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Strengthen Your Visual Sensitivity and
Creative Visual Language
with Michael Orwick
This workshop is designed to explore the
fundamental reasons behind a painting's success.
Think of walking into a gallery and
instantly being grabbed by a painting from clear across the room. What
is it that reaches out to you and pulls you to get a better look? Learn
what it is that first draws you and how the painting continues to cast
such a spell that you have to get within sniffing distance to learn all
you can.
Through informative conversations
and step-by-step demonstrations students will gain an understanding of
the interrelated components of painting, including value, shape, color
and edge relationship. You'll be painting right alongside Michael Orwick
with time for each student to receive personal attention and friendly
critiques.
Michael will discuss the benefits
and drawbacks of photo references. The instructor will provide some
reference material and students should bring landscape photos from home
which they would like to work on. Michael will emphasize emotion, color
and composition, and how to make a photo into a spirited painting.
Starting with composition, emphasis
will be placed on strengthening students' skills of editing and
selection as well as clarifying light effects for more powerful,
personal design. Study the power and importance of balance, unity,
variety, interest and contrast through the tonal and color aspects of
your paintings.
Students will learn about mixing
colors from a limited palette, while still achieving dynamic light and
shadow effects with lively color. Discover how values and temperature
work to keep your paintings in harmony.
Take home your own light filled
masterpiece along with improved painting methods and theory.
Bonus; Get ready for painting
outdoors with a Plein-air equipment overview and suggestions list.
www.michaelorwick.com
Evening
discussions/mini demos/critique
Class size is very
small, so register early
Price:
$595
includes 5 days instruction, delicious lunches, unlimited studio time
We
have some easels, tables, paper towels, plastic containers, etc you are
welcome to use. We like to go out together for dinner on Thursday night
as a group.
Suggested Supplies List
Deposit:
$250
non-refundable
MasterCard and VISA accepted
email
Nanci to reserve or call toll free (877) 285-3390
Artist's Statement:
| Starting with weekend life drawing,
then on to oil, watercolour, ink and more - thirty years have gone
by and the pull is stronger than ever for me. I am fascinated with
dimensions - how can I manipulate the mat opening or canvas
dimension to create a second layer, or third, or more? I have never
much been bothered about WHAT I paint - more about how. I am in love
with the gentle elegance of watercolour, yet also drawn to the rich
colour and texture of acrylic. The longer I paint - the more I
discover to learn.
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| Profile:
Born in London, Ontario, Timms, an army brat, moved around Canada
until settling in Vancouver, BC, then finally in Courtenay Vancouver
Island. For more than thirty years, Marilyn Timms has been
perfecting her ability to draw and paint. Workshops and seminars
over the years with numerous painters have helped her move forward
in this process, of course, but in the main she considers herself
self-taught. After many years of life drawing, she found her passion
for painting with traditional oils on canvas. As fate would have it,
a severe allergy to the binders used in oils forced her to look at
other mediums, including the new acrylic paint, pastels and finally,
watercolors. A weekend workshop in watercolor technique was all it
took and, soon, she was winning awards. Feeling the urge to work a
new medium again, Timms turned a second time to acrylic paint and
found a second, award-winning love.
Awards:
- Timms has been awarded the Barse
Miller Memorial Award at the American Watercolor Society's
136th Annual International Exhibition in 2003 in New York City,
NY, USA. (See below)
- She has had her paintings accepted into the Societe Canadienne
de l'Aquarelle Annual Watercolor Exhibition, Brossard, Quebec,
Canada in 2002
- the Canadian Society for Painters in Watercolors OPEN WATER
Juried ExhibitionToronto, Ontario, Canada in 2000 and more.
- She exhibits mostly in Western Canada, although her credits
include
a solo exhibition in the South of France as well.
Timms was awarded full signature membership in the
Federation of Canadian Artists in 1993 and maintains this status.
In 2005, Timms attained full signature membership in the
Society of Canadian Artists, Toronto, Ontario.
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Memberships/Affiliations:
- Director, British Columbia Arts Council
- Senior (Signature member) Federation of Canadian Artists
- Signature member Society of Canadian Artists
- Supporting member American Watercolor Society
- Comox Valley Chamber of Commerce
- Comox Valley Tourism
- Comox Valley Art Gallery
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Publications:
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- International Artists publication
100 Ways To Paint Flowers and Gardens Volume 1
- How Did You Paint That? Series 2005
- The Watercolor Techniques of 23 International Artists, Chapter
20 2005
- CARFAC Visual Arts Voice Spring 2002 "Artists Share Secrets of
Selling Their Work
- Feature article, "The Pleasure of Art" In Focus Magazine Sept.
2001 Issue
- Master Painters of Canada Showcase, International Artist
Magazine, Summer 2000 Edition,
November 2004 Edition
- Back Cover Images October 1999 Issue FCA NEWS
- Cover Image July/August 1999 Issue FCA News
- Article March 1999 issue The Artists' Magazine
- Article Exhibition Catalogue 1993 Images of Excellence
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