If you’ve always wanted to try watercolours but haven’t known how or where to begin, this weekend is for you. Step by step, you will begin to build skills around a reference painting created and taught by watercolourist Frans Aeyelt. This approach is intended to combine enjoyment with accomplishment so that participants can leave with new skills to practice and a painting to either finish or display to friends and family. Drawing technique, thumbnail sketches, composition, value, and the importance of light in paintings will be introduced in relation to the project with handouts supplied to provide further enrichment to the classroom experience and beyond.

Skill Level: Novice

Frans Aeyelts' varied catalog of work reveals his interest and skill in conveying depth and perspective in his paintings. As a Lunenburg artist, the Maritime subjects which make up the majority of his material reveal a passionate interest in interpreting the light, colour and design of the local environment. A graduate of the School of Applied Printing and Graphic Design in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and art instructor at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and various community centers, Frans’ teaching emphasizes drawing and painting technique as well as the development of sharp observational skills.

See more of Frans Aeyelts’ work at: www.fransaeyelts.com