Wilmer painting classes

Bill Doroshuk

the 7th Annual Wilmer Painting Week. 

It will take place from Monday September 10 to Friday September 14 and, as usual, will be based at the Delphine Lodge in Wilmer.  Artists are encouraged to paint out of doors (plein aire) and in whatever medium they choose (oils, acrylics, watercolours, charcoal, pen and ink....).  Our instructor/mentor this year will be Val McPhee, who taught us very successfully at the 2nd Painting Week in 2007.  Participants will be encouraged to paint the local scenery in and around Wilmer, and there will be one day when we will paint near Kinsmen Beach in Invermere, so that we can lunch at Pynelogs and examine the art show there.  Costs are the same as before: $250.00 for the full week, or $50.00/day.  If participants wish, they can paint for half days at $25.00/day.   We will meet at the Delphine Lodge at 9.00 am each day, enjoy coffee/tea and cookies, listen to a half hour presentation, then go out and paint.  Participants should bring their own lunch.  In the afternoons, we usually break around 4.00 pm and gather in the Delphine Lodge garden to discuss the day's work.  On Friday evening Sept 14, we will have a wind-up barbeque and exhibition to which friends and spouses are invited.  I shall be out of town until August 12, at which time I will circulate more details.  Early enrollment is recommended, so please send me E mails and I will attempt to respond.

Sebastian Bell  (delphinelodge@shaw.ca - cell phone: 250-341-5888.

I went to this a few years ago and had a great time. Val is an accomplished landscape artist and a thorough and gentle teacher, perfect for newbies. If you can’t go for a week, go for a day. Sebastian is very accommodating.