The Paint Spot
10032 81 Avenue NW T6E 1W8 Edmonton, AB, Canada

Which colour scheme speaks to you? New Chiyogami patterns arrived today! It’s always a treat to open a package from Japanese Paper Place.

Yes we are still open with a few more rules in place. You will get an excellent level of service while keeping everyone safe. Thank you.

Covid is kicking our butts! The Paint Spot is open because art is the therapy we need right now. Let’s all take care of each other. Be smart and be safe.

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We are pretty excited!!! Online course in oil painting are coming very soon. Our first series features @zheliskoart. These are a lot of work but hopefully it is another way for the artists and students to connect. @fabercastellcanada @nevapalette

Our Halloween window display is still up. It’s hilarious that the paper ghosts appear excited to see the snow . Do you wanna make a snowman?

Gelli Plate Collage A real treat for your imagination and a great way to add a new way of art making to your practice! Join Sally and learn how to use your gelli plate to print some fun papers that you will then use to create collages. Have fun making interesting collaged plant and animal scenes! If you are not familiar with the unbelievable versatility of the gelli plate, now is the time to enjoy printmaking at its easiest. Sally Towers-Sybblis is a full-time artist and call...igrapher from Red Deer, Alberta. In her classes students are challenged to find their own inner artist by unleashing their innate capacity to create. Her teaching style is one that inspires and evokes joy through the process of creating. Her journey to become an artist began at Grant MacEwan University where she studied Fibre Arts and Visual Communications. Sally has taught extensively throughout Alberta, including venues such as the Red Deer College Summer Series, and the north and south teachers conferences. Her work has been featured in several magazines including The Lettering Arts Review. To learn more about Sally or purchase her book, visit her website. See more

Upcycle - From 'Junk' to Art! Recommended for Beginners! Class limit 8! Whether you found them, bought them, or inherited them, you probably own things you think of as junk or perhaps you regard them as treasures, if you only knew what to do with them! Dont throw them out repurpose them. ... Welcome into the world of upcycling and art. These days it's important to reduce our impact on the planet with our garbage. Why not learn how to make art with it instead? Artist Jani Galarneau is known for her passion of upcycling. Learn how to incorporate items that would normally go to landfill into amazing pieces of art in this two-day retreat. Canadian artist Jani Galarneau is known for her infectious energy and a fierce passion for painting. Her innovation with mixed media is what she has excelled at. Currently her direction includes how to use garbage or recycled items in her art. Jani's whimsical and colorful style is woven into all she produces. Jani receives outstanding responses from her students, who love her style!

Encaustic Painting - Landscape Class limit 8 students. Explore encaustic painting with artist and instructor Jordan Pearson. This class will introduce you to the unique working techniques specific to encaustic painting (melted/pigmented beeswax). Jordans demos will focus on a specific approach to representational painting in encaustic which involves drawing transfers, colour mixing, scraping, glazing, and carving. Students will also be shown how to build smooth or textural s...urfaces to suit their encaustic scapes depending on the desired texture and background. This class will involve some drawing, and is open to beginners and those who have already taken a class in encaustic. Take home some small paintings and the temptation to try more! This class is ideal for anyone curious or interested in encaustic painting. Jordan Pearson studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, has a Visual Arts Diploma in painting from Red Deer College and holds a Bachelor of Education in Fine Art from the University of Alberta. She is an artist, educator and beekeeper who does encaustic painting in her Edmonton studio. She is passionate about helping others use art as their creative outlet. Check her work out online! @jordanpearsonalive.

Upcycle - From Junk to Art! Recommended for Beginners! Class limit 8! Whether you found them, bought them, or inherited them, you probably own things you think of as junk or perhaps you regard them as treasures, if you only knew what to do with them! Dont throw them out repurpose them. ... Welcome into the world of upcycling and art. These days its important to reduce our impact on the planet with our garbage. Why not learn how to make art with it instead? Artist Jani Galarneau is known for her passion of upcycling. Learn how to incorporate items that would normally go to landfill into amazing pieces of art in this two-day retreat. Canadian artist Jani Galarneau is known for her infectious energy and a fierce passion for painting. Her innovation with mixed media is what she has excelled at. Currently her direction includes how to use garbage or recycled items in her art. Janis whimsical and colorful style is woven into all she produces. Jani receives outstanding responses from her students, who love her style!

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Meet encaustic artist, Erinn Evans. See a sneak peek of her exhibition and find out which is her favourite piece. Do you want to know more about encaustics? We have a class for that!

Little Fall Watercolour Book Class limit 8 students Create a unique book from scratch using a simple binding technique. Fill your pages with some fun fall watercolor imagery and whimsical lettering. You will take home a delightful finished book! Before you come to class, jot some thoughts or quotes youd like to use in your book. No previous experience is required to take this class.... Sally Towers-Sybblis is a full-time artist and calligrapher from Red Deer, Alberta. In her classes students are challenged to find their own inner artist by unleashing their innate capacity to create. Her teaching style is one that inspires and evokes joy through the process of creating. Her journey to become an artist began at Grant MacEwan University where she studied Fibre Arts and Visual Communications. Sally has taught extensively throughout Alberta, including venues such as the Red Deer College Summer Series, and the north and south teachers conferences. Her work has been featured in several magazines including The Lettering Arts Review. To learn more about Sally or purchase her book, visit her website.

Meet Artist Karen Bishop live from Artelier Studios. Ask questions and get over your procrastination and fear of watercolours.

Watercolour: Ocean Sunset Class limit 8 students. Who doesnt love seeing a sunset by the ocean? Have you always wanted to learn how to paint such a beautiful scene in watercolour? The instructor will demo how to use a pouring technique to paint the skies, with minimal use of brush strokes. This is a cool way of painting using watercolours, and will introduce you to watercolour speed painting. In this step-by-step class you will also learn to determine the crucial time to ...use the wet-on-wet technique, the salt technique, as well as layering, masking, taping, and dry brushing. Thats a lot of techniques you will learn in one class! After this class you will be more confident in painting future dramatic scenes using these techniques. A photo reference will be provided by the instructor. In 2015, after a long hiatus from the Art World, Francis attended watercolour classes in Edmonton and rediscovered his love and mastery of the medium, with a newly found inspiration scenes of Alberta landscapes and architecture. He also specializes in dramatic portraits and still lifes. He has participated in various exhibitions in Edmonton at Lotus Art Gallery, Harcourt House, Art from the Unknown, and the Art Gallery of Alberta among others. Besides his commission work and constant practice, he also teaches frequent watercolour classes at The Paint Spot. Most of his free time is spent painting at his home studio, hoping never to retire being a watercolourist.

Discover Oil Painting! Class limit 88 students. Artists have been painting with oil paint for hundreds of years, and oil paint continues to be popular worldwide due to its versatility, quality, and rich colour. Getting started with oil painting can be challenging, even intimidating. Oil paint is different from acrylic paint: oil-based mediums are different from acrylic mediums, and you may be working with solvents. But please do not think this means you will be working with ...foul-smelling, unsafe materials like turpentine! Oil painting supplies are safe to use and virtually odour-free. Another difference is drying time, which is much longer for oil than for acrylic but this means the time you can work the paint to layer, blend, add, and subtract to your painting is much longer, too! Join this fun oil beginner class to unleash your creativity. Learn about the unique properties of oil paint and mediums, appropriate brushes, palettes, and painting surfaces. Get some really useful tips, especially necessary if you are an oil painting beginner! Take home a finished painting! Classically trained in Eastern Europe, Oksana began her art career in Lviv, Ukraine. Oksana studied at the Ivan Trush College of Decorative Arts. She chose to make painting, especially of murals, her specialty. In 2001, she held her first solo exhibition at the Lviv University of Ivan Franko. Oksana brings her training, skill, and passion to her painting, and she is versatile in expressive styles. She is adept at many genres, including portraiture, still life, and landscape.

Watercolour Landscapes in Seasons - Summer, Fall Class limit 8 students. Love to paint landscapes in watercolour? Need to gain more skill? To learn more about colour? More about paint application? Here is the class for you! This 2-day class is recommended for students who have some basic watercolour painting knowledge. We will be focusing on summer/fall palettes, will produce 2 colour charts, and will complete at least one painting for summer and one for fall, plus some small... practice pictures. Summer focus: how to paint trees, and how to use green. Fall focus: how to harmonize the fall colours, and how to use yellow. Expand your watercolour capabilities with Ada, who has been painting and teaching for many years, and who always receives great student reviews. Ada Wong, watercolour artist, was trained with old master oil painting techniques while she was growing up. She knew almost instantly that her art journey had begun a new chapter when she encountered the fluidity of the watercolour medium. Since then she has taken a journey filled with adventures.... For the past 30 some years, she has been teaching in different cities in Canada. To see her work, please visit her website: www.adawong.ca

Watercolour: Colourful Sunset Class limit 8 students. Do you want to learn how to paint this beautiful sunset scene in watercolour? In this fun and active class, the instructor will demo how to layer washes and colours, creating light and dark, space, distance, and various textures, while also showing you how to speed paint and manipulate your mounting board to create special effects. Learn how to achieve a graded wash, and to create a dramatic sky. You will also learn how to... paint distant trees by dropping paint in a wet-on-wet technique, and how to vary the scene in different colours. Using a rigger brush, watch and learn how to paint slim tree trunks and branches to complete the composition. This is a very practical class for the landscape painter! A photo reference will be provided by the instructor. In 2015, after a long hiatus from the Art World, Francis attended watercolour classes in Edmonton and rediscovered his love and mastery of the medium, with a newly found inspiration scenes of Alberta landscapes and architecture. He also specializes in dramatic portraits and still lifes. He has participated in various exhibitions in Edmonton at Lotus Art Gallery, Harcourt House, Art from the Unknown, and the Art Gallery of Alberta among others. Besides his commission work and constant practice, he also teaches frequent watercolour classes at The Paint Spot. Most of his free time is spent painting at his home studio, hoping never to retire being a watercolourist.

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Glass Painting - Oriental Poppies! Class limit 8 students. Stained glass is beautifully colourful, but real stained glass is complex and demanding to create. How about getting the look of stained glass, without the hassle of learning the craft first, or hiring a stained-glass artist? In this one-day class, Shelly will teach you how to use special glass paint to create a realistic-looking stained glass work of art! Learn how to lay down the imitation lead came to draw your o...utlines. Then, learn to create interesting and vibrant colour combinations to replicate the striking glass-like effects. Glass, paint and other materials are all included in the Supply Fee. Shelly is an award-winning coloured-pencil artist who also enjoys bookbinding and indigo dyeing. Her current passion is oil painting, but she paints in watercolour, too. She recently began to explore markers and became an instant fan! Shelly loves exploring new mediums - the more the merrier!

Begin Acrylic with Impasto! Class limit 8 students In this three-hour class you will create a bright, beautiful floral using the impasto technique. Impasto paintings are created by applying the paint thickly to create dramatic textures, light, and shadow. Oksana will teach a simplified approach to painting florals with a palette knife by breaking it down into basic shapes and values. Follow her demonstration step by step while learning the characteristics of acrylic paints an...d texture. Youll be amazed at what you can do with a limited colour palette and some basic colour mixing. A great start for new acrylic painters as well as artists who want to add new techniques to their repertoire! Classically trained in Eastern Europe, Oksana began her art career in Lviv, Ukraine. Oksana studied at the Ivan Trush College of Decorative Arts. She chose to make painting, especially of murals, her specialty. In 2001, she held her first solo exhibition at the Lviv University of Ivan Franko. Oksana brings her training, skill, and passion to her painting, and she is versatile in expressive styles. She is adept at many genres, including portraiture, still life, and landscape.

Fabric Arts: Indigo Dyeing Class limit 6 students This is a class that offers so many pleasant surprises! Using indigo is an ancient artform, thousands of years old in fact. Learn how to dye natural cloth with indigo dye it starts out green and turns many shades of blue, according to what you do with it. Not only that, but you can fold the cloth, stitch it, scrunch it with rubber bands, wrap it around all sorts of everyday objects like bolts in order to create patterns in v...arying shades of blue. Or apply your ingenuity and come up with new techniques! Shelly will have many ideas you can try out, too. You will go home with 2 flour sack tea-towels that you create in class. Important: If you like you can bring a few other pieces of natural fabric to dye: rayon, cotton, or linen up to 12x12 square. Shelly is an award-winning coloured-pencil artist who also enjoys bookbinding and indigo dyeing. Her current passion is oil painting, but she paints in watercolour, too. She recently began to explore markers and became an instant fan! Shelly loves exploring new mediums - the more the merrier!

Watercolour: Gorgeous Foliage! Class limit 8 students Here is a class that starts with quiet, gentle brush strokes to calm you and get you focused. Then, you will explore wet-in-wet watercolour techniques see how beautifully your colours will mingle together! Your observational skills will be brought into play as you look closely the growth of little plants that echo the growth of trees. Then on to the vibrant colours of fall, painting gorgeous foliage in your own individua...l way. This is a great class for those who want to paint in a free but not completely abstract way, while exploring their own style. Jan Fraser, a very popular instructor, has been an artist and educator for many years. She has taught art at the community level and with Edmonton Public Schools. Jan is a great explorer of art mediums watercolour, inks, acrylic paint she never stops creating!

6 Tricks for Painting Waterfalls in Watercolour! Class limit 8 students. Enhance your watercolour paintings and gain confidence in painting cascading water by learning 6 effective tricks in one class! Discover different ways to interpret a waterfall scene, while increasing your understanding of how to work effectively from photo references. In the morning, you will work through the trick exercises using your photo reference or one Julie provides. In the afternoon, youll put ...what youve leaned together to create your final painting. Let Julie show you how to create colours, textures, surfaces and depths in beautiful, ever-changing falling water and these tricks can be applied to other subjects, too! Julie Drew captures the beauty of creation from majestic mountains, to stunning waterfalls, and down to the details of flowers using watercolor and mixed media to capture the depths and nuances of color, light, shadow and shape of the world around her. She also makes handmade paper and incorporates it into her scenic paintings. Julie has been painting and teaching art for over 30 years. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, USA in 1987. She continues to grow as an artist exploring different techniques, which she can then share with her students. Julie teaches watercolor, papermaking, mixed media, color pencil, and acrylic. Julie connects art and faith, teaching retreats and workshops as well. Her art work and series of paintings have been exhibited around the province of Alberta and have been purchased for private collections in Canada, the United States, Australia, France and China. Website: www.JulieDrew-ArtandFaith.com. Facebook page: artistJulieDrew

Watercolour! Yupo! with Karen Bishop Class limit 8 students Learn, refresh and expand your knowledge of painting with watercolours on yupo paper. This will be a very hands on course with you doing lots of painting during our time together. We will explore how pigments mix and how to create clean, crisp colours. We will focus on contrasts throughout the 4 weeks: contrasts of colour, shape, line and edges, and values that can transform any scene into a beautiful painting. Our s...ubject matter will be primarily landscape painting with 1 class dedicated to a floral composition. Each lesson will build upon the skills we have learned from the previous week and in the final week I will include time for a critique for anyone interested, and show you how to mount your finished paintings onto a wood panel. Karen Bishop has been a professional artist for more than 15 years. She has been painting on yupo for several years. Karen used to co-own Daffodil Gallery in Edmonton. She is a busy, enthusiastic artist and instructor.

Wet Cyanotype & Photo Printmaking Class limit 8 students. This one-day class is perfect for anyone who wants to get a hands-on experience of cyanotype, a photographic process discovered in the 19th century. Using cyanotype printing you can turn everyday objects into fascinating, mysterious compositions. Its unique colour, Prussian Blue, can also be transformed as if by magic. In this class you will learn about different kinds of cyanotype image making and fully explore the po...tential of this authentic and unique artistic medium. During this class, you will learn to: Prepare and coat your paper Develop you own photographs using cyanotype Produce wet cyanotypes using flowers, leaves, and other unconventional material Not a fan of blue? Change your colour by toning your prints with coffee, tea, or watercolour washes Ziwei is an Edmonton-based photographer and visual artist. He enjoys taking photos of the vibrant street life and people around him. In order to advance his photography skills, he started experimenting with traditional printing techniques in 2018. He is familiar with techniques such as cyanotype, Van Dyke printing, and pinhole photography. His skills allow him to produce not only high quality photographs but also abstract images coming directly from nature. Ziwei is an art history student in The Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta.

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Saunders Waterford Watercolour Paper 22 x 30" 140 lb. Paper Cold Press, Hot Press, or Rough 7x10 Block ... was $54.50 SALE $38.15 10x14 Block was $80.50 SALE $56.35 14x20 Block was $125. SALE $88.50 Saunders Waterford is an exquisite watercolour paper, traditionally made on a cylinder mould machine. This is the superior quality watercolour paper made by St Cuthberts Mill and comes with the Royal Watercolour Societys endorsement. Made using 100% cotton, the highest quality papermaking material, to high archival standards. Each sheet is buffered with calcium carbonate to help defend finished pieces of work from discolouration caused by acids present in atmospheric pollution. Highest quality papermaking material with excellent archival properties. The paper will last for hundreds of years (in good storage conditions) and wont discolour or fall apart. It is 100% Cotton, acid Free, and archival Its attractive surface is created using natural woollen felts that give it a distinctive random texture. The surface is sized in gelatine making it strong and resilient to scrubbing, and other rough treatments. Choose from Cold Press, Hot Press or Rough surface.The 4 deckle edges are visually very beautiful, and are perfect for float framing. The beautiful random surface texture enhances the finished painting. Makes the sheet very strong and assists with flow of wash from brush to paper. It is resistant to scrubbing and other extreme treatments like masking fluid removal. Cylinder mould made Natural woollen felt textured Grain Direction: Long Grain Gelatine Surface Sized Available in High White, which we believe is the whitest archival watercolour paper made.No OBAs (Optical brightening agents) Highly lightfast (minimum 6+ on Blue Wool Scale) Watermarked and Embossed for authenticity Watermark bearing the name Saunders Waterford Embossed mark with the St Cuthberts cross Suitable for Multimedia. In addition to watercolour, this paper is suitable for pastel, gouache, acrylic, pencil, charcoal, pen & ink and printmaking.

Who remembers these awesome watercolour sets? Stevenson family retired last year. They sold everything. We just received 220 sets - all that is left in Canada. While supplies last - Value $59.95 SAVE 50% on SALE ONLY $29.95. Art instructors should consider these the sets. They last a long time and provide students will quality materials. Order now to avoid disappointment. https://www.paintspot.ca//clea/stevenson-watercolour-sets/

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Think watercolours are too wish-washy? Try #qorwatercolors by @goldenpaints They are so pigmented...Paynes Grey moves so beautifully. Here I am filling my @etchr_lab Hot Press Watercolour book. Stay tuned...as soon as our next shipment arrives we will be sharing a sketchbook tour. Which Etchr Watercolour Sketchbook are you using? I dont have horses but it seems all my neighbours do. Take a drive in rural Sherwood Park. Youll see them. It is hard to work plein air with th...ese models. Horses are so friendly and eager to meet me (or maybe see the art materials). Within minutes they are too close and petting them is more fun. #yegartist #edmontonartist #albertaartist

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