North Shore Artists' Guild

Details for "Susie Cipolla "Creative Skill Building in Acrylic""

SUSIE CIPOLLA's Boot Camp is Back!

Saturday September 22, 9:00 - 4:00 and

Sunday, September 23, 9:00 - 3:00, 2018

“CREATIVE SKILL BUILDING IN ACRYLIC”

A Two Day Workshop Open to Members of NSAG only

Bio for Susie Cipolla

Susie first broke into the art world at the age of seven, winning a bicycle in a Dairyland colouring contest. After that, art languished on life’s back burner while she finished school and pursued a career in physiotherapy. In 2009, at the urging of a friend, she took a painting workshop with Brian Atyeo. Discovering a new passion in painting was life changing for her. Over the last six years she has committed herself to improving her skills as an artist by attending classes and workshops with generous and talented Canadian Artists such as Robert Genn, Brian Atyeo, Mike Svob, David Langevin and many others. She now spends her days with her family on a rural property north of Pemberton, B.C. Her large studio hosts guest instructors and provides learning opportunities for other artists. 

Susie’s preferred painting medium is acrylic and her subject matter is primarily scenery and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest Region. She is represented by The Adele Campbell Gallery in Whistler, B.C., The Avenue Gallery in Victoria, B.C., Galerie d'art Au P'tit Bonheur in La Malbaie, Quebec and Canada House in Banff.

For further information about Susie Cipolla, contact her at www.susiecipollaart.com or email: susiecipollaart@gmail.com

This Workshop's Goals for You

Your painting skills are built by practicing and training and by challenging yourself with new techniques and ideas. This intermediate level acrylic workshop will help you do just that.  We will spend two full days on fun and challenging drills and exercises involving speed, limited palette, limited and expressive brush strokes, tool use, different grounds and more. 

Materials List 

** Please arrive prepared with all of the following supplies **

Acrylic Paint – bring what you have but be sure to include: 

titanium white, iron oxide black (or any black), cad yellow light, cad orange, cad red light, yellow ochre, dioxazine purple, pthalo green, ultramarine blue, pthalo blue (red shade), alizarine OR quin magenta. 

Quin gold OR trans yellow oxide OR trans red oxide for glazing. Bring at least one, or more if you already have them.

Also bring 3 tubes of paint (3 different colours if you have them) that you never use. (Lousy colours will work here)

Sketch book and pencil, spray bottle, ruler, water bucket, paper towels or rags.

Gloss medium.

One big sheet of water colour paper – 140lb, cold pressed.

One big sheet of water colour paper – 140lb, hot pressed.

One roll ¾” painters tape (green or blue, not white).

3 - 8x10 and 1 - 9x12 canvases or boards.

Hard-board, foam-core or cardboard - 18x24” is a good size, or bigger, something to tape your WC paper to.

A good brush selection, you will also need a 1” and 2” flat or bright (NOT a home depot brush). No soft watercolour brushes.

A few acrylic markers and ink pens. If you don’t have any we will share.

A varied image/photo selection – landscape, figure, animals, buildings etc… whatever interests you. Bring a variety of subject matter to work with.

Palette knife.

Standing easel (bring your own if you can, Dene Croft has some)

• 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 Susan Thomas,thomas.susan49@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 and there is a willing replacement on the Waitlist,  can you cancel through Susan Thomas, in which case a refund will be issued.   No Refunds will be issued within 48 hours of the workshop start time.

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

Our workshops are held regularly at Dene Croft Studios (image below)

Pemberton and First in North Vancouver 

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