The workshop invites participants to witness some of the artist’s favourite techniques in initiating a painting in a spontaneous manner, adding elements of tone, colour and texture through successive impulsions. This technique allows one to free his or her creativity, to build a rich composition as a solid foundation to reveal the subject through suggestion. Notions of structure, form and function, will be addressed In a context where participants learn trusting and daring attitude towards painting.
Materials required
2 Canvases or wood panels size at least 16" x 20" - 40.6 x 50.8cm
3 brushes 2 inches, 1 inch, ½ inch
Plastic Scrapers and palette knives (hardware store type) Large and small
Large palette or plastic plates for watery mixes
Acrylic Paint
Matte Medium
Rags (3)
water containers
Spray bottle
Pencil or charcoal, eraser
tutor
DOMINIQUE NORMAND - True Spirit of the Canadian North
Canadian Metis Artist Dominique Normand
In painterly manners, she translates in images, the omnipresent powers that imprint and shape the world of human experience in the heart of the Northern territories. Since 2008, she has visited, lived and built strong ties with the Cree people of James Bay. The sum of these precious encounters and the teachings she has thus received constitute an everlasting reservoir of powerful inspiration for her creation. Enriched by her own experience amongst the Cree communities and her own life awareness revelations, she becomes a witness to the entwined harmony of all our relations, a spokeswoman bearing a camera, armed with a brush, painting, documenting video. A mystic universe is born on canvas, revealing the fascination she feels for the land and the territories that posses her. Magic works both ways! Dominique stands out for her strong visually evocative works, her holistic and sensitive vision of the worlds around her.
She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, such as, International Kite Festival in Dieppe, Normandie, Galerie Richelieu in Montreal, Klus’Kap in Moncton, New Brunswick, Broadway Gallery in New York, Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, Galerie Soutana and Jardin d’Hiver in Mont Tremblant Manifest'Art in St-Adolphe and other galleries in the Laurentians.
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