Plein Air Water-Color Course with Martha Robinson

Martha Robinson is coming back to Bathurst to teach a week long course in Plein Air water-color on location at some of the Chaleur Region's most enchanting spots.  The course will take place from Aug. 13th to 17th and is open to any non-beginner water-colorists.  The course cost will be $250 for the full 5 days and $60 per day as selected by the artist if they simply want to come for one day or more or to specific locations.  To register please contact Adrienne at 506-548-2160 or at aelfner@rogers.com.  Registration and payment must be completed by August 10th. 

Thank you and I hope you will consider this wonderful opportunity to paint Chaleur at it's best!

June Art Workshop Weekends at the Bay Breeze Art Gallery

New Art Classes at the Bay Breeze Art Gallery                                                                      

Birch in Fall - Water Colour

Water Colour Weekend - June 9th and 10th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This is a course for beginners to the wonderful medium of water and paint.  You will learn the basic terms, materials, and techniques to successfully work in this manner.  Water colour is a medium that is easily transportable from outside to indoors with minimum effort.  A great way to enjoy your holidays no matter where you may be.  Cost is $120
Materials are available at the gallery.

Opera - Acrylic, and collage on tissue paper



Sea Grass - Acrylic, sand and gesso

 Acrylic Weekend - June 23rd and 24th, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

This is a course for people who would like to explore the medium of acrylic paint while reaching outside the box, to use acrylic mediums now used in modern contemporary art making with such additives as glass, sand, gesso, and collage.  This course will allow you to be totally creative and we will not be copying greeting cards, or paintings of other artists.  Cost of course is $120 for the weekend.  Materials are available for sale at the galllery.

 

To register call the Bay Breeze Art Gallery at 506-546-6937 or

Adrienne Elfner-Hazen at 506-548-2160.



Art Classes at the Bay Breeze Art Gallery

Art Classes are up and running again at the Bay Breeze Art Gallery!

We have a lot more interest for the contemporary acrylic painting classes which are based on the principles taught by American Artist Robert Burridge. This is an upbeat class with music to get you moving! Here we break a lot of the rules previously set out in traditional approaches to art making. Want to varnish a water-colour? Why not! Want to drip, splatter, throw and paint with your fingers? Yes, you may! Energy and freedom are the key of achieving great success and enjoyment in creating your own unique style of art.

The next session of these classes may be in the form of 3 or 4 day workshops in the Spring.

Besides this we are offering, Formal Drawing classes on Wednesday nights and Intermediate

Water-colours on Tuesday mornings. In the Water-colour class we are experimenting with some new and adventurous techniques as well, such as working with syringes and needles to spray the water-colour on our paper randomly to create unique effects.

My Little Kids and Big Kids art classes did not go this session due to low registration but I am keeping my hand in Children's art by teaching a fun class with grade 3's at a local school.

Stay tuned for further announcements!

Greetings to everyone! Well it doesn't look a lot like Christmas here in Bathurst, N.B. but we are just that much closer to spring minus all the usual number of times out snow shovelling! I am thinking that climatically, we have changed places with Vancouver, B.C.

I wanted to let you know that I will be starting all new art classes at the Bay Breeze Art Gallery the 2nd week of January.

I will be offering: Drawing, Water-colors, Children's Art Classes, for both little kids ( ages - 6 - 9) and (ages 10 - 14), and my new favorite - Contemporary Acrylic. Whether you want to learn the fundamental formal techniques of drawing or watercolors or if you want to break out and explore art without borders I believe you will find what you are looking for with me!

The painting above is not really what I'll be teaching but you never know where your talent may lead you! (This painting is "Boiled Beans . . .", by Salvador Dali). Just look at the imagination this artist had!

If you want to leave your name for any of my upcoming classes please call me at 506-547-0491 or 506-548-2160. The gallery will close today for the holidays at 4 p.m. It will re-open only for teaching art classes until later - time to be announced.

Love to see you all back and I would be happy to have any new students who want to break into this method of creativity for relaxation, fun and to break through the barrier of fear of trying your hand at art making! This is such a great way to balance the stress of everyday life or to simply loose yourself into the serenity of painting and drawing.

My best wishes go out to you for a Happy Holiday Season and a Wonderful New Year!

The Dominican Republic by Marie Oliver

This month the Bay Breeze Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of Dominican Republic Art created by Marie Oliver. These pictures are a collection of memories of Marie's third tour to the Dominican where her mission was to assist a local Bathurst group of missionaries in building a new church, a school and helping the local people in any way they could. Each year this group brings clothing, medical supplies, educational tools and much more donated by their churches and the community at large.

As of today most of the paintings have been sold and all the funds will be donated by Marie for to supporting the 2011 mission back to the Dominican Republic where assistance to the local people is greatly appreciated. The time, artistry and materials were also donated by Marie to make this fund raiser possible.

There are still 6 paintings in the larger size (24 x 24") available for sale at the unbelievable price of $100.00 each. The fall hours for the Bay Breeze Art Gallery are Tuesdays to Saturdays from

10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Even if you are not in the market for such a bargain please drop in to see the exhibit and life as it is depicted in this collection of inspiring works!

True Patriot Love

Well we've painted a lot of pictures on many different surfaces but this is the first time we've painted on military helmets! This was our job this past week at the Bay Breeze Art Gallery.

We were asked to paint something unique and individual on these helmets to be auctioned off

in Fredericton to help support military families in need.

The mother instinct in Marie Oliver and myself came out with our messages of hope and peace!

Marie painted butterflies on hers with the message< "Butterflies are Free" and mine was a collage depicting the symbolic dove carrying the message of "Peace".

This was special to me this year because our family welcomed home my nephew Cpl. Adam Elfner (age 22) from Afganistan after his first deployment. We were so thankful that he returned safe, although several of his very close comrades did not. Adam is back in university where he is working on a degree in history.

This week marks the start of new art classes at the gallery. There is still room in all the classes so if you are interested please call Adrienne at 548-2160 or Marie at 548-3493. Little Kids classes begin next Saturday.

We're Ready to kick off an all new season of art lessons at the Bay Breeze Gallery

This photo is of Holly, Olivia and Audrey who created a co-operative painting based on Vincent Van Gogh's Stary Night! Great job girls!!!


Hello everyone! Well it is mid-September and it's time to think about how you are going to spend your time this fall and winter!

As some of you may be aware a schedule of fall art classes has been prepared and is in the Northern Light newspaper this week, on the City of Bathurst website and available at the Gallery (new hours 10-4 p.m. daily - Tues. to Sat.)

Just to re-cap:

Marie Oliver and I are offering the following classes:

Marie: Traditional oil and acrylic painting - times to be announced.

Adrienne: Advanced Water-color Tues. 9:30 - 11:30 10 weeks
Beginner's Water-color Tues. 7:00 - 9:00 10 weeks
Formal Drawing Weds. 7:00 - 9:00 10 weeks
Contemporary Acrylic Thurs. 9:30 - 11:30 10 weeks or
7:00 - 9:00
Children's Art Sat.
(This class can be separated into 2 groups Little Kids in the morning and
Big Kids in the afternoon).

The cost of all classes, except for children has gone up to $200 for 10 weeks to keep in line with other art classes in the region. The children's classes are $150 and includes materials. If you are a member of the Bathurst Art Society there is a $25.00 discount advantage. Call me at 548-2160 to register or Marie at 548-3493.

We have all kinds of new products for sale at the gallery for pastel painting, oil painting, water-colors, acrylic and drawing. We also have a wonderful new product of canvas and floating frame for excellent prices as well as various formats of new canvases. We have great prices and charge no sales tax! Come and see us.