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Watercolour Canada Symposiums (concluded)
Symposiums last for a weekend to five days. They offer:
- an intensive instructional experience.
- access to a number of quality instructors.
- a combination of demonstrations, and hands-on sessions.
- on-site painting in spectacular surroundings.
- discussions and critiques.
As a very new member of the
CSPWC I attended the Bowen Island Symposium in 1999 where
I met Les Tibbles. Each morning I rose at the crack of dawn
to find Les already up, waiting for the sun to rise so he
could get out there and paint. By evening most of us would
have one or two small paintings.Les
would often cover two tables with his work.
At the comments about the amount
he was producing he would reply, “I don’t know
about you, but I came here to paint.” I hope this
painting captures, not just a moment in time, but the life’s
purpose of an artist I admire and respect.
WATERCOLOUR CANADA SYMPOSIUMS
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Calgary, Alberta
August 2006
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Halifax, Nova
Scotia Nov. 2002
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Elliot Lake,
Ontario Aug. 2001
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Bowen Island,
British Columbia Sept. 1999
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Ottawa, Ontario
Sept .1998
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Jasper, Alberta
May/June 1997
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Gananoque,
Ontario June 1995
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Elliot Lake,
Ontario Sept. 1992
Five public seminars in Toronto and two Watercolour Weekends
in Calgary in earlier years.
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| Tim Packer Les Tibbles:
I Came Here to Paint. |
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| Doris McCarthy demonstrates
painting on-site at the Jasper Symposium. |
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