UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Join Yulia Tsinko for this extensive four-week drawing course and explore the expressive medium of pen and ink!

Whether you want to learn a new medium, level up your existing drawing skills or raise your pen and ink confidence to take part in Inktober, this workshop is for you!

You will spend four evenings exploring a range of approaches in this fascinating medium, including both traditional and experimental pen and ink techniques, while working on a variety of subjects including landscapes and still-life. You will become acquainted with abstract, expressive, stylized and realistic drawing techniques and learn to portray a strong 3-dimensional structure. 

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

Do you want to portray convincing light and shadow patterns? Does your artwork appear ‘flat’ at times? If this sounds like you, then this workshop is your answer!

Using basic geometric shapes as building blocks, Yulia Tsinko will teach you different types of shadows which can be seen in the real-world and how to portray them by using strong value maps and controlling edges. Students will first learn to apply these concepts in drawing and, afterwards, transfer your new-found skills to painting. At this point, Yulia will also cover colour interactions and how they are affected by different light scenarios. Finally, Yulia will discuss how to choose specific lighting conditions to create a desired effect, be it soft nostalgia or a dramatic conflict.

Join Yulia and learn to bring your artwork into another dimension!

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.

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.

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.