The Saint John Arts Centre (SJAC) is excited to welcome back Jane Geurts to teach Studio 65+ Watercolours. As Jane guides you through a variety of techniques, you will discover the qualities that make watercolour such an enjoyable and unique experience. This workshop is designed for beginners who have never picked up a brush before, through to intermediate level participants.
In this workshop you will explore:
The characteristics of watercolour painting
How to mix your paints
How to use watercolour washes, wet-on-wet techniques, flat wash, graded wash
The basic colour palette
Watercolour lifting techniques
The composition of good landscape painting
How to create effective looking landscapes/seascapes
Creating light in your landscapes/seascapes
How to paint moody watercolour skies
Matting and framing techniques for watercolour paintings
Workshop materials kit is purchased from the instructor on week one and includes:
Watercolour Paper: 140lb and 90lb cold press sheets
Palette: warm and cool versions of red, blue and yellow, plus black and white
Brushes: round, flat and angle
Drawing pencil
White magic eraser
Mixing palette/plate
8âx10â Matt for a 5âx7â painting
Foam core board
Instructional notes
WORKSHOP INFORMATION
Age group: Seniors and Adults Time: 1:30-4pm
Dates: Tuesday afternoons â April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2022
Duration: 4 weeks
Tuition fee: $110 for adults / Seniors aged 65+ are eligible for a 20% discount on all adult workshops; enter coupon code SENIOR65 at checkout.
Supplies fee: $20, purchased from your instructor at the first class
The Saint John Arts Centre is pleased to welcome back senior artist Jane Geurts, who will guide you through an intuitive approach to watercolour painting. You will engage your imagination and creativity in an exploration of abstract compositions with this liquid medium. This workshop is designed for participants who have moved beyond the beginnerâs level.
Age group:Â Adults
Time: 6-8:30pm
Dates: April 26, May 3, 10, 17, 2022
Duration: 4 weeks
Fees: $115 tuition
Supplies: Participants will purchase a $20 materials kit from the instructor on week 1
Skill level: Intermediate / âbeyond beginnerâ
Capacity: 10 students
Seniors Discount: Seniors aged 65+ are eligible for a 20% discount on all adult workshops; enter coupon code SENIOR65 at checkout.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Jane Geurts is a designer and painter with a penchant for watercolour. She is well known for her large scale watercolours that grace residential and commercial spaces across the country.  Her artwork has been purchased for public and private collections in Canada, the US, and Holland, and she has lectured and conducted workshops around the globe.  Jane spent more than thirty years as Head of Design at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design, and has acted as a design consultant for several commercial and residential design firms, with her work being featured on HGTV
Learn the basics of free motion embroidery or thread painting using your regular zigzag sewing machine. Lower the feed dogs and use your needle like a paint brush to create flowers, leaves, trees, weeds, ripples in water, etc. You can spend the entire day perfecting your stitches or start a small landscape. Information on design will also be discussed.
Kathy Tidswell combines painting on fabric with free motion machine embroidery to produce thread painted works of art. She also blends innovative and traditional techniques to create unique wall quilts and original wearable art. Nature is a large influence on her work and she strives for realism. Her pieces have been juried into Canadian Quiltersâ Association National Juried Shows (winning two awards), Grand National Juried Exhibitions, Studio Art Quilt Associates regional shows and Ontario Network of Needleworkers Threadworks. Her work has been published nationally and internationally. Kathy teaches her methods throughout Canada and in Europe. In 2005, she was awarded Canadian Quiltersâ Association Teacher of the Year.
Cost $50 plus supplies
Supply List
Zigzag sewing machine and its manual.
Darning foot.
New machine embroidery needles 75/11 or 90/14 if you are using rayon embroidery threads. Metallic or metafil needles if you want to use metallic threads.
7 inch to 10 inch slim (3/8âł) wooden embroidery hoop. A regular hoop will NOT substitute. It is too wide to pass under the presser foot. If you donât have one, slim hoops will be available to purchase from Kathy for $10.
You will be making samples of weeds, trees , flowers, texture in water etc. so bring threads in greens (several shades), browns, yellows, blues etc. If you have rayon embroidery and metallic threads in these colours, bring them, but itâs not necessary to purchase them especially for this class. Instead, bring threads from your stash in these colours.
Several squares of muslin or plain light cotton approx. 12 inches square and several pieces of stabilizer such as tear- away to back your pieces.
Scissors, pins, ruler etc. ie normal sewing kit.
If you plan to start the 5 inch by 7 inch landscape, you will need small pieces for sky, mountain and water.
River Art Centre, 8746 Main Street, Florenceville-Bristol
Space is limited. To register, call the Gallery, 392-6769.
Tidswellâs exhibit, Colours of Nature, was at the Gallery May 15 â June 19, 2021.
ArtsLink NB is presenting Dreaming Inventive Futures, its first-ever intensive workshop on anti-oppression in the arts April 23 and 24. Many arts organizations are attempting to find ways to incorporate anti-racism and anti-oppressive policies but need some guidance on how to do so in a way that moves beyond tokenism. With this in mind, this is the first workshop ArtsLink NB has offered that is geared not only towards artists, but also toward professionals working for creative organizations.
This two-day virtual workshop continues the series presented to ArtsLink NB members on business development and career-management subjects. Past topics have included budgeting, documentation, and critical arts writing. The decision to hold this workshop virtually was made due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to allow participants to attend from across the province.
Workshop Description
Dreaming Inventive Futures: Anti-Oppression in the Creative Sector is a two-day workshop and discussion space that combines foundational anti-oppressive modalities, peer-based learning, personal reflection, and active discussion as teaching tools. During this digital space, participants will explore approaches to anti-racist curation, responsible and curious storytelling, organizationally care-based artistic practices rooted in disability justice frameworks, address ways to disrupt genre and aesthetic hierarchies within cultural industries, and discuss sustainable methods to intentional cross-practice collaboration.
These themes will be grounded in disrupting tokenism in the arts sector, moving beyond defensiveness and fear in creative work, imagination, and accessibility. The aim is that participants will feel supported and motivated to engage in systems change work within the arts as well as more confident in continuing anti-oppressive conversations in their work personally and professionally.
About Carmel Farabakhsh
Carmel Farahbakhsh (they/them) is a community educator, arts maker, and youth worker. They have collaborated on the Khyber Centre for the Arts board for four years, and are enjoying their new position as co-director of local music festival EVERYSEEKER. They recently transitioned from a five-year term coordinating South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre to working as the Executive Director at the Youth Project, seeing a direct link between this community work and access to creative spaces and the arts community.
As the Executive Director of the Youth Project, Carmel holds a youth-centric approach to organizational movement and support. Carmel builds their vision from their community education background and aims to apply an anti-racist and trauma-informed framework to their work. They also collaborate and organize with local initiatives, artist-run-centres, and community partners with an aim to create wider 2SQTBIPOC community and support systems within the HRM.
Registration
The sessions will take place April 23 and 24, 2022. The intensive workshop will be held virtually via Zoom and is free for members of ArtsLink NB. Sessions will run from 9am to 4pm each day. To register, cultural sector workers should send an email to Jericho Knopp, jeri@artslinknb.com, with their name, their field or organization, and a brief description of why theyâre interested in taking the workshop.
