RUSART Casual is a high-quality brand for students and every-day use. These paints have very smooth soft texture, neither too thick nor too runny. With extra binding added, RUSART Casual acrylic paints are perfect for painting on canvas. Even professional artist would find this product beneficial: use it for underpainting to save your more expensive

8 sessions,  1 hr each $160+GST Art Supplies not included Aug 10 – Oct 5, (Monday), 5.45-6.45 PM Session 1. Material use (pencils, soft mediums, pen on different paper), values. When and how to use and not to use different materials. Lines, energy, movement. Proportioning. Basic forms: cube, cylinder, sphere, cone. Session 2. Shading rules, smudging vs. cross-hatching, cast

Today we finished our Humpty Dumpty in watercolour and pen. That was a very interesting project, as we were working on both shading and layering in watercolours and shading and cross hatching in gel pen. One mistake with a pen – and all project gets ruined. Our students tried very hard and succeeded. Congratulations! Registration

Impressionism online classes are going on and we’re working on The Star pastel drawing by Degas. We learnt for soft pastel: smudging, layering, contrast, composition and colour use.

Gouache is a very old medium that artists used through centuries. What is it about? Gouache is something between watercolour and acrylic. It’s water-solvable (like watercolours) and opaque (like acrylic). Once dried it forms a matt soft surface that can be touched, blended and changed even after full drying, apart from acrylic, that forms a

Our Watercolour Fundamentals course passed its median and we see great results. All works obtained watercolour translucent look, students mix and apply colours with confidence, and they easily can work on details and textures now. Our peacock project is in progress and we’re looking forward to see our students’ results.

For those who loves Harry Potter and magic we offer an ONLINE course in August-September, 2020. We’ll “travel” to Hogwarts, meet Harry’s white owl, play Quidditch, design heraldic for houses, make a magic map of Hogwarts, write spells and draw ingredients for Magic Potions, paint Peeves a poltergeist and Dobby a house-elf. And, of course,

A new course – Painting Nature and Watercolours – is coming soon. 8 sessions,  1.5 hr each $220+GST Art Supplies not included Aug 11 – Sep 29, (Tuesday), 7-8.30 PM Session 1-2: Painting different types of trees: evergreen, maple, oak, cotton-trees, bushes Session 2-4: Painting Canadian Landscape with water, mountains and trees Session 5-6: Painting tulips and daffodils

We’re Resuming Our In-Person Art Classes Fall semester registration open. No invoicing till September 1, 2020 We are following BC bylaws and would be happy to offer classes as soon as social distancing rules allow us to do so. Depending on regulations, we may have to introduce one-time $10 one-time fee this semester to provide

Our Anatomy for Artists course is the most popular on-line course this summer. We’re learning basics of life drawing, shading, air perspective and other fundamental things all artists have to learn. Also, we’re practicing variety of mediums and learn how to draw from life and from a photo, what is a difference and, what is