We hope you had a Merry Christmas and wish you a happy new year!
We look forward to seeing you back at the Windsor Park Pavilion on Tuesday, January 9th. We've put together what we hope will be an interesting program for the new year. Some members have graciously offered to take the lead for some of the sessions. More details for each session will be sent out by email a few days prior, so check your emails.
The last two weeks of March are set aside for the show, so there will be no program for that period. Our starting time will remain at 11 am with a refreshment or lunch break around 12:30, and Show and Share time to be determined.
If you have any questions, please contact one of us.
Jan 9 Colour and value playshop with Robin Woodworth
Jan 16 Reuse an old painting workshop
Jan 23 Character Model
Jan 30 Still life and Art Supply Sale (start setting aside any unwanted art supplies now!)
Feb 13 Abstract Painting session with Jill Sabre
Feb 20 Critique with Claire Christinel, guest artist
Feb 27 Framing demo and Rand slideshow
Mar 5 Still life - heirlooms
Mar 12 Paint your own
Apr 2 Members talk - tba
Apr 9 Life model
Apr 23 Plein air demo
Apr 30 Spring luncheon
Greater detail will be sent out a few days prior to each session.
Many thanks!
Program Directors
Terry McBride (termcb@gmail.com)
Bonny Myers (bonnydmyers@gmail.com) |
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December 5
Christmas-themed still life |
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| Members arrived today bearing Christmas-themed items and built a number of winter displays for the day's still-life sketching activity. |
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December 12
Christmas Potluck Luncheon |
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| VSC members gathered one last time in 2023 to wish one another a happy holiday and an ever better new year. We marked the day with a glorious potluck luncheon, and finished up with a rowdy Secret Santa Does Art Books activity that encouraged plotting and thievery. |
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Member Profile
with Phillippa Brown |
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 Phillippa works in many medias including graphite, watercolour and acrylic, or basically whatever she has at hand to make a mark. Although she has been drawing since a very early age, finding the time to make art consistently has been a struggle in her adult life. Now retired, she hopes to start honing some of her skills and become deeply involved in the daily practice of making art.
Phillippa was born in England and grew up in Squamish, B.C. from the age of five to 21. In her 20s, she studied studio art at Capilano College before continuing on to complete a BA in Anthropology (Museum studies), and a little later, a Masters in Library and Information Studies (MLIS ’95) at UBC. This is where she made the acquaintance of the irrepressible Val Lawton, with whom she reconnected 25 years later here in Victoria.
After graduating from UBC, Phillippa came to Victoria and started working at the Greater Victoria Public Library as the Children’s Librarian for the Bruce Hutchison Branch. After 25 years at multiple branches and posts, she retired last year as a Planning Coordinator, responsible for statistics, a far cry from story times and anything c reative. Having retired, she is now volunteer treasurer for the FCA Victoria Chapter and was delighted to join the Victoria Sketch Club last spring. At about the same time, Phillippa also treated herself to a new greenhouse which she is slowly learning how to use.
Now busy with gardening, art, walks with friends and family, Phillippa is wondering how on earth she ever fit working for a living into her life. |
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Submitting your Member ProfileConsider adding your profile to this monthly section! Please included a bio picture, as well as a sample of your art. Word count can range from 200 to 300 words. Submissions and / or queries can be sent to me, the Editor-- Val Lawton |
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 | Once again, Victor Lotto makes it to print, this time in an article in a recent issue of Tweed magazine, in an article entitled "When all the world is your muse"! Congratulations, Victor! You are keeping busy!
If you have news you'd like to share with your VSC colleagues, please forward it, preferably with images, to The Editor. |
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