Lessons & Workshops

FOR CHILDREN, TWEENS, TEENS AND ADULTS

All drawing and painting courses are a disciplined progression of training and creativity with a fun approach to artistic learning. Courses and private lessons for children, teens and adults are a relaxing, nurturing, even healing experience for novice, intermediate and experienced painters. Improves perception & focus and reduces stress & anxiety.

AND WHO DOESN’T NEED THAT?

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6 weeks | 21 hours of instruction and group critiques. Minimum 4 students required for courses to run. 

ADULT’S COURSE

A BRIDGE TO PAINTING MADE SIMPLE

Training the creative eye to see line, form, composition and light values of colour in a purist approach to mixing from primary colours. 

Locations: Crackpot Studio, 301 Robinson St., Oakville and Studio 107, The Bradshaw Lofts, 245 Downie St., Stratford.

Medium: Your choice of water based medium — acrylics, fluid acrylics, watercolours and waterbased oils.

Florals, Landscapes with Bridges:

Swanning Through Summer, 2022, Acrylic on 14 x 42 x 1.5″ museum/ gallery canvas.

Dates: 6 week courses, January – March Break, March/April, May/June, Sept/October, October- December.

Time: 10.30 to 2pm

Tuition: 21hrs.

Cost: Tuition $450 + tax

Please request a materials List if you are registering for the first time.

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TEEN’S COURSE

FALLING FOR ART

REALISM | ABSTRACTION | GRAPHIC  TECHNIQUES
Locations: Crackpot Studio, 301 Robinson St., Oakville and
Studio 107, The Bradshaw Lofts, 245 Downie St., Stratford.

Dates: 10 week courses, January – March, March – May/June, Sept/October– December.

Time: 4.30 to 6.30pm

Tuition: 22hrs.

Sign up for our Course Schedule: info@artonlocation.ca

Cost: Tuition $

Studio locations: Crackpot Studio, 301 Robinson St. Oakville, and Studio 107, The Bradhshaw Lofts, Stratford, Ontario.

Summer Camps Plein Air On-Location:

– Training the creative eye!

– Improving drawing & painting skills, 

– Learning new techniques,

– Relax & escape into a painting or drawing,

– Practise increasing your focus in all other classes too.

Professional quality materials supplied.

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CHILDREN’S COURSE

INTRO ACRYLIC TEXTURES IN PAINTING & WATERCOLOUR STILL LIFE

Age: 6-12 yr. olds

Tuition: $357.50 + $30 materials : $437.87 incl. materials & tax. 

Professional quality materials supplied.

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ADULTS | PAINTING MADE SIMPLE

Next: Practise advanced watercolour techniques, Tips n Trix in Watercolour.

WINDOWS & DOORS | Tour the World and Paint some Architecture Along the Way.

Dates: 6 week courses, February – March Break, March/April, May/June, Sept/October, October- December.

Dappled Sunlight
Dappled Sunlight, watercolour, 8.5×11″ on 300lb Arches paper by Dawn-Angela. Frame: Mahogany wood, 12.5 x 15.5″. Limited print: $250 framed.

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PRIVATE LESSONS: $75/hr.

Take a look at our individual workshops below and select your interest or an area that you need to polish up your Rough Diamonds.

WORKSHOPS IN SCHOOLS OR IN STUDIO

For Teens and Adults |Tuesdays 3 hrs. 6-9pm:

YOUR PICK OF WORKSHOPS! BUILD YOUR OWN COURSE. Materials supplied so that you can explore before purchasing. Workshops are designed for those who need to pick & choose when/what they need to learn or hone. Ideal for those who cannot commit to longer courses.

#1. Introduction to Different Paint Mediums and Techniques — See, Touch, Feel the Paint.  (Can be combined with Workshops 2, 3, 4 and 9/10 or 11)

#2. Simple colour Wheel: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary and Complementary Colours. (Recommend combine with Workshops 1, 3, 4)

#3. Purist Approach to Colour Mixing — Train your Eye to see Light Values. Easier Than You Thought.  (Recommend combine with Workshops 4)

#4. Training the Eye to See Line, Shape, Form and Negative Space. 

#5. Sketching Vs. Drawing. Still Life in graphite and charcoal. 

(Recommend combine with Workshop 4)

#6. Strong Composition – A Prerequisite to Strong Paintings and Drawings. 

(Recommend combine with Workshops 4, 5, 8 and/or 9/10 or 11 )

#7. What is Plein Air Painting and What Do I Need?

(Recommend combine with Workshops 9)

#8. Train Your Eye to See Light & Shade.

#9. Introduction to Watercolours. 

(Recommend combine with Workshops 3, 4 and /or 6)

#10. Introduction to Acrylic Painting. 

(Recommend combine with Workshops 3, 4 and /or 6)

#11. Introduction to Water Based Oil Painting. 

(Recommend combine with Workshops 3, 4 and /or 6)

#12. Dutch Kissing Pours — Fluid Non-Objective Paintings. 

Dutch Kissing Pour Workshop #12

Workshops can be scheduled for groups any time. Minimum 4 people per party.

Cost: $79 + small materials fee in some painting workshops: 

Materials for Workshop #1: $6; #2: $4; #3: $5; #4: $0; #5: $0; #6: $0; #7: $5, #8: $0; #9: $4; #10-12: $6; #12: $12.

Choose 1 for $79 or 6 workshops for $450.00 +tax (and materials budget when applicable, see above). Minimum 4 registered participants for workshop to run.

GREAT FOR GROUP TEAM BUILDING, BIRTHDAYS, CELEBRATIONS.

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ITS A WRAP!| Close your creARTtive year with an original fine art painting of your own Christmas still life design. Practise advanced techniques, Tips n Trix in Watercolour.

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SUMMER ART CAMPS

Oakville, Lake Ontario & Harbour | And Stratford, River Avon & Tom Pattersen island

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Students learn to paint in natural light, en Plein Air. Learn a different medium each day, walk from painting site to painting site for landscape, lakescape, florals, nature & organics and architecture.

Tuition: Age Group 6-12 years, $357.25 includes professional quality materials and tax.

                 Age Group 12 to Teens. $463.30 includes professional quality materials and tax.

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Summer Camps are not the same without our traditional tour of a gallery and ice cream shoppe.

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PRIVATE LESSONS: $75/hr.

Can’t commit? Take a look at our individual workshops above and select your interest or an area that you need to polish up your Rough Diamonds.

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Home Show in November by appointment. Jewellery for Your Walls.

Ensemble of Poppies, 48x40x1.75″ embellished acrylic giclee on gallery canvas by Dawn-Angela. $900.

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Email for more details and/or materials list for adult courses from instructor: info@artonlocation.ca