acrylics

Join Debra for a fun and informative afternoon as she demonstrates how to combine various watermedia like watercolours, gouache, and acrylics for beautiful effects in a painting. Debra has been an active instructor in the Lower Mainland of BC since 1989. She now instructs privately in her Studio/Gallery: Gallery 68. For more information please visit www.debragow.com.

Using acrylic inks, fluid acrylics and other watermedia to create watercolour effects.

Join staff to explore the many kinds of acrylic paint available to you. Discover the differences between student and artist quality, heavy-body and fluid. Learn just how versatile acrylic paint is, and see what exotic paints like iridescent, interference and glow-in-the-dark can do to accent a piece.

Many of you will have received a new painting set for Christmas and now are wondering how to begin. Murray will be demonstrating how to show your subject, compose your picture, and begin the painting process. The demonstration will be dealing with oils and acrylics. A talk on supplies and helpful tips will be included.

Murray Phillips is a professional artist with exhibitions throughout Canada. For more information visit www.murrayphillipsart.com.

With a focus on abstract painting, Heather will talk about her creative process as well as demonstrate how she works. She will paint an abstraction with acrylics, showing abstractions expand the possibilities of art making.

Born in Vancouver, Heather earned a BFA from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. She continued her education at Simon Fraser University where she received a MA in Liberal Studies. View Heather’s work at www.heathercraigsart.com

Barry demonstrates techniques for portraiture using acrylic on canvas. He will paint a portrait during the demo, sharing his process and style with you. Some of his sitters include Elvis Costello, Silken Laumann and Shakespearean actor and director Neil Freeman.

Barry completed his early training at the East Sydney College of Art, where he studied portraiture at a young age. As a teen in Australia, Barry was taught by one of Australia’s foremost portrait painters, Joshua Smith. As a portrait artist, Barry gets to meet some very interesting people and he looks forward to meeting you all on the 20th of November. Visit www.barrywalker.ca to learn more.

Ken will demonstrate how he paints with acrylics on black canvas using white transfer paper to produce mystical, surreal images.

He studied art in Sweden, and at Croydon Art College in England before coming to Canada in 1975 where he spent a year studying art conservation in Ontario. Ken learned to paint, like most, through trial and error. Visit www.kenhornart.com to learn more.

Would you like to learn about all the wonderful new and exciting products available in acrylics? Build thick glossy layers with pouring medium, make your work shimmer or glow in the dark, create unique textures, alter the drying rate of your acrylics, manage colour shift when your acrylics dry.