Hutchings, via Zoom (or telephone if Zoom is unavailable) to go over the work that you have done to date and to set up the next two weeks of drawing activity.

Final Session: May 9th – 10th, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM

During the first day of the final session, each participant will present the work that they have done from the previous month, along with their observations and comments vis à vis what day had hoped to accomplish. The second day we broaden those discussions into larger applications to art and into life in general. And, oh yes, there will be more hands-on drawing on second day as well!

Please bring your own lunch.

Course Fee: $400

MATERIALS LIST

• Printed photographs and images based on their interests and suitable for drawings*
• Paper suitable for graphite or charcoal (minimum size, 16 x 20) such as Strathmore drawing
• Pencils (B, 2B, 4B, 6B)**
• Charcoal (willow, conte, and compressed sticks)**
• White plastic eraser and a kneadable eraser.

* If you don’t have access to a printer, you may also be sent to info@sunburyshores.org to be printed for the class. Please use the subject line ‘Drawing & Process Photos – Name’
**Some drawing materials will be available, but we recommend bringing these to ensure everyone will have some basics.