Future Workshops

Arizona artist, Annella Campbell, September 16-18, 2016 at Land's End Resort.

2017--Gayle Weisfield, September 15-17, See www.gayleweisfield.com

2018--Bev Jozwiak, September 14-16. See www.bevjozwiak.com/

August 5, 10 AM Plein Air

Paint Outside at Baycrest Hill overlook park at 10 AM on Friday, August 5.

Summer Events

PLEIN-AIR PAINTING:  The Plein Air painters will meet at 2 Sisters to paint from their back porch on Friday, July 29, 1 PM for lunch; 1:30 PM for painting.

JULY 30, 10-4:  Mini-workshop with visiting artist Bruce Sink; $50 members; $60 guests.  Beginners welcome. Bruce will be working with 3 primary colors, in the style he learned from Chinese Artist Lian Quan Zen. Any profit after expenses will be donated to Homer Food Pantry.  Check with Homer Art and Frame for details and supply list.   Gallery online at brucesink.com.      

AUGUST 20; 1-4 PM:  Paint Out at Brigitte Suter's fabulous garden and farm. Bring a sack lunch and your outdoor paint gear. 

Fun with Don Kolstad

Sorry you missed a good time and great lesson from Don Kolstad. He took us through a seascape step by step, and we turned out some great paintings!

Don kept us laughing while we were learning.

Nice paintings. We learned a lot.

One-day Workshop with Don Kolstad

 
April 2—10am until 5pm—Cost $50 - Classroom at Homer Art & Frame—Class size limited to 12. To reserve your space, mail or drop by check payable to KBWS to Homer Art & Frame, 4001 Lake St. #3 –Homer 99603.

The landscape painting we will be working on for this session will be a seascape with cliffs, rocks, water rolling onto the shore, etc. I want to focus on how to paint and create rocks by using a palette knife or something similar like a credit card to move paint around. Rocks always seem to be a problem to most artists and they end up looking like a bunch of potatoes...here's a great controlled and spontaneous solution to that problem. Along with the rocks we'll be learning about rendering reflections, the water on the shore and many of the typical elements of shore lines found around Homer and Alaska.

March Paint In--Chinese Brush Painting with Sharlene Packer Klein

 Sharlene led us once again in an afternoon of Chinese-style painting. This time she demonstrated painting birds with color. Notice that an old oatmeal container makes a good brush holder.

Sharlene holds up one of her paintings.

Hummingbirds by Sharlene

The birds are done with a minimum of brush strokes.

Marilyn shows us her Hake brush.

We practiced the techniques but couldn't match the beauty of Sharlene's work.

A flower demo--the brush is loaded with 2 or 3 colors.

Paint-in: Valentine's Day Theme

Today, nine KBWS members came together to have an early celebration of Valentine's Day.  After a brief presentation on the use of projectors, they watched a video on painting flowers by Janet Rogers.  And the fun began as they painted their own while eating chocolate cake (among other things - thanks Lynda), and  visiting with each other.  The following are some pictures from this afternoon's events.  Thanks to all who contributed to this event.



Renee brought in various types of flowers

Cindy worked with pink roses

Visiting from Kenai

Lynda & Marilyn socialize for a bit

Fun at work



And the work in progress



A red rose



Renee's pink roses



Another single rose

Working on the leaves

Also from Kenai - how nice to see them in Homer again!

See you at the next paint-in!