ART WORKSHOPS FOR ADULTS SPRING 2018

We believe everyone is an artist at the Creative Palette.  Our mission is to provide a safe, nuturing environment where both beginners and advanced artists can come and relax and create art using different methods and materials with an experienced artist.  Come and experience a home-based studio for smaller more specialized classes.  We will be offering "en plein aire" classes, figurative classes using live models, and different art forms including sculpture, mixed media and painting both indoors and out.  Check regularly for new workshops!  Our workshops for adults ages 16 and older are usually Tuesday mornings or Friday nights for adults!  

"En Pleine Aire- Outdoor Acrylic Landscape Painting 

Great class for beginners as we follow the artist step-by-step and learn how to paint outdoors and apply acrylics in a thicker, painterly manner.  Impressionistic use of bold strokes of colour will be demonstrated as we learn to work from both life and photos to develop a painting style together.  (On bad weather days we work indoors.)

Tuesdays April 24th, May 1st and 8th, 2018 from 10:30 am to 1 pm

This class is now full!  Look for a new one fall 2018! 

 Cost is $185 plus HST and includes all supplies

2 Day Beginner Watercolour Batik- Pets & Animals

There is no better way to learn how to blend watercolours then by trying watercolour batik.  Bring a photo of your favourite animal and turn it into a work of art in this 2 day class.  If you prefer just follow along with the artist as you create 2 works of art.  Give us a call for details.

Tuesdays May 29th and June 5th, 2018 from 10:30 am to 1 pm

or Fridays June 1st and 8th, 2018, from 6:30 to 9:00 pm

Cost is $130 and includes all supplies

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Intuitive Art - Experiments in Alcohol Ink 

 Learn how these amazingly vibrant paints work by dripping, smudging, throwing, spattering, scraping, and pouring with inks.  Follow your inner creative child on a journey and see what beautiful and intuitive painting you can create.  You will create two separate images that may be representational or abstract in nature.  (Please note the use of rubbing alcohol may cause strong odours so caution is recommended if you are sensitive.) 

Available on Tuesdays June 12th and 19th, 2018 from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm(NOW FULL!)

 or on Fridays June 15th and 22nd, 2018 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm (NOW FULL!)

Cost is $95 plus HST and includes all supplies

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More workshops are added frequently, so please check regularly.  A minimum of 5 participants for a class to run.  Our single day or evening workshops are designed to give adults a chance to just come out and try an art class in a relaxed, step-by-step environment.  Why not come out and see what you can do in just a few hours!  All supplies are included.  (Exception is the nuno-felting class where bubble wrap and a rolling pin is required.) 

Price Schedule

All supplies included in first workshop. Prices negotiable for continuing workshops.

Private Lesson $75 per hour
2-4 participants $35 per person per hour
5-8 participants $25 per person per hour

If you wish to participate with other creative people in a medium of your choice you are welcome to give us a call and we will do our best to put a group of people together for you!

"Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing."
-Marc Chagall

"The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."
-Robert Henri

"When it is working, you completely go to another place, you are tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it is all about."
-Ketih Haring