Member’s Challenge

We are hard at work preparing our Fall IWS Canada Magazine, in the meantime we will post our call for the next Member’s Challenge, the photo chosen by previous winner, Abdulla Naseeb Nuckchady .

This one is a water themed painting, suggested study would be with Inna Nagaytseva ‘s workshop starting Sept 15th to improve your water painting techniques. the winner will be voted on at our October 27th Sunday meeting.

The winner will receive a set of Blueberry Watercolour paints from Rockwell.

Deadline for submission is October 1st, 2024

Enter your painting here

Update Inna Nagaytseva’s workshop !

UPDATE: Inna Nagaytseva ‘s workshop intensive, Sept 15, 21 and 22nd will start at 8pm EST (Toronto/Montreal time) (6pm Alberta, 5pm Vancouver)

Day 1: You will learn how to paint sailboats at daylight, have right proportions and use a limited palette

Day 2: Sailboat in sea with sunset, work in 2 layers maximum

Day 3: Seascape with lighthouse and sailboat, catching atmosphere, creating the best composition Sign up here: https://form.jotform.com/242464690597065

United Through Watercolour !!

Hi there! The day has finally arrived!

We can’t wait to meet those of you who will be dropping off paintings tomorrow (Thursday Sept 5th) for our show, at Visual Arts Mississauga. 4170 Riverwood Park Lane Mississauga ON L5C 2S7

Please come as early as you can so we can get your painting up on the wall for our visitors to see. (We open at 9am)

Another note, we will be holding our official opening ceremony at the end of the day on Friday instead of Thursday. (around 3:45pm)

Join us for the ribbon cutting, speeches by Ian Wright and Luan Quach, and light snacks and refreshments.

f you can’t make it, don’t worry, the show runs until Sunday at 4pm, when people may take down their paintings and we will go for dinner to celebrate the end of another great show! Can’t wait to see you there!

Free to IWS members !

We are pleased to announce a 3 day intensive workshop by Inna Nagaytseva , this is the first part in a series of online workshops by our top artists to help our members overcome hurdles and learn difficult to master techniques. Inna is an expert at painting water scenes, which can often be tricky. Do you struggle with nautical scenes? then this workshop is for you! Please reserve your place by clicking below. (Free to all IWS Canada members)

Join us: Click to Register

BIG NEWS !!!

All Demos Free for IWS Members !

all our demos at UNITED THROUGH WATERCOLOUR are now FREE for all IWS Canada Members! We have removed the $100 workshop fee to be sure as many of our members as possible can benefit from this opportunity to learn from maser painters. Take advantage of this chance and sign up now to reserve your spot (max 20 people per workshop)

Visit this link to register. https://form.jotform.com/241994948882075

Non members can still attend if they pay the $45 yearly membership fee and become official members of IWS Canada.

We will be giving free IWS Canada pins to all our members attending the show. If we don’t notice you and give you one first, just come and request one at our IWS Canada booth.

See you there!

Congratulations to all participating artists at United Through Watercolour!

We look forward to seeing you and your work at the show Sept 5 to 8th, 2024 .

If your name is not on the list and you submitted work, please contact us ASAP.

Only a few weeks away until the show! Also if you want to reserve a table for the duration please visit our site, and also check out some of the great demos and workshops we have on offer! https://iwscanada.ca/ontario-exhibitions/

Fall Gallery Submissions now open !

Now open to submissions for our gallery section for our IWS Canada (Canadian Watercolour) Fall gallery.

Please note that this quarter our magazine will be released later, on September 15th due to the influx of events in September, mainly our United Through Watercolour exhibition, September 5th to 8th.

Please follow this link to submit your work for our members gallery for our Fall magazine. – Due date is August 20th

Click to submit !