For this coming weekends FREE “How To” Art demos at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store, we will have two different Pastel demos, one on Saturday and another on Sunday, and a Mixed Media on Ampersand Panels demo on Saturday.

 

Saturday, Ben Edwards, from CRESCENT CARDBOARD, will be demonstrating how to work with Pastels on Black Backgrounds, there should be some great tips for Pastel drawing/painting on Black Crescent Boards and interesting techniques to add to your repertoire!

 

 

Saturday, Natalie Oswald will be sharing tips for working on Ampersand Panels with Mixed Media.  Natalie did a demo last November on Acrylic and Oil Painting on Gessobord at the Seattle Store and you can read about that demo here.  Ampersand Panels are great ready-to-use, then ready-to-hang panels for painting on.  Come and find out what great ideas you can pick up from Natalie at this demo!

 

Saturday, October 24th from 1 pm to 3 pm - Special Time!
MIXED MEDIA: Layers on Ampersand Panels 
Natalie Oswald

 

Sunday, Barbara Van Dyke-Shuman will be demonstrating Pastels with Pizzaz.  Come to the demo to watch and learn how to work in Pastels as Barbara shares her Pastel Tips.  Check out her Gallery to see her gorgeous, lush Pastel Paintings for inspiration!  Coming to the demo is a great way to sample Barbara’s teaching, because she has a Workshop November 1st at the Seattle Store.

 

Sunday, October 25th at 12 & 2 pm
PASTEL: Pastels with Pizzaz 
Barbara Van Dyke-Shuman
Don’t miss Barbara’s Workshop Nov 1st Seattle Store! 

 

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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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This weekend at our DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store our FREE Art Demos are How to Paint Landscapes in Watercolor with John Ringen, Mixed Media in Acrylics with Jacqui Beck and Landscapes in Acrylic with Ted Pankowski & Lynn Fleming.

 

Saturday, John Ringen will be demonstrating how to paint landscapes in Watercolor in his loose, impressionistic way.  John will be showing different watercolor techniques such as “wet-into-wet, glazing, lifting watercolor and expressive use of calligraphy”.  You can see a YouTube video of John plein air painting at Eagle Harbor to get an idea of his watercolor style and more what you can learn from him.

 

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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Saturday, Annie Van Engelen (who often does our Watercolor 101 mini workshops) will share tips on how to abstract paint using watercolors.  Annie is very good with answering a wide range of watercolor questions so not only will you learn from her demo, you will also get to learn from every-one’s questions.

 

Saturday, August 29th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Abstract Painting
Annie Van Engelen

 

Sunday, Katherine Wright, who recently did a demo at DANIEL SMITH called, Watercolor: Structures, Space and Shadows, will be sharing tips on working in Multimedia and using photos as a starting point when making Art.  Katherine will then show you how to to create something more than reproducing a photo, by sharing how to break free of that constraint!

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Sunday, August 30th at 12 & 2 pm
MULTIMEDIA: Breaking Free of the Photo
Katherine Wright
klwright.com

 

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Saturday, August 1st at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Figure Drawing
Dan Riley
danrileyart.com

 

Sunday Maxine Mattson will be demonstrating working in MULTIMEDIA: Acrylic & Pastel.  On her website Maxine states that she: “applies multiple layers [in paint and other media] …then adds textures and starts the layering process again. She sometimes scrubs or sands previous layers until she is satisfied with the results of the painting.”  If you are interested in adding new techniques to your artwork or just looking for some inspiration, then this Multimedia demo would be great for you!  

Sunday, August 2nd at 12 & 2 pm
MULTIMEDIA: Acrylic & Pastel
Maxine Mattson
maxinetheartist.com

 

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Saturday, June 13th at 11 & 1:45 pm
SUMI MIXED MEDIA: Let It Loose Sumi Landscape Painting
Patrice Bruzes
womanpainters.com

 

Sunday, June 14th at 12 & 2 pm
PASTEL: The Pastel Portrait
Don Lee
donleeart.com

 

Saturday, June 13th, FREE Sumi Painting demos with Patrice Bruzes sharing her tips on “SUMI MIXED MEDIA: Let It Loose Sumi Landscape Painting”.  Patrice in her Bio at WomenPainters.com states about working in Mixed Media:  “My Collage works are little jewels that are typically developed from handmade paper combined with sumi and fused glass and other organic materials“.  Come and find out how she does it. 

 

Sunday, June 14th, FREE Pastel demos with Don Lee showing how to do Portraits using Pastels.  Don is a Professional Portrait Artist and will share his tips on how he does Pastel Portraits.  Don writes this about working with Pastels:  “I love pastels—and I think the main reason is that one can achieve a quality result in a short amount of time.“  Come to this FREE Pastel demo and find out more about how you might use pastel in your work.

 

 

~Deborah Burns

 

 

Saturday, May 16th FREE Art demo is about how to paint Street Scenes in Watercolor with Stella Canfield.  When you visit Stella’s website and see her Watercolor Gallery , you can see how vibrant, and lively the colors are describing her street scenes ….come and find out how she does it.

 

Sunday, May 17th FREE Art demo with Janice Seino, who paints in Oil Paint using Gold Leaf, will share her tips on how to work with Gold Leaf.  Right now the Bellevue Store has an Oil painting on display by Janice which shows the wonderful design effects she achieves combining the Oil Paint with the Gold Leaf.  On her website, the Painting “Misty Moon Lake ” is a good example of her Gold Leaf and Oil Paintings.

 

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

 

Darlene told us that painting on Ampersand Claybord is currently her passion because its’ surface allows her a lot of freedom to work in many different ways.  She likes the smooth surface, it’s like hot press watercolor paper, and it has a durable surface that she can manipulate to express her ideas.  She will also sometimes use the more traditional for watercolor, Ampersand Aquabord with its’ more textured surface

 

She incorporates not only watercolor paint, but adds collage elements with decorative paper , rice paper, bits of watercolor painting cut up and ”pasted” to the surface with Matte Medium and occasionally pressed leaves or flowers.  She also will scratch into the Claybord surface with different tools which causes the watercolor to collect in the crevices and she will scratch into dried paint to expose the white of the claybord for other effects.  Darlene showed us how she might add depth and different interest by adding Molding Paste, both light and regular depending on the effects she wants.

 

Because Darlene’s art is about layering, the watercolor is the base to which she adds the other layers and acrylic paint.  Watercolor has luminous qualities and dries with wonderful effects that enriches her paintings in ways acrylic paint cannot.  When she is done with her watercolor, she sprays it with fixative to prevent the watercolor from dissolving or running when other wet applications are added.  She may go back and add another layer of watercolor and sprays it again to “lock” the color.  Darlene told me that she sometimes mixes her watercolor with acrylic paint (or acrylic medium ) to get watercolor effects with arcylics’ permanence. 

 

When Darlene begins a painting she wants’ to know “what is my concept?”  Darlene told us that she is currently very interested in Astronomy, the cosmos, atomic particles and more, and finds inspiration when she reads about them.  One sentence that inspired her for today’s’ demo is; “…a particle can take on mixtures of velocities…” and she applied that as her concept for the painting using flowers as the subject.  Okay, I don’t really understand how she does it, but Darlene makes it all come together as Her Art Expression!

 Darlene also told us about the importance of “good junk” (everyone laughed at that!) to see what kinds of effects you can get, she likes to play and experiment with using lots of different things to see what kind of visual effects she can get.

• She has found that laminating her copy of the DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors chart helps her with selecting the watercolors for a particular painting and a good reference for knowing the transparency and granulation characteristics of the different colors.
• And Darlene told us that she punches 3 holes in the DANIEL SMITH Catalogs to keep them in a binder, and said: