Welcome to Chinkoktan.com

Thanks to everyone who came to the opening reception last week.  It was wonderful to reunite with all the artists and friends from the workshop.  The work was impressive as always.

Hi Everyone,

My new exhibition is in two weeks!  If you are in the Toronto area please drop by.

Chin.

The 2008 St. Andrews Workshop is fast approaching. I want to encourage all the returning artists to log in here and use this blog as a way to stay in touch with one another. I'm looking forward to see some pictures and messages from all of my dear friends.

There may be some growing pains, but I'd like to work with all of you to get this resource up and running.  The first step is creating an account for yourself at chinkoktan.com.

Click on sign in at the right side of the screen and follow the link to sign up, or you can click the link below.  It's free and easy.
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For now, this will allow you to add comments, but in the future it will also allow you to upload photos and post messages for other members to read.

Looking forward to seeing you all this Summer.

Chin.

An Atlantic Adventure!
Dates:
Dates and course outline have changed. For the 2009 Workshop click here.

Fee:
There is a new fee structure for 2009

Course Overview:
Paint in inspiring New Brunswick, St. Andrews-by-the-Sea, Deer Island, Grand Manan Island
Hundreds of students have learned to paint exceptional works in watercolour in a few weeks - some in a few days - with the unique methods of Chinkok Tan. With only your interest in painting as a starting point, you can do the same.

Chin teaches by demonstration so you can witness first hand how 'shape and light value' are all that you need to practice in order to learn to paint. After that, it is all just practice so you can paint intuitively. Intuitive painting is when you're painting without your thinking brain interfering with your perception.

Chin is the author of "Watercolour Basics: Shape and Light Value". The one and only instruction book that teaches you to paint using shape and light value - the basic elements of art. Now you don't have to search far and wide for the illusive 3 primary pigments. "Tan Signature Paint" manufactures only the 3 Primary pigments and is available in Watercolour, Oil and Acrylic. They are now available at two stores in Toronto:
Toose Art Supplies, 229 College St. Toronto, M5T 1R4 Tel: 416.348.0793
Linseed Art Supplies, 336 Dundas St. West (across from the AGO)

1. To create all your subject's features (form, space, light, shade, plane, structure, texture, perspective and proportion) you are shown how to see and use shape and light value. Using my published method, the subject's features are fully rendered and never simulated by artificial techniques or fancy brushes.
2. To avoid muddy colours and overworking you are introduced to my Light Value scale.
3. To simplify mixing of colours and light values, you use only the three primary pigments.  That's right, every colour you will use is mixed from only 3 primary colours.
   
4. To remove inhibitions from your painting process you will learn to paint directly without pre-sketching. You are shown how to train your mind to see an object's shape rather than it's edges.
   
5. To produce your composition, you are shown how to scale and place your first shape correctly. This process allows you achieve your intended crop precisely, without the need for sketching and thumbnail studies.