Participants must be paid members of MAA for the year 2021–2022.
DYNAMIC BRUSHWORK IN LANDSCAPE
With Dominik Modlinski
Create your own studio painting and take your work to the next level under the guidance of contemporary Canadian Artist and mentor Dominik Modlinski in this 2-day painting workshop. The workshop is intended to hone students’ painting skills and expand their creative language. Emphasis will be on risk-taking, abstract design, and mark-making – all three necessary components to take one’s work to the next level and create your unique creative signature.
• Unlock true creative potential
• Open up the possibility for a purer, honest, and unique brushwork
• Establish a narrative symbolism in a painting
Expert instruction from Dominik will encourage you to explore new possibilities and work more intuitively, allowing unplanned marks and passages to become artistic breakthroughs.
The subject matter for this workshop will be a landscape reference material provided by Dominik and based on one his wilderness painting journeys.
Together colour contrasts constitute the fundamental resource of colour design, either in stand-alone or dynamic duos combinations. Each contrast is unique in character and in its visual and expressive effect. Understanding each colour contrast creates unlimited creative opportunities both in design and symbolic aspect of painting.
The aim of this workshop is to inspire students to compose artwork based on strong colour contrast choices which are carried diligently throughout creative process resulting in bold and colorful works of art.
The dynamic power of composition and color will be the beginning of this adventure. Working from provided photos, we will create few drawing thumbnail sketches focusing on key areas including light and dark values, edges and lines as a warm-up to composing a dynamic composition.
Moving on to decide which “thumbnail” to use will be a start of the concept development, then progressing on, to compose the subject in a larger drawing, working out further ideas and individual details. Once the familiarity with the subject matter will be achieved, we will begin painting on large canvas or panel. Composition, drawing, value, colour theory, and contour treatment will be constantly emphasized as we are progressing into the drawing and painting.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity as Dominik takes you along of the beaten path to paint true Canadian wilderness!
Where – Manotick United Church (5567 Manotick Main St, Manotick)
When – Saturday Nov 5 and Sunday Nov 6, 2022
Time – 9:30am to 4:00pm
Price – $275
Medium – Oil or Acrylic
Max – 16 students
Registration – To register send an email to workshops@manotickart.ca. Once you receive confirmation of registration please send your payment by either PayPal or E-Transfer to treasurer@manotickart.ca.
About the Instructor
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Modlinski now calls Canada home and makes his living traveling through and painting various endangered natural areas. At the heart of his travels is a quest to discover and depict the inherent balance and truthfulness found in nature. In Poland he attended The School for Artistic Crafts and Design. In Canada he graduated with honours from the Ontario College of Art in 1993. He has since lived in the wilderness setting of Atlin, B.C., where he taught painting and drawing at the Atlin Centre for the Arts. Modlinski says he enjoys the physical challenge painting in such remote location entails. It’s also an opportunity to visually celebrate a unique ecosystem. For this artist, celebration is really at the heart of his hard work.
Modlinski now lives in Nanaimo, BC, where he paints full-time. His work has earned him numerous awards, including the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship in 1994 and the David L. Stevenson Scholarship for Proficiency in Drawing & Painting in 1993.
Abstract Painting and Techniques with Andrea Warren
Explore different styles of abstract painting, experiment with a variety of acrylic techniques, and brush up on your art history in this day-long workshop. Inspired by the lives and work of renowned women artists such as Bridget Riley, Helen Frankenthaler and Alma Thomas, create three paintings which explore different abstract painting techniques – including hardedge painting, staining and mark-making. At the same time, explore different pigments and color combinations, and play with a variety of Golden paints and mediums – such as the ink-like High Flow acrylics, which are perfect for staining and using through a variety of tools for mark-making.
Go home with new ideas and techniques for your repertoire, a better understanding of some important figures in art history, three paintings, and a Golden sample kit to take home.
All supplies are included in this workshop. The only thing you need to bring is your brushes, water container and a keen interest in learning new techniques to expand your painting repertoire.
Where – Manotick United Church (5567 Manotick Main St, Manotick)
When – Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022
Time – 9:30am to 4:30pm
Price – $135 (All supplies included)
Medium – Acrylic
Max – 15 students
Registration – To register send an email to workshops@manotickart.ca. Once you receive confirmation of registration please send your payment by either PayPal or E-Transfer to treasurer@manotickart.ca.
About the Instructor
Andrea Warren is a non-objective acrylic painter and mixed media artist based out of her home town of Ottawa, Ontario. She has been the Golden Ottawa Working Artist since 2008, giving lectures and hands-on workshops at universities, colleges, galleries and art associations across central and eastern Canada. Andrea received her degree in visual arts and philosophy from Trinity Western University, in Langley, BC, and has been exhibiting her work in both solo and group shows for the last 10 years. She has also been involved in the field of arts and healthcare for the last five years, and currently works with Artswell, a non-profit group which provides therapeutic arts programs for marginalized communities. Andrea’s teaching philosophy is that you can produce your best work when you know your materials, and her workshops are a balance of playful experimentation and solid teaching in material and technique. To book her for a workshop or lecture, you can reach her at andrea_e_warren@hotmail.com.
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https://www.lindalovisaartcanada.ca/
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