Visual Arts Newsletter

• Using Fluid Acrylics

  by Ruth - Opus Mail Order on February 24th, 2010 in

  • Product Q&A

  Some of the Opus staff show the exciting possibilities for working with Fluid Acrylics - see samples and get inspired!...Read more

  Why Buy Golden Fluid Acrylics?

• I'll Show You Mine...

  by Chris Tyrell on March 1st, 2010 in

  • Opinion

  Your assignment, should you wish to accept it, is as follows:

  #1 Create an inventory of twenty things that you have put “on display” in your home – that is, things that you have expressly made visible for guests to see in your living space. ...Read more

• Supporting Artists

  by Sarah Common on February 25th, 2010 in

  • Community News

  

  The Lifeskills Centre is a unique and groundbreaking resource centre providing opportunities to enter capacity building programs and classes, as well as basic services such as laundry, food, and showers, to Canada’s most vulnerable population....Read more

• On the Journey: Art of Hope and Recovery

  by Devorah Stone on February 22nd, 2010 in

  • Community News

  

  As a volunteer at the BC Schizophrenia Society (BCSS) Victoria branch, I found others in recovery from a mental illness, and their family members, who are artists and poets but who have difficulty exhibiting their work or feel awkward reading their poetry in a public sphere. I was impressed by the high standards of their creative and expressive work....Read more
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  Artist Interview: Rebecca Chaperon on going digital

  by Chris - Opus Marketing on February 17th, 2010 in

  • Product Q&A

  Local Vancouver artist, Rebecca Chaperon, invites us into her studio and shares with us her adventures, trials and successes going digital with her art practice. Catch Rebecca at an upcoming 2011 show: Like a Great Black Fire. For more, check out her website: www.thechaperon.ca
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  You sure showed us!

  by Charity - Opus Marketing on February 11th, 2010 in

  • Community News

  

  We spread the word and you delivered beyond anything we could have ever imagined. It is your wonderful support which allows these art organizations to keep on making art. Thank you for your generosity as each dollar donated was matched by Opus. ...Read more

  In total we raised over $35,950.00