The Britannia Drawing Jam 
Britannia Community Centre

OCT 1, 2016
1pm - 4pm
Britannia Centre | 1661 Napier Street
Workshop Location: Al Mattison Lounge at Britannia Centre
FREE | No registration required

Workshop #1 - Complete The Incomplete: A Line Or A Mark Creates The Spark with Donna Cowan
 
This game challenges you to incorporate a simple line into a new drawing that's all your own. Two or more can play. Each person makes a line on a page, any curve, angle, arch or squiggle will do. Pages are then exchanged, so no one gets their own squiggle. The page can be viewed from any angle,  ideas begin to percolate and participants grow a whole new image from the original line. 
 
Workshop #2 -Still Life Sketching With Paddi McGrath
 
Various still life scenes with a slightly spooky theme will be set up for the participants to sketch and draw. No sketching experience required. All supplies provided.
 
Workshop #3 -Exquisite Visage with Paula Luther & Claire Louise Brown
 
No human has a completely symmetrical face, but this goes one step further! Fold the paper in half and see the wacky and inspiring results of a face drawn by 2 different people. Then turn your favourite into a 3 inch button. Pens, pencils and oil pastels will be available. 

Participants of all ages and experience are welcome.
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Donna Cowan studied painting at York University in Toronto and at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax where she earned a BFA. She has lived in East Vancouver in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood for over twenty years. She worked in the commercial classical animation industry for ten years on feature films, television specials, and commercials. Her freelance experience includes illustration, portraiture, mural, faux-finish and decorative paint experience. . Her self-directed works have been largely focused on the coastal landscape of British Columbia. She participates in the annual Eastside Culture Crawl where she opens her Parker Street Studio to the public.
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​Claire is an honour roll student at Britannia Secondary School. She is an active member of the Vancouver Carnival Band and the Greenhorn Community Music Project. She recently assisted on the Ground Murals at Britannia Community Services Centre and has interests in drawing, painting, collage, wood burning and ceramics. 
For more information:
Britannia Community Centre
Website | 604.718.5825
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​paula luther is a mixed-media Community Artist based in East Vancouver. 
She is the Lead Instigator of the Letter Writing Club and Love is Always the Answer Project.  paula has worked closely with Britannia Community Centre for the past 15+ years, leading workshops & hosting events.  Her work is an observation of the beauty & absurdity of life.  paula uses art to transform ourselves and build community.  
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​Paddi McGrath lives and works in Vancouver. She graduated with a BFA from Emily Carr and also studied at the University of Victoria and the Alberta College of Art. Currently, as well as working in her studio, she also facilitates the art of vulnerable seniors and enjoys conducting workshops with all ages. She is also a founding member of Magpie’s Nest Community Art
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Paddi prefers to work in mixed media and loves painting in both oils and acrylics. She also enjoys printmaking, collage and the occasional bit of sculpture using chicken wire or found objects. She always has a sketch book on the go, filled with drawings and scribblings in pencil, chalk pastel, oil pastel and different coloured inks. Even old liquid eyeliner has become a favourite drawing tool.  Her preferred subject matters range from naturalistic themes such as the urban forest and her beloved crows to more surreal images that come from a private mythology and a lifelong dedication to daydreaming and doodling. These images can be of dancers and wolves, or Victorian ladies with fish bowl hats.