2012,
Week 4: July 23-27
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Flowers, Photography & Photoshop ( 3 day workshop July 25, 26, 27)
 Prescott based, international award winning Digital Photo Artisan Mike Laking will lead you through three fun days of learning how to create beautiful art from your photographs. This course is focused more on Photoshop than on photography and beginners are especially encouraged to sign up as sometimes the best photograph is the one that was taken with the automatic setting, the one that Mike uses the most. Mike will talk about how to use Photoshop filters and actions, photograph restoration techniques, printers, paper and inks, and how to find free Photoshop video lessons online. Bring photographs with you that you would like to work on or older photographs that need restoration. We will also be doing photographic assignments that will provide new photographs to work on in Photoshop. While basic level computing skills are required, Photoshop lessons will be conducted on a step-by-step basis. It's easy and will be fun. Check out my website for examples of what you might be able to create from your photographs at www.mikelaking.com. You can also watch the YouTube video called "Flowers, Photography & Photoshop" that I presented in Puerto Vallarta Mexico in January 2011 at http://youtu.be/K37x8BrLrWw . The three day course will be a larger version of the video, but you will see the topics we will cover and what is possible with Photoshop. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Mike Laking was born in a small town in northern Ontario called Burks Falls. He has lived in Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, Florida, Arizona, and Ohio, but for the past 18 years has called the small Eastern Ontario town of Prescott his home. Mike is a self-taught photographer with over 35 years of experience and while he has always felt that his photographs were technically very good, he knew that there was a spark missing. Four years ago Mike took a course in Photoshop that ignited that spark and fanned it into a roaring flame, propelling him into becoming an international award winning artist.
Using a variety of computer graphic and free-hand drawing techniques, and his original floral photographs, Mike creates unique digital photo art that emulates painting styles reminiscent of Georgia O'Keeffe, his muse, while creating his own inimitable style. Mike`s art has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibits, studio tours, galleries, articles and TV and is included in collections across Canada, the United States and Mexico. He currently works full-time at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, but still manages to be a member of four collectives and participates in several shows and tours each year. Mike has won several regional and international awards including the 2010 International Grand Prize in the Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens Photography Exhibition and Contest and the 2010 and 2011 award for Best In Class Orchid Photography at the Ottawa Orchid Society Annual Show. He continues to share the knowledge he has gathered through speaking engagements to photography clubs, art guilds and cooperatives and in seminars in both Canada and Mexico. I am an artist who uses a camera and computer to paint and my passion is flowers. The delicate, fleeting bursts of colours, shapes and sizes are what I strive to catch, so that when the flower is gone, the art remains.
Instructor: Mike Laking
Cost: $167.94
Canadian Resident Course Code: ARTS 179 540 
USA Resident Course Code: GENI 2500 523 *please call*
Oil Painting en Plein Air
Students will explore the methods and theories of oil painting on location. Everything from two-point perspective to palette care will be discussed during this intense and exciting five day workshop. Students will create a series of small oil paintings in the tradition and style of the group of seven on wood panels in a vigorous wet on wet painting technique. Come on outside and have some fun!
Born in Brockville, Ontario in 1968, John Climenhage has been painting, teaching and exhibiting throughout Canada and the U.S. since 1989. He apprenticed in Victoria with acclaimed oil painter Jim Gordaneer from 1994-1999. He has a broad knowledge of art history which he references in both his landscapes and abstract works. His paintings incorporate theories of quantum physics and existential philosophies in a two dimensional field upon which the painting occurs as an event.
Instructor: John Climenhage
Cost: $279.90
Canadian Resident Course Code: ARTS 6002 542
USA Resident Course Code: GENI 2500 524 *please call*
CREATIVE MIXED MEDIA/COLLAGE: Three day Course July 24, 25, 26 in Smiths Falls
 This workshop is for beginners to mixed media/acrylic/collage. See shape, colours, texture and design in a whole new way. Free your creativity by exploring this exciting journey in personal expression in a fun and stress-free environment. Supply list to be provided prior to start of workshop. A $5 material fee will be payable to the instructor. This course is offered in Smiths Falls.
A painter all her life, and a Fellow of the Ottawa Watercolour Society, Arlene McGee has lived and painted for the past 20 years along the banks of Ontario's Mississippi River. She loves to share her enthusiasm for the creative process with her students and has done so by holding successful water media workshops for several years. Arlene is an award-winning artist, winning Best in Show for both her work in watercolour and in mixed media. Her work has been seen in exhibitions, galleries and on her virtual gallery at www.arlenemcgee.com
Instructor: Arlene McGee Cost: $167.94
Canadian Resident Course Code: ARTS 6010A 540
USA Resident Course Code: GENI 2500 525 *please call*
ART AND PHILOSOPHY: Seeing Art as a Philosophy of life (mornings only 9:00am-noon)
Twenty artists, their life and their work will be examined. The transformation through art will also be seen in exercises with coloured pencils and mandalays. All material will be provided.
Instructor: Doug Blair
Cost: $89.63
Canadian/USA Resident Course Code: GENI 2500 526
 Photo Transfer to Canvas
(One day Saturday July 28, 9:00am - 4:00pm)
Beginner and Exciting Advanced
Join Joan for a one day workshop on instant photo transfer on canvas. Learn this creative and interesting technique. The mediums are supplied for this transfer only. You bring raw canvas, soft brushes and water container.
Instructor: Joan Holben
Cost: $53.63
Canadian/USA Resident Course Code: GENI 2500 527
Barns, Farms,fields and Water
This creative on-location workshop gives the Acrylic painter an opportunity to explore the landscape using various media, grounds and techniques.
We will cover the 8 essential elements of making great art and focus on using strong colour, value and shapes. The 6 essential compositions and exploring gel mediums to add texture, bite and excitement will also be covered. This is a great course to come explore and create.
Instructor: Andrew Hamilton
Cost: $279.90
Canadian Resident Course Code: ARTS 202 540
USA Resident Course Code: GENI 2500 535 *please call*
Pottery: Sagger Firing
 Learn ways to achieve stunning colour effects through reduction firing in a "sagger chamber" with electric kilns. Explore techniques to enhance the smoky quality of "colour fuming" and metallic effects. All levels welcome. Bring 10-15 small, very smooth, bone dry pieces and 5-10 leather hard pieces (sculpture, hand built or thrown) ready to polish and decorate with coloured terra sigillata. A fine white porcelain stoneware or earthenware clay works best. Round, convex, nearly closed or bowl forms work well too. Bring hache brushes and decorating tools, copper wire, copper tape, metallic pigments. Silver and gold leaf may be purchased from the course instructor.
Visit Alison's website at www.alisonbrannenceramics.com or contact abrannen@rogers.com
Alison Brannen has been working in ceramics for 12 years in her Toronto studio. Trained as a printmaker, Alison has exhibited prints and drawings across Canada and the USA for 20 years. She has taught low fire salt glazing at St. Lawrence College in Brockville and Pleasant Pottery in Toronto in 2010. Alison created the raku firing program at Rosedale Heights School of the Arts where she teaches ceramics and sculpture. Her current work is included in the 2011 Fusion Fireworks Exhibition and available for sale through the Guild Shop of Toronto and the Alton Mill Gallery in Caledon. Alison exhibits regularly with the Toronto Potters, Two Willows Studio, and at the Neilson Park Creative Centre. Alison has an MFA ( printmaking and photography) from the University of New Mexico and a BFA (painting) from York University.
Instructor: Alison Brannen
Cost: $279.90
Canadian Resident Course Code: ARTS 72 541 Beginner
Canadian Resident Course Code: ARTS 84 540 Intermediate
USA Resident Course Code: GENI 2500 528 *please call*
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