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Friday Brush & Palette Projects Gallery

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This page consists of past projects, lessons and activities held at the Red Barn Arts Centre with the Brush & Palette Group.

Friday, March 19, 2021 Betty gave us lessons on Chinese Brush Painting.

Supplies include watercolour paints, rice paper, backing board with felt or a tea towel for the paper to sit on, Chinese brushes or a large round brush. We begin by learning how to hold  the brush and started to practice with varying degrees of pressure, speed and moisture doing strokes of leaves and tulips "thinking Spring!" and progressed to other ideas of what we would like to paint. Betty stamped our dried painting with a Chinese seal of the "Hope of Spring" and/or "Peace" as a tribute to our creativity. Final paintings are to be mounted onto a stronger paper with wallpaper paste and air bubbles rolled out with a Breyer.

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Chinese brush painting techniques do not try to create a realistic rendering of the external appearance of a subject, but instead seek to capture its inner spirit (qi "life force).

Our Mission
To advance the public's appreciation of the arts through production of public art exhibitions, presentations, performance arts events and arts festivals, and by providing a forum for qualified artists to exhibit, present, or perform their artistic, cultural and literacy works through participation in such events.To advance education and increase the public's understanding and appreciation of the arts by conducting workshops and classes on various topics in the realm of arts, and by conducting a community choir and amateur theater group for members of the community and the general public.
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Eagle Valley Arts Council sincerely thanks all  funding partners and all volunteers who provide support and  service in the operations, maintenance and preservation of the Red Barn Arts Centre, Sicamous, BC

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