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May 8th, 2008 categories: category, * Bellevue DS Store, * Bellevue FREE Demos, * Landscapes, * Pastel Painting/Drawing, * Pastels, * Special Weekend Events, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos
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This weekends FREE Demo and Mother’s Day Event

at the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store

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

PASTEL: Landscape
Jerry Baldwin
FREE!  

 

Sunday, Mother’s Day, May 11th from 11 am to 1 pm
WATERCOLOR: Paint a Special Mother’s Day Memory
with Store Staff. Samples, and some Hands-on.
Bring in small dried flowers to learn different methods
of integrating into your artwork.
FREE!
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Originally published May 8, 2008

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May 8th, 2008 categories: category, * Seattle DS Store, * Seattle FREE Demos, * Special Weekend Events, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Garden Journal, * Watercolor Painting
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This weekend FREE Art demo and Mother’s Day Event at the
Saturday, May 10th at 11 am & 1:45 pm
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Also, Don’t forget Molly Hashimoto’s Workshop
June 8th at the Seattle Store
Back by popular demand!
Fine-tune your skills for summer by taking one of
Molly’s most loved workshops.
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Sunday, Mother’s Day, May 11th from 11 am to 1 pm
WATERCOLOR: Paint a Special Mother’s Day Memory
with Store Staff. Samples, and some Hands-On.
Bring in small dried flowers to learn different methods
of integrating them into your artwork.
FREE!
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Originally published May 8, 2008

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May 8th, 2008 categories: category, * Bellevue DS Store, * Bellevue FREE Demos, * Seattle DS Store, * Seattle FREE Demos, * Special Weekend Events, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting

Watercolor Sketch by Deborah Burns

Watercolor Sketch by Deborah Burns

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May is Watercolor Month at the DANIEL SMITH Stores in Bellevue and Seattle!
Through out the month of May, the focus is on watercolor 
and there are are lots of watercolor painting FREE demos,
Workshops, and the Watercolor Event May 17th & 18th.
So look for upcoming events, receptions, and demos
celebrating Watercolor Month
at DANIEL SMITH!
 
 
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Originally published May 8, 2008

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May 1st, 2008 categories: category, * Bellevue DS Store, * Bellevue DS Workshops, * Watercolor, * Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Portrait of Che Lopez by Holly White Gehrt

Watercolor Portrait of Che Lopez by Holly White Gehrt

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This May there are two Watercolor 101 Workshops
with Che Lopez at the DANIEL SMITH Store in Bellevue .
Saturday May 3rd and Saturday May 17th
both are one hour from 9 to 10 am
and are $10.00 each day.

The cool thing is that each student will receive a $10.00 coupon to use toward the purchase of art materials!

This is a basic watercolor class where you will learn to stretch and staple watercolor paper, choose a basic watercolor palette, and learn about the features and benefits of watercolor brushes. You will also learn to create a simple wash, wet on wet methods, and dry painting techniques.
So if you always wanted to learn how to paint in watercolor, here is a great way to get you started!
Be sure to register early because class sizes are limited!

** Watercolor Portrait of Che Lopez by Holly White Gehrt

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Originally published May 1, 2008

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May 1st, 2008 categories: category, * Bellevue DS Store, * Bellevue FREE Demos, * DS ExtraFine Watercolors, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting
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Saturday May 3rd from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm
WATERCOLOR: Showers & Flowers with
Annie Van Engelen
SPECIAL HANDS-ON EVENT with
[ You get to paint too! ]
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Originally published May 1, 2008

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May 1st, 2008 categories: category, * Bellevue DS Store, * Bellevue FREE Demos, * Travel Sketching & Journals, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting
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Sunday May 4th at 12 & 2 pm
WATERCOLOR: Expanding on Your Travel Sketches with
Tom Hoffmann

 

Tom did a recent FREE demo on
at the Seattle DANIEL SMITH Store
it was very inspiring.
Don’t miss out!
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Originally published May 1, 2008

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May 1st, 2008 categories: category, * Seattle DS Store, * Seattle FREE Demos, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Painting by Deborah Stachowic

Watercolor Painting by Deborah Stachowic

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Sunday: May 4th at 12 & 2 pm
WATERCOLOR: Large Flowers with
Deborah Stachowic
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Originally published May 1, 2008

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April 22nd, 2008 categories: category, * DANIEL SMITH Catalog, * DS ExtraFine Watercolors, * Seattle DS Store, * Seattle FREE Demos, * Travel Sketching & Journals, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting
Watercolor Artist Tom Hoffmann participated in a FREE Watercolor Demonstration last Saturday, April 19, at our DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store.

Tom talked about his painting philosophy, his creative process, shared with us some of his watercolor “sketches” from his travels in Mexico and painted a watercolor street scene from one of the sketches. It was especially interesting to listen to Tom talk about watercolor painting because one of his street scene paintings is on the cover of our new DANIEL SMITH Summer Sale Catalog.

Some of Toms’ tips for the attendees were that for him it’s about “what not to paint” that painting is a process of editing out everything but the essential visual keys. He later added that he “prefers to leave something for me [the viewer] to add to the piece”.

He also described it as kind of like a horizontal “graph” or timeline….

Photo (too much info) <—-> An artists balancing (”how little can you do and still tell the story”) <—-> sketch (too little info)

Tom shared with us how he mixes really rich, “not murky” darks (shadows) in his paintings by mixing DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors in Phalo Blue, Quinacridone Red and Quinacridone Gold. In the new DANIEL SMITH Summer Sale Catalog on page 3, Tom talks more about this and other watercolor tips that he has found, definitly worth reading!

The audience was very attentive watching the painting come alive under Toms’ brush and watercolor, it was really amazing to watch it happen.

A couple of other things Tom said that I noted down because I thought they were interesting and motivational were: “The role of the pencil is to allow me to confidently put the paint down”. Darks are the “narrative content, and the forms that are worth looking at”. “I like gorgeous paint more than anything else”. And lastly, “I want people to say: ‘Hell, I can do that!’”

Tom Hoffmann is an instructor atthe Gage Academy of Art and will be offering workshops later this year through DANIEL SMITH, more information to be posted later. The workshops will be an excellent opportunity to learn from a very good instructor.

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Originally published April 22, 2008

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April 9th, 2008 categories: category, * Bellevue DS Store, * Bellevue FREE Demos, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting
Last Saturday’s FREE demo at the DANIEL SMITH
was with watercolorist Ann Breckon
showing the audience some tips (and tricks too!)
for painting flowers and baskets in watercolor.
After the demo had ended, as usual, many people stayed to ask
a few more questions as they looked at the painting that Ann had
done during the demo, always a great way to learn!

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

about watercolor painting, register for Ann’s
coming up Thursday, April 24th.
Even if you are unsure of your drawing ability,
Ann will show you some tricks to get you beyond that.
 
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Thursday April 24th WATERCOLOR: Baskets in Watercolor

with Ann Breckon annbreckon.com
Come learn easy ways to paint what looks like a difficult subject.
Ann shows you how to create different kinds of woven baskets
that are beautiful, dimensional, and realistic.
This class will cover several ways to incorporate baskets
into your own charming still life paintings.
$75 per day 11 am to 4 pm
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Originally published April 11, 2008
 

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April 1st, 2008 categories: category, * Drawing, * Multi-Media, * Pastel Painting/Drawing, * Pastels, * Seattle DS Store, * Seattle FREE Demos, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting
One of last February’s weekend Free demos at the DANIEL SMITH Seattle Store was with Anne Olwin .  Anne’s demo was on techniques for working on Wallis Sanded Professional Grade Pastel Paper using DANIEL SMITH Watercolors and Sennelier Soft Pastels.

For an one hour seminar, Anne Olwin was able to give a lot of information, tips and techniques packed into that space of time! For the watercolor portion, Anne worked on a sheet of the Wallis paper (about 16 X 20) which she had lightly sketched some sunflowers.  Beginning with the watercolors, Anne applied watercolors to the sanded surface. While she was doing it, she passed around to her audience, a sample of the paper with watercolor paint on it, so we could feel how rough the surface was (nice tooth to it) and what watercolor looked like.
As Anne began painting the watercolor onto the Wallis paper, we could see in the demo mirror how she applied it and how it was looking. We could see the sunflowers begin to take shape.  Then Anne turned the demo painting into mixed media by working some Sennelier Soft Pastels into some of the watercolor and into the plain surface. Anne began playing around with the surface and the media producing some very interesting results!

Anne’s ongoing chat about what she was doing began moving towards the idea of Having Fun With Painting! To not be afraid of playing around just to see what kind of results might happen. She said that if she liked the results, then that was something to remember to use another time, if she did not like it, well then Anne would remember that too.

The essence is that making art should fun, to not be afraid to play around, indulge in our natural child-like curiosity and experiment. We should also try not to treat our art supplies as so precious that we “freeze up” and stifle the creative flow or process, and to remember, that we can always start over on another piece of paper. Anne said that sometimes adults need “permission” to play with our art materials…and she gave her permission to the class with a laugh!

Everyone in the audience was really warmed up now about the idea of playing with the art materials, and ready to follow Anne’s play with the pastels on the Wallis paper.

Thanks to Anne Olwin for sharing with us some fun and exciting ideas with the watercolors and pastels on Wallis paper!

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Anne Olwin will also have a Workshop, Sunday, April 6th, 2008

“Get a jump on the spring flowers, learning how to capture their freshness and beauty.

Painting from the bounty of her own spring garden, Anne will show you how to capture the effects of light as it dances over fresh flowers and creates a vivid colorful composition.
Let Anne help you with her expert knowledge to arrange flowers in your spring compositions. $75 per day 11 am to 4 pm”
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Originally published April 1, 2008

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March 31st, 2008 categories: category, * Bellevue DS Store, * Bellevue FREE Demos, * Watercolor, * Watercolor FREE Demos, * Watercolor Painting

Last Saturday Watercolorist Kathy Collins

demonstrated some of her
watercolor techniques to a full house at the Daniel Smith Art Supply Store in Bellevue .
The Free demo was:
“Watercolor: Impressionistic Watercolors“
Kathy painted on a full sheet of watercolor paper a composition of boats docked, nearby was a similar painting matted and framed on an easel facing the audience, as a point of reference for us. We watched as Kathy applied the DANIEL SMITH watercolors to her penciled in sketch with a 2 inch synthetic bright brush. It took just 1/2 an hour to create her watercolor painting and she talked throughout describing her thought processes as she made her choices…it was very interesting to hear.

Towards the end Kathy started warning about overworking a watercolor, to not as she says: “Don’t futz it!” Just stop, and start another before you are tempted to overwork it, after all, “it’s only paper.”

While she was painting, there were some really nice small sketchbooks of Kathy’s being passed around of different trips, the most recent was to Hawaii. Kathy sketches in scenes with an extra fine sharpie, then later paints in watercolor. The ketchbooks were a hit with most people in attendance, they were a very personal record of Kathy’s visit and everyone enjoyed her “trip”.

There were also copies of a couple of articles that Kathy has been featured in, one was from The Artist’s Magazine , April 2007. I took a moment to read a bit, and this quote from Kathy (paraphrasing Frank Webb) really caught my eye: “…it takes acres of paper to make a painter“, so true!
Afterwards everyone crowded around the demo table to ask lots of questions for the remaining 1/2 hour to get more insight about Kathy’s color choices in general, and where she decides to apply the color to get her impressionistic effects. It was a very engaging demonstration!
Kathy Collins also has a Watercolor workshop
coming up April 20th, 2008
at the DANIEL SMITH Bellevue Store.

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Sunday April 20th
Kathy will show you how to create
impressionistic watercolor painting
using dramatic high contrast watercolors.
Learn techniques for large charging color,
and mixing flowing wet paint right on the paper
to achieve dark values while preserving white spaces.
Kathy’s artwork has been published in
Watercolor Magic, and The Artist’s Magazines.
A workshop not to be missed! $75 per day 11 am to 4 pm
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Originally Published March 31, 2008

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