Overview: Winter & Spring Art Classes 2025
March 2025
March & April 2025
March & April 2025
Watercolour: Costumes
6 morning classes, split over two weeks
March 3, 4, 5, 10, 11,&12 2025
9:30am-12:00noon
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: 99 North Oval (Westdale United Church)
Enjoy new a still life subject matter--a collection of costumes! Watercolour is ideal for exploring the colour, shape and evocative nature of clothing.
March & April 2025
March & April 2025
March & April 2025
Drawing and Composition Part 2
8 morning classes
March 6, 7, 13, 14 &
April 3, 4, 10, 11 2025
9:30am-12:00noon
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: 99 North Oval (Westdale United Church)
Continue to develop drawing foundations. Special attention to compositions of interiors and expanding materials with black and white and warm and cool drawing media.
April 2025
March & April 2025
January-April 2025
Figure & Composition
Figure Drawing Part 3
6 morning classes
March 31, April 1, 2, 7, 8 &9
9:30-12:30pm (3hrs)
Instructor Rae Bates
Location: 99 North Oval (Westdale United Church)
Develop you figure drawing into composes works. Longer poses.
January-April 2025
January-April 2025
January-April 2025
Figure Drawing Studio
(no instructor)
Figure Drawing Studio in Winter 2025 will focus on 4 session long poses--suitable for drawing, painting and multi view sketching.
January 16, 17, 23, 24
February 13, 14, 20, 21
March 6, 7, 13, 14
April 3, 4, 10, 11
1:00pm-4:00pm (3hrs)
Location: 99 North Oval (Westdale United Church)
Create, develop, experiment.
May 2025
January-April 2025
May 2025
Introduction to Oil Painting
8 mornings
May 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 &23
9:30am-12:00noon
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: 99 North Oval
(Westdale United Church)
May is for oil painting!
Oil paint is a rich, versatile and flexible medium, especially suited for representational painting.
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May 2025
January-April 2025
May 2025
Drawing & Composition with Pastel
6 mornings
April 28 & 29, May 5, 6, 12, 13
9:30am-12:00noon
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: 99 North Oval
(Westdale United Church)
Consider how colour functions in composition with pastel or other coloured drawing material.
Work on three still life compositions with 2 classes for each composition.
June 2025
June 2025
June 2025
Find the View: Drawing and Composition in the Landscape
6 mornings
June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 & 11
9:30am-12:00noon
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: Princess Point and nearby RBG trails
*This class can be combined with Colour in the Landscape
*Raindates: June 5 & 12, 2025
The beauty of nature abounds, but how is this translated into a work of art? Compo
Find the View: Drawing and Composition in the Landscape
6 mornings
June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 & 11
9:30am-12:00noon
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: Princess Point and nearby RBG trails
*This class can be combined with Colour in the Landscape
*Raindates: June 5 & 12, 2025
The beauty of nature abounds, but how is this translated into a work of art? Composing a compelling view is the essence of the landscape form!
June 2025
June 2025
June 2025
Colour in the Landscape
6 afternoons
June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 & 11, 2025
1:00pm-3:30pm
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: Princess Point and nearby RBG trails
*This class can be combined with Find the View
*Raindates: June 5 & 12, 2025
What colours do we see in the landscape? What palette of colours shows a place, a season, a time of day? A class for
Colour in the Landscape
6 afternoons
June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 & 11, 2025
1:00pm-3:30pm
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: Princess Point and nearby RBG trails
*This class can be combined with Find the View
*Raindates: June 5 & 12, 2025
What colours do we see in the landscape? What palette of colours shows a place, a season, a time of day? A class for sketching with your favorite colour medium--pastel, watercolour, oil, etc.
June 2025
June 2025
June 2025
Find the View & Colour in the Landscape/Combined
6 full days
June 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 & 11, 2025
9:30am-3:30pm
Instructor: Rae Bates
Location: Princess Point and nearby RBG trails
*Raindates: June 5 & 12, 2025