Three Perspectives: Painting Gaetz Lake Sanctuary

with Carol Lynn Gilchrist

Participants will complete a scene of Gaetz Lake Sanctuary. Carol Lynn will discuss how drawing/sketching for painting requires a simplification of the scene, understanding how the picture plane is divided into the background, middle and foreground.

Setting up the palette for success and colour mixing will be covered, as well as lots of tips. We will use a photograph throughout the process, and put into practice the three types of perspective: Linear, Atmospheric, and Solar. The pace of this workshop will be brisk, and so the drawing will be provided and traced to allow for more time painting.

Paintings can be completed in Acrylic or Oil. Canvas & reference sketch provided; painting supplies are not included – view the supply lists here. Some painting experience is required.

This workshop was originally scheduled for February and has since been postponed. New workshop date is March 5, 2023.

About Carol Lynn Gilchrist – landscapes and cARTography

Carol Lynn was always drawing as a child, however her first interest was in architectural design and drafting and considers her formal training as her starting point on her artistic path. She’s been painting ‘en plein air’ for over 14 years, starting first in watercolour (self-taught) while on her summer vacations, and the last two years in oils. In 2010 she took a week long class with Joanna Moore (Edmonton artist) at RDC Series that focused on using watercolour in the ‘plein air style’. Retirement came in 2011 and she started painting full time. Plein air painting just felt like the right way to paint for her. Outdoors in nature, applying paint directly on the canvas/paper. Distilling the expansive scene into a few main shapes, simplifying and capturing the essence of the place and time. Being in the moment. To go out and paint is like having an adventure!

She continues to explore themes of land, water, and the impact of human development in her art practice, and often plays with emotion and the memory of place to convey her emotional attachment to the land.

Carol Lynn’s work is currently on display as part of the exhibit, Landmarks: A Sense of Place.