Johannes Vloothuis is an award winning artist–instructor who has established himself in Edmonton to help aspiring artists learn how to dramatically improve their paintings. He has traveled all over North America to plein air paint. This has helped him depict accurate colour and convey the mood of the scenes in his landscape paintings. He has given many workshops and classes throughout his successful career of gallery sales. Johannes is always very eager to share his techniques and expertise with others. Johannes has appeared on CTV during prime time news

Registration open now! Please call or email ahead to reserve your seat.

Class Schedule
Fee:$100.00 per four weeks.
One class of 4 hours a week.

Monday
10:00 to 14:00 oil or acylics
18:00 to 22:00 oil or acylics
Tuesday
10:00 to 14:00 oil or acylics
Wednesday

10:00 to 14:00 watercolour
Thursday

18:00 to 22:00 oil or acylics
Sunday

10:00 to 14:00 oil or acylics
 

New! We now offer art classes to
young adults. Call for schedules.

Studio-Classroom address

9126-80th Ave.
Edmonton, AB T6C 0T8
Few blocks from Bonnie Doon Mall

Phone: 780-4858155, 780-2924686
E-mail: johannesartschool@yahoo.com

Samples of Johannes’ work
http://cyberartlearning.com/gallery.html

Frequently asked questions

 


On Golden Pond (oil)

I have developed a method to successfully teach others to create convincing and beautiful landscape paintings. It works like this: when you learn a language you must learn the words which are the symbols that represent the real objects. So it is with landscape painting. An artist must develop a “pictionary” of symbols that simulate real objects in nature. This approach to landscape painting is referred to as representational landscape painting, which aims for simulated realism.

Sadly, most art courses do not render enough success because they don't help artists build up this picture vocabulary. Frustration and slow results are more than common with most amateur artists. They’re still focused on how to paint something rather than why paint it. Professional artists don’t think about painting trees, rocks, grass, etc. Instead, they visualize and produce attractive shapes. The solution is to depict designed beautiful shapes as well as where to place them. I part from the idea that there is no such thing as a bad painting, only different levels of beauty that can be intensified.

If you wish you can attend a free class with no commitment so you can see for yourself the way the classes are being conducted and to witness the students' art progress. We don't expect you to make an investment in time or money without being sure. Give yourself a chance to try out this innovative fine art teaching method.

Johannes has appeared on a primetime news interview on CTV. One of Canada's major broadcasting stations.

Click on the link below to watch the 4 1/2 minute report. This will take you to the CTV main webpage. Then click on the "Jo and Patricia Vloothuis" play button.

http://ctv-report.html