I enjoyed participating in many special events this past year. I was asked to be a feature 'performer' - DRAWING at the Shadbolt Centre Blues Festival. Try to imagine being up at a concert stage doing 20 large scale charcoal drawings of the headline performers with 3500 people watching for 5 hours…sure cure for stagefright! They gave me a one-man show at The Centre afterwards, called "Sketchin' with the Blues". By the way, please see the drawings and some other recent things on my newly revamped website: www.tonyoregan.com which is designed so I can constantly update it with news, photos of art and workshop events, downloadable resources for artists, etc. The new website should be up by Jan. 13. Please visit and give me some FEEDBACK. A very rewarding experience in 2001 was a five-Monday workshop at an elementary school in White Rock called "Drawing the Ancient World". All these workshops have been great fun and my own work has been heading in promising new directions. It's also been great to see several of my former workshop participants launching their own exhibitions!
Hope to see you again this term,
Tony O'Regan

RiverBoating in France - Summer 2002.
In participation with British Columbia Automobile Association I am planning a group trip to France for painting and sketching on a RiverBoat Cruise! I have enclosed an itinerary and other details. Besides being a dream vacation for artists, it will, of course, also be excellent for photography - great for participants and their friends or spouses! Participants will be able to extend and customize their travel. You are cordially invited to a "River Cruise Night" information session at BCAA head office in Burnaby (4567 Canada Way across from BCIT). All the particulars of the trip will be presented. During the evening I will be doing live sketches and a watercolour of a French Village as a doorprize, drawn-for during the evening. Hope you can make it - January 30, 2002 at 7pm. (RSVP by Jan 23, 2002 so we can plan the size of the room )-
Please call Celinda Stevens of BCAA at (604) 268-5047 celinda.stevens@bcaa.com

Havana Notes: Now Showing - Friends Tom Abrahamsson, Gary Blakeley and Chris Cameron are showing black/white, hand-printed photographs taken in Cuba last year at the Kwantlen Gallery next to the Library on the 72nd Ave .Surrey Campus until January 28, 2002. This show is well worth taking in if you get a chance!

UBC: enjoyed teaching several of the course modules in the Garden Design Program at UBC this past Summer. All the fun parts of Architecture…and gardens, too! This program will happen again in 2003.

SFU: taught perspective drawing for Urban Design within the new Urban Design Certificate Program at SFU City Program. Suggest you check this part time program out if you are in the design field.

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design: Pleased to say my courses, Creative Drawing and Architecture, Perspective for artists and Designers and Building Architectural Models and Maquettes seem to have become regulars in the certificate programs each term.

Kwantlen University College: Now on the teaching Faculty at Kwantlen in Painting and in the Interior Design Program. Kwantlen also invited me to conduct an outdoor Designer's Sketch Camp again this past September. It was a delight to see all the new faces entering the design profession.

BarnStorming was a super success last summer! I still hear from the participants. We had a wonderful group of people sketching, painting and photographing for a weekend at several beautiful and evocative farm sites in rural Langley, centred at Susan Falk's country acreage in Langley, BC.

Upcoming Workshops/Classes

All classes are high energy and hands-on, with many demonstrations. Structured for beginning to intermediate levels. All the basics are taught, while there is always plenty of content for the more experienced learner. Call the numbers listed directly or enquire by email tony@tonyoregan.com
If you give me your email address, I can let you know earlier about upcoming classes and events.

RiverBoating in France:
Come on a Sketching/Painting/Photography river cruise in France, this summer!
Attend the Cruise Information Night Jan 30, 7pm at BCAA head office in Burnaby
(4567 Canada Way across from BCIT)
If you will attend RSVP Please contact Celinda Stevens, by Jan. 23 BCAA Travel
Ph: (604) 268-5047 or email: celinda.stevens@bcaa.com

University of BC, Vancouver. Call UBC Contin. Studies (604) 822-1444 / 822-1462
Painting the Landscape in Watercolour, held at the Coachhouse Studio, Hycroft House, Shaughnessy. 2 days Sat/Sun April 20/21.
Garden Design Certificate Program, courses TBA

Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Call Contin. Studies (604) 291-5000 / 291-5094
Mountain, Sea and City in Watercolour, Harbour Centre downtown campus, 2 Sats, April 4/11.
Urban Design Certificate Program, courses TBA

Emily Carr Inst. of Art and Design, Vancouver. Call (604) 844-3810/ 844-3800
Perspective for Artists/Designers, 4 Sats. Jan 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9
Creative Drawing and Architecture, 4 Suns. Feb. 3. 10, 17, 24
Building Arch. Models and Maquettes, 4 Suns. Mar 17, 24, Apr. 7, 14

Kwantlen University College, Richmond
Regular credit courses within Fine Arts Faculty and Interior Design Faculty

The Gallery, White Rock. Call (604) 531-8226 to register
Drawing 6 Mondays 10am - 12:30 Jan 14 - Feb 18
Watercolour 6 Mondays 2pm - 4:30 Jan 14 - Feb 18
Acrylic 6 Mondays 2pm - 4:30 Feb. 25- Apr.8
Oils 6 Mondays 10am - 12:30 Feb 25 -Apr 8

Evening Classes
Acrylic 6 Mon. Nights, 6:30pm - 9pm, Jan. 21 - Feb. 25
Watercolour 6 Wed. Nights, 6:30pm - 9pm, Feb 20 - March 27

Please Note: Classes at The Gallery are on-going throughout the year. If you find that the one you are interested in is filled, ask to be on the waitlist for the next one which usually begins a couple of weeks after the end of the previous course. (604) 531-8226

Any other queries, please contact me at tony@tonyoregan.com