Sherry Mitchell Workshop, May 8-10, 2008 at the Toronto Botanical Gardens
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Sherry's technique involves working from high-contrast photos to capture the drama of light and shade. Left: Sherry works with Alice Durst; Winnie Larsen and Dawn McDougal are heads down in the background. Below left: Liz Tudor works on a red hibiscus. Below right: Pam works from a photograph of a red rhododendron. |
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Todmorden Exhibition Reception, October 4, 2007
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Right: Juror Sheila Siegerman with Myra Sourkes, whose painting of Jacks in the Pulpit was awarded the prize for best composition. |  |
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Tasira Strimban Workshops on Mixing Greens, July 7-8 and July 11-12, 2007
| Tasira's two-day 'green' workshop focuses on techniques to use green colours in a richer and more vibrant way in botanical art. |
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Left: Irene, Linda and Dawn listen attentively as Tasira critiques a leaf study. |
Above: Tasira shows and comments on Ester's green reference chart. Every participant created a reference chart of greens for personal use. |
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Todmorden Wildflower Preserve Walk, May 6, 2007
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Paula Davies, executive director of the Wildflower Preserve at Todmorden Mills, was the expert guide at our spring walk. We saw bloodroot, white and red trilliums, mayapples, horsetail, blue cohosh, trees in flower, and more. About 20 people attended. |
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Katie Lee Workshop, March 2 to 4, 2007
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Hard at work in the light-filled room are Liz, Emily, Sophie and Caryl. Katie and Hannah discuss progress. |
Katie's three-day session ended with a critique of everyone's work. Here, Katie discusses Alice's Calla Lilly. |
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Katie passed on a huge amount of knowledge in her three-day workshop -- lots for us to absorb and assmilate. |
Workshop with Tasira Strimban, January 14, 2007
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Using red, blue and yellow more effectively to portray shade was the focus of a recent workshop given by Tasira Strimban. |
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Tasira will hold a second workshop on May 13 in which people can work on their Todmorden submissions. |
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Holiday Party, December 12, 2006
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More than 20 BAC members attended our end-of-year party. Shown here are Lynda and Tasira. Speaker John Sherk presented his slides on a group of wildflowers -- spring ephemerals -- and described the variations in their development. |
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Esther Lovrics won the doorprize: a huge basket of art supplies and a $50 gift certificate donated by Lisa Killam, manager of the Woolfitts store at 1153 Queen Street West in Toronto. For current Woolfitt's specials, visit their website at www.woolfitts.com/Fulfill/ |
BAC Open Studio and Portfolio Photoshoot, November 5, 2006
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Photographer Diogenes Baena photographed paintings and drawings of 15 BAC members for the portfolio project and BAC website galleries. |
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The rooftop room has been the perfect location for BAC Open Studios, with plenty of natural light from the walls of windows, even on a grey November day.
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BAC Open Studio, October 22, 2006
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BAC members develop and polish their skills at the first of three Open Studio sessions: five hours of distraction-free drawing and painting time – what luxury. |
Hannah, Sophie Barbara, and Liz confer. Join us in 2007 for more Open Studios. |
Todmorden Walk, September 24, 2006
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In preparation for our 2007 exhibition, “Native Plants at Toronto’s Todmorden Mills,” about 20 BAC members took a discovery walk at Todmorden’s Wildflower Preserve. Everywhere we looked were special plants and trees. |
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Paula Davies (fourth from the left), Executive Director of Todmorden’s Wildflower Preserve, conducted our tour, sharing her extensive knowledge of native plants and trees as well as the challenges of restoring a disturbed area to its original condition. Stay tuned for announcements about our spring walk at Todmorden. |
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Read more about the Wildflower Preserve at www.hopscotch.ca/tmwp/preserve/index.html