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• COURSE- Beginners Acrylic with Anne Williamson

  • Start
    21 May 2026
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  • End
    25 Jun 2026
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  • Schedule
    6 sessions
  • Location
    Button Factory Arts, second floor, studio B
  • Spaces left
    4

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  Thursdays, 1 - 3 pm. May 21, 28, June 4, 11, 18, 25 (6 weeks) 

                                               
  

  $153 Members /$180 non-members + HST 

  To learn more about Anne and her work, please visit: 

  https://www.buttonfactoryarts.ca/williamson

  Please note: Students supply the materials for their course- see Supplies List below description:

  Do you wish you could paint a landscape? Then this course is for you!

  A landscape is usually painted from top to bottom and background to foreground. After identifying the background, mid ground and foreground, we will deconstruct a landscape into its various elements (skies, trees and vegetation, water and shorelines) and practice by painting one element each week. You will see your landscape painting evolve, by adding one element at a time.

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  Each week, you will need to bring:

  • Acrylic Paint: Red (Cad Red, Medium Red – avoid Magenta), Blue (Ultramarine) and Yellow (Medium Yellow), White, Black, Raw Siena, Burnt Umber.  Suggested Paint Brands: Student Grades, ie. Liquitex, Artists Loft
  • Acrylic Brushes: An assortment of flat and round brushes (i.e 1” Flat, ½” flat, ¼” flat) of various sizes and one large 2” brush (dollar store) for large washes.
  • Painting Surface: Canvas paper or mixed medium paper for practice exercises
  • One 11”x14” canvas for your final landscape painting.

  
  

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• COURSE- Art Sampler with Various Instructors (5 weeks)

  • Start
    23 May 2026
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  • End
    20 Jun 2026
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  • Schedule
    5 sessions
  • Location
    Button Factory Arts, second floor
  • Spaces left
    8

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  Saturdays, 10 am - 12 pm. May 23, 30, June 6, 13, 20. (5 weeks)

  
  

   $127.50 for members / $150 non-members + $25 materials

  Want to explore Art with a range of media? We have it all in this special class:  Wire Sculpture,  Embroidery, Monoprinting, Watercolour and Charcoal- try your hand at everything and see what ignites your passion! (image by Harry Kooy).

  May 23 - WIRE TREES with Harry Kooy

  May 30 - EMBROIDERY with Baz Kanold

  JUNE 6 - MONOPRINTING with Anne Williamson

  June 13- WATERCOLOUR & INK with Moumita Roychowdhury 

  June 20 - CHARCOAL with Soroush Dabiri

  
  

  *Instructors and mediums subject to change 

  
  

  To learn more about these instructors and their work, please visit:

  Moumita Roychowdhury: https://www.buttonfactoryarts.ca/roychowdhury
  

  Baz Kanold: https://www.buttonfactoryarts.ca/kanold
  

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• WORKSHOP-Gelli Print Like Paul Klee! with Anne Williamson

  • When
    15 Aug 2026
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Button Factory Arts, second floor
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  Saturday August 15, 1 - 4 pm

  $38.25 Members / $45 non-members + $10 materials 

  Using Paul Klee's abstract art images as inspiration we will first cut our own stencils: circles, squares, squiggly lines and other geometric shapes. Using acrylic paint, gelli plates and a multi-print process you will create your own abstract  Klee- like piece of art! All materials will be supplied, you just bring your sense of fun and creativity!

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• WORKSHOP-Colour Workshop with Anne Williamson

  • When
    22 Aug 2026
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Button Factory Arts, second floor
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    14

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  Saturday August 22, 1 - 4 pm

  $38.25 Members / $45 non-members + $10 materials 

  Primary colours: Red, Blue and Yellow are basic hues that cannot be created by mixing other colours together and they are the building blocks of all other colours. In this workshop you will learn how to mix secondary colours: greens, oranges and violet and tertiary colours: yellow green, red orange and blue violet. We'll identify complementary colours and learn how to 'desaturate" a colour with its complement. By the end of this 3-hour workshop you will have a better understanding of the possible colours in your acrylic 'paintbox' and a colour wheel to use as a future reference. All materials will be supplied.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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