Still-Life Painting - Finding your style to create what you love

During this 4 hour workshop, you will learn how to create an eye-catching composition and then turn your thumbnail sketch into an underdrawing for your painting. Using Venlet’s easy and no brainer colour-mixing method, you'll learn how to paint your object in vibrant colours. You will learn the progressive stages of a still-life painting from beginning to end. This workshop will help facilitate the development of your own style and personality in your painting.

Participants should bring their favourite kitchen ingredient packages as source for their painting.

Some reference objects will also be on hand.

You will also be instructed on how to make your own wet pallet.

Materials Provided:

• Painting surface
• All paints (acrylic gouache)
• Brushes
• Apron
• Pencils and sketching materials
• Wet pallet materials

Target Participants Age and Skill Level:

Adult - Beginner

Adult - Intermediate

About the Facilitator: Emiko M. Venlet was born and raised in Fukui, Japan surrounded by the sea and mountains. She is currently living in North Vancouver and is once again connected to mountains and the seaside. Emiko's painted works remind us of the dreamy and magical places in the heart and the new chapters those places bring in our lives. She paints and draws imaginary interior scenes and still-life.

As a youth, Emiko's connection to her mother and grandmother instilled an appreciation for working with her hands, learning Japanese crafts as well as preserving food and cooking.This natural instinct has led her to drawing and painting. Her early work focused on recreating her visions of inner landscape in abstract form. These images have shifted towards more narrative still life work in oil and acrylic including vintage furniture, flowers, fruit, wallpaper and all things that have nostalgic feel to them; the common thread being an inner exploration of memories and stories.

Emiko is a poet and a dreamer. She is a self taught artist and practices art at home and at August Studios in Vancouver, Canada. Her solo exhibition This Place is on at THIS Gallery throughout the month of March.

You can see more of her work on her website: https://emikovenlet.com/collections/all-available-paintings