Course Overview: Explore the lives and works of Georgia O'Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo. These remarkable women followed their own voices during a fascinating time in art history, defining legacies rooted in connection to nature, passionate drive and a skill-based process. Learn from these masters by studying key works featuring flowers, landscapes and symbolic imagery. Through step-by-step demonstrations and supportive critiques, you will explore what makes each artist’s approach so powerful. You will then create a themed artwork in a medium of your choice, inspired by these iconic women and shaped by your own interests, story and creative direction.

Skill Level: Not suitable for beginners. Intermediate and advanced.

Dates and Time:

Week-long workshop
Monday, July 20 – Friday, July 24
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Important Notes:

Course fee: $400.00 (General) or $365.00 (Senior 55+). HST is not included in the price.
This course takes place at the Belleville Campus: 376 Wallbridge Loyalist Rd, Belleville, ON K8N 5B9.
Campus information, including room number, parking, directions, etc., will be provided closer to the start date.
A refund (less $20.00 administrative fee) will be issued if you withdraw from a class at least 14 days before the start date of the class. After this deadline, no refunds will be issued.
If a course is cancelled by Loyalist College, registered students will be provided with a full refund. College decisions to cancel a course will be made 14 days before the course start date.
If you have any questions or issues, please reach out to art@loyalistcollege.com

Supply List

Surfaces:

Sketchbook
6 x 8”x10” for master studies
11"x14" - 16”x20” for one final project
Choose the type of surface based on your medium preference.

Mediums: Choose a medium that you are fairly comfortable with and have an understanding of.

For Acrylic Painting:

Substrate: stretched canvas, canvas board, primed masonite, or birch panel
A range of acrylic paints, such as primary and neutral colours
A variety of brushes for acrylics - palette, palette knife, water container, rags

For Soft Pastels:

Substrate: Toned Pastel paper or Sanded Pastel Paper. You can customize and prepare a surface, such as birch panel/Illustration board/watercolour paper, with a Pastel Ground (e.g., Tri-Art Dry Media Ground or Golden Pastel Ground).
Soft pastels (any format - hard pastels, soft pastels, pastel pencils, pan pastels + Sofft Tools)
A cheap, stiff hog hair brush for blending
Gloves, Mask, Non-toxic Spray Fixatif such as Spectrafix - final or workable (optional)

For Watercolour/Gouache Painting:

Substrate: 140lb-300lbs watercolour paper - Hot Press, Cold Press or Rough. Stretching your paper on a support is recommended.
A range of watercolour paints, tubes with palette or pan set
A variety of brushes for watercolours
Water bucket, rags, w/s graphite pencil or coloured pencil in a light blue or grey, kneadable eraser

For Oil Paint Painting: *no solvents please*:

Substrate: primed canvas, board, masonite, or birch panel.
A range of oil paints, such as primary and neutral colours
Alkyd Medium, Linseed or Walnut Oil
A variety of hog bristle brushes
Palette, palette knife, metal cups, rags, brush cleaner, i.e., linseed or Murphy’s oil soap

Places of Their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo with Sharlena Wood