Keeping It Light and Loose with Tim Bennison, AFCA

All Sessions Recorded! Recording links will be made available to registrants.

Saturdays (4 sessions) 

Dates: May 3rd, 10th, 24th, 31st, 2025 

Time: 10.00 AM - 1.00 PM (PDT)

Location: Online Via Zoom

SUITABLE FOR BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE STUDENTS

Workshop Overview:

Join Tim Bennison in a fun online watercolour painting course for beginner and intermediate artists. Learn how to create bold, expressive and loose paintings, while still capturing the light and detail in a scene. Students in this highly interactive course will do quick exercises on composition, dark and light values, wet-on-wet underpainting, colour principles, mark-making and masking. Then we will put it all together in a series of landscape painting projects. You can work from Tim’s suggested reference photos, or use your own images. You’ll finish the course with a new appreciation for this wonderful medium, and above all you’ll experience how to let the water flow and let the paint do the work!

About the Instructor - Tim Bennison, AFCA 

Tim has been painting watercolours for 40 years. He lives in North Vancouver and his subject matter ranges from landscapes and architecture to portraits. He loves the challenge of watercolours, using the light and transparency of the medium to capture a moment in time.

Often capturing scenes from various locations on the North Shore and BC, Tim’s paintings tell stories via the influence of people on the landscape. 

Tim has had many exhibitions over the years, including the Harmony Arts Festivalsince 2015, North Van Art in the Garden2017, West Van City Hall Art in the Hall2018, North Van Arts Crawl since 2019, The West Fine Arts Show 2019, and solo exhibitions at the Hollyburn Eye Clinic in 2019 and 2025. He had an ongoing exhibition (2020-2021) in the BlueShore Financial Arts in View program and show at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver (2022). His paintings have been juried into many recent Federation of Canadian Artists Exhibitions at the FCA Gallery on Granville Island. His work has been featured in North Van Arts “You are Here” Calendars for 2020-2025 and in several issues of the Art of Watercolour magazine.

Tim is an Associate member of the Federation of Canadian Artists. He has taught several online and in-person watercolour workshops in association with the FCA. He has also given many workshops at local artist guilds all over the Lower Mainland.

Website: www.timbennison.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tim_bennison/

Student Testimonials:

• "Tim was amazing! He provided such great information and gave assignments based on what we learned." 

• "I would like to deeply thank Tim for the thoughtful way he presented new  information. For reviewing each previous class before showing/demonstrating new material. He's critiquing was thoughtfully presented that I looked forward to having my artwork evaluated. First time ever! Tim is a wonderful communicator and an amazing artist."