Papver orientalis – Poppy seed heads

Carica papaya – Bermuda Paw-paw

Rosa canina – Rose Hip

Cichorium intybus – Chicory

Pandanus utilis – Screw Pine

Hydrangea macrophylla – Big Leaf Hydrangea

All art work by Margaret Best.

Create a Luscious Painting with Artist Heather Sayeau

Create a luscious painting on canvas using house paint brushes. Learn how to manipulate the brushes to execute fine lines, delicate sweeps of colour and expressive brushwork. All you need are a few 1 1/2” and 2” brushes and 24 x 24” canvases from the Dollar store + paints. The classes include a daily demonstration, visuals and practical critical advice. Enjoy the expressive potential house paint brushes can bring to your artistic life.

Cost: $140. Material list will be supplied. Bring a lunch.

Heather Sayeau is a graduate of NSCAD University. She taught painting and drawing in the Fine Art Department at NSCAD and in the Continuing Studies Department until retirement in the spring of 2017. Her practice focuses on nature and the beauty of everyday life and how painting can express her emotional relationship to subject matter. Her work is in private and public collections in Canada and the U.S.