Teach acrylics classes for the City of Kitchener at Forest Heights Community Centre and Chandler Mowat Community Centre.  

In the classes I teach how to choose appropriate materials, surfaces, and tools for acrylic painting and know the compositional make-up of acrylics. Mix colors and apply color theory to paintings. How to create depth and aerial perspective in your paintings. 

In general, I use the Moore Method of Painting that involves learning  a well thought out approach to starting a painting, developing it through its various stages, and then bringing it to life with the finishing touches

Teach Palette knife classes for the City of Kitchener at Forest Heights Community Centre and Chandler Mowat Community Centre.  

Palette knife painting is a technique where artists use a palette knife, a flexible metal tool, to apply and manipulate paint directly on the canvas, creating unique textures and effects, instead of using traditional brushes. 

I teach techniques like  Applying paint in a smooth, even layer, Creating textured strokes, Mixing colors directly on the canvas: Apply different colors to the canvas and then use the palette knife to blend them, Creating impasto effects:and Creating thin, broken lines

Have been teaching art classes at the City of Kitchner at the Forest Heights Community Centre for ages 18+. The batch is full and there were several people in the waiting list. We are using Watercolors in these classes. The students are learning to do loose landscapes, flowers, birds, snow scene, cubism art, Vincent van gough insired impressionist style, painting from a photograph etc.

Conducted art workshop for Camino WellBeing + Mental Health for their newcomer girls group with the theme 'Standing strong' in Feb 2025 

• GLIMPSES: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF6xwgXgy7F/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

• FEEDBACK: Thank you so very much Megha for another engaging and wonderful session! You did a great job working with our teenage group and supporting their learning and creativity. It is always a pleasure to invite you, thank you for connecting the painting experiencing to our topic of cultivating a growth mindset.

We look forward to having you back in the future! 😊

Take good care,

Sowda Farah (she/her), Newcomer Mental Health Facilitator

I conducted this art workshop for Camino WellBeing + Mental Health where I provided all the materials and gave step by step instructions. A group of newcomer mothers got an opportunity to connect with other mothers and make beautiful pieces of art over a cup of tea in a relaxing environment

I conducted this art workshop for Camino WellBeing + Mental Health where I provided all the materials and gave step by step instructions. A group of newcomer women got an opportunity to connect with other women and make beautiful pieces of art over a cup of tea in a relaxing environment

I teach palette classes for the City of Kitchener at Forest Heights Community Centre and Chandler Mowat Community Centre.  

Palette knife painting is a technique that uses a flat, flexible blade to apply paint to a canvas. The blade can be used to create texture, lines, and layers of color. 

I conducted this art workshop for Camino WellBeing + Mental Health where I provided all the materials and gave step by step instructions. A free group of newcomer women got an opportunity to connect with other women and make beautiful pieces of art over a cup of tea in a relaxing environment

Very theraputic art workshop with 15 youth who were refugees. Did this for Camino WellBeing + Mental Health at Mill Coutland Community Centre. Kids were very happy to learn and make art with me. I provided all the materials. They just had to come and make art with step by step instructions and in the process enjoy and heal

Did a workshop on Cubism Art with multiple groups of kids of various ages. I taught the kids what Cubism Art is, showed them pictures of original art pieces by Pablo Picasso from my recent visit to the MOMA in New York City. We not only created colorful vibrant Cubism Art pieces but also had very interesting dicussions around being our true selves and simply following the crowd. How we should embrace the uniqueness in each one of us.

A very relaxing and powerful Zentangle Art workshop for the City Of Kitchener at the Forest Heights Community Centre in March 2023 where the attendees learnt about Zentangle Art and its benefits. We made some impressive pieces together.

A wonderful watercolors workshop for the City Of Kitchener at the Rockway Community Centre in March 2024 where we painted a beautiful flower together

Loved teaching a group of 14 women at the Grand Valley Institution for Women a beautlful gem studded peacock. A very successful workshop.

Loved teaching a group of 12 women at the Grand Valley Institution for Women a beautlful Hibiscus in Watercolors.

Have been teaching art classes at the City of Kitchner at the Forest Heights Community Centre for ages 18+. Around 8 people are enrolled for that. We are using Watercolors in these classes. The students are learning to do loose landscapes, flowers, birds, snow scene, cubism art, Vincent van gough insired impressionist style, painting from a photograph etc.

Have been teaching art workshops at the City of Kitchner at the Rockway Community Centre for Seniors. I did a neugraphic art workshop with them and will be doing a flower based art workshop in March.

• Date: Saturday, Sept 30th 2023

• Duration: 1.5 hrs long

• Location: 3 Sisters Cultural Centre in St Jacobs

• Queries: CreativeHead@OMeghaSpark.ca / 2265074216

• Attended by 17 people of different ages and ethnicity

A workshop that I thoroughly enjoyed teaching. It was attended by a family with 2 sisters and 2 sets of mother daughter pairs. It's not easy to paint pots but I broke down the steps and did pre-preparations to make sure that each and every attendant enjoyed making the pots and were proud of their art piece. 

I conducted it at the 3 Sisters Cultural Centre and provided all the materials. used very high quality interior exterior grade paints.

https://threesisterscentre.ca/ 

Conducted another lovely 'Adults Watercolor Workshop' at the 3 sisters cultural centre in St Jacob's. I provided all the art materials (Watercolor sheets, paints, brushes, rags, palettes, pencils, erasers,etc)  and gave step by step instructions to co-create some beautiful pieces of art. Such a beautiful experience to see happy faces, gorgeous art pieces and fulfilled hearts at the end of the workshop. 

https://threesisterscentre.ca/ 

The most beautiful part of the workshop was that it was attended by a mother-daughter pair and sisters pair. Google reviews:

• https://goo.gl/maps/PwwT34Dxwx2hAzeZ6 

• https://goo.gl/maps/VGVpnjui6xZkp2bPA 

Did a private acrylics painting event with around 6 members of a family to celebrate a birthday. I provided all the art materials (Easels, canvases, paints, brushes, rags, palettes, pencils, erasers, sharpies etc)  and gave step by step instructions to co-create some beautiful pieces of art. Everyone loved the process and their final art pieces. 

Google review:

https://g.co/kgs/ze8P5D 

Did a watercolor painting workshop where kids made art with their dads. It provided a wonderful platform for kids and fathers to works together on a beautiful piece of art and create beautiful memories. Provided watercolor sheets, paints, brushes, rags, palettes, pencils, erasers, sharpies etc)  and gave step by step instructions to co-create some beautiful pieces of art. Everyone loved the process and their final art pieces. 

Google reviews:

• https://g.co/kgs/odnTmM

• https://g.co/kgs/uqfcja 

Did an acrylics painting workshop for adults at the 3 sisters cultural centre in St Jacob's I provided all the art materials (Easels, canvases, paints, brushes, rags, palettes, pencils, erasers, sharpies etc)  and gave step by step instructions to co-create some beautiful pieces of art. Everyone loved the process and their final art pieces. 

https://threesisterscentre.ca/ 

Google review: 

https://goo.gl/maps/e4r1q5G7m4fmW5SR7 

Did a watercolor painting workshop for ladies. Provided watercolor sheets, paints, brushes, rags, palettes, pencils, erasers, sharpies etc)  and gave step by step instructions to co-create some beautiful pieces of art. Everyone loved the process and their final art pieces. Google reviews: 

• https://g.co/kgs/LG3pej

• https://g.co/kgs/FX5RNF 

• https://g.co/kgs/BJmcQf 

Conducted an art workshop at Button Factory arts on Sunday, April 2nd 2023 on the theme of Holi - 'Dance of Colors' for ages 7+

Did a corporate paint night at Waterloo Innovation Park, with a group of around 10 people. I provided all the art materials (Easels, canvases, paints, brushes, rags, palettes, pencils, erasers, sharpies etc)  and gave step by step instructions to co-create some beautiful pieces of art. Everyone loved the process and their final art pieces. It was a huge hit!

Google review:

https://g.co/kgs/M9uJUv 

Did a greeting card making activity @ Court At Laurelwood Retirement Residence. The activity was designed and conducted keeping in mind the reduced motor skills and weak eye sight of senior people. After one round of making greeting cards, they were so motivated, they made another set of greeting cards. One person made a Halloween themed greeting card for her son, another one made a portrait, one person did an En Plein Air from the window and one made a card from her imagination. They shared stories of their art experiences in the past, when they were younger. They also brought out their old art pieces and showed me. In-fact one lady who was 93 years old gifted me cards from her patch work art.

605 Laurelwood Dr, Waterloo, ON N2V 2W7

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I was one of the 5 artists selected out of 50 submissions to conduct an art workshop during Belmont Village Bestival in Sept, 2022

I taught kids, adults and seniors to paint on a rock. We made a beautiful peacock with embellishments. There were 15 attendees. It was interesting to have a couple, a mother-son pair, a mother-daughter pair, 3 generations from one family (son, mother and grandmother) attend the workshop that day. I loved guiding, inspiring and teaching them!

https://www.belmontvillagebestival.com/ 

Did an art event with 100 kids (2 batches) from age 3 yrs to 12 yrs at Shri Ram Dham Hindu Temple during summer camop of 2022. Taught them to make some beautiful greeting cards using markers and pencil colors for Rakshabandhan and Krishna Janmashthmi theme.

http://www.brahmrishimission.org/ 

Demonstrated art pieces and insipired JK and KG kids towards making more art.

https://abe.wrdsb.ca/ 

 I take weekly classes with kids from 4 years to 12 years of age in different batches. I cover watercolors painting, oil pastels, pencil colors and sketching skills with them.

The idea of these classes is to motivate kids towards more productive and healthier activities like arts instead of spending time in front of TV or video games. The environment of the class is very fun and relaxing. Kids thoroughly enjoy my classes and really look forward to attending them, and so do I :)

More details at: Art Lessons