Our
Workshops
Workshops at The Artists’ House offer a space for artists to gather, exchange ideas, and refine their craft. Join an upcoming event or step into the role of guide and host your own.
Ongoing Gatherings
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ArtHouse
12:00-3:00PM
Join Lory for ArtHouse Thursdays for creative sharing, art making, learning and inspiration.
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Poetry Night
7:00-9:00PM
Join us on the 3rd Friday of every month for open mic Poetry Nights. 2 Townley St. Nottawa.
Experimental Watercolour Painting
This is a two day workshop designed to explore painting on yupo. It will be excellent for both beginning artists as well as professionals.This course is designed to be a lot of fun, exciting, encouraging and rewarding. It will definitely loosen and open your watercolour practice and help beginning watercolourists start their practice using the proper paper, paints etc.
Watercolour Painting Techniques
Watercolour Painting Techniques
Instructor Lory MacDonald
Cost $225
Weekly Sessions
Thursdays Evenings June 5- June 26
Time: 6:00-8:30pm
Description:
Discover the magic of watercolour in this immersive five-week workshop at The Artist’s House. Guided step by step, you’ll explore essential techniques, from washes and resists to still life, landscapes, and illustration. Perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike, this hands on course will help you develop your skills while creating beautiful, unique paintings.
Materials Required
140lb hot press watercolour paper
Set of watercolour paints
Latex Resist
Water Media Brushes #12, #8, #4, #2
Painting board (supplied)
4 weeks
Week One
Introduction to water colour painting: We will learn all about watercolour papers, paints, brushes, and technique tricks. We will create six mini watercolour paintings and learn a variety of techniques: washes, gradient washes, dry brush, resists, salt technique, plastic technique, alcohol technique.
Week Two
Still life composition: We will do our first painting as a still life composition. I will take you step by step through the process: creating a composition, lighting, sketching, drawing, negative & positive space, transferring an image to watercolour, white space, resists, background wash, object painting, applying special effects, final touches.
Weeks Three & Four
Landscape Composition: In our second piece we will explore landscape painting from a photograph of Georgian Bay. I will take you step by step through the process. We will learn how to paint rocks, sky, water, trees and bush.
In Maud’s Footsteps: Painting with Heart and Colour
This workshop is about having fun and celebrating the simple joys Maud Lewis captured so beautifully.
Grab a friend or family member, let’s paint, and have some fun!
Flash Fiction
In this workshop, Watt will provide a series of fun writing exercises to stimulate the use of wild metaphor and simple story while cultivating surprise. Participants will practice reading and performing their work out loud. The workshop will conclude with a list of places to send your flash fiction pieces for publication.
Tribute Portrait
Collage & Painting
Instructor Lory MacDonald
Cost $195
March 29-30, 2 days
Time: 10am-4pm
Description:
Create, Remember, Celebrate.
Do you have a cherished memory, a beloved person, or a meaningful event you’d love to honour in a unique and artistic way?
In this inspiring two day workshop, you’ll transform a treasured photograph into a stunning mixed media art piece, perfect to keep as a personal memento or gift to someone special.
Open Studio
Join us for weekly ArtHouse Thursdays for creative sharing, art making, networking, learning and inspiration. Open to all creatives.
Thursdays 12pm-3pm weekly.
2 Townley Street in Nottawa, ON.
Five minutes from Collingwood.
Tea will be served!
Bring what you’re working on and dive in, or just show up and explore the shareable studio stash of supplies. So far we've had painting, drawing, rug hooking, bookmark making, hand stitching, watercolours, collage, pastel work going on. Plus a lot of fun. Complimentary. Bring a friend!
I can't wait to see what we create!
