Posts Tagged ‘sketching’
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, …
Read MoreVictoria at Easter
We had a lovely trip to Victoria to see our three grandchildren with our four children and two daughters in law. I forgot to get a family photo done so I don’t have that to show this time. It was so good to spend time outdoors – biking, walking the coast, Butchart Gardens and the…
Read MoreGrassi Lakes Hike and Waterfall
My daughter, Reena, was home from university for a few days and we took off a day to hike in Canmore. She hiked on and left me to watercolor sketch at the beautiful waterfall on the grassi lakes trail. I did a quick ink sketch too. This fall I will be teaching some sketching classes…
Read MoreFrom Coast to Coast
From Coast to Coast and Places Inbetween I am feeling thankful. My husband and I did a whirlwind of travel mid August – early September. It was a lot of long days of driving so that we could spend a couple days with people here and there. I sketched along the way and took thousands…
Read MoreTaking in the Glorious Fall Colours
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…
Read MoreSketching in Korea
South Korea is a beautiful, mountainous country. What a fun adventure to travel and meet up with our daughter, Reena, who had been living with host families and attending grade 11 in South Korea for 11 months. We experienced her fluency as she conversed with the people around us as we traveled, shopped and ordered…
Read MoreEn Plein Air – Painting and Sketching Outdoors
One of the things I like to do in the summertime is to go out sketching and painting “en plein air.” En plein air (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ plɛn ɛːʁ]), or plein air painting, is a phrase borrowed from the French equivalent meaning “open (in full) air”. It is particularly used to describe the act of…
Read MorePictures from En Plein Air Workshop 2016
July 23, 2016 What a fun Plein Air Painting Day we had! If you would be interested in taking part in a workshop next spring and summer contact Julie (at the bottom of the biography page). Here are some photos from the day:
Read MoreFields of Happy Thoughts
As I am looking toward the Art Walk on June 10-12, 2015, I decided to work on some small pieces based on my sketchbook work from my travels. This is one of those although my travel was only an hour and some Plein Air Painting… I love the golden, yellow canola fields. It is such…
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