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Welcome to my site featuring my oil and acrylic paintings. Please take a few moments and enjoy the marine, still life, city and landscape paintings which, you will find here.  I am a self-taught Canadian Artist and have been working for about 25 years mostly in acrylic paints and a large percentage en plein air.  Many of the landscape, marine, cityscape, still life paintings you will see here are for sale!
To inquire  about a painting, the acrylic painting books, workshops, or to commission a painting, please click
here to send me a message.  My work hangs in numerous corporate and private art colIections in Canada, the United States, and Europe.
  I also conduct weekend, acrylic painting workshops, which I have been doing for the last ten years.
My Acrylic Painting Course is now available in book, e-book or condensed e-book format so anyone can learn how to paint using these acrylic techniques, methods and instruction at home. A "must have" art book for anyone interested in learning to paint.
"Hi Brian, I got your book and first I have to say thank you, I love it. I have done more with my burnt sienna values with this book than I did in 5 art classes. THANK YOU. Even my husband said "you should frame that like it is". I can't believe I am finally "getting it". Values and blocking in have been a MAJOR struggle for me." - RHONDA LAWTON

                                                 No drawing or painting experience required!
                                  For both expert and beginner alike!
                             Learn to paint in your own home


                          I am currently represented by: 
                                 Kurbatoff Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
                               Main Street Gallery, Sidney, B.C.
                             Southshore Gallery Sooke, B.C.



"Enjoy your visit!

This website is continually updated
  with new paintings
and information!"

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"7-Steps to a Successful Painting"
ISBN 0-9737226-0-6
A Complete Acrylic Painting Course

Available in 3 formats:
A full color, wire-bound, glossy
workbook (123 pages)
or
A full-color PDF ebook (123 pages, 20mb)
or
A condensed PDF ebook (the 7-steps only)
No previous drawing of painting
experience required!

For both beginner and expert alike!







"...one of the most valuable courses I have
taken in my lifetime of 66 years!....like re-discovering
the mud-puddle!"- Walter Reidel

about the book
acrylic painting workbook   
acrylic painting full pdf ebook   
acrylic painting condensed ebook
Bring the workshop to your location................................................................................
 
click here for more information on the refresher workshops!
click here for a bit of information on acrylic paint
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To see an oil painting demo................................click here!
Acrylic Painting Workshops
2-Day Weekend Workshops Every Month
For Both Beginner & Expert Alike!
No Previous Experience Required!
Must be 18 years or older!

"I am convinced that anyone can paint and what this course is really about is to help the painter to get out of the way and allow the painting to happen. This program has evolved over the last 12 years and helped hundreds of people learn to to paint. Many who have had no previous experience now show in galleries and juried shows here on the west coast !"



"Hello Brian -I took your course this weekend and now am seeing form through "different"eyes. I am not stuck anymore with details. Color and shape in the most simple form is in all I see.I am feeling joy now after a difficult weekend of undoing old habits. Your Buddhist way of teaching was very refreshing and opened up the playful aspect of painting for me again. Namaste."-Cathy Campbell

"REFRESHER WORKSHOPS"
For former workshop participants only! These workshops involve 2 days of personal coaching for people who have previously taken a workshop.
click here for details....



1) For those people living on Vanvcouver Island, "7-Steps to a     
    Successful Painting"
(acrylic course book) is NOW available
    at
Artworld on Chatham St. in Victoria! You can also order
    the book on this website!

2)
Acrylic Painting Workshops in Victoria, B.C.
    The June & July  workshops are full.  The next one is August 30,31st...there is room for...

3)
Refresher Workshops   For former workshop participants only!      
    These workshops involve 2 days of personal coaching for people who
    have previously taken a workshop.
click here to see pictures of the January Refresher
     The next "Refresher Workshop" is August 16,17th There is room for............................
5 more
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PAINTING WORKSHOPS

4)Sept 17-21,2007 A 5-day workshop at the
Firesign Art & Design Studio
   on Quadra Island
, located near Campbell River, British Columbia.
  
click here to see pictures of the Quadra Island workshop

5)July 14-18th, 2-back to back workshops were done in Boone, 
    North Carolina
at the request of wonderful group there.
    Boone, is a small town in the Blue Ridge Mountains!
   click here to see pictures of the Boone workshops
                             

6)Metchosin-Summer School of the Arts - a 5-day workshop was held there from 
   July 2-July 6th 2007 (L.PEARSON COLLEGE)
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LEARN TO PAINT IN A WORKSHOP!
LEARN TO PAINT AT HOME!
I am committed to making your visit as pleasant as possible. Should you find any links, forms or pages NOT working or problematic,  or if you have any ideas about how to improve this site, Please send me a short message on the "CONTACT" page!     -Brian Simons
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1) A return trip to Boone, North Carolina for a "refresher workshop"
    at the beginning of February.
click here to see pictures of the Boone Refresher

2) A 2-day Workshop in Prince George, B.C. with the Artist's Co-op &  
     GalleryOct 22-23rd. For information contact  Barbara Brant 250-562-5899
     or email: barbbrant@shaw.ca  
click her to see pictures of the workshop

3) A 5-day Workshop in
Nanaimo,BC Oct. 15-19th. For information contact
     Mary Stewart at:   250-716-1440 or email at:  marystewart@telus.net
   
click here to see pictures of the Nanaimo workshop
To see an acrylic painting demo.........................click here!
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"Thanks again, and thanks again. The refresher workshop was great...You are such an anti-stress instructor yet giving us wonderful tools to work with and the best attitude to have while painting.
Millions of thanks, Brian"     Diane Lair
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