PLAY! – 8 Cool Ideas For Exercising Your Family Creativity Muscles

Creating time and space in a busy family life for creativity is important, given all the arts funding cutbacks in education and government. Here are eight cool ideas for stretching your creativity muscles with your family!

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Undercurrents:: The Red Canoe Series

Tanton's Red Canoe Series is all about perfection, movement and change which forever surround us so it seems quite apropos that these are her first finished works for 2011. For thousands of years, the canoe has been the perfect model of perfect design, where form and function cannot be improved upon and relate directly to the intended use. Aboriginal people all across Canada and in other countries around the world, understood the value and intrinsic spirituality of this vessel. In it's original form, regionally refined, the canoe is the most perfect design in all respects. It allowed for survival and transportation in harsh conditions using indigenous natural materials in a sustainable way.

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Painting Techniques of the Old Masters | Fleming College |

Join Canadian Artist Janice Tanton for a one week oil painting course at the Haliburton School of Fine Arts in Haliburton, Ontario. Old Master's techniques, glazes and grounds will be covered, in an exciting lakeside environment in the beautiful Haliburton Highlands.

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