8th Annual Customer Art Contest at DANIEL SMITH: Artists’ Materials – $1,500 Gift Certificate for the Winner!

Deborah Burns — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:03:55 +0000

DANIEL SMITH 8th Annual Customer Art Contest

We are accepting submissions for our 8th Annual Customer Art Contest here at DANIEL SMITH, and we have a $1,500 DANIEL SMITH Gift Certificate for the Grand Prize Winner!

There are 4 prizes in total awarded:

Grand Prize: $1500 Daniel Smith Gift Certificate

Second Place: $1000 Daniel Smith Gift Certificate

Third Place: $500 Daniel Smith Gift Certificate

Employees’ Choice: $250 Daniel Smith Gift Certificate

For more information on our 8th Annual Customer Art Contest and how to apply please *click* on this link

You can see our most recent winners for our 7th Annual Customer Art Contest here and on the last page of our DANIEL SMITH 2009 – 2010 Reference Catalog.

“All mediums considered. All submissions must be original artwork. Images and/or slides become the property of Daniel Smith and will not be returned. Permission will be obtained and recognition provided for all published submissions. Winner will be announced August 1, 2010.”

Entry deadline is February 1, 2010.

Soooo, what would YOU do with one of those Gift Certificates?

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~Deborah Burns

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Have You Got Yours Yet? The DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog is HERE!

Deborah Burns — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 03:18:02 +0000

DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog with Kristina Hagman woodblock print "Night" on the Cover

Artists’ Mailboxes the past few days have been a source of delight as Artists have discovered their new DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog amongst ordinary mail. Our new DS Catalog will continue to be arriving in the mailboxes of everyone who is on our mailing list, so have You Got Yours Yet? If it’s because you are not yet on our mailing list, then you can request a catalog on our website.

This year we are “Honoring the Past” with Articles written by Artists acknowledging past Art Movements and Artists’ whose works have influenced Artists today. We hope you will enjoy reading the articles by this years’ DANIEL SMITH Reference Catalog contributors.

The first one (page 6) is “California Watercolor, the National Context, and Why the Medium Continues to Matter” by Paul J. Karlstrom which you can also find already on our website. The DS Catalog also has articles by Robert Amos writing about the influence of Canada’s Emily Carr (page 24), and Bruce Klein on Bay Area Figurative Painting (page 40) and its’ influence on his work. Our Cover Artist Kristina Hagman whose Cover Print “Night” is part of a series of woodblock prints called “Thirty-six Views of Mount Rainier” is based on Japanese Artist Hokusai: “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” (page 88). I will have an interview here in the DANIEL SMITH Blog with Kristina Hagman soon.

PLUS, we have announced the winners of our 7th Annual Customer Art Contest Winners!

Grand Prize: “Travelers” by Barbara Wilson
Second Place: “Benny” by Carol Peterson
Third Place: “Morning Flight” by Mary Shea
Employees’ Choice: is “Head Over Heels” by Mimi Williams.

CONGRATULATIONS to our winners! There is an 8th Annual Customer Art Contest , deadline is February 1, 2010.

Of course the REAL reason for the excitement of our New DANIEL SMITH Ref Cat is the new art supplies (Goodies!) that we are introducing to You, our Artists! Just a quick overview of some of the major new STUFF because I will be featuring more on these new art (Goodies!) supplies in later blog posts:

Six (!) new colors in the DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks…including our new Lunar Black Watercolor Stick! We had a lot of customer requests for a black watercolor stick and now we have it for you.
Acrylique: Sennelier’s new Extra-Fine Acrylic paints. Sennelier has worked for a long time on perfecting their new acrylic paints and now you can get them at DANIEL SMITH…we are the first to have them in stock for you!
Revere Printmaking Paper from Cartiera Magnani: Magnani Revere. There is a lot of “Buzz” for this “New” paper in printmaking world, and we are thrilled to have it available to all you print-makers out there!
Fabriano Ingres Cover Heavyweight paper. Fabriano bought the recipe for the Ingre Cover Heavyweight paper so it is now being manufactured again.
Canson Infinity Inkjet Fine Art and Photographic Papers. These Digital Art papers are made with the same Canson Archival Art Papers: Arches, Montval, BFK Rives, Etching Rag, Mi-Teintes that have been used for many (some for hundreds of) years by Artists.
Ampersand in 3 new BIG Sizes! 2 inch deep Gessobord: 30″x40″, 36″x36″ and 36″x48″ and 2 inch deep Claybord: 30″x40″, 36″x36″ and 36″x48″. Just think of what you can create with these larger sizes! We had a lot of requests for these and now have them available to order in packs of two, they are packed by Ampersand in special packaging in twos and we leave them that way for safer shipping to you.

Well…have fun reading and marking up your DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog with all your new favorites-to-be as well as your place marking your standard Faves!

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8th Annual Customer Art Contest at DANIEL SMITH: Artists’ Materials – $1,500 Gift Certificate for the Winner!

Have You Got Yours Yet? The DANIEL SMITH 2009-2010 Reference Catalog is HERE!