wildlife gone wild - creative skill building in acrylic with susie cipolla
in person - calgary
About The Instructor
Susie first broke into the art world at the age of seven, winning a bicycle in a Dairyland colouring contest. After that, art languished on life's back burner while she pursued a career in physiotherapy. In 2009 at the urging of a friend, she took a painting workshop with Canadian Brian Atyeo. Discovering a new passion in painting was life-changing for her.
Over the last thirteen years Susie has committed herself to improving her skills as a professional artist. She spends her days at her art studio overlooking the horse corral and her 90-yr old farmhouse in the country north of Pemberton, BC.
The local scenery is stunning, with towering mountains, flat farmland, old buildings, wildlife and animals in abundance. Her subject matter and inspiration for painting will never run out.
Susie's preferred painting medium is acrylic and she is known for her marine scenes, landscape and wildlife paintings. She is represented in Canada by galleries in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Quebec.
She is a signature member (SFCA) and past Board Member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. She is a founding member of the Whistler Out of Bounds Artist Group.
See her website at www.susiecipollaart.com
Wildlife Gone Wild - A Skill Building Workshop!
Workshop Description
Back by popular demand, Susie will demonstrate how our painting skills are built by practicing, training and challenging ourselves with new subject matter, techniques and approaches! This intermediate-level acrylic workshop will help push your abilities to the next level by spending 3 days on fun and challenging drills and exercises involving speed, limited palette, limited and expressive brush strokes, tool use, different grounds and more - all while exploring wild and domestic animals as our subjects. This workshop is a fabulous confidence-builder as we explore terrific and unconventional ways of approaching our work!
The workshop will run from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, with a 45-minute lunch break.
Date: November 7-9, 2025
Price: CDN$ - $495.00 + GST
PAYMENT OPTIONS:
1) To pay by PayPal:
PayPal is very safe and secure and you do not need to have a PayPal account yourself to access this feature. You can use any major credit card for this option. Click on the "down arrow" in the box below to choose your payment amount and you will be directed to a page where you can submit your payment. If you do not have a PayPal account simply click on the link that says "Continue without a PayPal account". If you have a PayPal account just log in and make your payment.
Workshop Description
Back by popular demand, Susie will demonstrate how our painting skills are built by practicing, training and challenging ourselves with new subject matter, techniques and approaches! This intermediate-level acrylic workshop will help push your abilities to the next level by spending 3 days on fun and challenging drills and exercises involving speed, limited palette, limited and expressive brush strokes, tool use, different grounds and more - all while exploring wild and domestic animals as our subjects. This workshop is a fabulous confidence-builder as we explore terrific and unconventional ways of approaching our work!
The workshop will run from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm, with a 45-minute lunch break.
Date: November 7-9, 2025
Price: CDN$ - $495.00 + GST
PAYMENT OPTIONS:
1) To pay by PayPal:
PayPal is very safe and secure and you do not need to have a PayPal account yourself to access this feature. You can use any major credit card for this option. Click on the "down arrow" in the box below to choose your payment amount and you will be directed to a page where you can submit your payment. If you do not have a PayPal account simply click on the link that says "Continue without a PayPal account". If you have a PayPal account just log in and make your payment.
2) To pay by Cheque or Quickbooks Invoice:
Please continue to the Registration page where we need some information from you and payment can be sent by cheque to:
Leading Edge Art Workshops
112 Shawinigan Drive SW
Calgary, AB T2Y 2V7
PHONE: (403) 968-0611
3) To pay by e-transfer:
Send your e-transfer to Leading Edge Art Workshops (email: [email protected]). If you are paying by e-transfer and you have not registered, please remember to add the 5% GST. The total for this workshop with GST is CDN $519.75
Please continue to the Registration page where we need some information from you and payment can be sent by cheque to:
Leading Edge Art Workshops
112 Shawinigan Drive SW
Calgary, AB T2Y 2V7
PHONE: (403) 968-0611
3) To pay by e-transfer:
Send your e-transfer to Leading Edge Art Workshops (email: [email protected]). If you are paying by e-transfer and you have not registered, please remember to add the 5% GST. The total for this workshop with GST is CDN $519.75
sample of artwork by susie cipolla
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