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Bonnie Steinberg

CSPWC SCA TWS IWS

 

Bonnie Steinberg is a practicing artist and a popular art teacher. She is on the Faculty of

Visual Arts Mississauga where she currently teaches an online watercolour class. She teaches colour theory, its interpretation, and design. Her teaching also emphasizes architectural elements and their incorporation in urban and rural landscape. Transparent watercolour is Bonnie’s medium of choice.

 

Bonnie is also a guest artist and teacher for many art groups in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Before Covid-19, Bonnie taught a watercolour workshop in Halifax, Nova Scotia and a weeklong watercolour workshop in Sedona, Arizona.  She has also taught in Newfoundland, Quebec City, Victoria, and in Italy, including Florence, Venice, and Tuscany.  For the summer of 2022, she taught a week-long watercolour workshop in Prince Edward Island, and the following summer, returned to Newfoundland.  In the summer of 2024, she taught in Le Monastere in Limoux, France.

 

Bonnie Steinberg is a graduate of York University where she received her Honours (B.F.A) Bachelor of Fine Arts. Bonnie is also an elected member of the C.S.P.W.C. (the

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour), the S.C.A. (the Society of Canadian Artists), the IWS (the International Watercolour Society), and is a signature and platinum member of the Toronto Watercolour Society (T.W.S). She has also studied under Jack Reid, John Joy, Zalton Szabo, and Steven Quiller.

 

Please see her complete bio :

https://societyofcanadianartists.com/user/bonnie-steinberg/

Sample Artwork

Mastering Winter in Watercolour

Date:      Sunday, January 19, 2025
Time:      10 am to 3 pm
Where:  Tim Horton Studio, FirstOntario Arts Centre Milton (2nd floor)
Fee:         Members: $100; Non-Members: $120

Workshop Description

This watercolour workshop, with Bonnie Steinberg, will focus on transparent watercolour, with an emphasis on design, colour, and composition. Bonnie will use various techniques to interpret A winter landscape, including urban elements with panache! If you love colour, and want to impact its potential in winter, then this workshop is for you! Atmospheric and linear perspective will be emphasized to further its exploration. Snow, being a key feature, will also be explored for maximum results. Various techniques, new and proven will be explored for further emphasis. A hands-on approach with demos will be sure to please!

Materials List

(NOTE: a more specific list of colours will be released closer to the date)

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1) Paper: good quality 100% rag paper 140 lb and/or 300 lb (hot) smooth and cold press board if paper is in sheets, and if not, blocks are suggested

 

2) Brushes:

· Suggested sizes:

2" Robert Simmons white-sable-skyflow wash(*optional)

1" flat gold sable-clear hand, beveled end

#5 and #8 round gold sable

#3 or #4 rigger

#16 (½" x ½") flat gold sable(THIS IS A LIFTING BRUSH…(OPTIONAL ONLY)available from Studio Six online)

2" hake

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3) A Palette (Robert E Woods or John Pike or equivalent) – scrub each paint compartment (not mixing areas) with an SOS pad to rough up the surface so that the paint will stick

 

4) Paints: (artist grade will give you richer colour)

· Essential minimum palette (permanent rose, cobalt blue, and aureilin yellow)

· 2 yellows, 2 reds, 2 blues 

Beginners : only the three primary colours,as listed above, are essential to begin your painting class.

Please note: for more seasoned painters: 

Students are always invited to bring the colours that they always use, or especially want to learn to use.

Please choose from the following colours - most painters will have most or at least some of these, so do not buy all of them, and read carefully, please. Most of these are colours I love to use, but I have marked those that are essential. Specific colours will be sent out for the specific subject with before the workshop.

 

• Permanent yellow lemon(holbein) or Hansa yellow medium or Light Aureolin yellow (essential)

• Raw sienna 

• Opera (any brand)

• Scarlet lake 

• Burnt sienna or Transparent red oxide

• Manganese blue hue

• Permanent rose (essential)

• Cerulean blue 

• Cobalt blue (essential)

• Winsor blue (red shade)

• Winsor red (or green shade)

• French ultramarine blue 

• Alizarin crimson (permanent)

• New gamboge or Indian yellow

• Viridian green

• Quinacridone gold

 

OPTIONAL Colours: 

• Prussian blue

• Bright rose(holbein)

• Bright violet(holbein)

• (optional) transparent oxide red…(a transparent form of burnt sienna) m. Graham at curries or daniel smith, or qor all at curries carry this colour if you like it…!

• Quinacridone coral (optional) daniel smith makes this

 

New for spring 2024: 

lavender and lilac are also new optional colours that will Be introduced in classes! They are not essential only optional.

 

5) Other Materials: ï‚· 2 plastic containers (500 ml) ï‚· Eraser ï‚· Masking fluid eraser for liquid mask(suggested) ï‚· Tissues (Kleenex) a box is great!~ ï‚· HB or 6B pencils ï‚· Masking tape and masking fluid ï‚· Small natural silk sponge(Curry’s has these or so does Shopper’s Drug mart) ï‚· Sketch book ï‚· Ruler or set square for drawing

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