The Floating Art Classroom - One Hour West of Toronto

Professional Author Garth Pottruff
In Southern Ontario there is a brand-new method to toronto landscaping company called the Painter's Drift. This is a floating educational art course that catches scenic landscapes of the Grand River Valley with a brush!

The Painter's Drift utilizes rafts to float in to a special landscape to invest the day painting. The raft drifts are assisted trips making use of safe however stable 14ft rafts that need no skills to paddle. The art course does a convenience float down the river to a landscape ... spends a day or half day painting with guideline ... and afterwards drift out to the exit point. The overall drift times to the landscapes differ from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours.

Presently six various wilderness art class are provided along the Grand & Nith River in Southern Ontario. The first setting is the motivating Devil's Cavern, a remarkable limestone rockery section on the Nith River. Further up the Nith is the second landscape, a towering rock face with old trees hanging over the edge.

The last four setups are located on the Grand River. At the first landscape the artist sees an island to paint the cascading rock springs. Second is the concealed stone ruins of a 1860 grist mill covered in vines on the Grand River. The 3rd selection is the beauty of the open valley with the the river meandering around an island. Last is the "Fallen"... an plan of huge stones shored by 100 ft bluffs of cedars and pines.

The Painter's Drift Class size is 7-10 individuals. Going to students bring their own art products & medium. The classes are designed for all ages from the amateur to the experienced. Art students can pick from a complete day course to a half day course in between May and October. The courses for individual landscapes are repeated at different times and seasons to attend to different lighting conditions and color.

The instructional artist is Jeanette Obbink from Paris, Ontario. Jeanette focuses on oil and watercolor work. "Jeanette's works are figurative with compositions, shapes and colors that reflect her love for nature and the environment".

For those taking a trip from afar over night accommodations can be discovered in the cobble-stone town of Paris at the classy 18th century Arlington Hotel or the nearby countryside setting of the River Ridge Bed & Morning meal. This B&B can accommodate up to twelve people and provides a enjoyable outdoor jacuzzi overlooking the Grand River Valley.

The Painter's Drift is a brand-new strategy to painting ... integrating art, outdoors and convenience rafting. Painters looking for something different will delight in experiencing one of the most distinct floating art class in Southern Ontario.

Garth Pottruff has approached the arts and the outdoors from a various perspective. People that he has guided down the Grand River have repetitively stated "if just I can capture this on canvas". So Garth chose to make it occur. By utilizing rafts that are individual friendly for everybody, the drifting art courses have come true.

Garth is part of the Grand River Rafting Business which concentrates on unique knowing experiences with a twist of something different.