22-A19 Painting Landscapes from Around the World with Watercolours! – Haddock, Frank

Learn all the techniques you need to know while exploring some of the iconic landscapes from around the world. Enjoy the expert guidance of your instructor as he presents a new project using a step-by-step technique that will have you mastering this exciting medium. Selected projects include dramatic scenes from Europe, ancient buildings from Asia, lush green rain forests from South America, and crystal glaciers from the Arctic. Demonstrations will show participants different methods of manipulating watercolours to achieve realistic landscape paintings. Now, all you have to do is sign up! This course is for beginner’s and experienced students.

Biography

Frank Haddock is a versatile artist who works in any medium and currently focuses on watercolour. His works are characteristically illuminated by a strong light source that gives his art “an inner life and energy”. Frank’s artwork often focuses on human and animal forms upon which he arranges a cascade of light that produces interesting arrangements of shapes and colours. The result is a character study that has the spontaneous spirit of a moment caught in time. Frank has worked in the commercial art field as well as exhibiting art in many art galleries in Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. His work has been seen in “Galleries West Magazine”, “Edmonton Women’s Magazine”, and “Watercolour Artist Magazine (June 2009 issue)”. Frank received his BFA at the University of Alberta in 1984. As well as maintaining an active studio career and operating his own art school – the ARTRA Art School. Frank has been teaching for more than 20 years at Grant MacEwan University and several other cultural centres in Alberta. His work is shown throughout Western Canada and is represented in numerous private and public collections, including the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. One of his watercolours was included in the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour exhibition that appeared at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria several years ago.