HISTORY/STUDIO CLASSES with Instructor: Paul Peregal
These unique classes devised by the artist have no equal anywhere in North America. Combining fascinating lectures on the great artists and their times with the innovative studio techniques of the late 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries, this exciting course will be a revelation to both amateur and professional painters. These vivid and inspiring classes will unlock the mysteries of artists such as Toulouse Lautrec, Chagall, Bruno Bobak, Thomas Hart Benton, Manessier, the Cobra Group: Carl Appel, Asgar Joran, Hundertwasser, Edward Hopper and many others who have changed the course of art history. Through fascinating lectures and studio work, students will apply these stunning concepts first-hand onto canvas using acrylic paints. The artist’s personal library of monographs and videos will augment these vistas of contemporary painting, enabling the student to acquire a vast array of techniques and discover why these masters are the seminal influences on today’s painting.
Offered Fridays 10-5 pm in an ongoing manner for 6-week or 12-week sessions throughout Spring and early summer, beginning any Friday you wish to join.
Tuition: $ 396 for 6 weeks or $747 for 12 weeks. No HST
Painting 112B: “Great Women Painters of the 20th Century – A World View”
HISTORY and STUDIO CLASSES with Instructor: Paul Peregal
Students of all levels will be fascinated with this extraordinary set of 6 or 12 classes combining riveting lectures on the great women painters and their times.
Find out why Abstract Expressionism owes such a debt to Lee Krasner, how Alice Neel radically altered portraiture, how Marevna Vorobieff integrated cubism into singularly unique paintings of her friends Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine and Rivera. This will be the first of an ongoing series of classes focusing on Vanessa Bell, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Sonia Delaunay, Tamara de Lempicka, Joan Michell, Grace Hartigan, and Canadians including the brilliant Peggy Nicol MacLeod, Emily Carr, Ghitta Caiserman-Roth and many others. All the student requires is curiosity and acrylic paints.
Offered Wednesdays ( 6:30-9:30pm) in an ongoing sequence, beginning any Wednesday. Tuition : $225 for a six week period; $396 for 12 weeks. Contact administration at 250-598-5422 for details.
PAINTING 102: “Painting the Seen” with Instructor: Carole Thompson
Explore the expressive potential of painting Still Life, the Urban Landscape and even Abstraction while learning the fundamentals of form, colour and texture. Important elements of composition – design, contrast and proportion – will become part of your artist’s vocabulary. Learn basic colour theory and how to mix and apply paint, using techniques of scrafitto, impasto and glazing. As reference, we will look at Art Historical and Contemporary painting practices. Group and individual classroom discussion accompanies in-class assignments.
Offered Spring 2012: Starts May 22 for 6 weeks: Tuesdays (9:30-2:30) and Thursdays ( 9:30-4:30 Tuition: $747 (No HST)
PAINTING 102B: “The Landscape: Sky and Water”
with Instructor: Steven Dickerson
Study the interplay of clouds, wind, light and water.
Explore the interplay of colour and blending techniques that allow the landscape painter to represent the effects of wind and light on clouds and water.
Offered Spring 2012 for 6 weeks: Mondays and Wednesdays 6:30-9:30
Starts April 9 – May 16
Tuition: $396 no HST ( A discount will be offered if taken with Landscape 102C: Both courses: $712)
PAINTING 102C: “The Landscape: Rocks and Landforms”
Instructor: Steve Dickerson
Explore the interplay of colours and blending techniques that allow the landscape painter to create the illusion of structure that represents trees, rocks and other landforms.
Offered Spring 2012 for 6 weeks Mondays and Wednesdays 6:30-9:30
Starts May 23 – June 27
Tuition: $ 396 no HST ( A discount will be offered if taken with Landscape 102B: Both courses: $ 712)
ACRYLIC PAINTING 212C- “Beyond Basics” with Instructor: Carole Thompson
Students in this course will develop their innate creativity with various painting projects completed within class. Classes include developing an understanding of colour value, harmonies and contrasts , composition strategies, and the exploration of Historical and Contemporary painting styles. Students will also explore Acrylic painting surface techniques using skins, transfers, stencils and more. This class is suitable for students with some painting experience
Offered Spring 2012: Tuesday evenings (6:30-9:30)
Starts April 10, 2012 for 12 weeks Tuition: $396 No HST
PAINTING 112D: “The Art of Colour” with Instructor Carole Thompson
The Art of Colour
Come and explore the emotive, symbolic and
spiritual nature of colour. In this class students will learn about colour
wheels, colour mixing, harmonic schemes and the seven contrasts. Expression is
explored with shape and colour and the interaction of colour. Students will
discover symbolic and spiritual personal colour associations. Classes include
lectures, demos, sketchbook studies and small scale projects. Materials
include liquid acrylics, canvas , student quality WC paper and paper /fabric
collage materials. Important Art Historical and Contemporary artist’s work is
presented to further our understanding of colour.
Offered Wednesdays ( 10-5 pm) starts April 11, 2012 for 6 weeks
Tuition: $396 No HST
PAINTING 212B: “A Series and Showing It” with Instructor: Carole Thompson
This course is for students with some painting experience who are ready to discover and develop a more personal voice in their work. Students will be individually mentored to create a series of paintings. Painting processes and techniques are explored while students investigate their own personal themes. Students will learn how to source and develop ideas and to write a brief statement about their work.
Offered Saturdays (10-1pm) for 12 weeks ( April 14- June 30, 2012)
Tuition: $396 No HST
MASTER CLASS: PAINTING 412: “That Extra Edge”
Instructor: Andrew Wooldridge
Happy with what you do, but searching to find that extra edge?
This course is aimed at experienced painters like you. With limited enrolment and close personal mentoring from one of Victoria’s best-known professional painters, you will be inspired to maximize your individual development in the company of like-minded artists. This master-level class will be structured to address the personal requirements and goals of each participant. Emphasis will be placed on both composition and the handling of paint and will include intensive studio painting and instructor review. Course prerequisites are painting experience, strong work ethic and a good sense of humor.
Offered Fall 2012
PAINTING 112C: ” Introduction to Acrylic Painting”
Instructor: Carole Thompson
This long-standing, very popular course introduces the versatile potential of acrylics. With a contemporary approach of experimentation and exploration of concepts, techniques and theories, you will develop an understanding of colour, form and composition. Carole will encourage your personal expression in still life, abstraction, landscape, symbolist and free form painting. This course is for those who have had little or no experience in acrylic painting.
Offered Fall 2012
PAINTING 302: ” The Viewer’s Gaze“ with Instructor: Steve Dickerson
In this course you will work towards understanding your audience, to approach painting through the eyes of the viewer.
Explore painting in a progressive manner, from the conceptual formulation of ideas, the choosing of colour combinations that best support the intended mood and statement, the development of composition through the manipulation of viewpoints, object orientation, shape and placement. Critique your creative ideas in the earliest stages of development, before painting begins. Learn to approach your painting with reason and intent.
Offered Fall 2012
PAINTING 112: “Grounding the Figure ” with Instructor: Victor Arcega
Here’s where you’ll learn first about value, form and colour theory. Prima and impasto painting follow as your work with figure models begins.
A solid grounding in figure painting finishes your course.
Offered Fall 2012