February 2010 Demonstrations

Our store demos are free and open to the public. Seating is limited and first-come, first serve. While the store is still open for business, we will do our best to limit distractions and noise wherever possible. Please help by turning off cell phones and pagers during the artist's presentation.

Saturday February 20th 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
(FREE, no registration needed)
Chelsea Lindner - Color Mixing in Traditional Oils
It's a very slow process to mix over 100 colors, and try to keep them from becoming muddy or chalky, but Chelsea will show an overview.

Saturday February 27th 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
(FREE, no registration needed)
Kristin Richland - Acrylic Under painting techniques
Kristin will demonstrate her various under painting processes, which are part of the foundation to the lovely, silky, acrylic paintings that are her trademark.
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Snow sculpting

January thaw offers the rare opportunity to create something of interest in your nieghborhood to keep the winter blues away.

This is in progress, because I would still like to color it, (which I do with a spray bottle and food coloring!) but here is my latest project. (I hope you can tell that it's a cat about to pounce)

Show us what you've made!
Chelsea Lindner, manager, Artists Mediums Inc.

Call for Artists!

Bring us your art at the begining of February 2010 for the :

WARM & FUZZY Show!
February, March and April in Vermont are traditionally so cold, we were looking for something to warm us up. At first we thought we'd ask you to bring in only art made with WARM tones: like red, yellow and orange. Realizing that many artists work in black and white, and not wanting to show too much color predjudice, we thought, how about an animal show?
Well, in the end, we decided to leave it open to either option, and this show is going to be warm and fuzzy... it can be either, or both .... surprise us...you always do!

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Not only did we finally decide what this next show will be but in a rare attempt to stay ahead, so you can actually paint for the shows, we have already decided that the summer show:

May June and July 2010- will be a PORTRAIT show. So start thinking about who's going to be on your canvas!

For rules and further information about showing here at the store, click here.

The Gift show is lovely!

All of us at Artists Mediums want to thank all the talented customers and friends of the store who have brought thier artwork in to make our gift show so beautiful!

I don't have room here to list all these talented folks, for we have over 70 pieces of art on our walls, and are showing the creativity of over 50 artists in this store, but I would like to mention a few of you, since I am going to show pictures of your art.

Here's a small sampling:

from handmade scarves and tote bags,(Thanks to Dawn O'Connell, Martha Ohliger, and Lynn Powers.)

and wooden ornaments and puzzles, (Thanks to Harvey Bartlett)

and Snowflakes of Vermont wooden ornaments (Thanks to Betsy Sylvester) We even have outdoor quality "leaf cast" cement sculptures

made by the high school students of Christ Covenant School in Marshfield Vermont, and 85% of those proceeds go directly back to that school's art program!

We even have some beautifully decorated small picture frames.

(Thanks to Sharon Diner and Season Hubley)

Come an see this amazing selection!

We also have many small traditional watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings. Buy one of a kind gifts for your friends and families during the holiday season, with the joy of knowing the money is staying local!

(Remember, we only take a 15% commission, so the artist takes home 85% of their asking price.)

Gift ideas for the holidays

Lots of new and wonderful product is arriving!

Come and see our NEW: Waterproof Origami Paper, Nice sets of Watercolors, Oils, and Acrylics, Fancy Erasers shaped like Rhinos and Polar Bears, and even a triceritops pencil sharpener!.