UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

If you are ready for a bit of fun, join artist Yulia Tsinko for this creative and supportive pet portrait workshop! Whether or not you have used ink before, this workshop is for you!

Yulia will review the basics of ink painting and instruct new techniques as they apply to painting pets, with an emphasis on animal structure, fur/feathers texture, and capturing personality. Through demonstrations and exercises, students will learn a range of techniques and tools, from traditional to expressive and experimental, and apply them to create your own mini-paintings. The workshop will balance precision with freedom of mark-making and whimsical touches while focusing on creative risk taking.

This workshop is for artists of all levels and no prior experience with ink is required.

Do you want to paint freely, loosely, and with a touch of whimsy? Do you want to try your hand at a new medium? Do you want to improve your ability to render flowers? Do you just want to try something new and fun? This unique workshop is for you!

Fearless creativity at its best! Artist Yulia Tsinko will review the basics of ink painting and instruct new techniques as they apply to flowers, with a special emphasis on gesture, colour combinations and composition. Participants will go through a number of demos and exercises to get acquainted with a range of techniques and tools, from traditional to expressive and experimental, and apply them to create your own mini-paintings. The workshop will balance precision with freedom of mark-making and whimsical touches. We will also focus on developing your ability to take creative risks. This workshop is for artists of all levels and no prior experience with ink is required.

Whether you haven’t touched ink before or you want to up your ink game and learn more skills, this workshop is for you!

Artist Yulia Tsinko will review the basics of ink painting and instruct new techniques as they apply to painting portraits, with a special emphasis on facial proportions, shadow mapping, painting hair and capturing likeness and personality. You will go through a number of demonstrations and exercises to get acquainted with a range of techniques and tools, from traditional to expressive and experimental, and apply them to create your own mini-paintings. The workshop will balance precision with freedom of mark-making and whimsical touches. You will also focus on developing your ability to take creative risks.

If you want to paint a particular person, please bring a few reference photos with you to choose from. Otherwise, I will have a few reference photos to choose from. This workshop is for artists of all levels and no prior experience with ink is required. All supplies are included!

Do you want to get better at quick landscape sketches and loosen up your style? Do you want to try your hand at a new medium? Do you love painting landscapes but want to get better at composition, gesture and mark-making? Do you just want to try something new and fun? This unique full-day workshop is for you!

Artist Yulia Tsinko will instruct several introductory ink painting exercises that focus on various landscape elements. Participants will learn to examine line quality, value, gesture, and composition while exploring a variety of expressive ink painting techniques. In addition to learning a simple approach to quickly capturing landscapes, Yulia will also demonstrate various ways of creating rich, emotional images. Participants will also work on balancing line precision with freedom of mark-making, experimentation, and whimsical decorations.

Join Yulia Tsinko for a day of fearless creativity at its best!

If you are ready for a bit of fun, join artist Yulia Tsinko for this creative and supportive pet portrait workshop! Whether or not you have used ink before, this workshop is for you!

Yulia will review the basics of ink painting and instruct new techniques as they apply to painting pets, with an emphasis on animal structure, fur/feathers texture, and capturing personality. Through demonstrations and exercises, students will learn a range of techniques and tools, from traditional to expressive and experimental, and apply them to create your own mini-paintings. The workshop will balance precision with freedom of mark-making and whimsical touches while focusing on creative risk taking.

This workshop is for artists of all levels and no prior experience with ink is required.

Do you want to get better at quick sketches and loosen up your style? Do you want to try your hand at a new medium? Do you love drawing the figure from life but want to improve your gesture drawing? Do you just want to try something new and fun? This unique full-day workshop is for you!

Fearless creativity at its best! Yulia will take you through several FUNdamental figure drawing exercises that will hone in on various aspects of quickly capturing human form from both photo references and a live nude model. You will examine line quality, value, gesture and composition while exploring a variety of expressive ink painting techniques.

In addition to learning a simple approach to quickly capturing the figure, various ways of creating rich, emotional images and telling a story will be investigated. You will also work on balancing line precision with freedom of mark-making and whimsical decorations. At the conclusion of the workshop, you will receive a handout summarizing what Yulia has outlined.

This workshop is for artists of all levels and no prior experience with ink is required. While prior figure drawing experience would be helpful, it is also not required.

This unique workshop will introduce you to a fascinating world of watercolour!

During the workshop, artist Yulia Tsinko will cover topics such as washes, wet-on-wet, wet-on-dry, and dry-on-dry watercolour painting techniques. Tools and expressive techniques with non-traditional tools and mark-making. Yulia will also cover how to capture light and shadow, and a variety of approaches to the creation of holiday cards featuring trees, ornaments, and presents.

Through small studies you will practice your basic watercolour techniques, and graduate with a collection of Christmas cards for the holidays!

This workshop is for artists of all levels and no prior experience with watercolour is required.