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About Barrier
Barrier is a small farming community town and is dependant on the tourism from the lake area during the summer and hunting during the winter months. The town of Barrier is located approximately one hours drive north of the city of Kamloops in central British Columbia. It’s a four-hour drive from Vancouver or Kelowna, depending on the direction that you are coming from.

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2008

March

Fredericton, NB

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April

St. John, NB

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May

Springfield, Virginia, USA

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May

Charleston, West Virginia

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May

Tampa, Florida

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Neadeen Masters CDA - Country Carousel Art©

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Barrier Lake Seminar ~ 'Painting with the Loons'

British Columbia Canada

September 2008 - B.C. dates TBA

	Does one glorious week of painting and relaxing, on the shores of one of the most quiet, and beautiful, small lakes in central British Columbia sound appealing to you?
	Come and enjoy this 'All Inclusive' week of painting, while staying in a private lakeshore home on the water.
	This Seminar will include, 6 full days of class time, painting surfaces & paint, 3 gourmet meals daily, and your OWN 'Queen' sized bed!
	$100. (non refundable) deposit to reserve your space. Call or email Neadeen @ 250-769-1982
	The Painting with the Loons seminar is an annual event, if you would like to get your name on the list, please contact me.

Seminar Accommodations
This seminar will take place over one week, and will include 7 nights stay. It is an all-inclusive package. Your costs include accommodation (your own bed), 3 tempting meals and unlimited snacks and beverages. (You will never go hungry here) This is a great three story, vacation home with many large bedrooms, each with multiple beds and 3 bathrooms, one on each floor. Because of the nature of holiday homes, absolute privacy is not always possible. You will be sharing your bedroom with one or 2 other students. This is certainly a far cry from roughing it, but at the same time, this isn't the Hilton!

Seminar Cost

	Includes; accommodation, all meals, unlimited snacks & refreshments. All canvas painting surfaces, paints, mediums, paper towels. Entertainment & many prizes $1200.00 Pl TX. Canadian Funds. $100. (Non refundable) deposit to hold your space, due by June 1st. of the seminar year
	Payment may be made by money order or VISA, and mailing with your deposit and or payment to: Neadeen Masters 1021 Avondale place Kelowna, B.C. Canada V1Z3J9

Seminars 2008

January 28th. 2008 - Las Vegas

Creative Painting Convention

Special Event #701

Creating spectacular clouds in watercolor

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March 28-29 2008 ~ New Brunswick, Fredericton

'Painting from your photograph'

	Have you ever wanted to create original artwork from reference materials you have personally collected…such as your own photographs?
	Do you want to create an original artwork that is especially personal because it is applicable to your life’s experiences and memories?
	Place: Fredericton, New Brunswick
	Date: March 28th/29th.
	Date: March 30th - 2008
	Registration Contact Henni - hennis@xplornet.com or
	Registration Contact Laurie lnason@unb.ca ___________________________________

March - 30th. 2008 ~ New Brunswick, Fredericton

Creating spectacular clouds in watercolor

One Day workshop

	Have you ever wanted to create original artwork
	Place: Fredericton, New Brunswick
	Date: March 28th/29th.
	Registration Contact Henni - hennis@xplornet.com or
	Registration Contact Laurie lnason@unb.ca ___________________________________

March/April 2008 ~ New Brunswick, St. John

Traditions Education Program

~ Module D ~

	Module D - The artistic ‘journey’ continues and is followed by the second installment, which is an advanced program for the artist and includes several advanced subjects and topics presented as study lessons: Traditional still life, exploration of Venetian and Flemish methods for advanced formal floral and still life, landscape, seascape & botanical leaves. Introduction to mural painting, Introduction to portraiture, a wildlife study in landscape, theory lessons to include the ‘Line of Design’, formal stroke designs in two different categories & Marketry for Traditional Decorative Arts. Each tied together with history, symbolism and theory. Each lesson includes several elements which will carry their own artistic weight. click on this link to see photos of the seminar.
	Place: St. John, New Brunswick
	Date: March 31, April, 1,2 - 2008
	Time: 9a.m.- 8 p.m. daily (longer days)
	Registration Contact Neadeen Masters
	For local St. John accommodation information Contact Wanda Wyman

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May 2008

'Creating the Independent Artist'

Course Level #1

Sample using a reference photograph

	Have you ever wanted to create original artwork from reference materials you have personally collected …such as your own photographs?
	Do you want to create artwork that is especially personal because it is applicable to your life’s experiences and memories?
	Have you wondered how to get started but were overwhelmed by the system of rules?
	Have you wondered how to turn photographic materials into real paintings?

During this three day educational seminar you will be introduced to art principles that are necessary components of the independent artist ‘toolkit’. You will work within a framework and a set of guidelines to help you get started to build your own artistic portfolio.

	Select subjects from all genres: still life, floral, wildlife, landscape, seascapes, etc.
	Discover what is necessary in the editing process to create harmony and balance within the composition.
	Learn to see and appreciate light and read how this affects the choice of the overall mood and the key of the final painting.
	Understand the principles of mixing and identifying colour while selecting your palette.
	Learn to apply the principals of lineal, atmospheric and spatial perspective.
	Learn the skills necessary to isolate and develop the principal and secondary focal areas within a painting.

Course Outline

The Course Outline
A detailed course workbook is provided. This workbook has been revised and updated with new information including many unique concepts and additional information which Neadeen has developed especially for this course – new addition published in June 2007
Student will be expected to use this workbook for the course.

Day one:
- Students will select individual reference photographs from Neadeen’s personal portfolio.
- Neadeen demonstrates and explains the design principles used for editing as well as the basics of perspective and color mixing.
- Neadeen guides the students as they execute practical mixing exercises with the aid of her detailed workbook.
- Students plan a composition using perspective and color.
- Students learn to integrate their subjects within a scene.
- Students build the colour palette to suit a specific ‘key and mood’.

Day two:
- Execution of the painting process on an 11”x14”canvas surface.
- Students apply ‘Self critiquing’ skills to analyze the painting process addressing value and intensity control necessary for maintaining and supporting the focal area.

Day three:
- Execution of the painting process on 11”x14”canvas surface.
- Students apply ‘Self critiquing’ skills to analyze the painting process addressing value and intensity control necessary for maintaining and supporting the focal area.

Day four: (optional): Students create another original painting. This time they may bring and use their own photographs from home. (no portraits) This optional painting day provides an opportunity to reinforce the technical aspects of color management and composition. Students will also learn to use and control texture through the use of their brushwork.

Click on this link for a coloured flyer

This course is offered at the following locations

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	Place: The Apple Tree, Springfield, Virginia, USA
	Date: May 3-5 & optional day on the 6th.
	Time: 9a.m.- 5p.m. daily
	Contact: email - susan@appletreeinc.net
	Phone:703.321.9311 or Toll Free: 800.621.9311

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	Place: Gaby's Art Studio, Charleston, West Virginia, USA
	Date: May 9 -11- 2008
	Time: 9a.m.- 5p.m. daily
	Contact: Gaby Hunter, email - gabyh@suddenlink.net
	Phone: Tel: 304.925.2488

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Traditions Education Program ~ Module ABC ~ 4-days

This seminar is presented over 5 days of intense lecture, demonstrations and interactive discussion. The participants are introduced to the educational program and shown how to implement the materials and extensive lessons in the manual. The educational curriculum which is comprised of 30 in-depth lessons, several dozen detailed colour step sheets, and volumes of teaching materials and aids are explained in detail to the participants. The seminar explores all aspects of art, technique, theory, principals of art, history and symbolism. Students gain a new respect for the step by step methodical aspects of teaching art to new artists. The most important aspect of the program is in providing a standard language and manner for building a strong foundation for the artist.

	Place: Kelowna - Neadeen's Home Studio
	Date: July 3- 6th - 2008
	Time: 9a.m.- 5p.m. daily
	Contact; Neadeen
	Class size is not restricted

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Travel to Barrier

By Air - The city of Kamloops has a large airport, and Horizon Airlines will be offering direct flights from Seattle starting in Jan 2003, twice daily.
By Bus - Greyhound Bus line has early morning bus service from Vancouver to Barrier arriving in the middle of the day. There is also a bus service from Kamloops to Barrier.
By Car - From Kelowna or Vancouver, it is approximately 4 hr drive either way.
Hitchhiking - illegal in Canada!
Mule - not a good plan, it's up hill most of the way!

Register

To register for seminars, please contact the individual 'hosts' of each seminar to secure your place. For details such as supplies, fees and seminar venue or student housing, please see the contact information listed for each seminar.

Traditions

Don't forget to visit the Traditions pages of this website for details of the programs and contact information.

Building Bridges

As artists we need to preserve our 'heritage' and build a bridge to traditional Fine Art.

The intent of this program is to lay a strong foundation and create the 'bridge' for future lessons which moves the artist into more refined Traditional Decorative Art as well as Traditional Fine Art and then onward towards 'critical thinking' as an independent artist. Which we believe is the ultimate goal of every artist.

Mixing Greens

Tip - Mixing
To begin mixing, start with the basics...
for green - start with a little blue and yellow --
Too bright - add a 'toner' of one of the earth colours either Burnt Umber, Raw Umber, Raw Sienna or Burnt Sienna, or use a little of the compliment of green which is red. - A toner help 'quiet-en' the colour.. so instead of the colour being too bright it makes it softer and easier to live with. It lowers the intensity of the colour.
To lighten add white, or more Yellow,
To darken add a little Black.
Each addition will teach a different lesson as the results will be like mini discoveries. Take it slow and steady and document what you do. If you use a chocolate chip size measure for example, document how many chocolate chips you use of each colour!
There you go, you are mixing greens!

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