In this ONLINE course, students will experiment with mark-making, layering, colour control and some modification strategies. We will explore the fundamentals of tone and colour (and its relationship to surfaces) with a focus on the relationship between what we...
This ONLINE class provides an opportunity for students to focus on developing a personal voice, understanding and capitalizing on inherent visual tendencies, comprehending the process of completing a coherent body of work and developing the confidenc...
This ONLINE 6 week course is experimental. Its nature is not instructional, but rather inspired by our individual approaches. We will look into our artmaking during pandemic times: what does it mean to us, what is it giving...
This ONLINE course introduces students to all of Adobe Lightroom - the industry standard for asset management and photo editing. This class will cover a range of the application’s possibilities, from importing and organizing files, folder hierarchies, to making glob...
This 6 week ONLINE course is designed for students who want to learn how to draw botanicals and explore the possibilities of drawing and collaging with a variety of wet and dry media including ink, water colour, pencils and pencil crayons. We will be working with leaves, flowe...
This ONLINE course will introduce students to classical techniques of portrait drawing through the fundamentals of observational drawing and an understanding of anatomy. Using photo references and sketchpads as the main media, students will learn how...
This ONLINE course introduces classical techniques of portrait painting, focused on realism. Students may use oils or acrylics. The instructor will introduce the materials she uses (oils) and provide insight as to her choices. She will demonstrate techniques and stud...
This ONLINE Colour Theory/Mixingcourse will focus on painting projects geared toward teaching colour harmonies and colour theory to better understand and control the outcome of colour mixing. The projects teach the colour theor...
Composition is the one key transferable skill that all artists, regardless of medium, should master in order to create truly meaningful and relatable work.
With good composition you can tell a story and control the audience's mood, but it's not eas...
ZBrush is the leading digital sculpting software in the industry. ZBrush feels very much like traditional sculpting and allows for limitless creativity. This ONINE course is geared towards beginner and intermediate students who wish to gain a solid foundation in digital sculpt...
This ONLINE beginner's course will help students to get started drawing realistic and three-dimensional forms. Through online demos, slide shows and images, students will learn observational drawing techniques combined with tradit...
Expressive paint-handling is one of the most important qualities of a good work of art. Neglecting the improvement of your brush skills will always hold back your painting progress. The terms “expressive” or “gestural” are used to describe a metho...
This is an 8 week ONLINE course where only clothed figure models will be used. Instead of posing live online, the instructor will photograph the models at the TSA studios and email a selection to all class participants. This allows variation in pose ...
This introductory level 8 week ONLINE course focuses on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, the industry standard software programs used by artists and designers alike. All aspects of Illustrator will be introduced, and students will learn how to create vector illustrations, edit...
With the aim of inspiration, encouraging artistic growth and an empathetic understanding of the inner process of creating art, Iris Haeussler will invite up to 6 students into her studio (ONLINE via ZOOM) to learn about her work, creative environment...
This ONLINE course emphasizes basic life drawing skills in gesture, contour, and value (light and shadow). It is designed to teach students the key skills necessary to render the figure in three dimensions. Instruction in body structure and proportion is inclu...
This 3 Day Workshop is designed for students who want to explore mono printing without a press, but using instead a Gelli Plate. Through presentations, various processes will be introduced including positive and negative printing techniques, ghost im...
This ONLINE course for beginners aims to give the participants an understanding of some of the fundamental elements of painting an image - whether a person, landscape or still life. In this course we will focus on Still Life, Landscape and Portrait.
In this weekend ONLINE workshop, students will learn how to set up a warp, hand weave and finish a tapestry on a frame loom. Students will learn weaving terminology, how to construct a warp and shed for weaving on a frame, various weaving techniques, how to cut your ...
In Figure Drawing, an understanding of anatomy can help to create more subtlety of description and a better sense of articulation: the parts tying together into a cohesive and dynamic whole.
This ONLINE 4 Day Intensive Workshop is str...
Figure Drawing with a healthy dash of Perspective.
The focus of this three-day workshop is the representation of the human figure as a 3-dimensional form in space, something that can really assist with conveying foreshortened forms. Some of the ...
Perspective for Beginners is an ONLINE introductory course to the fundamental perspective concepts and systems. This is a course appropriate for students with little to no experience with perspective drawing or students who need a refresher on basic perspective conce...
This ONLINE course is an excellent companion and/or follow-up to a basic perspective course. It's focus is 1, 2, and 3-point perspective – centered around lessons that will help you to draw anything from graphic novels, fine art sketch...
This ONLINE course will introduce beginner and intermediate level students to the basics of drawing portraits from observation. Working with a variety of models, we will investigate the 'landscape' of the human head: the layout of faces and the particulars of...
This ONLINE three half-day intensive workshop will include live stream webcam demonstrations that will illustrate how to prepare surfaces with a unique mix of light moulding pastes, Golden Absorbent ground and water; how to use powdered graphite mixed with acr...
This ONLINE course is appropriate for anyone looking to make drawings that feel more three dimensional. In this course, students will learn how to confidently draw the five major forms and how to recognize them in every-day objects. Students wil...
Get creative your energy flowing in this ONLINE Introductory 4 session workshop. This workshop will lead students in how to initiate creative ideas, design development, colour theory, and how to hand draw elements and set up an all over repeating pattern ...
This unique combination Online / In-Person workshop explores the transformative power of light in the urban and natural landscape. We will be shooting photographs at twilight or early evening, when the transition from day to night transforms unique places...
This introductory-level ONLINE course focuses on teaching students the fundamentals of video editing with the Adobe Premiere Pro software. Through tutorials and projects using sample footage, students will learn everything they need to know to edit together and exhibit their o...
In this 5 (half day) ONLINE workshop (Youth 13-19 years), students will learn to design their own characters and then learn the basic principles of animation. This course is a great introduction to animation in film for students just starting ou...
This ONLINE Youth Art workshop offers students ages 11-17 years the opportunity to explore their imagination through drawing, mixed media and mono printing. Students will learn technical skills as well as expanding their knowledge of contemporary and art hi...
This 5 (half day) ONLINE workshop is a great choice for youth (13-19 years) with an interest in creating comics and characters.
Learn how to tell stories with the pictographic language of comics. Students will develop and refine their char...
This 5 (half day) ONLINE workshop (1PM-5PM) for students ages 13-19 years is perfect for anyone with a desire to draw and create animated characters.
Learn how to design and illustrate animated characters through a var...
This ONLINE 4 Day Workshop for Youth (ages 13-17 years) is designed for students who want to explore mono printing without a press but using a Gelli Plate. Through demonstrations, various processes will be introduced - including...