North Shore Artists' Guild

Details for "Janice Robertson Feb 17-18, 2018 "Landscape in Acrylics" "

Janice Robertson

"Landscape in Acrylics"

Saturday, February 17th and Sunday, February 18th, 2018

Note Location*** Dene Croft's Studios

118 Pemberton St (@West 1st)

9:30-4:00 on Saturday

and  Sunday

Members - $160

Non-members  - $200

"LANDSCAPE IN ACRYLICS"

This course will cover basic techniques to paint a landscape in acrylics, including planning a composition, blocking in, positive and negative painting, brushwork, layering, glazing, wet-in-wet, and calligraphy.

There will be supplied demo images for day one, although people are welcome to work from their own reference instead. A group demo will be included in this workshop and particiants are invited to bring one or two pieces from home; any size; any medium; any subject.

Janice Robertson was born on Vancouver Island in 1952, into a family with a long history of women artists. She lives in the historic village of Fort Langley, BC with her artist husband, Alan Wylie. Janice launched her career as a professional artist in 1989. She has received many awards including the Foreign Award in the Houston Watercolor Society’s Exhibition in Texas in 2004, the William and Margaret Foley Award in the Adirondacks National Exhibition of Watercolors in 2008, and she has won the Bronze Medal three times in the Federation of Canadian Artists Annual Signature Members exhibition.

Janice is a signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists, Landscape Artists International, the Northwest Watercolor Society and Artists for Conservation. She was elected as an Artist in Residence at the annual Painters at Painters event in Campbell River BC in 2004. Janice served as President of the Federation of Canadian Artists from 1999 to 2001. She is listed in Who’s Who in Canada and her paintings are in collections through the world. She is also a popular and well- respected workshop instructor and juror.

Janice’s work is largely a reflection of her abiding love for the beauty of the west coast forests and beaches that she has known all her life. Her attachment to her home and garden are represented in her still- life paintings. She works in acrylic, watercolor and oil.

Janice Robertson is represented by galleries in Vancouver, Whistler, Sidney, Fort Langley, Kelowna and Mexico.

 

This little 12 x 16" painting is bound for the Western Art show at the Calgary Stampede. It's acrylic on panel and uses a combination of textural techniques with small brushwork and many layers on the cow. Don't have a title yet but maybe "Purple Cow".

  

 

"Purple Sky" 30 x 40" oil

I haven't posted for quite a while so thought I would share a recent large piece. I combined two reference photos for this one- one for the sky and one for the landscape. The challenge was to make the colours harmonious.

 

 

Golden Grove 24 x 36" acrylic

 

This painting is another one on hardboard panel. I painted most of it with a lot of drippy, wet, textural techniques. Scraping occurred for some of the grasses. Then I used more controlled brush strokes where needed for the negative shapes, tree trunks and foliage.

It was the light and pattern of the image that made me want to paint it. Right now we are so starved for sunshine. Nice to experience it in a painting, if not real life....

 

 

 

"Forest Giants"   24 x 30" acrylic

This is the latest one off the easel. It was painted on panel and my goal was to stay as loose as possible. A lot of the mark making was done with the chewed up brushes that I created with an exacto knife. I spent a lot of time on some areas and painted other areas in minutes. Of course the areas that I painted quickly are the ones I like best.

I'm finding this technique somewhat hit or miss. Maybe that's the risk of painting loose and fast- either you make a mess or you do something exciting

 

 

Supply list - Acrylic Workshop with Janice Robertson 

Bring at least two canvases what ever size you like.

Demos will be on 12"x16"

synthetic brushes in a variety of sizes

palette to hold your paints

portable easel if you have one

apron or paint shirt

medium [I use Golden acrylic glazing liquid in gloss]

spray bottle for water

large water bucket

paper towels, tissues

sketchbook [any size] and pencil [2 or 4 B]

reference photos

 suggested colours:    [Janice’s colours]

titanium white

hansa yellow medium

cadmium yellow dark

quinacridone red

pyrrole red or cad red medium

cobalt blue or ultramarine blue

pthalo blue [green shade]

dioxazine purple

green gold

quinacridone nickel azo gold [essential colour]

quinacridone burnt orange

mars black

* colours are suggested only- just bring what you have, as long as you have the basics

Lunch?

• 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: rmprutton@gmail.com . [Payment by cheque is discouraged as this is unreliable when time is of the essence.] 
  

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 15 days of the start.

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