2025 Art Classes are on the Go!
This year I’m restarting the Creative Canvas series with Fraser Valley Continuing Education (FVCE). Creativity is where we hold our greatest power as human beings. We have powerful reasons for creating like; exploring our potential; connecting to long-held dreams; creating a more interesting life; and gaining satisfaction and accomplishment. So come explore your greatest power – to create! Each class starts with a creative conversation to get you in the right mood, and then I will teach you various acrylic techniques and styles of art in a safe, supportive atmosphere.
March 8 – Meditative Mandalas
Do you love mandalas? In various spiritual traditions, mandalas have been used for focusing our attention, as a spiritual guidance tool, and establishing a sacred space. During this class we will focus on slowing the monkey mind while doing art and create unique mandala art in a state of meditation using acrylic paints and round canvases.
Apr 5 – Strata Landscapes
Learn how the unique process painting layers can give you a beautiful representation of land and water. During this class we will discuss ways to overcome time and busy-ness overwhelm as it affects our creative process.
May 3 – Funny Faces
In this class, I will teach 2 easy ways to produce a portrait using funny face reference images. You will also learn about great palette choices for portrait painting. Our creative conversation will revolve around breaking through blockages to creativity.
June 7 – Action Painting
I love doing this class in summer, because we can work outside and throw paint to our hearts content! You will learn great tricks for creating an exciting abstract art piece with full expression. As you can probably guess our creative conversation will be all about being free to express to our max.
Also I’ll be facilitating the PoCo Arts Council Drop-In acrylic painting art classes with a limited audience. They are scheduled on Tuesday evenings 6-9pm the Outlet, and you must sign up for PoCo Arts Council’s newsletter to get the invites to join these classes below:
Feb 4 – Flow and Outlines – Abstract painting with flow mediums and lines.
Feb 18 – Digging In – How to palette knife paint in acrylics.
Mar 4 – Look Owls! – Learn to mix natural colours and paint owls.
Mar 18 – Funny Faces – Learn easy techniques for painting amusing faces.