2025 Week 3 Adult 19+: Paint an Enchanted Journey

With James Hayes

August 4 - 9, 2025

Date and Time Details:
Summer 2025

Location:
Sorrento Centre

Address:
1159 Passchendaele Rd
Sorrento, BC V0E 2W0 Canada

Getting here:
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  • CAD $325.00 – Program, Sunday Welcome BBQ, Friday Banquet, Continental Breakfast, and other weekly events

We are so beautifully and profoundly entangled with this earth and have the honour of cohabiting with it. We get to watch, in awe, it’s glimmers that brighten and enrich our journey. To be enchanted by its visual and soul-filled wonders is a blessing. We, as painters, will attempt to interpret and, in the most exciting and humbling ways, with pigment to canvas, recreate and reflect these glimmers of light.
This course is open to all levels of experience. Students may substitute acrylic paint.

Supply List:
Please bring your own paints, one canvas and brushes, an easel and palette. Canvas size should be between 20”x 16”/24”x 18”. Note: if you are a quick painter, please bring more canvases.
Paint colours and brush sizes Jim will be using:
*Vandyke brown
*Burnt umber
*Sap green
*Ultra marine blue
*Yellow ochre
*Cadmium yellow light
*Burnt sienna
Brushes:
Filbert
1- 1/4”
1- 1/2”
1- 3/4”
1- liner or rigger
1-2” house brush
Paper towels, brush cleaner and water will be supplied.

About the Leader

James Hayes

I try to paint with a sense of grounded humility. Taking in deeply and respectfully, the mysteries that stand before me. While hiking in the forest I attempt to capture in my work, a conversation between light and darkness, while holding both in balance, their fragility and delicateness. It is in this attempt at balance […]

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