North Shore Artists' Guild

Details for "Perry Haddock June 17-18"

Perry Haddock

"Making Acrylics Pop"

Saturday, June 17 and Sunday, June 18

West Van Seniors' Activity Centre - Art Room

9:30-4:00 on Saturday

10:00-3:00 on Sunday

Members - $140

Non-members  - $175

Making Acrylics Pop           Perry Haddock, SFCA

The primary goal of the workshop is to encourage participants to approach landscape painting with an experimental attitude and the idea that, “It’s only ten bucks worth of materials. Have some fun.” That isn’t to say that painting doesn’t require some knowledge of the principles of design and some discipline to apply them.  However, sometimes the anxiety of thinking we have to produce a “finished product” often results in tight drawing, tight brushwork, and slavish attention to photo sources.  Instead, let’s aim to challenge ourselves to “loosen up.”  Along the way, we’ll talk about composition, values, and colour as they apply to our paintings.

Participants are encouraged to bring several landscape photos as references.  The majority of the time will be spent painting, so make sure you have enough photos, canvasses, and snacks!

Artist’s Statement

For me, art is simply a way of expressing mood.  Whether I paint or sing or play a tuba, I’m expressing my personal reaction to my world at a given moment, so I want  my paintings to reveal something of my emotion and my personality to those who see them.  I choose watercolour and acrylic as the “freshest” of mediums, and I enjoy the interplay of purpose and accident which the quick drying watermedia allow me to explore.  Although my subjects range from Italian coastal bays and Parisian markets to western Canadian landscapes, I’m always searching for the simplest expression of the moment, the image which evokes an impression  rather than a detailed rendering.  Perhaps that’s why I enjoy painting “en plein air” or doing  pen and ink sketches on site as sources  for paintings which I later develop in my studio. Unlike photos,  my sketches become my  “edited reality” during the few minutes I have to do them.

British Columbia’s west coast has been my home for most of my life, so I am most comfortable painting the landforms and coastal waters near my home.  Travels around Canada and Europe give me a taste for trying new compositions and palettes, and keep me challenged and energized.

Supply List :

Bring whatever acrylic paints and supplies you have:  along with your paints and brushes*, palette, paper towels, crackers and cheese, etc., and at least two smallish (11x14, 12x16, 14x18, ) canvasses primed with a couple of coats of gesso. (Opus canvasses are already primed with two coats. Other brands probably are too, but not the cheap “dollar store” canvasses. Avoid them   Bring a few reference photos if you want, but I’ll also bring multiple copies of some of mine, in case you want to “paint along with Perry”. 

*Along with your other brushes, try to find a wide flat brush—at least an inch, and wider (up to 2”) if possible.  Opus used to sell a “gesso brush” which I use, but haven’t been able to find any recently.   

I use mostly Stevenson Brand acrylics, but any brand of professional, or “artist” quality will do. Don't feel you need all of these, but...

My most common tubes are:

Titanium white

Green gold (Stevenson is more transparent, so I use it.)

Indian yellow

Yellow ochre

Cadmium yellow light

Cad yellow medium

Pthalo blue (red shade)

Cerulean blue

Pthalo Turquoise

Dioxazine purple

Transparent red iron oxide

Quinacridone burnt orange (Golden brand) Optional  (expensive!)

Quinacridone nickel azo gold                       Optional      “

Quinacridone magenta                                 Optional     “

Hookers green

Cadmium red light

and

A small container of black gesso, any brand. (share with someone? You don’t need much.)

Acrylic gloss medium (Golden is good) Optional. 

Gloves

• Administrative Notes:
• Registration. Members Note - enter only your name, no other details are necessary as the program will provide that info!  To sign up for this workshop directly, please scroll down to the bottom of this page. Enrollment and waitlist status is also presented there. You can pay directly on-line by credit card. You will need to make payment within 24 hours of your enrollment or it will be automatically cancelled so if you need assistance in paying, please contact Richard Prutton by email: raprutton@gmail.com . [Payment by cheque is discouraged as this is unreliable when time is of the essence.] 
  

• There is a coffee shop in the Community Centre and a cafeteria for lunches in the Seniors' Activity Centre. There is 3 hour parking at the Centre and plenty of street parking. If you have mobility issues, you may obtain a day parking pass from the reception desk in the Seniors' Centre. (a deposit will be collected and refunded when the pass is returned)

This course may fill up quickly.  Do not hesitate to join the WAIT LIST. If it is full, do not be discouraged. Check back later- you may still be able to get in.

For every workshop we have run this year, we have had cancellations because of illness or change of plans.  Often even a wait list of eight names or more is moved up because "life changes things."  However, if you are on the wait list and change your own plans, please do not hold your space in the queue. Please take your name off the wait list and let someone else have a chance.   Be kind to your colleagues and remove your name if you have a change of plans. 

Cancellations. If you are unable to attend a workshop, refunds are not issued, but you may find another person to take your place. Only if the workshop is full can you cancel through Richard Prutton, in which case a refund will be issued if your spot can be filled from the waitlist.  No Refunds will be issued within 48 hours of the workshop start time.

NSAG reserves the right to cancel the course within 30 days.

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