Discover Italy and France through Art

Discover Italy and France through Art is the title for the new show opening this evening at Central Oregon Community College Rotunda Gallery, Bend, Oregon.  Candice Simpson will share her Italian experience as a COCC study Abroad student  through her photographs.  I will be showing my French and Italian watercolor paintings.  I will also have on display some of my watercolor travel journals.  The Rotunda Gallery is located on the campus in the Barber Library.  The show will end February 27, 2013.  

Janice Rhodes is the Featured Artist at the Red Chair Gallery

Join Janice Rhodes as the January featured artist at the Red Chair Gallery, Bend, Oregon.  She will be showing new encaustic painting for the First Friday Art Walk, Friday, January 4th from 5-9 p.m.  The Red Chair Gallery is located at 103 Oregon Ave, Bend, Oregon.

Briggs at Mercer Island Gallery

 

 

Cindy Briggs is featuring paintings "Inspired by Travel" at Goesling Gallery opening on December 11, 2013.  Briggs will display paintings from her travels in Italy and France. The traveling show will be up through February at 2885 78th Ave. SE in downtown Mercer Island, Washington, in the Seattle area.

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Her watercolors are & pastels are also featured in downtown Bend, Oregon at Bend Your Imagination on Minnesota St. and at What Lola Wants on Wall Street. 

Cindy Briggs and Theresa Goesling are leading a Painting Cruise with Holland America, May 25 - June 1st from Quebec City to Boston.  Enjoy time with other creatives -  paint, explore, photograph and relax.  For information on this tour, local & regional workshops visit www.MakeEveryDayAPainting.com  or call 541-420-9463. 

Barbara Slater Supporting Equine Outreach

As a part of The Barb's Are Back celebration at Bend's Desperado Contemporary & Nostalgic Western Store, Barbara Slater will be lending her art to benefit Equine Outreach. Equine Outreach facilitates the rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and permanent placement of abused, and neglected horses in Deschutes County and Central Oregon. Their goal is to promote equine awareness and to foster community compassion for responsible horse guardianship.

An Evening to Benefit Equine Outreach features Barbara's amazing work at Desperado in The Old Mill District on December 6th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. A raffle with all proceeds going to Equine Outreach will allow one lucky winner to take home a Barbara Slater original valued at $800. Raffle tickets are $10 each or three (3) for $25. The winner will be announced on December 31st. Pick up your raffle tickets, view Barbara's new work and shop Desperado. 10% Of all sales during the event will be donated to Equine outreach.


Painting oils with energy and spirit, this artist’s pigmentation is rich and succulent, while her brushwork is bold and responsive. Barbara continues her studies with different genres, painting still-lifes, florals, landscapes and animals. Animals are her present focus with images of vibrant roosters, horses, cows and other barnyard residents. Painting these rural inhabitants with love and respect, Barbara gives each animal an attitude and personality.

A member of the Oil Painters of America, the California Art Club and the High Desert Art League, Barbara is represented by galleries in Utah and Oregon and has collectors throughout the United States. Barbara had a thirty five year career in education. She was also a children’s book illustrator and an advertising and graphic design artist.

Art is Barbara Slater’s breath and passion. “I believe that an artist’s final work is a depiction of his or her impressions—emotionally, physically, intellectually and above all, artistically.”

An Evening Benefiting Equine Outreach

December 6, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

Desperado Contemporary & Nostalgic Western Store

330 SW Powerhouse Dr., Ste 120, Bend, OR

http://www.desperadocouture.com/

For more information on Barbara Slater you can visit her website at http://www.barbaraslater.com/ or at the High Desert Art League website.

PLATINUM/PALLADIUM PRINTS

FREDERICK USING 150-YEAR OLD PROCESS TO CREATE FINE ART PRINTS

Award winning fine art photographer Richard Frederick  is using a photographic process that is over 150 years old to create stunning black & white photographic prints with exceptional clarity and tonal separation. Using a custom mixture that he creates in his darkroom with Platinum*, Palladium* and other chemicals, he hand coats specialized papers with this emulsion to render them sensitive to light. The latent image is formed on the sensitized paper by placing a negative in contact with it and exposing this “sandwich” under an intense light source rich in ultraviolet content. The exposed paper is then taken into the darkroom where it is developed in a different chemical mixture. Palladium prints are highly archival (meaning they will never fade) and are treasured by many fine art collectors.

Frederick also produces large color prints that are printed on canvas and other media.

richfred@bendbroadband.com

www.fredfineartphoto.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Platinum& Palladium are precious metals as are Gold & Silver

 

 

 

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Helen Brown and Some Earthly Delights!

In Tumalo Art Co.’s November show “Earthly Delights”, Helen Brown has 11 new paintings (no, wait – now it's only 10) in an exhibit with Marty Stewart. The work features scenes from nature that delight the eye and also move the viewer to interpret these scenes as precious earthly assets we all need to protect.

Helen Brown’s current work is a form of batik in watercolor. She draws her images on Ginwashi rice paper, begins with a light, colorful wash of watercolor, and then protects the lightest areas by painting them with molten wax. The wax resists all subsequent layers of paint. After about 6-8 layers of painting followed by more wax, she irons out the wax leaving only a watercolor image on paper. The subjects in her November show range from mountain scenes in Central Oregon and Glacier National Park to her more familiar tree scenes.

Stop by and see!  The Tumalo Art Co. Gallery is open 7 days-a-week, Monday-Saturday 10:00 am-8:00 pm and Sunday 11:00 am-6:00 pm. and is located in Bend's Old Mill District at 450 SW Powerhouse Dr. #407.

For more information visit the Tumalo Art Co. website or Helen Brown's site.  You can also Find Helen on Facebook! Visit her page here.

New Article for Cloth, Paper Scissors

The box is packed and ready to ship.  Sample postcards are carefully wrapped and example art supplies are in their separate zip-locked baggie.  I even put in some Hershey's kisses for the editors.  My article, Painted Postcards is ready to go and will be published in the Cloth, Paper Scissors magazine - March/April 2013 issue.  It took longer than expected to create all the samples required for the article but it was so much fun to do.  I hope you will read the article when it is published next year!