Intergen Art & Scripture-by-Heart Online Workshop

SAT, October 25, 2025 WORKSHOP 5: Julie Drew Intergen Art and Scripture-by-Heart 9-10:30 am PST  $35 CAD This creative session is designed to get your creativity flowing and connecting with the scripture in fresh ways. Julie Drew invites you to join her in exploring what God is moving in you as you learn scripture by…

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Fun Art Classes

Registration for all the classes below are on the movelearnplay.Edmonton.ca website then click>registered programs>arts programs>adult programs> ***painting classes are now under Painting Classes and drawing classes are separate under Drawing and Mixed media art programs. The classes are listed alphabetically. I put the class code with each class that may work in the search. ALTERNATIVELY, …

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Alternative Process Week – 5 Day Art Retreat w/ 4 Different Instructors – Papermaking with Julie Drew

Julie Drew

Alternative Process Week – 5 Day Art Retreat w/ 4 Different Instructors          Monday, August 18th – Friday, August 22th 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM $495 ($395 + $100 Supply Fee) for Full Week $105 ($80 + $25 Supply Fee) per Workshop Class Limit: 15 Students Summer Week-long Retreat at Artelier! Looking…

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Capturing the Summer Skies: thunderheads – Aug 13

Watercolour Exploration Week – 5 Day Art Retreat w/ 4 Different Instructors  Monday, August 11th – Friday, August 15th 10:30 AM – 4:00 PM $495 ($395 + $100 Supply Fee) $105 ($80 + $25 Supply Fee) per Workshop Class Limit: 15 Students Summer Week-long Retreat at Artelier!   Summer Skies: Thunderheads,  Aug 13  Work on…

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Art Vocabulary for the Soul – Collaboration

The June Art Vocabulary for the Soul was amazing. I love teaching this retreat and seeing the creativity of the participants flow. The art mediums this time were watercolor, acrylic and oil, pastels and poetry.  We had people trying watercolor, oil and pastels for the first time.   I took some pictures of the retreat and…

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Art retreat in Italy?

Laura Hewitt

  Can you imagine going to Italy to take a weeklong Art Retreat, painting, sketching and enjoying the Italian countryside?  I have an opportunity to teach a retreat in a hotel in Montelparo, Marche, Italy. (Two artists told me about their amazing experience teaching there, and one of their participants said she had a great…

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Getting Creative

Julie Drew

Being around creative people sparks creativity.Creativity relieves us of our burdensome self consciousness. Creativity connects us to our heart and relationship with reality.The sense of meaning and delight in creativity has more to do with the process than the end product. Find in the process what you want to communicate and find out something deeper…

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Exploring Acrylic with textures and transfers

From the Acrylics 1 and 2 class at City Arts

Part of the fun of teaching is watching the creativity start to flow. We have finished 5 out 8 classes. The students are getting comfortable with the medium and trying some ideas of their own. (After the initial classes, I have added more of the final images for some of the student paintings. I didn’t…

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Taking in the Glorious Fall Colours

Julie Drew

When the fall colors start, I can’t wait to grab my supplies and a camera and go paint and enjoy it. It is such a short season here in Edmonton, so every bit counts. My husband, Sam and I kayaked a couple hours down the North Saskatchewan River last Sunday through all the colors. It…

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Northern Lights in Watercolor Workshop

Northern Lights in Watercolor  Workshop  Register at Paintspot.ca Nov 1310 am – 4 pm. $80 Capture the beauty and movement of the Northern Lights using watercolor in this step-by-step workshop. These simple landscapes can be done by beginner to advanced students. Learn to: work with pouring and wet into wet to create movement in a…

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