Autumn Still Life
1 Day Workshop | This course is currently not open for registration.
During this workshop, students will get the day to paint from a dynamic still life arrangement filled with pumpkins, gourds, colourful corn, and objects of striking warm fall colours. The workshop will touch upon the key building blocks of creating a successful still life painting: from sketching out main shapes and adjusting proportion, to blocking in colour and rendering shadows and highlights. Students will create one "alla-prima" still life painting (oil or acrylic on canvas or panel) during the workshop.
Perfect for painters looking to develop their skills in colour mixing, shadow work, and capturing mood.
Note: This course is suitable for adults and those 15 years and older.
Base Tuition: $125 + Material Fee: $5 = $130 Total
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Material List
- A medium sized, pre-primed/gessoed panel or canvas, 16” x 20” or smaller (feel free to bring more panels or canvases if you like to experiment!)
- Paint brushes & brush cleaner
- Palette (or any non-absorbent surface to mix paint on)
- Oil OR acrylic paint (whichever medium you feel more comfortable using, or want to try out!)
- Colours needed: Titanium White, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Yellow light/Lemon Yellow, Alizarin Crimson, Ultramarine Blue, Phthalo Blue
Emily Joyce
Emily is a Toronto-based painter and paintings conservator. She specializes in the study of paint materials, from traditional egg tempera and oil paints to contemporary acrylics and mediums. The crossover of art and science in her profession has allowed her an in-depth exploration of the history and techniques of painters from a range of historical time periods such as the Renaissance, Impressionism and Pop Art. These studies have inspired her classes and workshops at the TSA. Emily has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) with a minor in art History and a Master's of Art Conservation (Queen’s University), as well as a certificate in Traditional Materials, Methods of Painting and Restoration techniques through San Gemini Preservation Studies in Italy. Outside of the TSA, Emily works at Toronto Art Restoration in the west end, conserving a range of artworks from Tom Thomson landscapes to Michael Snow's Eaton Centre’s Geese.