Hi everyone.
For the next little while this site will be Under Construction. I will announce on Social Media and to my Mailing List when the reconstruction of this sadly ailing site is done! I’m so looking forward to the total refreshment and brand new capabilities of the new look.
In the meantime, all the menu items to the left have drop downs, and they do work, so please go there to find what you’re looking for, or use the search function. I hope you enjoy your visit to my page.
Hi Everyone!
While I’m happy to see the end of 2020, I’m also grateful for the experience of being able to teach online, which has connected and reconnected me with so many of you! I’ve really enjoyed the online experience.
So, as we end the old year, this is a note to let you know where I’m starting off in the New Year.
We will continue the ongoing online Studio Classes on Zoom, where you can paint what you want with my guidance and you can suggest projects or techniques that I can then give lessons on. As always you don’t have to do the project you can just paint what you like with help from me as you need it. $25/ class paid monthly. So January has 4 Wednesdays and 4 Thursdays, so the price will be $100. There are 2 of these classes, Wednesday evenings 7-9pm[Mostly watercolour] and Thursday afternoons 2-4pm [ a mix of acrylics and watercolour] so you can do any makeups in the other when you can. we can also add oil painting to any class if you want that. eTransfer to lukasewichlori@gmail.com
It has been suggested to me that I move the in person Abstract: What, Why, How workshop that I was going to give live at Swintons to a one day Saturday workshop which I will do. That info will be down at the bottom of this email.
I will be planning the next 6 months worth of Saturday workshops in the next 2 weeks, so if you have any requests for subjects or techniques that you’d like to know more about, please let me know in the next couple of weeks and I’ll see what I can put together.
Whether you sign up for something or you don’t, I wish you a great New Year full of health, wealth, wisdom and love.
Lori
Abstracts! What? Why? How!
Saturday, January 23, 9:39am- 3:30pm.
$95 paid by eTransfer to lukasewichlori@gmail.com
then receive the Course Outline and Supply List.
Hi everyone! Welcome to the page of ALL new Fall classes, courses and workshops that I will be teaching coming up. I hope you find something to interest you so you can sharpen up your art skills during these weird times.
Colour Theory for Painters TOTALLY NEW VENUE!!
Thursday evenings, 6 – 9pm at Studio Vasquez-MacKay
Suite 100, 441 5 Avenue, SW
September 10-October 8
$210.00
In Person! Masks are mandatory and Social Distancing requirements and cleaning protocols will be in place..
Learn the basic fundamentals of colour theory in a course designed to simplify and enhance your painting practice. Colour is a vital component of the painting process. Using a Six Colour Single Pigment System you will work through a series of charts and exercises that will deepen your understanding of how colour is essential to your works effect and success.
To register and see your supply list please visit:
https://www.studiovazquez-mackay.com/new-page-3
AUArts Acrylics 1 – ONLINE
Tuesday evenings, 6:30-9:30
October 13 – December 15
Online!!
$385.00 Special Fall Price
For more information please go here: visit:https://www.auarts.ca/sites/default/files/Documents/Fall2020_CourseQuicklook_Web.pdf
Ongoing Studio Classes @Swinton’s
Wednesday Mornings, 9am – 12pm, starting September 2
Monday Afternoons, 12:30 – 3:30, starting September 14
In Person – Masks are mandatory and Social Distancing requirements and cleaning protocols will be in place
Your choice of mediums and subjects. Once you understand the fundamentals then you paint what you want and I help you.From time to time we do group exercises, which you can totally opt out of if you want. Ongoing interesting info about art. artists, art materials, making art and pretty much anything else todo with art. Pretty fun.
Call 403-258-3500 for more information and to register.
Mixed Media Flower Fun @ Swinton’s
Saturday & Sunday, November 28 & 29, 9am – 4pm
$210
In Person. Masks are mandatory and Social Distancing requirements and cleaning protocols will be in place.
Using Acrylics, inks and various mark making tools we will make up flowers and arrangements using our intuition and imagination. Yes, its really fun!
For more information, supply lists and registration please go to:
https://swintonsart.com/instruction/workshops
Abstracts – What, Why, How?@Swinton’s
Sat & Sun, January 14 and 17, 9am – 4pm@Swintons
$210.00
In Person – Masks are mandatory and Social Distancing requirements and cleaning protocols will be in place.
Intrigued by abstraction but intimidated? come and fins out what it is, why we make it and how to make it – all in acrylics. Its easier than you think.
For Supply list and registrationplease visit:
https://swintonsart.com/instruction/workshops
Glazing, Layering and Creating Form in Watercolour – ONLINE
Online! 1 Day Workshop with Lori on Zoom!
Saturday, September 26, 9:30am – 3:30pm
$85
Just what the title says – if you’ve ever wondered how to make convincing form in a watercolour painting then this workshop will really help.
You will receive the Supply list and Course Outline, and instructions for using Zoom, when once you eTransfer $85 to lsl@lorislukasewich.com
Drawing with a Brush – ONLINE
Online! 1 Day Workshop with Lori on Zoom!
Saturday, October 24 26, 9;30am – 3:30pm
$85
In ink or watercolour. Come along with me as I practice an alternate form of drawing and adapt my drawing style.
You will receive the Supply list and Course Outline, and instructions for using Zoom, once you eTransfer $85 to lsl@lorislukasewich.com
Old Time Fairy Tale Illustration – ONLINE
Pen & Ink & Watercolour
Online 1 Day workshop with Lori on Zoom
Saturday, December 5, 9am – 3:30pm
$85
Using a technique favoured by the famous illustrators Rackham and Dulac, create a little piece of romance or adventure.
You will receive the Supply List, course outline and instructions for using Zoom, once you eTransfer $85 to lsl@lorislukasewich.com
ONGOING STUDIO CLASSES ONLINE – with Lori on Zoom
You paint what you want with my help. Occasional exercise for all – that you can totally opt out of. Lots of info about art, art materials, art techniques, artists and just about anything about art. And – yes. its FUN!!
$25/class, payable monthly on the last class of the previous month. Makeups available.
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to my temporary teaching page. I’ve been working like crazy ever since covid hit on keeping some classes going online on Zoom and introducing new ones, so I’ve been up to my ears with the technological learning curve.
Folks are asking where they can see what’s available or currently being offered, so I thought I’d put up this page as a placeholder while I work on getting a proper teaching and registration section built now that I have the technology to do it properly. It is just me doing it all so please bear with me.
So far we have a couple of ongoing studio classes [ see info at bottom of page ] We have completed both Acrylics Basics and Watercolour Basics, as well as Sketchbooking. And this last week we started both Acrylics: Applying the Basics and Watercolour: Applying the Basics. All these courses are 6 weeks long, $150.00, and run from 7-9pm, Tues, Wed, or Thurs evenings. Course Outlines, Supply lists and Zoom instructions are delivered on my receipt of eTransfer to lsl@lorislukasewich.com. I will likely offer the same rotation again in September if I see enough demand for them.
I will be offering an in the flesh Wednesday morning ongoing studio class at Swintons in Studio 3, 9am – 12pm. Strict Covid protocols will be in place. Beginning Wednesday July 1. Call Swintons @ 258-3500 to register.
Please let me know – lsl@lorislukasewich.com – if you have any questions or if there are any other online courses you would like to see in addition to this. Here is what is currently on offer for the summer:
One Day Workshops
FORGIVING ADULT PORTRAITS IN CHARCOAL
Learning a wonderfully forgiving charcoal technique, we will learn about adult facial proportions – a great little map for placing adult features and building a likeness.
Saturday, July 4, 9am – 12pm, 12:30 – 3:30pm
$65
eTransfer to lsl@lorislukasewich.com to register and recieve your supply list.
CHILDRENS FACIAL PROPORTIONS
Did you know that children’s facial proportions are quite different from adult facial proportions, and they change every couple years? Come and learn about how they change and how to approach this with a simple pencil and paper.
Saturday, July 18, 9am – 12pm, 12:30 – 3:30pm
$65
eTransfer to lsl@lorislukasewich.com to register and receive your supply list.
SIMPLE FLORALS IN WATERCOLOUR – 3 COLOURS
Saturday, August 8, 9am – 12pm, 12:30 – 3:30pm
Simplifying flower forms and expressing their beauty in as loose a way as we can and using 3 colours to do it.
$65
eTransfer to lsl@lorislukasewich.com to register and recieve your supply list.
KNIFE PAINTING LANDSCAPES in ACRYLICS
Really freeing technique for loose and expressive landscapes. How to use Aerial perspective and a couple of simple concepts to make fun paintings.
Saturday, August 22, 9am – 12pm, 12:30 – 3:30pm
$65
eTransfer to lsl@lorislukasewich.com to register and recieve your supply list.
Beginning Thursday we will be starting an Ongoing Studio class where you do whatever you want with my help, once I feel you have the basics down. We do have group exercises from time to time, that you can join into if you want to.
Thursday mornings – 10am – 1pm on Zoom.
The online format – Zoom – has become quite a comfortable way to paint for many of us. It’s much easier and effective than you might think.
The fees are $25/class, charged monthly and due the last week of the previous month. eTRansfer me – lsl@lorislukasewich.com to sign up.
Verna Vogel’s Fragile Planets exhibit @ OAG
Calgary artist Verna Vogel will be opening her show – FRAGILE PLANETS – at the Okotoks Art Gallery [ https://www.okotoks.ca/discover-okotoks/community-events-calendar/fragile-planets-verna-vogel ] this Saturday from 11am to 3pm.
Verna is a sublime abstractionist, weaving layers of strong opaque colour with both delicate and intense glazes, along with vigorous mark making, she seemingly effortlessly finds endless iterations of line and circle. Her work is always an inspiration.
In this exhibit she works 3 dimensionally, with her focus on the iconic metaphorical image of the circle exploring depths of meaning.
She will be showing alongside the peerless Eveline Kolijn. Go see this show, you will be transported. FRAGILE PLANETS was first shown at the Western GM Drumheller Gallery in 2017.
Here is her Artist’s statement:
Exploring boundaries and extensions of block printing, Fragile Planets is a circular meditation on human sensory perception.
In a world flooded with visual reproductions, we may often encounter a thing through its image, before (or instead of) experiencing it “in real life”. Are both the print and its original source equally valid?
A circle, one of the ancient symbols used by human civilization, carries strong connotations. The layered circular form of Fragile Planets may encourage contemplations of strength and fragility: a circle is protective, capable of excluding or containing worlds; yet permeable, allowing for entry or exit at any point.
You can see more of Verna’s works on her website :
https://www.vernavogel.com
So many friends!! Love you all!
What a wonderful opening and Artists talk.
So many lovely people came out to see the new works and to support. It was a real pleasure to meet Chris Kuzmanovitch, whose gorgeous abstractions are a perfect foil for my realism.
And our Artist’s Talks on Saturday, October 13, were really fun and well received. Thanks to everyone for all the great questions.
If you want to see the rest of the paintings and read the written part of the Artists Talk?- just look to your right under Exhibits and click on Fantasia! Remember that seeing them in the gallery space where they can really breathe is a different experience than seeing them on a screen. But we do our best, right? Enjoy!!
Big thanks to Christine Klassen Gallery – Christine and Hilary, for their lovely ongoing support.
Opening night for Fantasia!!
Artist’s Talk on Saturday!