Courses Available for Registration
Welcome to South Delta Artists World of Creativity: Featuring Artist-Led Workshops and Weekly Drop-Ins
If you are interested in giving a workshop, or, you have ideas and requests, feel free to contact us.
Join us as we embark on an inspiring journey, where imagination knows no bounds and innovation thrives.
In our dynamic and inclusive community, artists of all levels – from seasoned creators to enthusiastic beginners – come together to explore, experiment, and elevate their craft. Led by accomplished artists and seasoned instructors, our workshops offer a diverse range of techniques, mediums, and styles, ensuring there's something for everyone to discover and enjoy.
Drop In Classes
Life Drawing Drop In
Join Us - Mondays 9:15 am - 12:15 pm
In is ongoing and open to non-members. Registration for new participants is required.
Please show up promptly please - so as not to disturb the models.
Per Session Fee: Members - $15; non-Members - $18 Contact Carolyn Carter -carolynccarter@mac.com for the class schedule.
Share Your Techniques
3rd Tuesday of the month 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm.
Members share their techniques. Each month is a different topic such as Clouds, Waves, Perspective, Drawing People, Painting Simple Figures, Bottles, Distant Mountains, Trees, Mat Cutting, etc. A member does a demo then we all get to try it out.
Per Session Fee: Members - Free; Non-Members - $15. Registration not required
2024-25 schedule
May - Small Figures with Laurie Maitland
June - Wood siding with Lea Price
July - Rocks with Janice Fearn
Aug - Value, Line, Contours with Lea Price
Sep - Followup on Value, Line, Contours with Lea Price
Oct - Perspective with Buildings with Lea Price
Nov - mixing 3 colours to get skin tones with Kiku Bansal
Jan - Shadows for spheres and other similar objects with Laurie Maitland
Feb - How to stretch watercolour paper with Shelly Wales
Mar - Trees
Workshops
If you have any questions or requests, email education@southdeltaartistsguild.com.To register click on the workshop's title.
Drawing Figures with Lea Price - Monday afternoons January 13, 20 and 27 (3 half days)
Drawing people may seem like a daunting challenge but by starting with simple techniques and learning how to "see" is the best
foundation to build your skill. Beginning with stick figures and looking at basic structure to moving forward to gesture drawing to full figures begins a journey to understanding drawing people and animals.
Working with Pastels with Catherine Sheppard - Sat Jan 25 & Sun Jan 26 (2 full days)
Catherine wants to show fellow artists how simple the pastel method is from start to finish. She will break down how to start a pastel art piece, how to use the materials efficiently and effectively to produce life-like paintings. We will be using pan pastels to start, pastel pencils and stick pastels in a layering technique. Plus useful gouache and charcoal pencil techniques. Don't have pastels? You can use Catherine's for an extra fee.
Acrylics 101 with Lea Price - Sat Feb 8 (full day)
Acrylics have to be one of the most versatile mediums to paint with. Exploring basic techniques, which colours to have, learning to mix them with a minimal number of tubes so you don't have to have tons of extra paints to buy, using brushes, learning glazing and fun ways to paint.
Cherry Blossoms, an Acrylic Paint-Along CANCELLED with Ceci Lam - Sun Mar 2 (1 full day)
This paint-along class is ideal for beginners who want to try acrylics and have step-by-step guidance, as well as anyone who just wants an enjoyable day painting along with clear instructions while learning some acrylic techniques. You will do an underpainting, glazing, layering, and negative painting. This is an impressionistic approach and you will get lots of technical tips along the way.
Mastering Clouds and Water in Acrylics with Viena Wroblewska - Sun Mar 9 & Sun Mar 16 (half days - 9:30 am to 12:30 pm)
Viena will show you how to skillfully paint clouds and water thus empowering you for all your future landscape paintings.
The Lady and the Bug in Watercolour with Bill Miloglav - Sat Mar 15
March is normally wet and cool, but we can dream about warm weather while painting this scene. We will be learning about composition, gradation, contrast, texture, wet on dry, wet on wet, negative painting, use of angles ( much more interesting than straight lines ). Bill will also cover a little on perspective and how to draw the car.
Harvest Queen with Another Car in Watercolour with Bill Miloglav - Sat Apr 12 & Sun Apr 13
If you know Bill, he loves old cars. Come paint with Bill. We will be learning about composition, contrast, texture, gradiation, wet on dry, negative painting. Do you want a challenge? Paint this scene during the workshop as a spring or summer scene. Think about what you would need to change.
Clouds in Watercolour with Marney-Rose Edge - Sat June 14
Details and registration to follow