Participants must be paid members of MAA for the year 2025-2026 (unless otherwise specified)
Master Perspective: Bring Your Art to Life with Depth and Realism! With Trevor Jones
Do your paintings or drawings feel a little… flat? Ever finish a piece only to wonder why the scene, the buildings, or even the people don’t quite look right? The secret to creating believable, powerful, and immersive artwork is perspective.
Join artist Trevor Jones for an engaging and hands-on 3-hour workshop, Mastering Perspective: Bringing Depth, People, and Architecture to Your Art. This is your chance to stop guessing and start knowing how to make your art pop!
In this dynamic session, you’ll work step-by-step through the essential principles of perspective and immediately put them into practice. By the time you leave, you’ll be able to bring everything together and complete a realistic everyday scene that showcases the depth, accurate proportions, and sense of life you’ve always wanted in your work.
What You’ll Achieve in Just 3 Hours:
This workshop is packed with practical knowledge and hands-on exercises designed to transform your drawing skills. You will:
- Understand the Foundations: Master the essential principles of 1-point, 2-point, and 3-point perspective, including how to confidently use vanishing points and horizon lines to set up any scene.
- Draw Convincing Depth: Learn step-by-step methods for sketching landscapes, cityscapes, and interiors that create a powerful sense of space and distance. Plus, discover how to avoid the most common perspective mistakes.
- Integrate People & Buildings: Stop struggling with scale! Learn the techniques for placing figures accurately and drawing simple to complex architecture within a scene, ensuring people and objects look perfectly natural together.
- Complete a Finished Piece: Through guided exercises and personalized feedback, you will work toward completing a detailed street scene, applying every new skill to create a lively and believable composition.
Who Should Sign Up?
If you are an artist who wants to confidently add depth, people, and architecture to your work, this workshop is for you! It’s perfect for:
- Artists of All Levels looking to build a strong, indispensable foundation in drawing.
- Anyone interested in sharpening their skills for urban sketching, illustration, or painting.
- Creators ready to move past guesswork and start producing truly realistic and captivating artwork.
- When –November 20, 2025
Where– Manotick United Church ,5567 Manotick Main St,
Cost – $20 MAA member $30 NON – Member
Time – 12:30pm to 3:30pm
Medium – All Mediums welcomed
Registration– workshops@manotickart.ca
Payment – treasurer@manotickart.ca
Ready to Master Perspective?
This hands-on experience is one you don’t want to miss!
Instructor: Trevor Jones Workshop: Mastering Perspective: Bringing Depth, People, and Architecture to Your Art Duration: 3 Hours
What to Bring:
- Sketchbook or drawing paper
- Pencils, erasers, and a ruler
Space is limited—secure your spot today and start drawing the world as you see it!
Painting of Watsons Mill by Trevor Jones
Unleash Your Inner Still Life Master!
With Celeste Charland
Have you ever wanted to create a stunning still life but didn’t know where to begin? Maybe you’ve tried and been frustrated by flat lighting or awkward arrangements. Now is your chance to learn the secrets of beautiful, dramatic still life compositions from an expert!
Join renowned Manotick Art Association artist Celeste Charland for a hands-on, three-hour workshop, “Setting Up Your Own Still Life.” Celeste, celebrated for her breathtaking still life paintings, will guide you through every step of the process.
What You’ll Discover
This isn’t just a lecture—you’ll get hands-on experience and leave with the knowledge and confidence to create your own captivating setups at home. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Construct your own still life box for the perfect backdrop.
- Drape fabric and arrange objects for maximum impact.
- Use lighting to create depth and drama, transforming a simple scene into a work of art.
- Design captivating compositions that tell a story.
- Master the fundamental rules of good composition and learn when to break them.
You’ll even have the chance to photograph the stunning setups to use as painting references later, or bring a sketchbook to capture your own studies on the spot.
Bonus Tip: MAA Members – Make a day of it! For the best experience, join the Thursday Morning Paint-In from 9AM to 12PM, and then stay for the workshop. It’s a fantastic, low-cost opportunity to immerse yourself in painting and ignite a whole new passion.
When– October 23,2025
Where– Manotick United Church, 5567 Manotick Main St.
Cost – $20 MAA member $30 non-member
Time – 12:30pm to 3pm
Medium – All mediums welcomed
Registration– workshops@manotickart.ca
Payment – treasurer@manotickart.ca
This is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a skilled artist, expand your painting skills, and gain the confidence to create your own eye-catching works. Spots are limited, so secure your place
We can’t wait to see the incredible art you create!
About the Instructor
Celeste Charland is an accomplished artist with a captivating journey. After a successful career in human resources, she reconnected with her childhood passion for painting. She has studied with numerous instructors at the Ottawa School of Art and beyond, and is a member of several local art associations, including the Manotick Art Association and the Foyer Gallery.
Celeste is a versatile painter who finds inspiration in the beauty of the everyday world. She works in various styles and mediums, from vibrant landscapes to serene still life and compelling portraiture. Celeste loves to experiment with color, often adding a subtle, surreal quality to her pieces. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries and shows, including Trinity Gallery at the Shenkman Art Centre and the Electric Street Gallery in Ottawa. For Celeste, painting is a way to express gratitude for life and the world around her, and she can’t wait to share her passion with you.
Website – https://www.celestecharland.com/
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/celestecharlandart/
EXPLORING ARTISTIC CHOICES
with Lori Ridgeway FULL – Waitlist only
Adding Insight to Intuition in Developing and Refining Your Artistic Voice and Improving Troubleshooting
Want to take your art to the next level but aren’t sure how?
This course is for you!
Because it’s more than just a painting workshop—it’s a chance to transform the way you see and create art. Lori Ridgeway will guide you through practical tools, hands-on exercises, and meaningful discussions that help you move beyond simply copying what you see. You’ll gain confidence in colour, composition, and process, while refining your own artistic voice. By the end, you won’t just have a finished painting—you’ll have new ways of thinking, stronger creative instincts, and skills that will carry into every piece of art you create.
Spaces are limited, so don’t miss out!
Maximum 15 students for this class!
When – Nov 3rd, 17th, 24th & Dec 1st
Where – Manotick United Church, 5567 Manotick Main St,
Cost – MAA members $150.00 / Non Members $200.00
Time –6:30pm-9:30pm
Medium – Acrylic & Oil both welcomed
How to Register: workshops@manotickart.ca
Payment: Send payment via e-transfer to treasurer@manotickart.ca
Earlier this year, Lori presented to MAA on the critical learning’s that shaped her artistic voice and expertise. The response was so strong that members requested a deeper, exercise-based workshop to put these ideas into practice.
This 12-hour course (four 3-hour sessions) is designed to encourage experimentation, exploration, and refinement of your artistic process. While the focus is on oil and acrylic mediums, the emphasis will be on exercises, discussion, and homework challenges.
➡️ Each 3-hour session (after the first) includes presentations, group discussion, and sharing homework assignments.
➡️ Participants will choose references to explore weekly challenges at home.
➡️ The course culminates in a finished painting that brings together all lessons learned.
Course Outline
Introductory Session:
Participants will reflect on and share their artistic muses and interests before diving into four key areas of growth.
1️ Abstraction Framework
- Move from illustration to expression
- Apply three essential tools to step away from strict copying
- Use design principles to tell your story
2️ Colour Exploration
- Understand three independent aspects of colour (Munsell model)
- Use colour to create mood, harmony, or discord
- Explore dominance, contrast, vibration, light, and luminosity
- Maximize colour possibilities while avoiding chaos
3️ Composition Considerations
- Balance fast vs. slow paintings
- Focal points vs. “sweet spots”
- Rhythm, movement, connectedness, and linkages
- Figure/ground relationships
- Dynamic push and pull of elements
4️ Process & Getting Started
- Choosing paint types
- Approaches to layering and building your work
- Practical strategies for beginning with confidence
A hands-on, discussion-rich workshop designed to unlock your artistic choices and strengthen your creative voice!
About the Artist
Lori Ridgeway is a landscape oil painter, originally from Alberta now living in Ottawa, Ontario. Her paintings are inspired mainly by the forest, grasses marshes and shorelines mainly in and around Ottawa or the Canadian Shield. Her focus is on expressing patterns of line, shapes, colour, and especially light and shadow in the near landscape – complexity that lies below the superficial and, often, everyday notice, but which forms the coherent whole. Her artistic goal is to express extraordinary moments from ordinary scenes and generate a new way of seeing our surroundings. Her paintings have been accepted into juried shows locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and have won jury awards, including five Best in Show awards, four of them in 2023 and 2024, all from different paintings.