This weekend at our DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store we have Watercolor and Oil painting FREE Art Demos for you with Joan Archer and Blanche Niznik.

 

Saturday Joan Archer will be demonstrating how to paint “Market Scenes in Loose Watercolor”.  Joan will share how she is able to create the loose effects in watercolor that you can see on her website.

 

 

Sunday come and find out from Blanche Niznik how to use a palette knife when painting in oils.  Blanche will share her techniques for working with a palette knife and you can add some moves to your painting repertoire!

Sunday, September 20th at 12 & 2 pm
OIL: When All Else Fails Use a Knife
Blanche Niznik
blanche-niznik.com
 

 

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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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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

 

 

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This Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day Monday, we have 4 differnent  FREE demos for you here at the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store so come and learn, and be inspired!

 

Saturday, Michael Lim who you have likely met during one of your trips to the Bellevue Store, will be demonstrating how to stretch canvas.  Stretching canvas can be tricky and Michael will show you tricks to tame un-cooperative canvas and get it properly stretched onto bars. 

 

Saturday, September 5th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
CANVAS STRETCHING: Prep & Stretch for Beginners 
Michael Lim
iismichaellim.com

 

Sunday, Ronald Otto, the inventor of the Otto Watercolor Paper Strecher Bars, will be demonstrating how to use his innovative tool.  The Otto Stretchers allow for stretching watercolor paper without leaving staple holes, tape marks and preserves the deckle edge of your watercolor paper.  The watercolor paper remains flat after drying in the stretchers no matter how wet you make the paper while painting.  If you are a watercolor painter, then you really should come and see this demonstration by the inventor of this great artist tool!

Sunday, Sept 6th from 12 to 2 pm
PAPER STRETCHING: OTTO Watercolor Paper Stretcher
Ronald Otto
ottoartproducts.com

 

Also on Sunday, we will have a Book Signing with Tony White, a well known instructor at DigiPen, signing his book:  “ANIMATION from PENCILS to PIXELS ~ Classical Techniques for Digital Animators”.  If you have an interest in Animation, then this is a great opportunity to meet Tony while he signs his book!

Sunday, Sept 6th from 2 pm to 4 pm
ANIMATION: A Moving Experience! Book Signing
Tony White
blog.animaticus.com

 

Labor Day Monday, Keith Sluder demonstrating Watercolor painting.  In this FREE demo, Keith will be sharing Watercolor special effects tips to create rock & stone in paintings.  It you are a watercolor painter, then you just might want to mark this on your calendar to attend and find out how.

*LABOR DAY SPECIAL EVENT
Monday, Sept 7th from 12 to 2 pm
WATERCOLOR: Properties of Rock ‘N’ Stone
Keith Sluder
signaturesgallery.com

 

With all these great FREE demos and what the weatherman is saying about a cloudy (rain too!) Labor Day Weekend, well, you just might want to spend some time finding out “How To” do some new things in Art!

 

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This Labor Day Weekend we have fun labor for you!  We have an end-of-summer bounty of great 5 FREE “How To” Art Demos for you this weekend at the DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store.  We have Watercolor, Oil and Encaustic Painting demos for You.

 

Saturday, we have a FREE Watercolor demo, WATERCOLOR: Exploring color and You Personality with Sally Drew.  Sally is very knowledgeable about DANIEL SMITH Watercolors and has an article on the DANIEL SMITH website called “Experiment with Color Mixtures“, so she will have lots of great information and tips on colors to share with you.

 

 

Sunday is the first of our two FREE Encaustic demos (Tomorrow, Labor Day is the 2nd) and this one includes a Book signing.  Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch, author of the book “Encaustic Workshop” will be showing “Techniques for Working with Wax” and will also be signing copies of her book as well!  This is a great opportunity to learn some cool techniques for working with Encaustic paints (waxes) hope to see you there!

Sunday, September 6th at 11 am & 1 pm (please note the different times)
ENCAUSTIC: Techniques for Working with Wax
Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch
pbsartist.com
Don’t forget to have Patricia sign your copy of her new book “Encaustic Workshop“

Also on Sunday, we have a FREE Oil Painting demo with Jim Lamb who paints very atmospheric landscapes with  Oil Paints.  If you go to his website to see some of his work, you will gorgeous examples which will inspire you to come and learn some tips from Jim on “Oil: Simplicity – Key to Stronger Paintings”. 

Sunday, September 6th from 2 pm to 3:30 pm
OIL: Simplicity – Key to Stronger Paintings 
Jim Lamb
jimlambstudio.com

 

Monday, Labor Day, we are having the second of our two FREE Encaustic demos.  This one is an Introduction to Encuastic Painting with Hamid Zavareei (who is a Gage Academy instructor).  So if you have been curious about what Encaustic Painting is (using encaustic waxes) and how to do it, then this is a perfect FREE demo for you to see and find out.

*LABOR DAY SPECIAL EVENT
Mon Sept 7th from 12 to 2 pm
ENCAUSTIC: An Introduction
Hamid Zavareei
gageacademy.org

 

Also on Labor Day Monday, we are having a FREE Oil Painting demo with Tenaya Sims who is a Gage Academy instructor and instructor at Georgetown Art Center.  This demo is on Classical Oil Painting and Tenaya will be sharing tips on painting in the classical manner….think of it as a micro-mini Atelier experience!

*LABOR DAY SPECIAL EVENT
Mon Sept 7th from 2 pm to 4 pm
OIL:Classical Oil Painting
Tenaya Sims
georgetownartcenter.blogspot.com 

 

Well, there you have it, an Amazing Art Weekend to learn so many new Art mediums, techniques, ideas and more….these will help motivate  You to CREATE!

 

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This coming weekend the DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store will have two FREE Art demos:  Abstract Painting in Watercolor, and Multimedia: “Breaking Free of the photo”

 

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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This weekend the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store will have two FREE Art Demos, Watercolor Painting with Deborah Stachowic and Drawing with Color Pencils with Julie Hammerquist.

 

Saturday, Deborah Stachowic will be sharing her Watercolor Painting tips for painting large scale flowers.  Deborah has been a demo Artist before and here is a link for one of her recent demos: Painting Dramatic Reds. 

 

Saturday, August 22nd at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Large Dramatic Flowers
Deborah Stachowic
paintscapebroad.com

 

 

Sunday, Julie Hammerquist who teaches Childrens’ Art Classes at the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store and the Bellevue Arts Museum, will be showing children (and Adults!) how to draw birds in Color Pencils at the two FREE one hour demos. 

 

Sunday, August 23rd at 12 & 2 pm
COLOR PENCILS: Children Drawing Birds
Julie Hammerquist
hammerquist.us/ARTCLASS

 

This weekend the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store will have Watercolor and Multimedia FREE How to Art Demos.  On Saturday Dan Riley will be demonstrating WATERCOLOR: Figure Drawing with two FREE 1 hour demos at 11am and 1:45pm.  Dan is an Artist who is all about the drawing, and writes this on his website: “I love a good line. The capture of a look, a gesture or an emotion with the simplicity of a clean line is almost magical to me.”  Come and learn more from Dan on figure drawing in Watercolor.

 

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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Want to find out about How to Paint in Watercolor?  Well, one of our FREE 1 hour  “How To” Art Demos this coming Saturday at the DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store is an introduction to Watercolor.  Jo Gersham will be demonstrating the basics of Watercolor Painting” at 11am and 1:45pm with her WATERCOLOR: From the Very Beginning” demo.   So if you have ever wondered how to get started with watercolor painting, then come to this FREE demo and find out!  Jo is also having an expanded “WATERCOLOR: From the Very Beginning” Workshop on Sunday Aug 30th from 11 to 5.

 

Saturday, August 1st at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: From the Very Beginning
Jo Gershman
jogershman.com
Don’t miss Jo’s WATERCOLOR: From the Very Beginning” Workshop August 30th Seattle Store!

  

Also on Saturday, we have Roger Wheeler and his “MASK MAKING: 3D Renewable Materials” FREE “Hands On” demo from 12 to 2pm.  This is a special “Hands On” event which means that you not only get to watch and learn, you get to DO as well!  If you have ever been to the Fremont Solstice Parade, then you have seen some of Rogers’ students work in the parade since he teaches workshops in maskmaking for the Fremont Solstice Parade. 

 

Saturday, August 1st from 12 to 2 pm Hands On!
MASK MAKING: 3D Renewable Materials
Roger Wheeler
maskmadness.com

 

On Sunday, Molly LeMaster will be showing texture making techniques in Watercolor in her WATERCOLOR: Textured Methods FREE demos at 12 & 2pm.  Come and learn some new techniques in watercolor painting! 

Sunday, August 2nd at 12 & 2 pm
WATERCOLOR: Textured Methods
Molly LeMaster
lemasterstudios.com 

 

This weekend the Seattle DANIEL SMITH will have Aaron Jasinski on Saturday, demonstrating Oil Painting from his artistic point of view:  Pop Surrealism Communique.  Visit Aaron’s blog to see some of his work. 

It’s Summer and that always means water….find out how you can paint in Watercolor, Streams/ Falls/Reflections with the FREE Susie Short demo on Saturday.  At the Bellevue DANIEL SMITH Store’s FREE demos, Susie will share (and she shares a lot of!) her tips on how to paint water with Watercolor.  A few weeks ago Susie was at the Seattle Store showing everyone her wonderful tips on painting water in watercolor, you can read the DS blog post here.

 

On Sunday, the FREE Art demo will have Allison Agostinelli showing you many cool ways you can use DANIEL SMITH Gold Gesso (part of the DANIEL SMITH World’s Best Acrylic Gesso collection of 8 colors) in your Art in her MULTI MEDIA: Watercolor on Gold Gesso demo.  Allison just did this very informative demo (read it here) at the Seattle Store and I was amazed at what Allison showed and told us about using this very versatile art material.  Here is a fyi for you, did you know that the little wooden display chair near the magazines has it’s cloth seat painted with the DANIEL SMITH Gold Gesso?

 

Saturday, July 18th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
WATERCOLOR: Painting Water – Streams/Falls/Reflections
fSusie Short
susieshort.net

Don’t miss Susie’s Workshop: Painting Water – Streams/ Falls/Reflections, July 26 to 28th Seattle Store!

 

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Sunday, July 19th at 12 & 2 pm
MULTI MEDIA: Watercolor on Gold Gesso 
Allison Agostinelli 

 

In addition to the regular FREE weekend Art demos, this Saturday the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store will have a very Special Interactive Printmaking Session with Artist Bill Ritchie. 

 Bill Ritchie has this posted on his website:

 ”‘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”  

Bill also has a 2 1/2 minuet trailer from his DVD of his fascinating 1977 interview with Daniel Smith and making Printmaking Ink posted on his website.  At Bill’s demo, he will be playing the complete DVD while he pulls some prints.  This Special demo is from 11am to 1pm.  We are very excited to have Bill at the Seattle Store this weekend and the Bellevue Store July 26th, so please come and join us for this Special Event! 

Saturday, July 18th, we will also have two FREE demos at 1 and 3pm with Artist Dan Riley on “How to Figure Draw in Watercolor“.  Dan is an Artist who is all about the drawing, and writes this on his website: “I love a good line. The capture of a look, a gesture or an emotion with the simplicity of a clean line is almost magical to me.”  Come and learn more from Dan on figure drawing in Watercolor. 

Sunday, July 19th, Cal Capener will be demonstrating how he paints in oils, landscapes.  This demo is at a special time from 12 to 2pm while Cal paints a landscape in oils so you can watch while he paints and ask questions. 

Please note that there are Special Times for all these demos so you don’t miss out. 

Saturday,  July 18th from 11 am to 1 pm – Special Time!
INTERACTIVE PRINTMAKING: Daniel Smith Etching Ink DVD
Bill Ritchie Pulling Prints!
emeralda.com

Saturday,  July 18th at 1 pm & 3 pm – Special Time!
WATERCOLOR: Figure Drawing
Dan Riley
danrileyart.com

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Sunday,  July 19th from 12 to 2 pm – Special Time!
OIL: Landscapes
Cal Capener 

 

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Last Saturdays’ FREE Watercolor demo at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store with Susie Short was jammed packed with lots of “Susie Tips” to an appreciative packed audience of watercolor painters wanting to learn how to “Paint Water – Streams/Falls/Reflections in Watercolor“.

 

The hour long demo (1 of 2) expanded an extra half hour longer to allow Susie to more time to share her tips and answer many questions.  Susie is a practical artist and teacher, so had lots of wonderful watercolor painting information to share.  Several of the questions were about Susie’s choices of watercolor brushes.  Susie likes relatively inexpensive brushes and she gave us many reasons (and showed us) why these brushes work so well for the painting she does: the DANIEL SMITH Platinum Series 23 Synthetic Multi-Media Brushes in round #10 & 12 and script #2, the Aquarelle Flat 3/4 brush and of course the Special “Susie Brush“!  Everyone was amazed at how versatile this brush is and the effects you can get from it and only $10.99, Susie paints most of her painting with this brush, from wetting the Arches 140lb Cold Press Watercolor paper she uses, to painting in her “shapes” and the special effects she gets from using a well worn brush.

 

Susie also shared some of her color mixes in particular her “rocks and tree trunk” formula: DANIEL SMTH Extra Fine Watercolors in Quinacridone Burnt Orange, French Ultramarine Blue and Quinacridone Violet.  Susie showed how beautifully these colors mix and the gorgeous colors that develop with different combinations.  Another color tip was how to make rich darks using DS Indanthrone Blue which is a pure navy.  DANIEL SMITH Indanthrone Blue is Susies substitution for Indigo which she finds dulls darks when mixed with other colors and as Susie says “Indanthrone darkens beautifully.”

 

A few things (of the many, many) that Susie told us during the demo:

 

“I don’t really draw in first, I’m a shape painter….I paint a shape next to a shape, next to a shape.”

 

Susie will be doing another of the DANIEL SMITH FREE demos at the Bellevue Store on Saturday, July 18th at 11 am & 1:45 pm on the same watercolor topic: “Painting Water – Streams/Falls/Reflections” so if you missed this one, you have a second chance.

 

Thank you Susie!

 

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Don’t forget, Susie Short has a 3 Day Workshop:

Sunday thru Thursday July 26th, 27th & 28th
WATERCOLOR: Painting Water – Streams/ Falls/Reflections

Understanding the properties of water is essential to painting water! In this 3 day workshop, Susie will show you the many aspects of painting water using transparent colors. Learn how to paint puddles from a recent rain shower, rocks or pebbles in shallow water, and fast moving water cascading over rocks, boulders, and dramatic waterfalls. The class will also review reflections, and how to apply them in your paintings. If you ever wanted to learn how to paint water then you don’t want to miss this exciting workshop!
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$75 per day
11 am to 4 pm
susieshort.net

 

It was a full house of people looking forward to hearing what Jan had to share, especially since she is not often in the Seattle area.  Jan had been in New Mexico until her move to Costa Rica earlier this year, where she is establishing Workshops in Costa Rica.  Jan will be having a 4 day workshop here at the Seattle Store this coming weekend, Watercolor: Mastering Color and Pigments based on her book. 

 

Back to the FREE demo!  Jan began with outlining how she usually works.  She usually works from a photo or uses several as reference, works out the composition and a value study in a sketchbook using a Prismacolor pencil in black , Jan showed us one of her many sketchbooks in which she keeps the record of all her completed paintings.   

 

After working out what she wants to do, Jan begins her painting on Fabriano Artistico CP 140lbs because she likes “the softness”.  Jan then tints her paper with an under coating of DANIEL SMITH Aureolin watercolor because “it’s the color of sunshine”, she does not usually leave white, and lets it dry.  For paintings at night, Jan uses DANIEL SMITH Cobalt.   Jan shared a tip for mixing a “great green”; DANIEL SMITH Ultramarine Turquoise mixed with DS Quinacridone Sienna.

 

Jan then begins her painting, she told us:

“Lightest, brightest, or scariest first” is how Jan like to start her painting.

“work fast at first – then slooooow way down” as you near completion.” 

“I believe if I think I see a color, it’s THERE – it is.  Artistic License.” 

“I like to hold my brush high [away from the ferrule ] so I don’t have so much control”.  A favorite brush Jan likes and it’s inexpensive is the DANIEL SMITH Series 32 Synthetic Ox Hair Watercolor Brush, Flat 3/4, because it “keeps me out of control.”

“Best thing that can happen in a painting is to lose control.” 

“I like accidents and making mistakes.”

“We play it safe….it’s not ’til we make a mistake and that part of the brain clicks on to solve the problem – that’s when we create.”

“Gestures are really important to paint.”

“I begin to think of the colors as having their own personalities.”

“I do a lot of mixing [ color ] on the paper.”

“I [ only ] paint wet on to wet when the paint is wet – not just wet paper.”

“Process is a really important thing in watercolor.”

“Watercolor is not easy, but it’s always flexible.”

 

Jan completed her painting, at least to the point where she likes to set it aside to think about, then later come back and perhaps do some glazing or whatever the painting needs.  It was an exciting watercolor demonstration….Thank you Jan!

 

 

Deborah Burns

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For more on Jan Hart’s tips on how to create “Amazing Watercolor Mixes” see Jan’s DANIEL SMITH Inksmith article.

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!

 

 

This upcoming weekends’ FREE demos at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store:

 

Saturday, May 30th from 11 am to 1 pm Special Time
OIL: Using Composition in Landscape Paintings
Joe MacKechnie
jlmackechnie.com

Sunday, May 31st at 12 & 2 pm
WATERCOLOR: Exceptional Color
Jan Hart
janhart.com
Don’t miss Jan’s Workshop June 5th to 8th Seattle Store! 

 

Saturday May 30th FREE demo with Joe MacKechnie will be one two hour demo at a Special Time from 11am to 1pm.  Joe will be sharing his tips “How to make Composition work in Oil Lanscape Painting”.

 

Sunday, May 31st FREE demos with Jan Hart with two, one hour demos at 12pm and 2pm.  Jan is a well regarded Watercolor Artist here at DANIEL SMITH (Jan Hart DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sets) and this is a wonderful opportunity for you to come and learn from a Master Colorist in Watercolor.  Take a peek at Jan Hart’s Watercolor Paintings to see why.  Remember, Jan Hart has a workshop, WATERCOLOR: Mastering Color and Pigments in June!

 

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

 

Thank you Greg!
  
Every Day,  Express Yourself with ART….
 
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Last Saturdays’  FREE demo at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store was a lively one with Kay Barnes presentation of “The Painterly Approach” to Watercolor painting.  Kay feels that “The Painterly Approach”  is lyrical and musical, it’s “listening to your internal music” when painting.  It is also less about painting from something specific, like a photo, and more about painting from your imagination.

 

Kay told us that about 50% of her paintings are from her imagination, and that everyone should “Pay Attention” to the things you see around you.  “When stuck in traffic [Kay is] never bored, just study the things I see to understand and use later – Pay Attention!”  Kay feels that you are more able to paint in a Painterly Way if you use your imagination.

 

Kay showed us a pre-painting she had done of “Light” and rotated it several times to show us how she might use it for different kinds of paintings, horizontal, vertical, and kept rotating it to horizontal and vertical again.  Then Kay talked about painting tiny sketches of her subject matter, because when you work small it’s easier to work out the essence of the subject.  She likes to do one minuet watercolor studies, and did a couple while she talked to us. 

 

One of the tips Kay shared was that she likes to make original watercolor cards from her little one minuet paintings.  Kay will cut out the little study, attach it to Strathmore cards and Voila, an easy original watercolor card!  This was extra timely since in the new DANIEL SMITH “Classroom” had Kari Foteff from Strathmore with a free cardmaking “Hands On” event from 12 to 2. 

 

After Kay was finished with her one minuet studies, she took the last 15-20 minuets of the one hour FREE demo to make a full sheet watercolor painting for us. 

 

Starting with a full sheet of cold press Arches watercolor paper on gator board (not stapled) she wet her paper, both sides (being wet on both sides is how the paper “sticks” to the gator board – she will staple later when she is done painting and the paint needs to dry).  Then, using large (3 inch) watercolor brushes, Kay began to paint LIGHT with DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors in Quinacridone Gold, then a little Alizarin Crimson and finally Cobalt Blue.  The colors melted into one another as Kay tilted the board this way and that until she had an ethereal light in watercolor glowing on the paper. 

 

Kay then began painting her landscape on the pre-painting she just did of LIGHT by telling us it’s “all about light and shape”.  She began adding “really strong darks” to what would eventually become a painting of an estuary shrouded in the ethereal light of early morning.  When Kay says, “I’m going to use a really strong dark – I go to my blues to make them.”  Kay wowed the group by making her subject come alive in the watercolor paint in the few remaining minuets of the FREE demo…it was amazing to see!

 

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