New Season is here!

Marine Life and more!

Fall Season is opening new ideas for these young artists. Here we can see Kyla sowing her first painting. She is a New member of the Studio. As you can see, her first theme to develop in acrylics was Marine Life, and you can almost feel you are scuba diving!
Congratulations Kyla. This is your first of many more. Keep up!

On my right we can see Bella. She also worked on Marine life, but she explored  an animal shape as a main feature. Great colours and contrasting tiny yellow fish!
Great Bella!

And what can I say

about Katie and Gennie here above. Fist with another marine life showing an extraordinary use of transparency in the reflection of the light through the water, and second, Katie, with a Geisha she prepared for her Mom. A lot of work in watercolour techniques. Way to go ladies!

Quinn, one new Member not in painting, but in the older kids class. She did a wonderful job in exploring how to work glass reflections in a theme we developed last season:

chiaroscuro

Still life in light and shadow. Great job, Quinn. Now lets keep up in our new project. What will you choose?

Hanna is another of our new members that moved on from the toddler group onto the not so tiny ones. She is a creative and sensitive girl that has a great use of colour and composition. This excercise was quite challenging to start the new kids into gradations.
Way to go! Hanna

Another wonderful promise for the Studio.

I also like to show projects on the go. This one, marine life as well, is being painted by Agnes. She has a great sense of colour and texture. Will let you know how the progress goes.

Camilla, this is another wonder of the under water coral reef. Great use of light, and sense of transparencies. Congratulations. You have done so many wonderful paintings. I am sure your parents love the way you decorate all the house. 

Your smile can tell us everything you feel by finishing this wonderful painting!

Maddy, painting the sky is never an easy task. You worked wonderful with the use of many colours, depth and perspective in the lighthouse and the wonderful texture of the crisp waves of the water.

Congratulations my Dear!
This theme is another one that is becoming very popular: Lighthouses!

Keep up, and wait until we start painting Canadian Barns! soon to come among other wonderful new themes....

Starting the new Season!

Fall season begins and we are starting with great enthusiasm from all of our young artists!

The themes we will be working on this Fall-Winter will be very exciting and quite challenging:

                 Circus Life

Marine Life

Make your Own Composition

              Lighthouses

and

Human Figure Sketching

I apologise for not including only some of the projects finished in the previous term, such as abstract seen above by Catalina, where she worked on collage with diverse materials. Great composition Cata!

Our members where so excited that not even a fly could be heard! Once you are connected to something you like, the craft tends to dominate over you. i love these wonderful kids. 

Carla, one of our new members is working on a Circus life  theme. This time it is human figure of acrobats in a contemporary abstract composition.

Challenge: human figure sketch. Way to go, Carla, keep up and hope you enjoy being part of this Studio!

Teresa is working on Marine Life: a new born seal. Cute and also challenging: painting white over white  and adding fur! Congratulations Teresa. Keep up challenging yourself project after project.

Katie, a long time member is now exploring on diverse mediums: tapestry and painting as well. Here she worked on her own image altered by exposing her photograph to high contrast. 

Very Warhol! It looks amazing. Keep trying different themes, medium and styles. You will soon find something that you enjoy more and feel comfortable with in order to create your own style!

Taylor, one more of our long time members is exploring also other medium: tapestry weaving! Not only tapestry is MY passion, Taylor excelled in this wonderful mini textile.

Tapestry is not an easy technique, especially in this fast and ever changing computer-based world we live in. It is a technique that requires skills and lots and lots of patience. Congratulations Taylor for allowing yourself into new techniques.

By the way, great colours! (my favourite, you know)

Agnes, whom I have seen her grow for the past 5 years now, has been more and more exposed to different ideas and challenges as well.

Congratulations my Dear Agnes (almost my second daughter). You have improved so much and your technique has matured in these years. Keep up and maintain your love for colour!

Here once again, Agnes and her wonderful explosion of colour! love it!

Below comes Alicia, our sweet girl sharing her still life from the past season. This one inspired in a Tuscan landscape. I can even smell the cheese!

Congratulations, my Dear Alicia. I am sure that wherever it is on display it creates a wonderful space to be.

Madison finished her tree composition in an impressionist style. These birch trees where really challenging!
Nice composition and use of colour Maddy!

Below is Katie again. This time sharing her fish she created for her Dad.

This painting has an interesting story, for it was an old calendar from her grandpas home. Her dad had it for years and now she wanted to reproduce it for fathers day!

Great idea, especially for all the memories and feelings that this image is bringing to her Dad.

Paula is a wonderful artist that I have seen her grow in these past 5 years now. I love the fact that she can make almost one painting per class! she is awesome. She gives away all her paintings for her friends and teachers, custom made for their likes.

Such a giving person and in a way that I love. Keep up being so creative. Good luck in your new High school...

This was such a tremendous gift. One of her best friends had to put down her little dog due to an ageing and health issue. She wanted her friend to remember her dog through one of her photographs turned into a wonderful painting to immortalise her memory and keep up with her loss.
Thank you Paula for having such true and deep feelings, and to share your art, which is part of you, with your friends. it says so much about you!
Great painting. technique and the challenge of the fur was awesome!

Nicole's landscape of a place that could be anywhere in through and around the Great Lakes is so inviting.
Challenges: vanishing and gradation of the water and sky. Keep up!

Camila, a lovely girl, sweet as you can see here, is a member that is used to challenge herself in everything she does. I love the fact that she is self critical, and it is very important to always look for more and try to find the best in you. These kids are wonderful, and with the right path and skills, they are able to do anything. I am telling you. They are awesome!

In  this image above we see Bella. This was one very nice theme we had in the past season:

Enchanted windows from Europe

Challenge: format and working with fine detail with long brushes. Great job Bella!

One of the themes in the past season was

 BIRDS

This bird, a quetzal, was just a fabulous painting by Laura. She excelled the expectations on working fine detail with fan brush and feathers! wow, fabulous job Laurita. Congratulations!

We wish you all the best in High school. Keep up wherever you are.

Coming back to our new  themes, here is a so cute circus dog made by Arianne. Challenge: Motion, sketch and techniques. Great job Arianne! it gives the sense of mischievous puppy !

It is always fun to take classes with your friends. Here the BFF's Arianne and Teresa. They both finished the same day and it is always nice to celebrate a finished piece of art. Way to go ladies. I am so happy to have you around. Keep smiling and making me have a great time in Class.

Below is Taylor, another excellent gift for Fathers Day!

Great job to all the members of the Oakville Arts Studio. 

I am sure that for our next exhibition soon to be announced, the surprise to see so many different artworks will be even more impressive. Keep up and remember to keep challenging time after time. Expect more of yourselves and never leave paintings half way through. If you are tired of one project because it is difficult, or you lost interest in it because you want to do something else, leave it aside, start another one and then go back to the one you started....AND FINISH IT WITH A NEW LENS!

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. 

Vincent Van Gogh