Water Street Art Gallery: December 2009

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

GAIL ROGERS ACCEPTED INTO SANTA FE GALLERY

One of our newest gallery members has been accepted into the Arlene Siegel Gallery in Santa Fe. Her first showing will be in April or May. Congratulations, Gail. Coincidentally, the Arlene Siegel Gallery in on Water Street in Santa Fe.

Friday, December 18, 2009

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.

posted by dalsing.

Monday, December 14, 2009

FRAKES, ONE MAN SHOW AT LLOYD'S GALLERY

Alan Frakes, Water Street Art Gallery

friend, plein air painter, illustrator, 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 GRAVEYARD"

from the private collection of

Wendy Parker

Alan and Patty Frakes with their good friend and fellow artist, Kreg Kallenberger.

This exhibit will hang through February.

From Lloyd's Gallery, the exhibit will

go the Swope Gallery in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The Swope Museum exhibit is part of a collaborative effort put together by Wes Janz, Professor of Architecture at Ball State, Muncie, Indiana. http://www.swope.org/, event s not yet listed.

Wes and Alan collaborated in the summer of 2008 at the living Arts center in Tulsa.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

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.
Posted by Dalsing

Friday, December 4, 2009

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.

TIPS ON FREEZING OIL PAINT

In my oil painting classes, the issue of freezing the paint left over on your palette comes up often. I subscribe to an online newsletter written by Marion Boddy-Evans and this article is attributed to her. Pay particular attention to the latter portion that deals with freezing under water. QUESTION: FREEZING OIL PAINT.......... The tip about freezing of oil paints to preserve them between painting sessions, usually suggested as placing your entire palette in the freezer, in based on the fact that oil freezes are a very low temperature. (It's far lower than water.) Given the temperature a domestic freezer is usually set at, leftover oil paint put into it is unlikely to freeze because it doesn't get cold enough. I put the question to about freezing oil paint to Anne Marie Helmenstine PhD, About.com's Guide to Chemistry, who said: "The freezing point of linseed oil (the predominant oil in oil paints) is -20°C (-4°F). Most people set their freezers at 0°F, so oil paint will not freeze in most home freezers. "Oil paints work better when applied at cold or even freezing temperatures, but the paintings themselves are embrittled at low temperatures, especially if the humidity is low. It's fine to store your oils in the freezer if you're taking a break. The cold temperature will slow the rate of oxidation and evaporation, preserving the paint. But once you start a canvas, it's better for the painting to maintain it at a room temperature that's cool but non-freezing, otherwise the painting may become brittle." An article in issue no 12 of Golden's Just Paint by a "scientist who specializes in coatings" says this about freezing oil paints: "Oils also become more brittle when cold, but embrittlement occurs at temperatures below freezing. ...significant drops in temperature from 23°C down to below freezing at very low humidity can create stresses in a fairly young 13 year old oil paint film that will exceed its breaking point."1 The tip about submerging leftover oil paint in water to preserve it, is a centuries-old one. In a book on color published by the National Gallery in London, David Bomford (Associate Director for Collections at the J Paul Gerry museum in Los Angeles) and Ashok Roy (director of Scientific Research at the National Gallery in London) write: "...by early Renaissance times professional supplies of pigments existed ... Prepared oil paints were kept in the studio under water to prevent them from drying out."2 Of course traditional use doesn't always match modern scientific knowledge. Asked about submerging oil paint under water, Anne Marie said: "Exposing an oil painting to water or high humidity is damaging because it can disrupt the cross-linking of polymers, leading to a loss of adhesion (which is naturally poor because linseed oil is not a strong adhesive). "I would not recommend storing paint or a palette under water, since high humidity inhibits polymer cross-linking, weakening the paint. If the paint is sealed, this serves no purpose except perhaps to prevent rapid temperature swings. If the paint is not sealed, the high humidity can be damaging. Exposure to alkaline conditions may also increase the degree of yellowing over that which would naturally occur." And to quote from Just Paint again: "There are also chemical reactions that can break the polymer chains in oils. The most common is chemical reaction with water. This reaction is usually slow, but it gets much faster if the paint film is exposed to humid air under alkaline conditions. This becomes a problem if the paint is formulated with alkaline pigments or if it is applied over an alkaline surface."1 So although there's anecdotal evidence from oil painters who've put their oil paints under water and not seen any issues, and it's a practice with a long tradition, it isn't sound on a chemical level. But freezing oil paints, that's fine if you've a large enough freezer. Personally, I think I'll stick to using my freezer for ice cream. posted by Dalsing

RUSSIAN ARTIST TO SPEAK AT WATER STREET ART GALLERY

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

GAIL ROGERS ACCEPTED INTO SANTA FE GALLERY

Friday, December 18, 2009

WATER STREET ART GALLERY HOSTING BLOG SITE FOR DAILY PAINTERS