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Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan July 2022

Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan Did you miss Brenda’s class the first time around? Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan is back for July 2022. In this class, you can enjoy learning about the techniques artists use to produce Fluid Art with plenty of time to practice them yourself! Art Presence member artist Brenda […]

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Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan Rescheduled

Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan has been rescheduled for June 2022. In this class, you can enjoy learning about the techniques artists use to produce Fluid Art with plenty of time to practice them yourself! Art Presence member artist Brenda Mills Brannan wants to share her experiences, inspire […]

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Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan Rescheduled

Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan Rescheduled: Fluid Art with Brenda Mills Brannan has been rescheduled for June 2022. In this class, you can enjoy learning about the techniques artists use to produce Fluid Art with plenty of time to practice them yourself! Art Presence member artist Brenda Mills Brannan wants to share her experiences, […]

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How to Paint a Landscape in Three Different Mediums

How to Paint a Landscape in Three Different Mediums by Anita HartCarroll

Painting the same scene three different times using a different medium on each painting can be very enlightening and a lot of fun! In our article at VeryCreate.com, I explore using pastel, acrylic and watercolor to paint a distinctive landscape of Vantage, Washington on the Columbia River. I share what I learned and what I would do differently the next time I paint the scene.

The goal of the experiment was to see how different each medium handled the same subject and if the final results were unique enough for me to pick a favorite standout. The knowledge I gained by completing the three paintings really surprised me!

In the acrylic painting, I blew up the scale and went for high drama on canvas. Using thin layers of paint and glazes, I was able to adjust the value

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Techniques in Palette Knife Painting Workshop at Coos Art Museum

Techniques in Palette Knife Painting Saturday, 03/12/16 from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm at Coos Art Museum iCal Spaces available: 5 — This number may include spaces booked, but not yet paid. Payment is required to guarantee your space.   QUICK OVERVIEW Title: Techniques in Palette Knife Painting with Silvia Trujillo What: art class Dates: Saturday, March 12, […]

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silvia Trujillo Teaches Techniques in Palette Knife Painting at Rogue Gallery March 5

Silvia Trujillo: Plein air painting in oil, entry in 2014 Umpqua Plein Air Painters Competition

The direct approach of applying paint to the canvas with a palette knife was very popular with the Impressionists, and of particular interest to artists like Van Gogh and Monet. The palette knife can render luscious texture and depth while maintaining rich pure colors. In this class, you will develop skills with the palette knife to enhance your work in value, design, and color harmony.

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Intensive Printmaking Workshop at CCC

Printmaker Royal Nebeker

Royal Nebeker, internationally known printmaker, will teach a two week intensive printmaking workshop at Clatsop Community College this summer for beginning and intermediate printmakers. The workshop is scheduled Monday to Thursday beginning July 22 and extending through August 1, and will be held at the CCC Art Center Gallery, 1799 Lexington Avenue, Astoria. The focus of this intensive workshop is on monotype, etching and collagraph techniques.

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Painting a Moving Target, by Stefan Baumann

Painting a moving target like waves in the ocean isn’t easy but there is a rhythm to nature and also to waves, and this pattern of movement can be captured in a brief time as I have done in this painting.

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Elements: Air, Earth, Fire and Water

Strata, by Christina Brown

An Exhibit of Fiber Art at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center

Strata, by Christina Brown

Exhibit Dates: March 8 – April 12, 2013

Reception: March 15th 5:00 – 8:00 PM during Medford’s Third Fridays

Mary Goodson, Water versus Earth

(Medford, OR) – March 6, 2013– High Fiber Diet, a Northwest-based fiber artists’ group affiliated with the Columbia FiberArts Guild of Portland, presents textile works as part of the Rogue Gallery & Art Center’s 2013 Main Gallery exhibition series. The Elements: Air, Earth, Fire and Water exhibit features wall hangings, mostly artistic quilts, as well as felted and wearable art. The artwork demonstrates innovative techniques, superb craftsmanship, original design, and a unique artistic vision. Each fiber artist has created a window into the natural world influenced by the four elements: earth, air, water or fire.

 

Catherine Beard, La Jolla Shore

Drawing

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