Here are the daily themes for painting!
Post to the IWS Membership page or Instagram.. don’t forget to tag your painting with #iwswinterblues
Good luck and have fun!
Join us for our January Winter Challenge
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year !
A greeting from IWS Canada president Ian Wright.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from IWS Canada!
Coming up we have:
– The results the the advent calendar Challenge,
– The Winter 2026 Magazine
– World Watercolour Day (23 January 2 to 5pm EST, live and on zoom),
– and Mexico 2026 in the 2nd week of February.
Email us at iwscanada@gmail.com if you would like more info.
Join us for the Advent Painting Challenge
Starting today ! A new clue will be released on Facebook and Istagram!
Paint a picture with the clue, post it to Facebook or Istagram and tag it with #iwsadvent25 !
Each painting that is posted counts as one entry into the prize pool!
So make sure you tag it ! Winners announced at the next IWS monthly meeting !
Here is your clue for Day 1 of the advent painting challenge
Your clue for December 1st
Winter magazine submissions
Hi there!
We are calling out for work submissions for our WINTER 2026 IWS Canada Magazine!
The deadline for Submitting Your work is December 15th, 2025
(It is set for release at the beginning of January 2026.)
Please follow this link to submit your work.
https://form.jotform.com/251145013525041
Please NAME your file, for example: YourName-YourPainting.jpg
This is much appreciated as it saves us a lot of time, and prevents your work from being improperly named or lost in the shuffle. – Thank you in advance.
We look forward to seeing your latest creations!
– Ian
Watercolour in Alberta
Hi there!
Alberta area rep has organised an international event coming August of 2026.
August 15th to 23th featuring several high profile international guest artists.
For more information and how to join, please follow this link.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1amtHuTD2DBGjBWH4rBv0bMq8h8h1LRRc?usp=share_link
Get ready to vote this sunday!
After long and tireless effort from our IWS Canada team, we are very pleased to announce the grand opening of our IWS Canada, Online 3D Fall Gallery for 2025!
Please browse the gallery at your leisure and consider your favourite. We will be voting for best in show at our Sunday Zoom meeting!
Please follow the link here:
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/14818058/iws-canada-fall-online-3d-gallery-2025
Happy browsing! and congratulations to all artists on display!
Join us to vote! Sunday October 26th ! At our monthly zoom meeting 4pm pst 7pm pst
Last Call for submitting!
Hi there!
Last call for those interested in submitting work for our Fall Online 3D gallery.
You may send your work in by visiting this link.
Thursday night of October 23rd at midnight will be our final cutoff date and time.
We will be voting for the winner at our monthly zoom meeting on Sunday.
Happy painting!
Painting pick up!
Hi there!
Please note that the time for picking up paintings from the Etobicoke Civic Centren(399 The West Mall Rd.) is from 10am to 11am on Friday October 24th.
We had previously assumed later but this is the time the ECC has given us to remove our paintings from the gallery. So please ignore any previous time frames sent out.
Should you not be able to arrive between 10 and 11am on Friday October 24th, please send us an email at iwscanada@gmail.com to make other arrangements.
Fall Online Exhibition – Call for Submissions
Hi there!
We are pleased to announce our latest 3D Gallery exhibition, call for submissions.
Stretch your fall colours to the limit! do not go graciously into the dying light, paint paint paint!
We have several prizes up for grabs for the favourite paintings over which we will vote at our October 26th zoom meeting.
Here is the link to participate!
https://form.jotform.com/251335517921051
Due date October 20th.
A note:
For all those who reserved a magazine from our United Through Watercolour exhibtion, due to the Canada post strike we are unable to say for sure when they will arrive. We will be sure to mail them out as soon as the strike is over.
Thank you and happy painting !
Opening Reception, if case you were not able to attend, watch it now!
Hi there!
If you missed it, we’re happy to present, recorded on zoom, the full video of the festivities, including Awards, speeches by Ian Wright and past president Ona Kingdon and demos by Luan Quach, Milena Guberinic and Lorraine Simonds.
Find it here, and make sure to fill in the code to be able to watch the video.
Passcode: !OWaWDF9
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