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"I have taken painting classes before but I always needed a lot of hand holding and guidance to start and complete a painting. Janet taught me the skills I needed to paint more independently."
~ Randi S.
Gestural Floral Painting in Oil
Gestural Floral Painting in Oil Workshop
14 hrs of instruction
C$379
In Gestural Floral Painting, Ottawa-based artist and educator Janet Slavin leads a dynamic oil painting workshop that brings floral still life to life, fast, bold, and beautifully gestural. This course is designed for advanced beginners to intermediate painters looking to loosen up their approach. Over the weekend participants will learn perceptual painting methods that strengthen how they see, mix, and apply colour. Participants will leave with enhanced technical skills and a more expressive visual language.
What You'll Learn:
· How to begin a painting with clarity and purpose
· Simplification through tonal structure and value.
· A freeing approach to mark-making
· How to move from short, fast studies to a refined and expressive final piece
Class Size: Minimum 5 and maximum 8 participants
Setting: Stone Manor Studios is located on the ground of Newboro Manor, an Italianate style house built in the 1860s, located in Newboro Ontario in the beautiful Rideau Lakes area. The Manor and Studios are set on the corner of 2.5 acres of lawn, gardens, and forest for the use of participants. Take lunch in the gazebo or on the grounds; or, enjoy a mindful forest walk.
Register: Coming Soon!
Expressive Mark Making and Floral Collage
This immersive two-day workshop invites you to loosen your hand, sharpen your eye, and explore a bold, expressive approach to mark-making and colour through painting and collage. Designed to deepen confidence and expand creative freedom, this experience encourages playful experimentation while building strong visual structure and design awareness.
Participants will complete one to two large floral collage pieces and leave with a deeper understanding of colour, gesture, and simplification that can be carried forward into their painting practice.
Landscape Painting in Acrylic
This all-level adult class will offer the opportunity to explore the richness of expression, colour, gesture and composition that can be found in the landscape tradition. Working from reference matter of your choice the focus of the course will be on finding your voice in the landscape tradition, simplifying the subject matter, understanding and mixing colour and bringing gesture to the work in this all skill level class.