Articles
22nd August 2011
Anh Le
CVAG hosts "Acrylics & Mediums with Ed Brickler. What Makes Acrylic So Popular And Versatile; What’s New?"
Date: Friday September 9, 2011
Time: 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Cost: FREE! (pre-registration is required)
Ages: 12 years & over, Adult
Max: 10 students
Location: CVAG Lower Level Studio
This is an informative lecture/demonstration to give the artist a better understanding of art materials. This Lecture is customized to the needs of the audience and include the following:
• The flexibility of acrylics
• Types of acrylic color
• Characteristics of color and pigments
• Toxicity of materials
• Mediums and varnishes: their composition and function
• Painting surfaces and brushes
• Acrylic painting techniques
This lecture is sponsored by Canson, Arches, & Royal Talens. For artists to really explore their potential, they need to understand what their materials can do. The Canson Art Education Program is designed to help art educators and teachers inform students about materials and techniques through a program of lectures, information and training. The lecture series combines history and emerging trends with hands-on demonstration to illuminate the roles of materials and techniques. These are not picture-painting demonstrations, nor are they sales pitches - just informative and practical presentations of artists’ tools. Although specific products are used, information is delivered to apply to materials in general. Each lecture is followed by a question and answer session.
About Ed Brickler:
Programs are conducted by Ed Brickler, director of the Canson Art Education Program. A working artist, he has been an art materials consultant for twenty years, and has lectured on materials and techniques in art schools across North America. He has taught drawing and painting, and conducted workshops on color mixing, pen and ink, painting, and composition. Brickler has published articles in The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic, and Art Materials Today, andwas a contributing editor to Palette Talk. He is a graduate of Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, and the Baum School of Art, in Allentown, PA. He is currently working a book on Artist Materials and Methods.
STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
“An artist, like any person in a trade or craft, with knowledge of artist materials and the techniques becomes a more proficient in creating art.” As an artist, Ed considers himself a student of the creative process, a philosophy in which the first spark of imagination and all the steps leading to the end result are equally important. It is about the process of making art, imagination, materials, experimentation, and expression evolving into the end result being art. Therefore, he works in all mediums, and his creative experience is expressed in many styles ranging from the traditional to the modern.”
Thanks to Karen Ware for bringing this program to CVAG.
This lecture is FREE, but pre-registraion is required as there are only 10 spaces available. Call 250-338-6211 to register.
Date: Friday September 9, 2011
Time: 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Cost: FREE! (pre-registration is required)
Ages: 12 years & over, Adult
Max: 10 students
Location: CVAG Lower Level Studio
This is an informative lecture/demonstration to give the artist a better understanding of art materials. This Lecture is customized to the needs of the audience and include the following:
• The flexibility of acrylics
• Types of acrylic color
• Characteristics of color and pigments
• Toxicity of materials
• Mediums and varnishes: their composition and function
• Painting surfaces and brushes
• Acrylic painting techniques
This lecture is sponsored by Canson, Arches, & Royal Talens. For artists to really explore their potential, they need to understand what their materials can do. The Canson Art Education Program is designed to help art educators and teachers inform students about materials and techniques through a program of lectures, information and training. The lecture series combines history and emerging trends with hands-on demonstration to illuminate the roles of materials and techniques. These are not picture-painting demonstrations, nor are they sales pitches - just informative and practical presentations of artists’ tools. Although specific products are used, information is delivered to apply to materials in general. Each lecture is followed by a question and answer session.
About Ed Brickler:
Programs are conducted by Ed Brickler, director of the Canson Art Education Program. A working artist, he has been an art materials consultant for twenty years, and has lectured on materials and techniques in art schools across North America. He has taught drawing and painting, and conducted workshops on color mixing, pen and ink, painting, and composition. Brickler has published articles in The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic, and Art Materials Today, andwas a contributing editor to Palette Talk. He is a graduate of Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA, and the Baum School of Art, in Allentown, PA. He is currently working a book on Artist Materials and Methods.
STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
“An artist, like any person in a trade or craft, with knowledge of artist materials and the techniques becomes a more proficient in creating art.” As an artist, Ed considers himself a student of the creative process, a philosophy in which the first spark of imagination and all the steps leading to the end result are equally important. It is about the process of making art, imagination, materials, experimentation, and expression evolving into the end result being art. Therefore, he works in all mediums, and his creative experience is expressed in many styles ranging from the traditional to the modern.”
Thanks to Karen Ware for bringing this program to CVAG.
This lecture is FREE, but pre-registraion is required as there are only 10 spaces available. Call 250-338-6211 to register.