Happy New Year!  It’s a New Year and time to get your creative juices going by coming to one of our FREE “How To” Art demos this weekend here at our Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store to inspire you!

 

Saturday, January 9th, we have Gary Greene demonstrating “Painting with Color Pencil” and sharing his techniques for creating color saturated painting with color pencil, check out his slide show of his paintings, just amazing.  

 

Saturday, January 9th at 11am & 1:45pm
COLOR PENCIL: Painting with Color Pencil
Gary Greene 

 

Gary will also have a 2 day workshop January 24th & 31st at the Bellevue Store with more on “Painting with Color Pencil”. 

Sunday, January 24th & 31st
COLOR PENCIL: Painting with Color Pencil
with Gary Greene 

Day One: Tired of struggling with watercolors, oils, acrylics, or pastels? Discover the exciting, creative, and versatile medium of color pencil. Learn about various color pencils, paper surfaces, and related materials or tools. Students will complete a study using layering techniques. Open to all levels of art experience. Participants under 16 admitted with instructor permission only.
Day Two: Learn to create vividly realistic colored pencil paintings using the “burnishing” technique. Gary will give a brief discussion of the burnishing process, and step-by–step demonstration. Participants then complete a painting from supplied notes and visual aids.
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$100 per day
11:30am to 4:30pm

 

Sunday, January 10th Janice Seino, will be demonstrating painting with acrylic and sharing tips on making textured surfaces and manipulating the surface to expand the creative expression.

 

 

This Saturday for one of our FREE “How To” Art demos at our Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store we have Gail Baker demonstrating “Special Effects in Acrylic Painting – Improvisation and Experimentation“  Gail will be sharing her ideas for using Improvisation and Experimentation to drive the Creative Process for Acrylic Painting.  

 

 

 

We also are having two Workshopsthis weekend at the Bellevue Store:

 

If you haven’t tried Watercolor Sticks, this is the perfect opportunity. Che gives you step-by-step instruction on new ways to paint in the studio or on location. Materials required for the expanded section.
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$50 per day
2pm to 5pm
artofche.com

 

Learn to add texture and interest to your paintings by letting the colors show through with Gary’s unique building of pastel layers. A process that will enliven your under-painting adding dimension to your work. Materials required for the expanded section
Please register early, as class sizes are limited to 12 students
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$50 per day
1pm to 4pm
beginningartist.com 

 

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~Deborah Burns
 
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This weekend at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store for our FREE “How To” Art demos we have Ann Breckon demonstrating how to Paint “Glass” Ornaments with watercolor.  Ann has posted this on her website about the demo: “Come see how to create a painting of a shiny glass ornament that is so real folks will want to hang it on the tree!” 

 

Saturday, December 5th at 11am & 1:45pm
WATERCOLOR: Painting Glass Ornaments 
Ann Breckon

 

Sunday, December 6th at 12 & 2pm
Acrylics: Large and Lush
Dianna Shyne
diannashyne.com 

 

So come for some fun, learning and inspiration!

 

Every Day,  Express Yourself  with  ART….
 
~Deborah Burns
 
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This weekend we have a terrific variety of FREE “How To” Art demos at our Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store: Watercolor with Deborah Stachowic, Color Pencil “Painting” with Gary Greene, and Pet Portraits in Acrylic with Kelly Lyles.   PLUS, we have a mid-day 101 Workshop on “How To” use our DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks with Che Lopez.

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Deborah Stachowic will be demonstrating using Watercolors in her WATERCOLOR: Red & Green demo.  Deborah paints gorgeous, large scale flowers and here is a link to a previous demo that Deborah has done: Painting Dramatic Reds in Watercolors. 

Saturday, November 21st from 12 to 1 pm
WATERCOLOR STICKS 101
Che Lopez

 

 

Gary Greene will be demonstrating, COLOR PENCIL: Painting with Color Pencil.  Check out a slide show of his work to see his amazing Colored Pencil Paintings …you will want to find out more how he does it for yourself.
Sunday, November 22nd at 11 am & 1 pm
COLOR PENCIL: Painting with Color Pencil 
Gary Greene
Don’t miss Gary’s Workshop Jan 24th & 31st Bellevue Store!

 

Kelly Lyles will be demonstrating Pet Portraits acrylic paint, come and find out some great tips if you are interested in painting Pet Portraits.
Sunday, November 22nd at 12 & 2 pm
ACRYLIC: How to Start a Pet Portrait 

 

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~Deborah Burns
 
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This weekend at our DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store we have FREE Art Demos: Mixed Media with Acrylics with Jacqui Beck and Holiday Cardmaking with Strathmore’s Kari Foteff.

 

SATURDAY:  Jacqui Beck will be sharing her tips on Mixed Media Painting with Acrylics.  Get some new ideas for working in Mixed Media and get inpsired!

 

Saturday, October 3rd at 11 am & 1:45 pm
ACRYLIC: Expressive Mixed Media Painting
Jacqui Beck
Don’t miss Jacqui’s Workshop Oct 28th Bellevue Store! 
 

SUNDAY: Get a jump on the Holidays (Yikes is it really October already?) and Learn How To Make Creative Holiday Cards with Strathmore’s Kari Foteff.  Get tips on creating your Holiday cards now, while you still have time to make them!

 

 

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~Deborah Burns
 
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Also on Saturday, Jacqui Beck will be demonstrating Expressive Mixed Media Painting with Acrylics.  Jacqui describes this demo as learning how to loosen up and paint more expressively with “collaging, underpainting, stamping and layering techniques…bringing more life to your paintings and more enjoyment to your painting process.”  Check out Jacquis’ colorful new paintings on her website for more reasons why to come.

 
Saturday, September 19th at 12 & 2 pm
ACRYLIC: Expressive Mixed Media Painting
Jacqui Beck
jacquibeck.com
Don’t miss Jacqui’s Workshop Oct 18th Seattle Store

Sunday, Ted Pankowski & Lynn Fleming will both be painting “…in a side-by-side demonstration of the same scene using DANIEL SMITH and Golden Acrylics.  This friendly competition should provide a unique perspective on how individuality influences the end product with the same subject and materials.”

Sunday, September 20th from 12 to 2 pm (Special Time!)
ACRYLIC: Painting the Outdoors Indoors
Ted Pankowski & Lynn Fleming

 

 

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~Deborah Burns
 
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This weekend at our DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store our FREE Art Demos are How to Paint Lighthouses in Watercolor, How to Stretch Watercolor Paper with the OTTO Stretcher System and an Acrylic & Drawing demo.

 

Saturday, Ann Breckon will be demonstrating “How to Paint Lighthouses in Watercolor“.  This is FREE 1 hour demo “will focus on tips for painting some of the handsome lighthouses found in the Puget Sound Area” and is an Introduction to Ann’s  All Day Painting Workshop on How to Paint “the West Point Lighthouse found in Seattle’s Discovery Park, painted from an interesting low perspective.”  That will be October 25th.

 

Saturday, September 12th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Lighthouses 
Ann Breckon
annbreckon.com
Don’t miss Ann’s Workshop Oct 25th Seattle Store

 

Also on Saturday, we will have Ronald Otto, inventor of the OTTO Watercolor Paper Stretcher System here to demonstrate how to use his very cool Paper Stretcher.  If you don’t like the other options for stretching your watercolor paper (taping, stapling, using clips or ?) then you will want to see how well this works for keeping your WC paper perfectly flat AND preserving the natural deckle edges.

Saturday, September 12th from 12 to 2 pm
PAPER STRETCHING: OTTO Watercolor Paper Stretcher
Ronald Otto
ottoartproducts.com

 

Sunday, Max Grover will be sharing his tips on working with Acrylic Paint and “Painting From the Imagination“.  When you go to his website you can see his whimsical Paintings which will give you some idea of the direction of the demo.  So if you would like to be inspired to work more colorfully and imaginatively, then this would be a fun demo for you!

Sunday, September 13th from 12 to 1 pm and 2 pm to 3 pm
ACRYLIC & DRAWING: Paint From the Imagination – Form & Content 
Max Grover 
maxgrover.com

 

 

Every Day,  Express Yourself  with  ART….
 
~Deborah Burns
 
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This Saturday, the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store will have Artist Gail Baker demonstrating Acrylic Painting: “Acrylics in the Rough“.  It’s FREE, so come by and get some great Acrylic Painting tips from Gail.

“My plan is to give a background of the DVD we made in the 1970s, then play the DVD. While it’s playing, I’ll quietly print an etching I made, titled Portrait of Daniel Smith - using ink made by Daniel Smith, Inc. and on a Halfwood Press I designed.’- Bill Ritchie” 

This weekends FREE ART demos at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store is Packed with opportunities to watch and learn from FOUR different Artists!  We are having two Artists each day for two demos each, that’s four on Saturday and another four on Sunday.  There is Acrylic painting, Oil painting, Gold Gesso, and Multi Media so there should be something for most everyone this weekend and you can attend as many as you like because our demos are always FREE!

 

Saturday, July 11th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
ACRYLIC: Backgrounds
Adrienne Anderson Smith
artbyadrienne.com

Saturday, July 11th at 12 & 2 pm
OIL: Still Life Sketches
Larine Chung
larinechung.com

 

Sunday, July 12th at 11 am & 1 pm
MULTI MEDIA: Gold Gesso
Allison Agostinelli
allisonagostinelli.blogspot.com

Sunday, July 12th at 12 & 2 pm
ACRYLIC: Passionate Pursuit of Color
Diane Culhane
dianeculhaneart.com

 

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~Deborah Burns
 
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FREE Art Demos this upcoming weekend at the DANIEL SMITH Seattle and Bellevue Stores for June 6th & 7th

 

 

Saturday, June 6th at 11 & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Step by Step Painting
Gary Nelson
Interested in finding out “How to Paint in Watercolor“?  Well come to one of the two, FREE 1 hour DANIEL SMITH demos with Gary Nelson and find out how with “WATERCOLOR: Step by Step Painting”. 

 

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Saturday, June 6th from 11 am to 1 pm Special Time
ANIMATION: The Painted Illustration
June Olson
“How to Paint Cartoons in ACRYLIC“  Come and watch June show how during the two hour Special Time demo from 11am to 1pm

“How to paint in ACRYLIC” with Tis Hubert  who shares her Pouring techniques with Acrylic Paint.  Tis writes in her Artists’ Statement: ” I now paint almost exclusively with liquid acrylics…[allowing]…the free flowing pigment and water on paper…to take on a direction or subject.  Come and find out how you might use pouring techniques in your work!

 

 

Sunday, May 17th at 12 & 2 pm
ACRYLIC: It’s Pouring
Tis Huberth
womenpainters.com  

This weekends FREE demos at the DANIEL SMITH Stores:

 

Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store:

Saturday, April 18th at 11am and 1:45pm, Kay Barnes will be demonstrating watercolor painting.  The two FREE, 1 hour demos will focus on “WATERCOLOR: The Painterly Approach“.  Kay will also be holding a Watercolor Workshop on May 3rd, so this FREE demo is a great way to get an introduction to how Kay teaches.  See the “Classes ” and “Workshop ” sections of the DANIEL SMITH website for more information soon, or call the Seattle Store .

 

 

Saturday, April 18th at 11am and 1:45pm, Adrienne Anderson Smith will be demonstrating acrylic painting.  The two FREE, 1 hour demos will be “ACRYLIC: Flowing & Captivating Backgrounds“ and how to create them in your own acrylic paintings.

Sunday, April 19th at 12pm & 2pm, Kathleen McKeehen will be demonstrating watercolor painting.  The two FREE, 1 hour demos will be “WATERCOLOR: Vegging Out in Botanical Watercolors ” and show you how Kathleen uses watercolor to illustrate colorful veggies. 

 

Yesterday’s FREE demo at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store was with Deborah Stachowic demonstrating how she does Figures in Abstract when painting with Acylics.

 

Deborah also paints in Watercolor, Oils and Encaustic, and she recently did a demo on Watercolor painting; “Painting Dramatic Reds” at the Seattle Store.  With watercolor, Deborah has her paintings sketched and thought out, and are very controlled.  However, when painting in Acrylic, she finds it to be very freeing and that it allows her spontaneous side to develop.  One of the things that Deborah does that signifies the difference, is that for watercolor, she exclusively uses round brushes, and with acrylic, she uses only flat brushes….particular favorites are Hake brushes.

  

Working on full sheets of 140lb and 300lb cold press watercolor paper, Deborah begins with thin washes of acrylic paint to start with the very process oriented piece.  These thin washes Deborah calls “veils”, she has them dry in between steps, and she does a lot of prep work with these base layers.  As a result, she will have several paintings that she will be working on, she worked on three during the 1 hour demo.

 

Once she has the start of the acrylic painting, Deborah begins her layering using homemade Mylar stencils (these were the figurative elements in her paintings and she “glues” them down with Maskoid ) decorative stamps she has made from cardboard and Mylar, tape, paper collage elements and of course the acrylic paint.  The acrylic paint is both painted on with brushes, sprayed with water, blotted and manipulated to achieve many interesting and expressive effects.  This is one reason why painting in acrylic is so freeing to Deborah, as she said; “just experiment and play, go inside and just allow things to happen.”

 

At the end of the demo Deborah left us with this….  “Just be as creative as the process and let yourself go!”

 

Thank you Deborah!
 
 
Every Day,  Express Yourself with ART….
 
~Deborah Burns

This Easter Weekend  we will have our Saturday FREE Weekend Demos at both the DANIEL SMITH Seattle and Bellevue Stores, please remember, the Stores will be closed on Easter Sunday.

 

Earlier this morning, Natalie Oswald demonstrated painting on Ampersand panels at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH store.  This was a single 2 hour demo from 10am to Noon.  Natalie worked with both acrylic paint and oil paint on the prepared, and ready-to-paint surfaces of Ampersand Gessobord.  The ready-to-paint surface of all the Ampersand Bord products makes it ideal to have on hand when inspriration strikes!

 

 

 

~Deborah Burns

This weekend the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store will have FREE demonstrations with artist Daniel Rice on Saturday and Blanche Niznik on Sunday. Daniel Rice will be sharing his tips on painting with acrylics, and Blanche Niznik will be demonstrating her tips on using painting knives with oil paints.

Saturday, August 2nd at 11am & 1:45pm

danielriceart.net

blanche-niznik.com

 

Saturday, July 26th at 9:30am

EARLY BIRD DEMO

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PASTEL: Landscapes

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Sunday, July 6th at 12 & 2 pm

ACRYLIC: Drawing & Painting on Clayboard