In the Paper!

We've made News!

Photos from the Plein air Festival:

Artists' Mediums Owner/Manager, Chelsea

and Artist Will Workman can be found on page 26 of the Williston Observer,

(just after the great article about Shawn Luke...a very talented artist!)

It is nice to see so much art in a local Newspaper!

Oil Pastel Class with Carol Boucher

Oil Pastel painting by Carol Boucher

Saturday, October 22nd

$60.00 per student

11:00 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. with a break for lunch.

Ages 16 and up.

Pre-pay sign ups required by Wed. October 19th

Call (802) 879-1236 or (800) 255-1290 to pay by phone

"Widen your horizons with oil pastel in this action-packed, intensive workshop. Create large or small paintings from imagination or from photos using vibrant Holbein oil pastels, or bring your own sets. Award-winning landscape painter Carol Boucher will teach you to prepare optimal surfaces using acrylic ground and gesso. Explore a variety of papers and boards. Carol will demonstrate methods of keeping vibrancy while blending colors using only the pastels. She will also present a brief slide show of her work.
Materials List available upon registration.

http://www.carolboucher.com/gallery/index-new-oil-pastels.htm

Holbein Art Supply Review

with Matt Hopper

Saturday, October 8th

from 11:00 a.m. through 2:00 p.m. (free).

Matt Hopper from HK Holbein Inc., who has literally grown up in the art industry, will answer all your questions about these fine art supplies that we carry here in at Artists' Mediums Inc.

Oils, Acrylics, Watercolors, Pastels, and the wide array of Holbein Artist's and Designer's Materials will be discussed, your questions are welcome!

24 Hour Comics Day 2011

Our 5th Year!

Join an international cartoon drawing event!

Saturday October 1st, 9:00 a.m.

through Sunday October 2nd - 9:00 a.m.

(yes, we will be open at midnight!)

The Challenge: For each participant to draw 24 pages of Comics in 24 hours.  Plenty of caffeine and moral support will be provided.
Click here for more details about the 24 hour comic challenge.
Please pre-register if you are interested in taking part, or stop by and encourage the artists anytime during this 24 hour long event! http://www.24hourcomicsday.com/
Ages 16 and up, unless accompanied by a PARTICIPATING ADULT.  (FREE)

Click here to see videos of some of our previous years of participation!

Oil Paintsticks on Fabric and Paper Class with Kristin Richland

Saturday, September 17th

10:30 a.m. through 4:00 p.m. with a break for lunch.
$70.00 per student, all materials will be provided.
Ages 16 and up.

Pre-pay signup required by Wed. September 14th
Call (802) 879-1236 or (800) 255-1290 to pay by phone

Experience immediate mark-making with oil paint, as easy as holding a crayon!

Kristin will guide you through a day of experimenting with paintstiks:  Blend, layer or scribble to develop your image,  try your hand at stenciling, and develop patterns with texture plates.  You will learn a variety of these techniques, on a selection of fabric and paper surfaces.  Once you've tried paintstiks, you'll find yourself reaching for them again and again for projects all around the house, the studio, or a painting day on the road.

http://www.sweetenemyart.blogspot.com/

Plein air Festival photos

Thank you to everyone who participated, everyone who came to view the art, and of course The Emille Gruppe Gallery, The Barber Farm, Barbara Greene and ALL the Organizers, volunteers, sponsors...

I took a lot of photos at the Plein Air Festival...

Click here to see more!http://gypsiesgesso.blogspot.com/2011/07/photos-from-plein-air-festival.html

TRY-IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT!

TRY-IT events are an opportunity for you to test out a product.
These are free, hands-on with select product, with our staff close at hand, to answer any questions. Find out what we love about these products, and see if they're right for you.

Try-it Unique Golden Grounds:
Tues. July 26th 4:00-5:30pm
GOLDEN Acrylic Ground for Pastels is a 100% acrylic medium designed to prepare surfaces for the application of pastels, charcoal and other art media where a coarse tooth is desired. It contains finely ground sand (silica) in a pure acrylic emulsion. Acrylic Ground for Pastels can be applied to paper, canvas, wood or any primed support. This allows almost limitless applications for media typically confined to standard papers.
GOLDEN Absorbent Ground is an acrylic liquid surfacing medium that dries to a porous, paper-like surface. Applied over gessoed canvas, it allows for raw canvas-like staining and watercolor effects. Lightfast, permanent and flexible. Health Labeled (HL) Product. Not for use by children.
GOLDEN Fiber Paste feels like lightly pressed handmade paper– White fibers add strength, absorbency, texture and a unique woven feel. The dry Fiber Paste imparts a rough, watercolor paper-like surface that can be used to create paper-like “skins” to be used in a variety mixed media.
All these "Try It" items are made here in the U.S.A.!

The Plein air Festival

I am one of the 75 per-registered artists
who will be PAINTING OUTSIDE ALL DAY...
rain or shine(!)
in Underhill, (it could be pretty hot!)
and then showing the artwork done -
at the Emille Gruppe Gallery and Barber Farm
- at the end of a long ART day.Come see the finished art.

(from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.)

You're likely to see some great stuff!

-chelsea

Enter to Win!

Come into the store to enter to win

a GIANT (24 oz) bucket of The Masters Brush Soap!

(plus a bar of Artist's Handsoap)Valued at over $30.00.

Drawing will be made on September 30th 2011.

"This is my favorite soap. when you think your brushes are clean, think again. Even with watercolor paint, you can always get more color out of your brush with this must have studio soap. I've even saved brushes that I thought were ruined with this soap! I had a sable brush with oil paint dried rock hard - into the bristles, I figured out a way to suspend the brush in a tall vase, with JUST the bristles suspended in a mix of this soap and some water, and after soaking for several days, I was able to gently brush out the paint with a toothbrush! (..always clean brushes in the direction of the bristles for the best results -instead of scrubbing or scruffing up the bristles.)" -Chelsea

TRY IT before you buy it!

Try-it Tues. July 19th 4:00-5:30pm.Tom Norton Walnut Ink
A gorgeous Warm brown ink that is water-soluble, and lifts easily...so many possibilities.

TRY-IT events are an opportunity for you to test out a product.
These are free, hands-on with select product, with our staff close at hand, to answer any questions. Find out what we love about these products, and see if they're right for you.

walnut ink art provided by Kristin Richland

Pearl Ex Metallic Pigments back in stock!

We just recieved an order full of the wonderfully diverse Pearl-Ex Metallic Powdered Pigments into the store.

These bright and shiny powders are fine enough to go through an airbrush, bakable on Polymer Clay, and can be added to nearly any medium...Watercolor, Oils, even Acrylics!

You can mix them with your colors to add sparkle to your work, or use them with a clear medium to make a metallic paint.

NEW stuff arriving DAILY!

We just got a big shipment of canvas...

including the Fredrix brand stretcher bars!

Terry Ludwig Pastels Try it night

With many pastels and many surfaces to choose from, visitors were able to get a feel for these soft, vibrant colors.



Thank you to the folks who joined us to play with these excellent pastels.

TRY-IT Night: Terry Ludwig Pastels

TRY-IT events are hands-on with select product, and a knowledgeable advisor close at hand. Find out what we love about these products, and see if they're right for you.

Come in to Artists Mediums Inc. to test these wonderful soft Pastels,

This Tuesday evening, July 12th from 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Here are some of the various surfaces and tools you'll be able to try out:

You can try these pastels on surfaces such as: Acrylic Ground for Pastels (both tinted and plain- the tinted is shown above), suede mat scraps, Mi-Teintes paper, Strathmore Charcoal Paper, Micaceous Iron Oxide prepped surfaces, canvas with Acrylic Ground for Pastels on it, and more.

Terry has created a vast array (over 400 intense colors) in a unique square pastel, that are uniformly soft across all densities of hue.

I will be placing an order with Terry Ludwig after July 20th, so if you want to get a set or even an individual stick of color - click here to get a special coupon and order now!

(When placing special orders for our customers we request a 50% deposit on merchandise.)

MAKE YOUR OWN- Handpainted Shoes by Kristin

Do you have an old pair of shoes lying around that could be a bit more...interesting? Kristin found a great and very simple way to revive old shoes!

What you need:
-Paint Brush(es): You can use a variety of paint brushes to work with textile paints. Usually it's easier to work with a nice soft brush that maintains its shape for creating designs. The Holbein Hard Resable brush works perfectly for this! This brush is soft, yet holds a nice point, and holds a good amount of paint to help you make clean and flowing lines.
-Jacquard Textile Paint: These paints are designed for fabric and will work great on most shoes. They come in many different colors and are very flexible when dried.

Hints:
-Clean the shoes thoroughly before hand. A mild soap and water solution will work just fine.
-Do not apply large globs of paint, these might crack off in time. Thin and even layers will last longer.
-You can heat-set the fabric paint with a heat gun (be careful not to burn the shoes) or you can use a blow dryer on the "high" setting.
We would love to see your photos of painted shoes! Feel free to email them to info@artistsmediums.com or share them with us on Facebook !

TRY-IT Before you Buy IT!

TRY-IT events are hands-on with select product, and a knowledgeable advisor close at hand. Find out what we love about these products, and see if they're right for you.

Terry Ludwig Soft Pastels

Come in to Artists Mediums Inc. to test these wonderful soft Pastels,
This Tuesday evening, July 12th from 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Terry has created a vast array (over 400 intense colors) in a unique square pastel, that are uniformly soft across all densities of hue.

I will be placing an order with Terry Ludwig after July 20th, so if you want to get a set or even an individual stick of color - click here to get a special coupon and order now!

(When placing special orders for our customers we request a 50% deposit on merchandise.)

We are closed on Independence Day, but you can shop with us online!

We are excited to say that we have an E-Partnership with one of our largest distributors, Alvin! This means that when we are closed, or you simply do not feel like leaving the house, you can shop thousands of products that can be shipped right to your door!


This company carries everything from drafting tables to brushes to 3-D stickers. However, if you cannot find what you're looking for, it doesn't mean that we can't find it for you through another distributor! If this is the case, give us a call at (802) 879-1236

Want to check this site out?
Visit: http://www.alvinco.com/~ArtistsMediums
Also, the link will always be on the main page of our website:
http://www.artistsmediums.com

Silkscreen time!

Hi, it's Kristin, and I'm excited to report that I'm taking a silk screening class at BCA over the next month. This is a method I have dabbled in over the past few years, but never received formal instruction for.

As I gather materials (and I must say it's fun to be on the "shopping" side of holding a class supply list) I wanted to point out what we have available through our e-partner catalog online.

Clear film that's ink-jet friendly, a must-have for the photo-emulsion technique

GIANT tubs of screen printing ink!

And here's the kit I purchased a few years ago (ostensibly as a Christmas gift for my husband, though he lets me use it...)The class doesn't start for two weeks, but I'm going to start going through my images to see what I might want to work with. I'm really looking forward to putting my drawings here there and everywhere, once I tackle the process.