A one-off 3-hour workshop using classroom-grade acrylic paint. This workshop moves students through some basic techniques, and care of materials, relative to acrylic painting, using these paints that most schools commonly have. The instructor will show examples of the ways she has used this paint with children on supports ranging from sheets of paper to the cinder block walls of a school gym.
Students will then make one painting, based on a theme agreed on in advance between the artist and the teacher. This gives the teacher some flexibility to incorporate this workshop within a general theme they may be working on in their art classes. A template of the subject can be provided to help less experienced students, if necessary.
About the artist - Elizabeth Sircom
Originally from the Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia, Elizabeth Sircom received her art training in Paris, France, with painter Lionel Verrrier, and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and lived in Le Havre, Normandy for 20 years, working as a professional artist and art teacher (drawing, painting and clay sculpture). Her interest in portraiture led to involvement in several community art projects on a portrait theme. She returned with her family to live in Nova Scotia in 2013 and since then has been an active member of Visual Arts Nova Scotia, CARFAC and the Nova Scotia Potters’ Guild, giving many workshops to adults and children through PAINTS and ArtsSmarts, at the Acadia University Art Gallery in Wolfville, and at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. She has exhibited at the Corridor Gallery, the Charles MacDonald Concrete House in Centreville, the Cedar Centre in Windsor, and in Charlottetown in 2017, where she exhibited a series of historical busts on a Confederation theme. She exhibited at ArtCan Gallery in 2021 and at the Ice House Gallery in Tatamagouche in 2022, in the portrait-themed show "Face Value".
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