In process

I always enjoy the process of the works to see how they develop. In this case, Katie is exploring a still life again with black background. The challenge here not only was to sketch in black and white to give depth and texture, but then transfer the same image into a canvas in order to do it in acrylics.

I am positive it will turn out beautiful because so far, she has been working hard to get those delicious grapes almost ready to eat.

Keep up Katie and let us know when you finish your painting. You have already so many lovely works that I am guessing the up coming exhibition will be challenging to fit all of these wonderful pieces.

Interpeting Spain and Don Quijote

Congratulations Taylor for this beautiful view of a Spanish landscape. The windmills are always so pretty to have them as an inspiration.

I guess I have a special feeling for this painting not only because you were able to get the essence of the poppies over the rocks, but also because I lived in Spain and really loved it!



Keep u p and keep up for the exhibition coming soon! You will have so many beautiful works to share with friends and family. Congratulations!

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Hi to all. This is the starting of the year and for this reason New ideas have to be shared with All. Many of you have already done quite a good amount of work which I congratulate you all for this! It is now time for some of you to start challenging yourselves into new, more complicated projects that will allow your techniques to acquire another level of expertise. This new Year I am preparing a new program to encourage all of you to accomplish a series of themes-techniques-styles-periods. Open your spectrum of possibilities and enjoy creating Art.

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This is one view of a regular class at the Oakville Painting Studio. Enjoying Classical music in a creative enviroment. Sofia and Luca producing new pieces of art for us to enjoy. Cant wait to see Luca's landscape and Sofia's still life finished!

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Preparing their Still Life projects

Today was an exciting beginning for new ideas. The girls prepared a composition using almost the same elements in a Still Life, incorporating different textures such as glass, wood, clay, basket or fabric into the image they wanted to create.
The idea was to get inspired in "Dutch Still Life (e.g. Pieter Claesz)" as we see in the image above.

With origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art, still life paintings give the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than do paintings of other types of subjects such as landscape or portraiture. Still life paintings, particularly before 1700, often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. Some modern still life breaks the two-dimensional barrier and employs three-dimensional mixed media, and uses found objects, photography, computer graphics, as well as video and sound.

I took pictures of each and every one of them and then had them sketch it in pencil. Look at the wonderful compositions these young artist created:





Maddy



Lauren


Sofia


Taylor


Paula



Katie




Agnes



Alicia

Alexa


Keep posted to see how these ideas will develop in great acrylic paintings! Good luck to All.

2011! New paintings to share with all

Happy New Year 2011!!!!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Holiday Season enjoying every moment with Family and Friends.

I would like to welcome you all back to the 2011 Season of the Studio hoping you all charged your energy and creativity for new projects to come.

This time I am preparing a new program for all of you to follow based in different themes, periods of time and techniques.

The class will have a new challenge for each and all of you to follow that will allow the Group to increase the knowledge through small presentations.

I believe that this new and exciting program will be attractive and fun to follow. Details will be shared in class, and it will prepare our groups for our first Painting Exhibition to be held in the Visual Arts Mississauga Art Centre, May 13, 14 and 15 2011!

This will be a wonderful opportunity not only to display and share with friends and Family some of the wonderful works our members are producing, but also to celebrate our 3rd Anniversary of the Oakville Painting Studio.

Wishing you many happy and creative moments full of health and love for this New Year 2011, I send you all my best regards.

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Ixchel Suarez

Art Instructor

Oakville Painting Studio

New and interesting projects are coming along great, just like this abstract cup of wine from Laura.


Laura not only is one of my best friends but also our dancing teacher. Congratulations for being so loving and talented!

Alicia is proud to show us her pond with ducks....great colours and daring contrasts became a wonderful composition.




Taylor is here once again showing us her impressionist view on one of the Group of Seven paintings interpretations. Congratulations. Quite a challenge. I hope your challenges are always bigger and bigger. Keep up!


An here last but not least, Alicia. One of her first paintings but I am sorry I did not post it earlier. Great composition and wonderful sense of colour.
Congratulations, my young and talented artist. Cant wait to see your paintings in the Gallery!