Opus' Summer Artist series continues to be a hit with artists! Each store location features different artists with their own specialization. Learn from your fellow artists, refine your skills, gain new techniques or just feel inspired!
Marilyn Foubert
Granville Island, Saturday August 12, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
With a background as a fibre artist, Marilyn's unique painting techniques include assemblage and abstract expressionist painting. She is a workshop facilitator and works at the Roundhouse Community Centre on Monday nights in Vancouver, BC.
Watch Marilyn at Opus Granville Island as she demonstrates her style as a painter, showing the evolution of a painting. Possible mediums include ink, acrylic, pastel and graphite. For more information visit www.marilynfoubert.com
Lynda Wylde
Langley, Saturday Aug 12, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lynda Wylde has 13 years of experience in the printing industry, including press work, bindery, pre-press, and design. She has combined this experience with 7 years as a professional artist and started her own business, Artful Design and Graphics in White Rock, BC.
Drop by Opus Langley to see Lynda demonstrate the cutting and printing of linocuts. For more information visit www.artfuldesignandgraphics.com
Gretchen Markle
Victoria, Saturday August 12, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Join Gretchen at Opus Victoria to see her demonstrate oil pastel painting. For more information, visit www.stinkingfishstudiotour.com/Gretchen-Markle
Stephen Cheng
Granville Island, Wednesday August 16, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Stephen has been a professional artist for 30 years and graduated from Hong Kong Fine Art College, where he studied under some of China's most famous painters and art professors. Stephen's past work reflects the diversity of his talents: oil portraits, murals, set designs for theatre and opera, and also teaching painting.
Join Stephen at Opus Granville Island as he demonstrates portraiture in oil. For more information, visit www.MyArtClub.Com/Stephen.ManFai.Cheng
Heather Keenan
Victoria, Saturday August 19 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Heather is trained in Design Arts at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton and has taken extensive courses in Toronto, San Francisco and Victoria. Her award-winning work has been featured on the covers of national and international literary journals and books. Heather has painted and drawn with oil pigment sticks for over 25 years.
See Heather at Opus Victoria as she demonstrates her technique with oil pigment sticks. For more information, visit www.hkeenan.com
Jutta Kaiser
Granville Island, Friday August 25, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jutta is a painter who previously owned and operated an award-winning pottery studio in Ontario. Since moving to Vancouver, she has turned to painting full-time. Jutta is a signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists and her work can be found in private and corporate collections worldwide.
Stop by Opus Granville Island and see Jutta work on a landscape, as she shows how to prepare a canvas surface and creating texture before laying down colour. For more information, visit www.juttakaiser.com
Brian Coutts
Granville Island, Saturday August 26, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Brian graduated last year from BCIT's digital animation program and works in a variety of media. He enjoys working with thick applications of paint and texture with a loose and stylized approach to subject matter.
See Brian work on an acrylic painting using a variety of gel mediums and various techniques. For more information visit http://spaces.msn.com/couttsgallery/
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