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FCA-COC

FCA-COC is a community of over 150 artists from the central Okanagan area, that includes emerging artists through to highly proficient professional artists. Through peer support and mutual encouragement our aim is to promote the artistic development and professional advancement of our members.

Member benefits include opportunities to participate in:

Regional and international art competitions
Workshops
Monthly meetings including talks and demonstrations by guest artists
the FCA-COC Mentorship Program
Promoting your artwork through our website and art shows

FCA-COC Monthly Meetings

Our next meeting will be on October 7th 2024 at 6:30 pm. It will be at the Seniors Community Hall (1353 Richter Street, Kelowna). This will be an in-person only meeting. The program is:

Floral Painting From Life with Ann Willsie SFCA

A big part of my art practise is painting flowers from a still-life set up. There are so many benefits to painting from life, and in the winter, when it is too cold and miserable to be outside, I will typically get a bouquet of flowers and set up small arrangements in my studio to paint. Painting from life provides us with an opportunity to study light and shadow in great detail and to study the full spectrum of colours that are before us. Painting directly from the source provides you with so much more information than trying to paint from a flat, 2-D photo.

I will be bringing live flowers to the demo and will walk you through my thought processes as I begin my oil painting, starting with composing the image, looking for interesting shapes and a design that works; thinking about keeping it simple, trying to capture the essence of what is before you. I will be talking about and demo-ing the underpainting, blocking in big shapes, addressing values in the composition and continuing on with the color choices.