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Workshops & Meetings - Fairbank Memorial Community Centre Location: 2213 Dufferin St, York, ON M6E 2A8 Meetings and Workshops: Thursday nights, weekly, unless indicated Time: Doors open at 7 pm and all meetings and workshops will be soon afterwards unless noted below. Weekly workshops are cancelled due to Covid19 concerns until further notice. Below each week we will post art related exercises and ideas to help you keep the creativity going. We need this now more than ever! Our weekly exercise is supplied by our own Brigitte Nowak - visit her website at http://www.brigittenowak.com/ YAG - Week 8 Resource Sharing / Not virus sharing I can’t believe that we are at Week 8! OK, peeps, I want to get your ideas. What have you been doing to keep your creative juices flowing? Please share your creative ideas and suggestions with the group. We learn best when we learn from each other. Back to faces (sort of). If you have an animal in your life, do a quick drawing and try to capture their character. If you do not have an animal in your life, I am attaching a photo of my daughter’s dog. Here’s the curve ball: be creative in your use of .colours. I am attaching a couple of images to give you an idea of what to aim for. period, when we cannot meet in person, is still a good time to be involved in art making. It is a good time to learn a new skill or technique, to practice and get better at something already familiar to us, and to try something completely new: a good time to expand our horizons, stretch the imagination, find new inspiration and share new ideas. On the left, the famous “Blue Dog” by George Rodrigue. Rodrigue has been painting “The Blue Dog” since 1984. On the right, “The Rescued Hero”. By Cynthia Kagan (I have used both without permission). The “Rescued Hero” is a Bearded Collie. I was so taken with this image that I contacted the artist and bought two reproductions of this image. On the left, the famous “Blue Dog” by George Rodrigue. Rodrigue has been painting “The Blue Dog” since 1984. On the right, “The Rescued Hero”. By Cynthia Kagan (I have used both without permission). The “Rescued Hero” is a Bearded Collie. I was so taken with this image that I contacted the artist and bought two reproductions of this image. If you have no interest in animals, no problem. I am attaching an image that Victoria Wallace did last week, as part of her “hand” exercise, that I thought was exceptional in its simplicity, strength, and use of colour . I told her that it looked exactly like a Shepard Fairey. Not a familiar name to you: look him up. Take care, and stay healthy, everyone, Brigitte |
