YUPO...WHAT IS IT?

YUPO....WHAT IS IT? About a year ago, someone introduced me to a new synthetic, watercolor paper. It was touted to be a "saver of trees" since it is not really paper....it feels and acts like plastic! Ever ride a water slide at the beach? Well, that's how it feels to paint on a surface that feels like glass! With watercolor no less.

 Anyone who paints with water color knows that it is very runny and has very little body. It cannot catch on to yupo, so it slides! And what fun it is to watch your hues collide and then blend. As you pick up the paper and tilt, then the fun really begins.  When you look at the photo above, it is hard to believe that in just moments it will transform into a lovely painting I call "Galilee Flower".  I was ill on Easter and could not go to church, so I painted this painting to commemorate my feelings about Easter.

I chose colors of flowers, because that is what I intended to make in the painting.  With yupo, you can wait for your painting to dry at a stage where you feel it is ready to mold and sculpt....with a wet cotton ball or q-tip.  So the image you will see above is my finished painting.  Enjoy.

Self Portraits



"This is the first stage of my self-portrait

 working with my Monday Class,

We are all wearing my prop hat"~ F. Christian

 Monday Mornings Fern Christian holds her fine arts painting class. The class is presently working on painting self-portraits.



Ms Christian has introduced the prop of a large, floppy hat to the project. Each member of the class is painting her own portrait wearing this hat, including Mrs. Christian.



“I am always trying to find ways to encourage students to try a new subject in painting. In doing a self portrait there are so many things involved that are not normally required: very subtle colors for skin tones, searching for the minute difference that identifies one person from another, etc. Then we throw in a big floppy hat just for fun and our paintings become personal and a new tool for teaching basics.” ~Fern Christian.



For more information about this and other art classes at The Renaissance Art Gallery contact us at:

The Renaissance Art Gallery

900 8th Street, Suite #20

Huntington, WV 25701

Gallery (304) 525-3235

Appointments: (304) 453-3187

gallerywv@yahoo.com

www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance

http://twitter.com/wvgallery

http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/

Gallery hours are:

Friday & Saturday 12-4 pm, Sunday 1-4 pm

Studio hours Monday 10-Noon, Wednesday 1:00-7:30 pm and Saturday 10-Noon

Free Caricatures at the Renaissance Art Gallery Sundays in April

The first Huntington Art walk is tonight, in what we all hope will become a monthly event for summers in Huntington, WV. The Renaissance Gallery will be apart of this tonight. Ron Haeberle and Gary Lapelle will keep the Renaissance Art Gallery open until 9:00 pm with refreshments and other art events. Come on in tonight and enjoy the growing art scene in Huntington, WV.

Friday Gary Lapelle will be hosting the regular gallery hours of the Renaissance Art Gallery and Laura Moul will open the Gallery on Saturday. If you have any questions about digital photography, Laura is your gal.

Then Bruce will be in for the first figure drawing class of the spring session.Starting this Saturday April 21 until the end of May he will also be leading the spring session of figure drawing at The Renaissance Art Gallery Saturday s from 4-6 pm. There are still two openings in this limited class. For more information call The Renaissance Art Gallery or Bruce and Lilliannne Bowersock at: 304-633-6035 cell

Renaissance Art Gallery artist Bruce Bowersock will be doing free caricatures while he hosts The Renaissance Art Gallery on two consecutive Sunday s. Bruce will be in the gallery Sunday April 22, and April 29, 2012 from 1-4 pm with all his art supplies. He will be doing caricatures of anyone and everyone who visits on these two days. If people really like to see someone with his drawing skills and get a gift just for visiting us to see all the new art we are showing, then the next two Sundays will be their time.

The Renaissance Art Gallery

900 8th Street, Suite #20

Huntington, WV 25701

Gallery (304) 525-3235

Appointments: (304) 453-3187

gallerywv@yahoo.com

www.orgsites.com/wv/renaissance

http://twitter.com/wvgallery

http://renaissancegalleryart.blogspot.com/



Gallery hours are:

Friday & Saturday 12-4 pm, Sunday 1-4 pm

Studio hours Monday 10-Noon, Wednesday 1:00-7:30 pm and Saturday 10-Noon

Cardinal Valley Show

Several member artists of the Renaissance Gallery entered the recent Cardinal Vallery Art Show.

L. Harbison with Climbing Iguana

Linda Harbison got best of show in Ashland at the Cardinal Valley Show for her sculpture “Climbing Iguana”.

Fern Christian received a Merit Award for Fragments in Moonlight "



F. Christian-Fragments in moonlight



Ron Haeberle has two pieces in this show; "Morning Surf XVI " and " Blue Teapot and Daffodil” "Splashing Brook" and "Wow" are the two pieces by Pati Payne.

Linda Helgason entered on piece; “Brent's Back # 2 ".

In addition to her award winning sculpture, Linda Harbison also has another piece in "Centenarian Carousel ".

Cardinal Valley Art Show presented by Arts Boyd County and the Arts Council of Northeastern Kentucky. Hosted by the Pendleton Arts Center in Ashland. "Celebrating ART in the Kentucky Highlands" April 5-28, 2012

The Renaissance Art Gallery’s Hosts for the Week of April 13, 14, and 15

Friday April 13, 2012: Pati Payne: Pati is from Ironton Ohio, and is known as a painter of memories. She likes to paint the people, places and things she wants to remember. Pati’s media is watercolors and she will be painting and demonstrating watercolors this week in The Renaissance Art Gallery.

Saturday April 14, 2012 Linda Harbison: Linda is accomplished in both watercolor and stone sculpture. She will have the piece she is working on Saturday. Come in and see how a sculpture takes shape.

Sunday April 15, 2012: All Renaissance artists will be at the gallery. Good days to see what is knew and talk to the artists.

the Renaissance Art Gallery; April 6, 7 and 8, 2012

The first full weekend in April will see Ron Haeberle in The Renaissance Art Gallery. Friday April 6, 2012 the gallery will open at 12:00 and be open until 4:00. Ron is known both for watercolors and his amazing rendering of historic Huntington Buildings.

Saturday April 7, 2012Susan Tschantz will be giving a demonstration on the use of colored pencils. She will be showing how to sketch, left and work with various forms and brands of colored pencils. Included will be Co-erase (erasable colored pencils) water-soluble pencils and Inktense pencils. She will also show you how to use blending tools and solvents with this medium as well as discussing which papers work best with colored pencils.

Sunday April 8, 2012 The Renaissance Art Gallery will be closed for Easter.