Create your own Magic
Perennial Palettes Experience with Aggie Armstrong
Perennial Palettes Experience with Aggie Armstrong
This isn’t your run-of-the-mill watercolour class! Get in touch with your creative side, even if you aren’t sure you have it in you, with artist Aggie Armstrong (she/her) as you discover her perennial garden and come away with a beautiful start to your watercolour journey.
Aggie’s goal is for you to leave with a new passion to carve time out for yourself to be creative. Whether you have 15 minutes or an hour you can be creative at home with watercolours, embracing your creativity, mindfulness and self-care.
This experience is a welcoming, judgment-free and safe place for everyone attend. Respect and inclusivity is a major component of the experience. Simply put, art is for every body.
*We firmly adhere to the Ontario Human Rights Legislation to uphold and support everyone’s inherent dignity and worth and provide for opportunities and equal rights without discrimination, as stated here
Get Hands-on with Aggie Armstrong and her Perennial Palettes Experience
Appreciate being in the moment as you enjoy a beautiful perennial garden on the back roads of Oxford County and take time for yourself to get back in touch with your creative side. This guided watercolour experience will help you slow down and see beauty in the every day.
What to Expect
Get ready to slow down, literally smell the flowers, and breathe in the fresh rural Ontario air as you roll up to Aggie Armstrong’s garden plot. Located on a beautiful property on Oxford’s back roads, you’ll be greeted by Aggie - an energetic ball of good vibes all wrapped up into a person!
After brief introductions, a mindfulness activity starts at the top of the experience. You and your group will then be led through Aggie’s beautiful perennial garden as you pick 1-3 flowers that speak to you.
Next, Aggie will set you up in the garden with a how-to booklet that you get to bring home, and all the supplies to begin painting your very own colour wheel. She’ll teach you the basics of watercolour painting such as which art supplies to use, brush stroke techniques, painting methods, and more as you have a few laughs
along the way.
Ready for a break?
Perfect timing. Enjoy a picture-perfect picnic together! Surrounded by so many great
farms, you’ll get to enjoy a taste of place that is unique to Oxford County.
Shortly after the break, head back to your station to take all that you’ve learned and
begin painting your own artwork based on those beautiful flowers you picked.
Aggie will encourage you to slow down and notice the details you may have raced past.
Finally, you’ll head home connected, refreshed and ready to continue your watercolour journey.
Aggie will set you up with everything you need to keep honing your creative journey including a couple of professional brushes, an artist-grade watercolour pad, and your very own watercolours - a set of plastic-free, and sustainably-made paints from an Indigenous woman-owned company on Manitoulin Island.
Creating art for the sake of creation is a wellness activity and Aggie’s hope is that it will continue well beyond your time together. #artismagic #createyourownmagic
FAQs
What is the cost of this experience?
This experience is $185 CAD + taxes/person for (3) hours,
and includes all your experience take-home professional-grade art supplies,
as well as a mid-day picnic and beverages. Group rates are available
How many people are needed to run?
A minimum of (4) four people are needed to run this experience and a maximum of 14 can be Artist Aggie Armstrong leading Perennial Palettes Experience garden tour and watercolour workshop in Oxford County, Ontario Canada. You can receive a group rate for booking six (6), or ten (10) spaces or sign up as an individual on a pre-determined date.
What if I’ve never painted before?
This class is for everyone! This art workshop is a form of self-care and there is no experience required. You’ll leave with skills you’d want to keep doing and build on for years and years.
What They’re Saying about the Experience
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As someone who takes little time for herself and is intimidated at the thought of creating art, I had a surprisingly wonderful time at Aggie’s experience, Perennial Palettes. Aggie reminded us of the importance of being ourselves, embracing who we are, and to never ever judge yourself (or your art). She provided an open space for us to create, spend time outdoors in the sunshine, and be surrounded by nature. Thankful to Aggie for welcoming us in to #createourownmagic
Emily V.
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I enjoyed your workshop so much it was such a fun 3 hours. I am a 24/7 caregiver and it was the medicine I needed. Many thanks
Judi M.
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This really was the perfect day. What stole the show for me was Aggie. She is so warm, welcoming, are carefree! She set us up for success with the flow of the day, relaxing, quality art supplies, teaching us techniques and then we put them into practice choosing a flower from the garden to paint. Her paintings are beautiful, but her personality shines even brighter. Thank you Aggie!
Mere M.
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This experience keeps giving! I'm so grateful to have participated in the Perennial Palettes experience by Aggie. After learning how to paint with watercolours during this experience, I've found a new hobby that I can take with me anywhere. I also love that we were fed during the experience. We just showed up and had a wonderful time. Aggie took care of all of our needs!
Meg C.
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Thanks for the enjoyable few hours I had in your Garden, Aggie. You have a really unique art class that I have never experience before, I truly enjoyed my day. Thanks again and I will be telling everyone about the stress relieving experience that you provided for me and my brush skills.
Adrian C.