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

Drawing and Process

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.

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.