This month, the DANIEL SMITH Store in Bellevue is hosting an Art Show featuring members of the Eastside Association of Fine Arts in the Store’s Gallery. The EAFA members’ work was hung the last week, and will be up through June 28th, so be sure to stop in at the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store to enjoy the show! 

The EAFA is currently having it’s 2008 Member Only Show at Trilogy of Redmond Ridge, May 31 to June 26, 2008

 

 

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This weekends’ FREE demonstrations at the
Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store

Saturday, June 14th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
SUMI: Spiritual Harmony
Elizabeth Kay
DON’T FORGET Elizabeth’s Workshop
July 9th thru 11th Bellevue Store!
womenpainters.com

Sunday, June 15th at 12 & 2 pm
WATERCOLOR: Working Wet to Dry in Watercolor
Joanne Shellan

 

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Originally published June 12, 2008

http://danielsmithart.blogspot.com/2008/06/bellevue-daniel-smith-free-demos-this.html

Saturday, June 7th and Sunday, June 21st

Have you found yourself wanting to learn some basic “how-to” for

 watercolor painting?
Well, this is a nice way to get a start on watercolor painting
with this one-hour class of watercolor basics.
Che Lopez will show you fun and useful tips

Each student will receive a $10.00 coupon to use
at the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store towards purchasing
art materials…now that’s a good deal!
Please register early, as class sizes are limited.

Last Tuesday, the Northwest Watercolor Society held its’ “4th Tuesday of the month meeting” in Bellevue. Their guest for the evening was Deanne Lemley who gave a demonstration on Plein Aire watercolor painting.

The Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store was also invited to set up a display of Plein Aire art supplies so that NWWS Members could see the wide range of artist materials available to the Plein Aire Artist during the social time before the meeting, and Deanne’s demonstration.

KT, The Bellevue store manager, and artist Che Lopez also of the Bellevue Store, were there to set up the displays and answer questions about all the Plein Aire artist materials. Along with the DANIEL SMITH Plein Aire Painting Supplies, Che brought (to show everyone what he actually uses) his entire personal Plein Aire Painting kit including his Daniel Smith Tripolar Half French Style Easel , Artist’s Tote bag, and three watercolor palettes , one each depending on his mood for that landscape! Two of the most talked about items were the Plein Aire Easel Shelf to add more workspace, and the clamp-on Artist Easel Umbrella to shade out glare while painting.

After the General Membership meeting was the anticipated Plein Aire watercolor painting demonstration by Deanne Lemley. Deanne re-created a Plein Aire watercolor painting while the audience watched. It was amazing to see the painting reveal itself while Danne painted, on the projected screen so everyone in the large audience could see. Deanne Lemley offered many tips on Plein Aire Watercolor Painting while she was working including these two:

This was the last meeting until September. Non-members are welcome to attend these Northwest Watercolor Society meetings to introduce them to what the NWWS is about.

It was a fun and informative evening and many thanks to the members of the Northwest Watercolor Society for inviting DANIEL SMITH to participate!

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Originally published May 29, 2008

http://danielsmithart.blogspot.com/2008/05/last-tuesday-northwest-watercolor.html

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DON’T FORGET Molly’s Workshop June 8th at the

Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store

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Sunday June 8th

Sunday, May 25th at 12 & 2 pm

WATERCOLOR: Paint Watercolors that Dance with Light

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Mother’s Day Weekend was also the Fifth Annual Kirkland Artist Studio Tour and I came with John Cogley, owner of DANIEL SMITH Artists’ Materials, to visit the studios on the tour. We were able to visit the studios of Ann Fiser and Robert Fiser, Elizabeth Kincaid, Chris Sharp and Layla Jacobson before fatigue from the Camano Island Studio Tour the day before set in and cut short our itinerary for the day.

While at the Studio of Ann and Robert Fiser , Ann showed us a unique way she has of keeping her watercolor paint examples. Ann paints the watercolor on watercolor paper she has cut out approximately 1.5 by 6 inches from full color strength to 50% to a wash, labels it, punches a hole at the top and keeps it on a ring in much the same way as an interior designer would with paint samples. The advantage is that when she adds a new color to her collection Ann can easily slip it into place. Really a cool idea!

Elizabeth Kincaid had a very unique way of organizing her workspace and palette, she uses an entire butcher tray for each watercolor and each tray rests on plastic paper organizers, four high, that you buy at office supply stores! This way her colors don’t get corrupted as she feels they do on a smaller palette. We also got to take a peek at a work in progress that is a real labor of love for Elizabeth, her extraordinarily complex “Tree of Life” watercolor painting.

Trying to make the rounds to both the Camano Island Studio Tour and the Kirkland Artist Studio Tour in a single weekend began to wear on us, so we decided to shorten the tour that KT (Manager of the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store) had planned for us.

Our last two stops were a group exhibit at Sharp Studio where we chatted a bit with Chris Sharp, and then moved on to the Petranella Fursman Studio to see Layla Jacobson and Petra Fursman and their paintings.

Last Friday, May 9th, the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store hosted an Artists Reception for members of the Northwest Watercolor Society whose paintings are hanging in the store this May for Watercolor Month .

Marianne, who will be doing one of the FREE demos this coming Sunday, May 18th, on “WATERCOLOR: Discovering the possibilites of walnut ink!” at the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store, was fun to talk to about the show.

Marianne helped with getting the show hung and tagged so had a funny story about a painting by Nadir Kianersi whose title “Not Finished Yet” caused a little confusion when Marianne was making the title cards. Every time Marianne called Nadir to find out the title of his painting, he told her “not finished yet” and Marianne thought he meant that the painting was “not yet finished” so made a title card with “Untitled” on it. Well, the painting was of a couple of unfinished Bellevue Skyscrapers and the descriptive title for it was…drum roll please!…”Not Yet Finished”!

This is really a good show and shows a wide range of water-based mediums, and subject matter. The show is up until May 28th and it’s worth a trip to the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store to check it out.

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For the Month of May, in celebration of Watercolor Month,
the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store

 

at the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store

Saturday, May 10th at 11 am & 1:45 pm

 

 

Saturday, April 26th from 9:00-4:00

SPRING PASTEL EVENT:

If you would like a more intensive, hands-on class to learn more

Thursday April 24th WATERCOLOR: Baskets in Watercolor