Planning a Paint & Sip party?
Painting to the People! Increasingly popular Paint & Sip parties are creative, social fun for all ages. Whether the menu is wine and cheese or milk and cookies, I can help facilitate your painting party by supplying all art materials and project instruction, so your guests go home with a completed painting each, and the memory of the fun they had making it. Please contact me to work out the details at [email protected] .
Paint & Sip at the Haylmore Heritage Site, Gold Bridge, BC
On a smoky August evening during BC's worst wildfire season in a long time, thirteen aspiring artists participated in a Paint & Sip gathering hosted by the Rock Wall Gallery at the Haylmore Heritage Site. Following the same theme of a tree silhouetted against a hazy sky, as in the Pemberton session below, participants created still more unique variations, according to their inspiration.
Sometimes we throw in a little chaos
A shared theme is well and good--whether that's finding complexity in a white egg on a white background, or facing the challenge of a cartoon self portrait, but a minor mishap at one of the paint and sip sessions, inspired another approach. Somehow, a glassful of red wine made contact with a blank canvas. Rather than hide the splatter, the participant chose to embrace the odd shape, and made it the focus of her painting. Who says you need to drink the wine, for inspiration? Further wine splatter experimentation ensued, as shown below. It's another perfectly valid way to push one's self to try a new technique, or look at negative space, or make an image within an image, or....
Cartoon Self-Portrait Session
Paint & Sip gathering at Big Sky Golf Course in Pemberton, BC
On a gorgeous May evening, seventeen people gathered to complete a painting each, in two hours. The evening sun was the timekeeper, as we were working outdoors by natural light, under the club house's grape arbour. The suggestion was a simple landscape with a hazy moon, a horizon line, a bit of foreground texturing, and the silhouette of a tree--any style, dominant colour of one's own choosing. A little wine fostered the playful spirit; participants took the idea and ran with it. Pictured below are fruits of the evening's labours.
An evening session at Big Sky, September 18th
Adventuring on the darker side, a group of thirteen painters met at Fescues Restaurant at twilight on a Sunday evening, painting with the theme of a nocturnal creature--an owl--after listening to poems about owls, setting the mood. This time, there was no sample canvas offered: participants worked directly from their mind's eye to the canvas. As darkness gathered, the tones on the canvas became more somber, with starker highlights: this was very much process painting.
At right: getting hands-on! |