ALL CLASSES REQUIRE AN FCAG MEMBERSHIP TO PARTICIPATE.
SEE OUR MEMBERSHIP SECTION FOR MORE INFORMATION ON JOINING THE FCAG COMMUNITY.
ALL COURSES ARE 6 WEEKS IN DURATION UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.
We've implemented various health and safety measures to provide a safe environment for all:
1. Proof of Vaccination to be provided upon entry of the Gallery for participants ages 12+.
2. Wear a mask/face covering
3. Complete a self-screening questionnaire at the beginning of each class/workshop
4. Sanitize workstation at the end of each class/workshop (Note: table coverings will not be provided)
5. Maintain physical distance
Visit our website frequently, as more classes will be announced soon.
SEE OUR MEMBERSHIP SECTION FOR MORE INFORMATION ON JOINING THE FCAG COMMUNITY.
ALL COURSES ARE 6 WEEKS IN DURATION UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.
We've implemented various health and safety measures to provide a safe environment for all:
1. Proof of Vaccination to be provided upon entry of the Gallery for participants ages 12+.
2. Wear a mask/face covering
3. Complete a self-screening questionnaire at the beginning of each class/workshop
4. Sanitize workstation at the end of each class/workshop (Note: table coverings will not be provided)
5. Maintain physical distance
Visit our website frequently, as more classes will be announced soon.
FALL CLASSES BEGINNING SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
FALL 2021 CLASSES
OIL / ACRYLIC PAINTING
Oil/Acrylic Painting: Intermediate/Advanced (IN-PERSON)
Instructor: Kelly McNeil
Date: Thursday Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11
Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 16, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Material List:
Date: Thursday Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11
Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 16, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Material List:
- Canvas of any size
- Reference photos
- Brushes (small size for detail work and mop brush)
- Paint: white alizarin crimson, french ultramarine, cerulean blue, lemon yellow, burnt sienna, raw sienna, sap green and rose madder
- For oil: Liquin or walnut oil
- For acrylic: slow drying blending medium
Oil/Acrylic Painting: Intermediate/Advanced (IN-PERSON)
Instructor: Kelly McNeil
Date: Thursday Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 16, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Material List:
Date: Thursday Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11
Time: 7:00 - 9:30pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 16, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Material List:
- Canvas of any size
- Reference photos
- Brushes (small size for detail work and mop brush)
- Paint: white alizarin crimson, french ultramarine, cerulean blue, lemon yellow, burnt sienna, raw sienna, sap green and rose madder
- For oil: Liquin or walnut oil
- For acrylic: slow drying blending medium
Oil/Acrylic Painting: Beginner/Intermediate (IN-PERSON)
Instructor: Catharine de Montmorency
Date: Tuesday Sept. 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 14, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Material List:
Date: Tuesday Sept. 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26, Nov. 2, 9
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 14, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Material List:
- Table easel
- Canvas (11x14”)
- Brushes
- Palette (StayWet palette recommended for Acrylic Paints)
- Acrylic/oil paints, colours needed: ultramarine blue, cerulean blue, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, yellow ocher, cadmium ellow, burnt sienna, titanium white
- For acrylics: thinning medium
- For oils: linseed oil and odourless turps for oil paints
- Pencil
- Paper towels
- Table cover
ACRYLIC PAINTING
WATERCOLOUR PAINTING
Watercolour Painting: Beginner/Intermediate (ONLINE)
Instructor: Nancy Buckingham
Date: Thursday Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 16, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete the Registration Form here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sc-6uqj0iGNFE6To2tADiDtDkydTeZdwU
Step 2: Call our office to make your payment at 416-740-6520.
This course will be delivered on the video conferencing platform Zoom. Once you have completed your registration, you will be sent a confirmation email with the necessary information needed to access the online workshop. You will need internet connection and a computer, tablet or smartphone with access to a speaker, microphone and camera. If you would like to participate one-on-one in a Zoom user tutorial, contact us by phone at 416-740-620 or email at fcag.art@gmail.com.
Description:
Nancy will be teaching beginners and intermediates in this inclusive and welcoming class. Focus will be on each individual's growth with attention to the fundamentals. Painting demonstrations will be the backbone of each class.
Material List:
Date: Thursday Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4, 11
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 16, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete the Registration Form here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sc-6uqj0iGNFE6To2tADiDtDkydTeZdwU
Step 2: Call our office to make your payment at 416-740-6520.
This course will be delivered on the video conferencing platform Zoom. Once you have completed your registration, you will be sent a confirmation email with the necessary information needed to access the online workshop. You will need internet connection and a computer, tablet or smartphone with access to a speaker, microphone and camera. If you would like to participate one-on-one in a Zoom user tutorial, contact us by phone at 416-740-620 or email at fcag.art@gmail.com.
Description:
Nancy will be teaching beginners and intermediates in this inclusive and welcoming class. Focus will be on each individual's growth with attention to the fundamentals. Painting demonstrations will be the backbone of each class.
Material List:
- Watercolour paints (whatever is in your palette)
- Brushes (a few sizes)
- Paper (Arches 140 pound)
- Container (x2), dish cloth/paper towel
- Masking Tape
- Board (size of WC paper)
- Kneaded eraser
Watercolour Painting: Intermediate (IN-PERSON)
Instructor: Wendy Bannerman
Date: Wednesdays Oct. 6, 13, 26, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 29, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Description:
This class is perfect for those wanting to brush up on their skills in watercolour, or advance their techniques. Lots of demos are given, and students will be able to work on their own, or join whatever joint project the class decides to try, while getting individual attention from the instructor on the ‘how to do’s”.
Material List:
Date: Wednesdays Oct. 6, 13, 26, 27, Nov. 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 29, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Description:
This class is perfect for those wanting to brush up on their skills in watercolour, or advance their techniques. Lots of demos are given, and students will be able to work on their own, or join whatever joint project the class decides to try, while getting individual attention from the instructor on the ‘how to do’s”.
Material List:
- I use da Vinci paints but we will make do with any brand. The colour palette should include: Ultramarine blue, Cobalt blue, Cerulean blue, Hands (or a light) yellow, Aureolin (or a deeper) yellow, Raw sienna, Burnt sienna, Alizarin crimson, Viridian green, A pink of some sort (rose madder, quinacridone rose ...), And whatever else you have!
- H or HB pencil
- Eraser
- Paper towel
- Masking tape and board for painting
DRAWING
Drawing from the Beginning (IN-PERSON)
Instructor: Jacqueline Crawley
Date: Tuesday Sept. 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Fee: $115
Registration Deadline: Sept. 14, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Description:
As an introduction, we will start with the fundamentals of drawing. Buy a quality set of pencils and Drawing Pad as these are essential – see material List. With these tools, we can explore well and with confidence. In all art, materials are important. Fundamentals include shading techniques, measuring, line work, and blocking [form and shapes]. Perspective will be looked at but not studied in detail.
Material List:
Date: Tuesday Sept. 21, 28, Oct. 5, 12, 19, 26
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Fee: $115
Registration Deadline: Sept. 14, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Description:
As an introduction, we will start with the fundamentals of drawing. Buy a quality set of pencils and Drawing Pad as these are essential – see material List. With these tools, we can explore well and with confidence. In all art, materials are important. Fundamentals include shading techniques, measuring, line work, and blocking [form and shapes]. Perspective will be looked at but not studied in detail.
Material List:
- Pencils – Staedtler Mars Lumograph 100 Drafting Set of 12 [6B to 4H]
- Paper – Canson Mix-media pad 60 pages 98lb - a rough paper
- Grease Pencil – China Marker is another term – Black
- Kneaded Eraser – large size
- Stomp – med to large size
- String – 24” long
- Misc – larger drawing surface/board to rest your pad on and your hand while drawing at a raised angle, ruler or straight edge, pencil sharpener
Drawing with a Figure
Instructor: No Instructor
Date: Saturday Oct. 2, 16, 23 & 30
Time: 10:00 - 3:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Fee: $85.00
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Description:
The class is for all art levels where you will work on or enhance line-work and shading, negative space, foreshortening, dimension and shapes all with a model. In this class you may use various drawing materials as there is no set materials.
Date: Saturday Oct. 2, 16, 23 & 30
Time: 10:00 - 3:00pm (1 hour lunch)
Fee: $85.00
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
Description:
The class is for all art levels where you will work on or enhance line-work and shading, negative space, foreshortening, dimension and shapes all with a model. In this class you may use various drawing materials as there is no set materials.
PLEIN AIR
Plein Air (IN-PERSON)
Instructor: Catharine de Montmorency
Date: Wednesday Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Fee: $75
Registration Deadline: Sept. 15, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
This workshop will be delivered outdoors in various locations considering physical distancing measures.
Date: Wednesday Sept. 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Fee: $75
Registration Deadline: Sept. 15, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
This workshop will be delivered outdoors in various locations considering physical distancing measures.
OPEN STUDIO
Open Studio (In-Person)
Instructor: No Instructor
Date: Wednesdays
Time: 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Fee: $50 for 8 Weeks
*If you are enrolled in two (2) classes this session, Open Studio is Free*
How to Register:
Call our office for more information, to register and make a payment at 416-740-6520.
Date: Wednesdays
Time: 1:00pm - 1:30pm
Fee: $50 for 8 Weeks
*If you are enrolled in two (2) classes this session, Open Studio is Free*
How to Register:
Call our office for more information, to register and make a payment at 416-740-6520.
SELF-EXPRESSION
Self-Expression: Abstract to Modern (Acrylic, Oil, Watercolour or Collage) (IN-PERSON)
Instructor: Jacqueline Crawley
Date: Monday Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15
Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm OR 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 13, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
The focus in this class will be communicating through Colour, Structure and Inspirational ideas. Challenge details sent before first class. Instruction and discussion will be offered and all are encouraged to participate. All levels offer artists an opportunity to review and share. Through challenges, the class will cover a variety of art elements that make a painting sound. The content, execution and style are up to the student. Students bring their own reference images from their files – all copyright free.
Material List:
Date: Monday Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 4, 18, 25, Nov. 1, 8, 15
Time: 1:00pm - 3:30pm OR 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Fee: $150
Registration Deadline: Sept. 13, 2021
Limited Space Available
How to Register:
Step 1: Complete and email your registration form to fcag.art@gmail.com. Click here to download a form (http://www.fcag.ca/uploads/1/1/4/1/11418845/registration_form_2020_fcag.pdf)
Step 2: Call our office to make a payment at 416-740-6520
The focus in this class will be communicating through Colour, Structure and Inspirational ideas. Challenge details sent before first class. Instruction and discussion will be offered and all are encouraged to participate. All levels offer artists an opportunity to review and share. Through challenges, the class will cover a variety of art elements that make a painting sound. The content, execution and style are up to the student. Students bring their own reference images from their files – all copyright free.
Material List:
- Paints – suggested colours: Earth colours – ocher or raw sienna + raw umber. Primaries if you can – magenta, cyan and primary yellow. Whites and blacks.
- Painting Knives for oil, acrylic and collage – min. one pie shaped knife for mixing but also others like the long flat for large areas.
- Brushes – Nylon for crispness and Bristle for softness. Large, Med and small in all shapes if possible. Bright, Round and Filbert are recommended. Bring what you can.
- Surfaces – approx. 5 [- Min 9x12 – max 24x36] Canvas on board or stretched, canvas pads with hard back board. Watercolour artists must bring appropriate paper.
- Images – Reference/inspired Photographs or Imaginary [sketches] are required.
- Misc – tape, misting bottle for acrylics and collage, rough towel or T-shirt for brush cleanup, 2’ long string, Sketchbook and pencil for thumbnail ideas and notes.
