WATER STREET ART GALLERY HOSTING BLOG SITE FOR DAILY PAINTERS

We want to tell the world that Oklahoma has many marvelous and talented artists all over the state.  With our goal of promoting art and artists, we have established the Oklahoma Daily Painters blog, http://www.oklahomadailypainters.blogspot.com/.     We are just getting started but please visit the website and watch our progress.  If you are an Oklahoma painter, check out member requirements.

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FRAKES, ONE MAN SHOW AT LLOYD'S GALLERY

Alan Frakes, Water Street Art Gallery friend, plein air painter, and art instructor is being celebrated with a one man show at Lloyd's Gallery in Pawhuska. Alan has received much acclaim for his "dumpster" series, all painted in oil on canvas. You will find some of them in the background of these photos. He is seen here with Betty Dalsing of the Water Street Art Gallery (dumpster painting in background.)

Alan and Patty Frakes with good friend and fellow artist,

Kreg Kallenberger (kregkallenberger.com)

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This exhibit will hang through February.

CHRISTMAS GIFTS AT THE GALLERY

We, at the gallery, are having a wonderful holiday season and certainly hope all of you are also.
We still have a a generous array of gifts that range from artist made ornaments and cards to small paintings and other very special small gifts that are reasonably priced for Christmas giving. Shopping at our gallery gives you the opportunity to buy a gift for someone special on your list, a gift that cannot be found anyplace else.

While at the gallery, you will have the opportunity to see the work of the two newest artists to join our group. They are Gail Rogers and Ann Spoon, both oil painters. For this occasion, they and our other gallery artists have painted several small Christmas themed pieces that will become a part of a lucky someones Christmas tradition.

Come visit our gallery to shop, visit, and see what we have planned for the coming year. There will be new classes, workshops, and fun events. We will be open late Thursday, Dec. 17, until 8 p.m. Our regular hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday.
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Party Time

Our Opening Reception "Chocolate and Champagne" was a night to remember. Lots of interested art collectors and friends stopped by. We have many small wonderful works of art for the month of December created just for you by our gallery artists and invited friends. Stop by soon for unique handmade gifts for everyone on your list. From stocking stuffers to show stoppers. We have a wish list, layaway plans, and extremely low prices right now. Maybe a gift certificate would suit your favorite person.

Congratulations to all who won door prizes last night!

You're never too young (or old) to paint!

What a treat to have my multi-talented sis-in-law and nephew Jude visit me at the gallery today! It seems that we have budding artists in the family, and so it was a perfect opportunity to get messy together - even mom got in the action. We learned a little about technique, drawing shapes, animals, experimenting with color, using our imagination and just having FUN! We even painted each other when we saw how much we were getting "in" to the medium. Despite the improvised trashbag artist smock, Jude and I managed to paint our sleeves too.

What do you think of our circus train? Jude made sure we remembered the monkeys...they had to ride on top of the train though.

CHRISTMAS PARTY AT THE GALLERY

This is becoming such a fun event. We began by inviting ten artists (in addition to our co-op arists) to contribute small works of art for this occasion and were amazed by the beautiful things that came in. Our Christmas Celebration party is this Thursday, December 3, starting at 6:30. Friends, family, customers, everyone has been invited....and, so are you. Come and have a glass of champagne with us and nibble on marvelous, tasty, scrumptious chocolate creations.
You will find special gifts for those special people on your list. We have gift items starting at $4.
There are hand made ornaments.....each a piece of art, cards, christmas jewelry, dichroic glass pieces, pottery, small paintings, and many other items. We hope you will be here....we are saving some chocolate for you.

A Fresh New Look

Don't worry, you haven't come to the wrong site! We've just decided to give Water Street Art Gallery's Website and Blog a face lift and freshen things up a bit. The "painted" heading reflects our artistic flare and warm color scheme the inviting nature of our gallery and artists.

The website is designed to be easier to navigate with straight forward information about our artists, events and classes.

We hope you'll take the opportunity to peruse its pages and visit our blog and website often!