Events

October In-Person Enrichment: GET ACQUAINTED WITH GOUACHE!

Oct 22, 2025
From 7 PM to 9 PM

Location St. Andrew's Heights Community Hall2504, 13 Avenue NorthwestCalgary, AB, T2N 1L8Canada

Enrichment: GOUACHE!

Spend some time with Kerri Forster getting acquainted or reacquainted with gouache. This versatile watercolour medium can be creamy, vibrant, and opaque; or pastel, thin, and transparent. Experiment with colour and tools; work with coloured paint on coloured paper, even black paper! Don’t miss this opportunity to encounter gouache with our experienced guide, Kerri Forster.
Supply List:

BVCG will supply the gouache and paper. Please bring your own favourite writing tools to use (pointed pen, broad edge pen, ruling pen, etc.), a small mixing brush, jar for water, cleaning cloth/Kleenex or paper towel, maksing tape or sticky tack.

BVCG Library: 

Will be open from 6:30 pm to allow you to check books out of the library and those with books due, to return them. Browse the BVCG Library catalogue here. Instructions on how to use the Catalogue are available here.

Show & Share: Hosted by Renate Worthington

What’s happening in your lettering and paper arts world? Bring your discovery of tools or techniques, a question about a work in progress, practice pages that make you happy / unhappy, a mystery lettering style that we all need to see. We all appreciate one another’s calligraphic, art, colour, design; ideas, samples, questions, discoveries. Bring them along to Show and Share!

Cards for the Military:

Last chance to bring your creations to make sure they don’t miss being included in this year’s distribution. The current greeting count from BVCG is over 110 cards! 

Miscellaneous: 

Please wear a name tag, bring a pair of indoor shoes if it is mucky, put your name in for the door prize draw, find free stuff at the free stuff table.

Questions? Please contact us here.