Calendar
Jul 17, 2026
![[Summer Camp] Comics, Anime, and more](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Stock_Children_Comic_Anime_Manga-400x480.png)
Bring your characters, stories, and ideas to life! Learn drawing and illustration techniques to create comic strips and a graphic novel cover while exploring the art of anime and manga. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Animal Adventures](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stock-pexels-pavel-danilyuk-8422149-400x480.jpg)
The animal kingdom comes alive at the Varley! Kids will use vibrant colours and textures to create their own furry, feathery, and scaly friends through printmaking, sculpture, and painting. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Adventures in Nature](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Summer-Camps-2015_July-29-2015_2-400x480.jpg)
Discover the wonders of plants, animals, and habitats big and small! Campers will create 2D and 3D mixed-media artworks inspired by outdoor adventures, stories, games, and songs. All materials provided.
![[Summer Camp] Draw from Life](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/stock-1287435586-612x612-drawing-art-class-400x408.jpg)
Build essential drawing and observation skills while creating still-life drawings, self-portraits, and works from a model. Be inspired by gallery and vault drawings, celebrating the legacy of Fred Varley, one of Canada’s finest portrait artists. All materials provided.
![[Evening Sessions] Life Drawing: Drop-in Studio](https://varleyartgallery.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/pexels-cottonbro-3778204-art-class-portrait-model-400x480.jpg)
Co-presented with the Markham Group of Artists, this weekly program offers non-instructional life drawing sessions featuring a live, clothed model in long poses. Open to artists of all skill levels, it provides a relaxed and supportive environment for exploring portraiture and figure drawing. Please bring your own materials including easels.
Register or drop in. Space is limited.
Note: No drop-in life drawing session on Friday, July 31. Doors open at 4:50 PM.
Image credit: Linda Kalianteris
Join our Gallery Animateurs for free 30-minute guided tours of the 2026 Summer Exhibitions, What holds us together and Sketching the Past. This program is funded by Canada Summer Jobs and the Varley-McKay Art Foundation of Markham.