PLEASE NOTE LOCATION AND TIME CHANGES!!

NEW UPDATE:

After consulting with the remaining registered hikers, we are switching back to the original plan of going to Harper Mtn and will be meeting at the Paul Lake Meet up spot at 9:00am Saturday morning and possible car pool to Harper Mountain for an Art Hike.

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MORE INFO:

Get “CREATIVE” with your supplies!  Think compact and small.  Each person should bring their own supplies (BYOS).  You can draw or paint whatever you wish.  Or even take photographs of the local flora and scenery.  If you need art supplies, they can be found inexpensively at our local dollar stores.  In particular, “Your Dollar Store With More” in the Sahali SaveOn Foods shopping complex, has a vast array of art supplies at very reasonable prices.  I bought the items below last year – the paint pots are especially useful (I think they were less than 2$) – as a way to take only small amounts of paint.  They had loads of different-sized canvases there, even some very cute tiny ones!  I recommend doing a wee, small picture, as we will only be there for an hour and a half or so.  You might choose to paint a mini landscape, a few flowers, or a tree, or an interesting-looking plant.  Or you might want to paint the entire view of the bay and the big bluff at the end.  Just keep it SMALLish and try to stick with a quicker technique.

VIDEO LINKS!!

If you are not an experienced painter, I highly recommend you watch a few “how to” videos before the hike – this will make your time at Cooney a lot more enjoyable and give you some additional ways in which to create.  Some very cool painting videos are linked below, as examples.

• If you think you might want to paint flowers, here is a video on how to paint a complete meadow landscape in only 10 mins – it’s excellent and shows very cool tips for lovely effects of sky, grasses, and flowers, that are SO EASY:

https://youtu.be/6JskibkFNrI

• How to paint fir trees in 10 mins:

https://youtu.be/9pW5oEXS3gY

• How to paint flowers in 10 mins:  (this flower is fuschia coloured but you can just think “yellow” etc., when watching….   : )

https://youtu.be/Mt-K065SjtE

You can find lots of quick tutorials on youtube:  search for “how to paint _____(type whatever you like)____ in 10 mins”, and there are loads of good videos that show quick and easy techniques!

We will practice “LEAVE NO TRACE” – we will NOT pour our dirty paint water into the ground there.  All hikers are expected to pack out EVERYTHING they pack in.

You Could Bring: (and THINK SMALL)

• paper towels (to wipe your brushes on)
• a small garbage bag or large ziploc bag for your dirty paper towels
• a water-tight container/jar/bottle for your dirty paint water
• water (to put in the container to wash your brushes
• paints, water-colours, or – pencils/charcoals etc if you are going to draw
• brushes
• a canvas or papers / pad suitable for your medium of choice
• a margarine container lid to mix your oil or acrylic paints on (like a mini-palette)
• a large piece or two of saran wrap to wrap around your palette lid before you use it (this makes clean-up soooo easy!)
• an old blanket or towel to sit on (I will sit on the ground and paint a canvas on my lap…)
• a snack and water to drink
• and anything else you might want that you can fit in your pack!!

MEET UP AT Paul Lake Meet Up Spot at 9:00am on Saturday, May 27 and caravan to the trailhead.