Strathearn Art Walk 2025

Strathearn Art Walk

I am excited to participate 2 days this year!    Strathearn Art Walk September 6-7, 2025 12 – 7 pm   My location: Purple zone #34 (see map above) Strathearn Park, 8728 97 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB  

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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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Collaboration

Julie Drew

As I sit here to write on this last day of April, the snow is falling outside. This is typical spring weather in Alberta. Hopefully, this is the last snowfall, and we all know the snow won’t last, plus my daffodils and tulips are getting their water. (painting: Is it Spring yet? Watercolor, 11×7 in. ©JulieDrew)…

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Building Texture in a Painting

Julie Drew

  I am excited to have finished mixed media painting, Regeneration 3, I started working on in the Acrylic Explorations class in the fall!  It will be shown for the first time at the Nina Haggerty Gallery, 9225 118 Ave NW, during the Deep Freeze Festival January 21-22, 2023 12-6 pm  Buiding a Textured Painting: I…

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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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Melancholic, Drippy days

Watercolor, 11x14 in, Acrylic on Canvas, Julie Drew

I woke this morning thinking and singing this song, Your Faithfulness, by Brian Doerkson. I don’t know what this day will bringWill it be disappointing, filled with longed for things?I don’t know what tomorrow holdsStill I know I can trust Your faithfulness I don’t know if these clouds mean rainIf they do, will they pour…

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Turning Demos into Paintings

Julie Drew

One of the things I do when I teach is to demonstrate painting techniques. Sometimes I already have a painting in mind and sketch it out before class, knowing it can work for a demo. However, most of the time it is a technique or project that I start with the class or a demonstration…

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