NEWS RELEASE QUEST ART SCHOOL AND GALLERY ************************* Plein aire with Ross Skoggard
Join local artist Ross Skoggard for two half days of plein air painting. Some experience is necessary for this class.
Ross will lead a plein air work shop where he will introduce you to a technique that A.Y. Jackson taught Tom Thomson when they shared a studio in Toronto. It’s counter intuitive but works very well for small alla prima sketches in oil as well as for acrylic and pastel work.
Come learn the secret!
Ross had his first solo exhibition in Paris 50 years ago. He has shown in Toronto and New York and most recently at Quest Art School + Gallery in 2015.
Class size is eight max
When: Wednesday Aug. 26, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and Thursday Aug. 27, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Where: Discovery Harbour in Penetanguishene, under the pavilion on the left as you enter the area. There are no services at the pavilion, including benches or tables. So bring your own chair, easel and/or table. Social distancing will be maintained and please bring a mask and sanitizer. Fee: $60 for two half days
What to bring Artists are welcome to work in the medium of your choice: acrylic, oil, pastel. Please bring all your own supplies including your own easel or paint box, chair and anything you will need to be comfortable. Don’t forget a hat, drinking water and your camera. Reminder that all garbage must be taken away, and oil painting rags should be disposed of properly and taken away with you.
In case of rain we will paint under the pavilion. You could also work from a photograph.
Suggested Supply List Paint, brushes, canvas, paper Paper towel, water, water jug or odorless mineral spirits, bag for garbage removal palette, palette knife, Easel or board for your paper Paints: your favourites Should include typical landscape colours – blues, yellow, green, brown, red, titanium white
The Joy of Painting with a Photo and a Poem – With Marlene Bulas
Join regional artist Marlene Bulas for 2 half days of outdoor painting. Some experience is necessary for this class.
Class size is eight max.
Objectives:
Discovering some new techniques to make our paintings more creative, interesting, and fun.
Establishing a light source
Using contrasts and why they are important-warm and cool, big and little, light and dark
Learning to evaluate your photo for what is useful , what is not, and how to make it creative
Bringing a poem related to your subject, will help create insight into the painting
Learning values, perspective, and the use of colours, is very helpful.
When: Wednesday Sept. 2, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and Thursday Sept. 3, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Where: Discovery Harbour in Penetanguishene, under the pavilion on the left as you enter the area. There are no services at the pavilion, including benches or tables. Please bring your own chair, easel and/or table. Social distancing will be maintained and please bring a mask and sanitizer. Fee: $90
Artists are welcome to work in the medium of your choice: acrylic or oil Please bring all your own supplies including your own easel or paint box, chair and anything you will need to be comfortable. Don’t forget a hat, drinking water and your camera. Reminder that all garbage must be taken away, and oil painting rags should be disposed of properly and taken away with you.
Suggested Supply List A photo and a poem for your subject Paint, brushes, canvas, paper Canvas sizes ranging from 12”x12”,to 16”x20” to 20”x20” , or any size no larger than 20”x20” (Orange gesso on canvas may be prepared for mid tone prior to class if you wish.) Paper towel, water, water jug or odorless mineral spirits, bag for garbage removal Palette (Marlene uses wax paper to mix colours for acrylics), palette knife, Easel or board for your paper Paper pad to draw and design your composition, pencil, eraser, water soluble markers, and some permanent markers.
Paints – Bring paints that you like, your favourites Suggested colours: Reds- alizarin crimson, cadmium red hue, quinacridone magenta(optional) Blues-cobalt blue hue, cerulean blue, manganese blue hue, pale blue, turquoise (optional) Yellows-cadmium free yellow deep, naples yellow, yellow ochre Other colours –hooker green, mid-light green, burnt sienna, purple, orange, small white gesso, titanium white, black
Brushes—flat brushes that can draw an even straight line, ranging from 1” to smaller flats, and some larger flats that are necessary for larger painting areas., also a few small and medium round brushes.
Any questions about the workshop are welcome. My Phone # is 705-325-6094 and my email is mbulas@thunderstar.net
To enroll, go to Questart.ca. Please complete the COVID-19 screening form and bring to the class.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
