Life Drawing & Oil Painting – 5 Week Workshop
Life Drawing & Oil Painting with Nico DeRepentigny
Open to all skill-levels
5 Sessions over 5 Weeks
Sundays 7:30pm – 9pm (1.5hr sessions)
February 15th – March 15th
*limited space
This workshop will be facilitated to support artists of ALL skill-levels. Our intention with these sessions is to give artists the opportunity to work with a live model, regardless of experience. The bulk of the instruction will be in *Sessions 3 & 4 (see details below), with ample opportunity to self-direct and/or ask questions.
Sessions will be 1.5hrs long between 7:30pm and 9pm on Sundays, starting February 15th.
Rates:
Non-Members: $170
Members: $155
Student/Senior: $100
Accessible: $100
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February 15th – Session #1 (1.5hrs):
Life Drawing Session: Nude Model
- 15min Intro to Figure Drawing, settling in – acknowledging the space, allowing the model to settle in.
- 1hr of drawing w/ model:
- traditional timed figure drawing structure (short warm-ups to longer poses)
- 15min Outro – for thoughts, discussion & questions
Materials Provided
- easels, newsprint, drawing materials (pencils, charcoal, coloured pencil, pastels)
- *please feel free to bring your own drawing materials
February 22nd – Session #2 (1.5hr):
Drawing as Intro to Painting: Live Model
- 15min Intro & warmup to drawing for painting (technique, composition, situating body in space, etc)
- 1hr Drawing
- 15min Outro – thoughts, discussion & questions
Materials Provided
- easels, newsprint, drawing materials (pencils, charcoal, coloured pencil, pastels)
- *please feel free to bring your own drawing materials
March 1st – Session #3 (1.5hr):
*Intro to Oil Painting: Still life (fabrics, objects, etc.)
- Focussing on colour, composition, moving paint, light, values, using a restricted palette, etc.
- 15min Outro – thoughts, discussion & questions
Materials Provided
- easels, canvas paper, oil paints, solvents, palettes, palette knives, etc.
- *please feel free to bring your own painting materials
March 8th – Session #4 (1.5hrs):
*Oil Painting: Live Model
- 15min Intro (prep, settling in, situation model in space, etc.)
- Oil Painting with a live model (underpainting, values, light/shadows, palette, etc.)
- 15min Outro – thoughts, discussion & questions
Materials Provided
- easels, medium sized canvas, oil paints, solvents, palettes, palette knives, etc.
- *please feel free to bring your own painting materials
March 15th – Session #5 (1.5hrs):
Oil Painting: Live Model continued..
- 1hr to continue to work on painting (form, colour, details, etc.)
- 30min Outro – discussion, thoughts, questions
Materials Provided
- easels, medium sized canvas, oil paints, solvents, palettes, palette knives, etc.
- *please feel free to bring your own painting materials
Nico DeRepentigny is a local artist who you might recognize from the summer artist markets where they drew your portrait, the many shop signs and murals they have painted for businesses around Dawson, or most recently the (s)hiver 2026 poster design. Their practice is intuitive and thoughtful. They are offering this 5 week Life Drawing & Oil Painting Workshop with assistance from Lacey Leforte, a SOVA alum and avid life drawing meditator.
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