Ottawa Watercolour Society

Workshops

“Representational vs Abstract Art”

Ottawa Watercolour Society Spring Workshop

Instructor Merv Richardson CSPW

http://www.mervrichardson.com

Workshop time & location:

Saturday & Sunday, Apr.24 & 25, 2010

from 9 am to 4 pm, with a one-hour lunch break at

Loblaws Upstairs community Room

1980 Baseline Rd. (at Woodroffe Ave.)

College Square

Ottawa

To reserve your place please fill up the registration form and send it to Victor Pavlov along with the registration fee no later than April 05th

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Margaret Roseman Workshop

Saturday & Sunday, Apr.25 &26, 2009

9 am to 4 pm, one-hour lunch break

Ottawa School of Art

The Margaret Roseman Workshop is open to OWS members only. Please fill in your 2009 OWS membership number- it is found on your membership card or contact Rosy Somerville.

Margaret will conduct a critique of member’s work (one painting per person) on Friday evening from 7 pm to 9 pm at the Ottawa School of Art at no charge. The critique is open to all members.

For registration download the RegistrationForm.doc or RegistrationForm.htm and follow the instructions

Portrait Demo's at Wallacks, March 19th, 2009

203 Bank St. (Near Nepean street north of Wallacks art Supplies)

Please mark March 19th on your calendars. On Thursday March 19th from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Wallacks Gallery, 203 Bank Street we are having portrait demos. Some of our most talented members will be demonstrating the art of portrait painting.

Light refreshments will be served. Free to all members! Come and join us!

Thanks go to Dhanashri Athavale for organizing the models and artists!

The Society wishes to express its gratitude to the great people at Wallacks who have graciously allowed us to use their gallery for the evening.

See you there!

Brenda

2009 OWS Portrait Demo

March 19^th

The 2009 Portrait Demo was a great success. I did not get an actual count of the number of people that attended as people came and went. The most people I counted at one time however, was 32. We had 3 models from the Ontario School of Art and 4 artists painting. The artists were Ted Duncan, Leonard Gerbrandt, David Kearn and Shirley Van Deusen.

The artists did a wonderful job and were submitted to all kinds of questions from what color is that? To do you always do the shadows first? Shirley explained to us that she uses 140 lb paper stretched over a frame and tacked down with thumbtacks. It looks just like a canvas.

Many of the participants got out their sketch books and joined in.

Cheese and crackers, grapes, goodies, coffee and juice were served.

Many thanks go to Wallacks for allowing us to use the gallery They also provided tables, chairs, stools for the models and also the coffee. This is Wallacks was of thanking the artists for their patronage.

Thanks also go to Dhanashri Athavale for organizing the artists and models.