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Summer Watercolor Workshops 2012

2012-01-20T17:13:08Z

Summer Watercolor Workshop 2012

with Chinkok Tan

Over the past 30 years, hundreds of students have learned to paint in 2 weeks or less, some instantly, with the revolutionary method and process of Tan. With your interest as a starting point, you can too. No previous experience is necessary.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need courses in drawing, anatomy, perspective or color theory in order to learn to paint or to create great watercolor paintings. Now you can simplify the entire process with author Chinkok Tan's proven method of using shape and light values. Tan teaches by demonstration, so you can see for yourself how shape and light values create everything. For materials, you only need the three primary colors to mix all your hues and light values and one cheap brush.

1 or 2-week Watercolor Workshop in St. Andrews, N.B.

Mon. July 16 - Sat. July 28, 2012

Painting is all day with critique in the evening

Fee: $500. For one week (ends sat. 21^st)

$900. For two week

$500.00 for artists who have taken three or more workshops whether you attend one or two week.

Limited enrollment!

Starting this year, beginners and advanced artists will be in the same workshop. You have a choice of taking one week or two week. For absolute beginners, if you're taking only one week, it has to be the first week.

This is an outdoor painting workshop, with excursions to Deer Island, Letete, Blacks Harbour and Eastport, Maine to paint. Eastport is a short hop by ferry from Deer Island. A passport is needed for U. S. visit. A car is needed for this course. If you need to share a ride on a rental car, Chin can put you in contact with an artist with the same need. The first day is spent in the studio in St. Andrews learning to mix the light values and how to see and paint shape without sketching. Advanced artists are welcomed to paint in oil or Acrylic.

A $50.00 deposit is necessary to confirm your spot. The balance is due upon arrival.

For more information or to register, contact:

Chinkok Tan

Toronto: (416) 698-9687

Email: chin@chinkoktan.com

Tan's Art Studio c/o Liz Irwin-Kenyon

St. Andrews: (506) 529-1987

Email: seahaven@nbnet.nb.ca

2011 Summer Workshop

2011-01-07T00:24:40Z

Over the past 30 years, hundreds of students have learned to paint in 2 weeks or less, some instantly, with the revolutionary method and process of Tan. With your interest as a starting point, you can too. No previous experience is necessary.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't need courses in drawing, anatomy, perspective or color theory in order to learn to paint or to create great watercolor paintings. Now you can simplify the entire process with author Chinkok Tan's proven method of using shape and light values. Tan teaches by demonstration, so you can see for yourself how shape and light values create everything. For materials, you only need the three primary colors to mix all your hues and light values and one cheap brush.

1-Week Intro to Watercolor Workshop:
Mon. July 18 - Sat. July 23, 2011
Painting is all day with critique in the evening
Fee: $450   Limited enrollment!
For a beginner or an experienced artist who wants to paint with more confidence. Learn to paint directly on the spot without causing your subject to look ambiguous or muddy. This is an outdoor painting course. Students will begin in studio and take part in an intense primer on how see objects as shapes and mix their light values. For the remainder of the course, students will be using these two basic elements to create all subjects, either in studio or on locations around St. Andrews, Letete, Back Bay, Deer Island and Blacks Harbor. A vehicle is required to participate in this course.

2-week Advanced Workshop:
Mon. July 25 - Aug. 6, 2011
Fee: $400 for 1 Week / $500.00 for 2 Weeks
To qualify, you need to have taken the one-week Intro-to-Watercolor course. This workshop focuses on painting diverse subjects, expanding visual vocabulary, developing an artist's own visual language and painting intuitively without thinking. Medium can be watercolor, oil or acrylic and painting is on location. Vehicle is needed.

A $50.00 deposit is necessary to confirm your spot. The balance is due upon arrival.
For more information or to register, contact:
Chinkok Tan
Toronto: (416) 698-9687
Email: chin@chinkoktan.com

Tan's Art Studio c/o Liz Irwin-Kenyon
St. Andrews: (506) 529-1987
Email: seahaven@nbnet.nb.ca

Living By The Sea 2010

2010-07-05T20:24:31Z

Living by the Sea
new exhibition by Chinkok Tan
The Fairmont Algonquin Hotel
Van Horne Ballroom St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, N.B.
Sat & Sun July 24 - 25, 2010
11am - 7pm

Hope to see you there! Chin.

Just finished

2010-06-29T20:15:25Z

I just finished a new large scroll painting. This will be shown in my upcoming show Living by the Sea 2010.

2010 Workshops

2010-01-11T18:32:59Z

2010 Summer Watercolor Workshops

1-Week Watercolor Workshop: Sun, July 11 - Fri. July 16, 2010

Painting is all day starting at 8:30 a.m. with critique in the evening. Fee: $450:00. Limited enrollment.

This workshop is for beginners and experienced artists who want to be able to paint directly and complete a painting on location without resorting to trial and error. This is an outdoor painting course. The first day will be at Tan's studio where students will learn to mix the light values. The remainder of the course will be on location around St. Andrews, Letete, Back Bay, Deer Island and Blacks Harbor. A vehicle is required to participate in this workshop.

2-Week Workshop:

You qualify for this workshop only if you have taken at least 2 week of Tan's instruction, can intuitively mix the light values and have experience seeing shapes. No basic instruction is taught in this workshop. The focus is on developing distinct visual language or style, painting diverse subjects and expanding visual vocabulary. Medium can be oil, watercolor or acrylic.
A vehicle is required to participate in this workshop.

For further information call: 416-698-9687 email: chin@chinkoktan.com

Summer Workshop 2009

2008-11-11T16:46:10Z

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Tan's method and process is simple. There are only two things to practice: Shape & Light value. Both engage your seeing brain to develop your perception and skill resulting in you acting intuitively. Painting is basically a two-step process, you mix the light value, and you paint the shape. And when more than one shape is painted, you need to view peripherally what you have done with the shape in progress, this is to safe guard you from painting the shape off scale to achieve proportion, perspective and anatomy. Tan teaches by demonstrations, so you get to see first hand how shape & light value works. Attend Tan's workshop; be informed and save yourself from years of skewed teachings, unnecessary struggle and painting through trial and error.

Course Outline
The 2-day workshop will teach you how to mix the hues and light values using only the 3 Primary colors, to see shape to foreshorten so you can paint to proportion, perspective and anatomy to complete a painting. You leave with the knowledge to practice on your own.

The Beginner / Intermediate workshop involves daily demonstrations and painting on locations with evening critique at Tan's studio. Locations include St. Andrews area, Letete, Back Bay, Deer Island and Blacks Harbor. A vehicle is required to participate in this course. You will complete at least one painting a day.

The Advanced workshop is for former or returning painters only. Here the emphasis is on advancing one's painting vocabulary, painting diverse subjects, editing of shape & light value and on developing and pursuing one's own visual language. Preference will be given to those attending the two weeks. Maximum enrollment is 15.

Fees and Dates
2-day Workshop:
Sat. July 11 & Sun. July 12, 2009
Fee: $225.00
Minimum enrollment 4, maximum 8

Beginner / Intermediate Workshop:

Saturday July 18 - Friday July 24, 2009
Fee: $450.00
Minimum 4, maximum 8

Advanced Workshop:
For former and returning painters only.
Monday July 27 - Aug 8, 2009
Fee: $500.00 ($300.00 for one week)
Maximum 15 with preference given to artists attending the two weeks.

Please book early to ensure your place. Once the courses are full no exceptions will be made. To register, a deposit of $50.00 is necessary. The balance, you pay on arrival. Accommodation starts at $50 per night.

Great Opening Reception!

2008-11-10T20:39:30Z

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening reception last week. It was wonderful to reunite with all the artists and friends from the workshop. The work was impressive as always.

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I also want to thank Bravo News for shooting an announcement for the show.

The show is hanging until November 16. Please check the Gallery section of this website to see jpegs of some of the work.

New Exhibition!

2008-10-19T04:02:41Z

Hi Everyone,

My new exhibition is in two weeks! If you are in the Toronto area please drop by.

Chin.

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Looking At Nature

new paintings by Chinkok Tan

Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 1st from 1 to 5 pm
Artist present

Location:
The Museum Gallery
Todmorden Mills Heritage Museum and Arts Centre
67 Pottery Road
Toronto, Ontario M4C 5R1
416.396.2819

Times:
October 29 - November 16, 2008
Wednesday to Sunday: 12:00 to 4:00 pm

The New Studio is Open!

2008-07-19T23:08:09Z

After many months of renovations the new studio is open! Many thanks to Liz Kenyon and my son Jason for their hard work and keen interior design ideas.

In a couple weeks the 2008 Summer Workshop will begin. I'm looking forward to seeing you here.

Chin.

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2008 St. Andrews Workshop

2008-05-07T16:43:03Z

Hi Everyone,

The 2008 St. Andrews

Workshop is fast approaching. I want to encourage all the returning artists to log in here and use this blog as a way to stay in touch with one another. I'm looking forward to see some pictures and messages from all of my dear friends.

There may be some growing pains, but I'd like to work with all of you to get this resource up and running. The first step is creating an account for yourself at chinkoktan.com.

Click on sign in at the right side of the screen and follow the link to sign up, or you can click the link below. It's free and easy.
Sign Up

For now, this will allow you to add comments, but in the future it will also allow you to upload photos and post messages for other members to read.

Looking forward to seeing you all this Summer.

Chin.

Summer Workshop 2008

2008-05-06T22:19:54Z

An Atlantic Adventure!
Dates:
Dates and course outline have changed. For the 2009 Workshop click here.

Fee:
There is a new fee structure for 2009

Course Overview:
Paint in inspiring New Brunswick, St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, Deer Island, Grand Manan Island
Hundreds of students have learned to paint exceptional works in watercolour in a few weeks - some in a few days - with the unique methods of Chinkok Tan. With only your interest in painting as a starting point, you can do the same.

Chin teaches by demonstration so you can witness first hand how 'shape and light value' are all that you need to practice in order to learn to paint. After that, it is all just practice so you can paint intuitively. Intuitive painting is when you're painting without your thinking brain interfering with your perception.

Chin is the author of "Watercolour Basics: Shape and Light Value". The one and only instruction book that teaches you to paint using shape and light value - the basic elements of art. Now you don't have to search far and wide for the illusive 3 primary pigments. "Tan Signature Paint" manufactures only the 3 Primary pigments and is available in Watercolour, Oil and Acrylic. They are now available at two stores in Toronto:
Toose Art Supplies, 229 College St. Toronto, M5T 1R4 Tel: 416.348.0793
Linseed Art Supplies, 336 Dundas St. West (across from the AGO)

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Each day of the workshop is spent in picturesque areas of New Brunswick, with daily outdoor demonstrations and end of day critiques. When stationed in St. Andrews, excursions are made to Deer Island, Letete or Blacks Harbour. On Grand Manan Island, most artists stay at seaside cabins at Ing alls Head. If you want to be part of this group, you must book early, as only a few cabins are available. The cabins cost around $700.00 for the 7 days and there are two rooms to a cabin so it can be shared with another artist or two.

Each year, there are only three or four available spaces for new artists. Out of respect for other artists, no accompanying pet or children is allowed. A $50.00 deposit is required for new artists to confirm your spot and the balance is due on arrival.

For the second week, Sunday Aug. 1 to Aug. 7, the workshop moves to Grand Manan Island, a large fishing island, one and a half hours away by ferry on the Bay of Fundy. Here you can rent and share a seaside cabin with your own room, fully equipped for $650. plus taxes. Chin will help you find your accommodations for both places. You will have to act quickly, as accommodations are limited. Having your own car is convenient. Daily demonstrations are provided on how to see shape and light values to paint all your subjects. In the evenings the group will meet for critiques - to share information and view each other's accomplishments. Maximum enrollment is 15. Workshop is for participating artists only. $50.00 deposit is necessary to confirm your spot.

My Teaching Principals

2008-05-05T21:56:11Z

To create all your subject's features (form, space, light, shade, plane, structure, texture, perspective and proportion) you are shown how to see and use shape and light value. Using my published method, the subject's features are fully rendered and never simulated by artificial techniques or fancy brushes.
To avoid muddy colours and overworking you are introduced to my Light Value scale.
To simplify mixing of colours and light values, you use only the three primary pigments. That's right, every colour you will use is mixed from only 3 primary colours.
To remove inhibitions from your painting process you will learn to paint directly without pre-sketching. You are shown how to train your mind to see an object's shape rather than it's edges.
To produce your composition, you are shown how to scale and place your first shape correctly. This process allows you achieve your intended crop precisely, without the need for sketching and thumbnail studies.