Important: Thank you for your interest in the 2025 Summer camp at the Visual Arts Centre. We are currently processing all requests received. This week, we will contact you with your child’s registration or waitlist confirmation. If you have not yet requested a spot for your child, you can still fill out the form on the camp webpage.

Plein-Air Painting on Mont-Royal

Course info

About the course

This one-day outdoor workshop, at the Beaver Lake on Mont-Royal, begins with thumbnails and small paint-sketches, progressing, if desired, to a more sustained painting. We will address the challenges of working on the spot: editing out unnecessary detail, simplifying colour and value, keeping the painting alive and vibrant. You will need a folding chair, portable easel or other support, and a minimalist paint kit. All mediums welcome: oil, acrylic, watercolour. Prerequisite: one course of painting.