Happy Flukes on Paper

Happy Flukes on Paper

2 Day Workshop | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM

Adult: Beginner to Intermediate
2026-04-18-2026-04-19
10:00 AM-3:00 PM on Sat Sun
$250.00 CAD

Happy Flukes on Paper

2 Day Workshop | Registration opens 2026-02-10 12:00 PM

In this relaxed and informal workshop, we gather to sketch, experiment, and play with simple
techniques for capturing moments from our lives on paper. With curiosity as our guide, we
open ourselves to visual storytelling—allowing chance, movement, and material encounters to
shape the work.

Rather than aiming for polished outcomes, we focus on process. Through an experimental
approach, we create traces, sketches, drawings, imprints, and collages using both traditional
tools and unexpected materials. Pressed leaves and petals, receipts, scraps of paper found in
the city, leftover nail polish, and other collected remnants may all find their way into the work.

Results can take many forms: storyboards, visual diaries, memorabilia-collages, drawings, or
paintings. Accidents are welcome—often celebrated—as joyful discoveries.

Group reflections after each exercise and at the end of the workshop, sharing experiences,
ideas, and techniques.


Base Tuition: $200.00 + $10 Material Fee = $250.00 Total

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  • What You Will Learn: 
    - How to loosen control and embrace chance in drawing and mark-making
    - Techniques for visual storytelling through everyday materials
    - Ways to translate lived moments into poetic visual traces
    - How to allow your art practice to be process-based and highly personal

  • Materials List: 
    - Pens and pencils
    - Fountain pens
    - Ink
    - Watercolor
    - Ink pads
    - Graphite
    - Charcoal
    - Glue sticks
    - Threads or string
    - A small sketchbook
    - A larger pad of paper
    - Scissors or an X-Acto knife
    - Paint brushes in various sizes are recommended

Häussler, Iris
Iris Häussler

Iris studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany and immigrated to Canada in 2001.Iris Häussler has explored many ways to offer art experiences at the fringe or outside the White Cube. She is interested in creating inclusive art environments open to everybody, rather than catering to the art market only. This has a long history: she created her very first site specific art-installation for a group exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1988, choosing the women’s toilets of all places. Since then, she has exhibited in basements, trailers, garages, coach houses, apartments, churches, chapels, stores, hotel-rooms, industrial buildings and historic houses as well as in international museums, galleries and Biennials.


Häussler’s work is found in international collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Städtische Sammlung im Lenbachhaus, Munich and the Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany. She also held a guest professorship at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich in 1999 and has given talks about her work in universities and art institutions in Canada, the USA, and Europe. Her work received awards and grants including the Karl-Hofer Prize (Berlin), the Kunstfonds Fellowship (Bonn), the Toronto Arts Council, the Chalmers Arts Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.