Public Lecture with artist Frans Aeyelts

Frans Aeyelts from Lunenburg Nova Scotia is teaching a workshop over the weekend.  As part of his time here he will be doing a public lecture on his artistic journey on Thursday evening, 7pm, Northern United Place, Room 205.  This lecture open to everyone. 

Check out Frans' website here.

 

Ticket is booked

Frans arrives late on November 6th.  His lecture is scheduled on Thursday November 7th at 7pm.  He will be teaching on Friday at a school in Behchoko on the Friday. Then we have him for three days!  He is going to teach us how to paint a landscape but with a Yellowknife setting.

We have a limit of 12 students.  The cost of the course is 220.00 with membership included!  There are 2 spaces left.

If you are already a member you will receive the info for registration.  If you are not a member but are interested in the course make sure you sign up for our newsletter.  The sign up form is on the right hand side of this blog.

Supply list is as follows:

some hairdryers, a sink with running water, rolls of tissue paper, water containers, firm boards (arborite board is great) to which one can tape the Arches watercolour paper, 1" 3M masking tape and utility knife, and any other miscellanious things you want to supply.

Drawing materials.

Pencils: 2-B, 4-B and 6-B.   A 2 mm. "mechanical" pencil is great for achieving, consistant sharp lines.

A medium size stomp for shading, about the thickness of a pencil.

Staedtler eraser.

Pens: Staedtler 0.5 mm. I also use a "Double Sharpie", a wonderful tool. It has a fine and thick tip.

Sketchbook: about 8" x 11". 110 Lbs. paper. This is fairly heavy paper, which can take some watercolour washes. Do not use thin gage paper.

Brushes.

Brushes: Round: a # 2 "rigger" brush, a #2, #6, #8, and #12. and a squirrel "mop", which is used to lay in broad washes.

                Flat: 1/4", 1/2", and 1". Add to this list any other brushes you prefer to work with, rolled up in a bamboo brush holder for protection.

Paper.

"Arches" 140 Lbs. 100 percent cotton rag watercolour paper, or equivalent. You can buy this in a "block form", 8" x 11" is convenient for this trip.

Paper tissues, a sponge, a towell, a collapsible watercontainer, atomizer, or spraybottle. Masking tape, and rigid board onto which you can tape your work, if you work with individual sheets of paper. Do not buy wood pulp based, so called "watercolour paper"! Look for: 100 percent cotton rag paper.

Tracing paper block.

Paints.

Yellow Ochre, Permanent Yellow deep, Lemon Yellow, Aureolin Yellow.

Scarlet Lake Red, Brown Madder, Permanent Rose, Opra or Magenta.

French Ultramarine Blue, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Cerulean, or Manganese Blue, Royal Blue and Indigo.

Viridian Green.

Annual Art Show and Sale

This Saturday October 19th the Yellowknife Watercolour Society is hosting their annual Art Show and Sale.  

Drop by Northern United Place from 10 am to 4 pm to see what our members have been working on.  There will be an opportunity for you to try out watercolour painting and to vote on your favourite painting for the Viewers Choice Award. 

We look forward to seeing you on Saturday!!!!

November Workshop

Today I received a phone call from the NWT Arts Council saying that we received the funding that we applied for!  YAHOO!!!!!

Frans Aeyelts is coming in November.  He will do a public lecture on Thursday November 7th, he will teach in Behchoko on Friday, and we will get THREE days with him on November 9, 10 and 11 (with a moment of silence on the 11th hour).

http://www.fransaeyelts.com/index.html

so SAVE THE DATE!!!!!

Drawing Saturday

This event is open to anyone who wants to join us!  This Saturdays Drawing Saturday info is at the end of the post.

Last Saturday we got together for 2 hours in the morning and we drew bonsai trees. It was fun.  Thanks Joyce and Ian for welcoming us into your home.

 Geela photographing!

 Joyce drawing!

 Sean drawing!  ;)

Shawna drawing....thanks for the photo Geela! 

The results of our two hour drawing session.

This Saturday we are meeting at  Pilots Monument at 10:30 am.  There are plenty of items to draw from up there.  If you want to draw buildings...plenty of options, boats...there they are, planes...quite a range, landscape...check, monument...that is there too!  

There might be too many options given the 2 hour window!  :)   Hope to see you there.  

Sketching Saturdays

Saturday 10:30 to 12:30 we are doing sketching Saturday.  

We will meet at City Hall (rain alternative Museum)

Last Saturday it was rainy and we ended up at the museum.   I had a great time drawing this old  sewing machine!  

Everyone is welcome to join us.  This is not an exclusive YWS event.  These are open events.

We have been holding an annual Art Show since 2008.  Check it out!    This year we have our show on May 25th from 10 am to 4 pm in the auditorium at Northern United Place.  Come and see what we have been up to.

Spring is trying to spring and we have a Tulip to paint!!!!

Our meeting is a week early each May because of the first long weekend of the "summer".  I quote that because we often get snow on that long weekend...so we are going to be trying to prompt by painting a single tulip.  (this painting made me realize that a single tulip is what we have time to do on Monday night)

So join us on Monday May 13, 7pm in room 205 at Northern United Place.  

Bring paint, paper, and all the regular supplies.  If you are new to painting we have extra supplies for you to play with!

Our annual Art Show and Sale is on May 25th in the auditorium at NUP!  Hopefully you will come and see what we have been doing all winter long!

April must mean strawberries!

Our meeting in April is on the 15th at  7pm in NUP Room 205!  We are doing a strawberry!  Bring the following items:
Paints,
toothpicks or very small brush, masking fluid (I have plenty)

paper, transfer graphite paper, brushes and so on and so forth.

Bring along your Show and Tells!  We are only 6 weeks away from our Annual Art Show and Sale!!! Mark your calendars for May 25th!

See you soon...

March madness with tomatoes!

So we did the "dreaded" tomato at our last meeting in March.  :)  And we discovered it wasn't as bad as we were lead to believe!

Doris working on her tomato

 Kevin's completed tomato

Joyce and her tomato.  I forgot to take the "group" photo of the tomatoes but they will be on display in May at our annual Art Show.

Show and Tell is always inspirational. Doris brought in things she has been working on!  Thanks Doris.

 Such cool looking lilies!  I love the way Doris did the painting outside of the edge.

Kevin brought in a painting that he was looking for feedback on.  

See you soon!!!  The April meeting is my next post.

Frans Aeyelts

This coming November 9,10 & 11 we are working on bringing Frans Aeyelts from Lunenburg, Nova Scotia up to teach a workshop.  He is going to take a scene from Yellowknife and use it for our painting workshop.   So we are working to provide him interesting shots of our houseboats in summer and winter.  If you have any images that would be of interest let us know.

Here is a sample of his work!  

Watch for more news in our newsletter.  If you have any questions email ykwatercolour at gmail.com!

February Meeting

We had a great meeting on Monday night.  We are getting through a range of veggies and fruit and learning so much.  The part I liked was seeing the great apples from the last meeting!

Lynn playing around.  Love the trees in a distance.

Lynn's trees and bridges are great.

Watching the video for doing a lemon.  It was quite interesting.

Shawna and Doris' lemon.  

Next month we are doing a tomato!  Hopefully we will see you then.

January SketchCrawl

On January 19th (-33 C with a wind chill of -49) Lynn and I were the only two to go to the first Yellowknife SketchCrawl...could be because there wasn't much in the way of advertising!  

The next SketchCrawl is on April 13th!  10:30 am meeting place to be announced. I have to say that I hope that we have much nicer outside weather!

Lynn working on the view from Javaroma.

Two artists/same view

 Lynn drew this scene from a photo hanging up on the wall.  

My completed drawing.

Lynn and I happy to be inside!

January Painting Saturday

It has been a while since I posted for YWS!  Traveling and seasonal adventures have made blogging impossible.  So here is a few photos to catch you up with our little group.

Lynn playing with masking fluid and paint. And look what he did! 

Kevin working on a landscape.

Doris is new to our group and is diving right in!  She worked on a bird.

Marcella working on a red pepper from the December meeting

Joyce and Marcella looking at both their red peppers.

 Looks great!

We laughed and chatted and had a brilliant time!  

Saturday January 19 we will be meeting to participate on the World Sketchcrawl!  Want to join us?  Saturday 10:30 am (for 2 hours max) Javaroma to start off with.  More info next week.

Our next meeting is on January 21st.  Our newsletter goes out next week!