Annual Silent Auction & Cinco de Mayo Gala May 5, 2011 Beach Sunset donation

Pin It

Beach Sunset painting has been donated to the Save The Light organization.  Hope to see you all there! Many other goodies on the silent auction table!

Annual Silent Auction & Cinco de Mayo Gala     May 5, 2011

Our annual Silent Auction and Gala will be held Thursday, May 5, from 6:30 - 9:30 pm at the Tides, 1 Center Street, Folly Beach.
The space has been generously donated by Jon and Lisa Weitz.

Tickets are only $50.00 per person. Food and wine are included and a cash bar will be available. There will be many great items in our auction and you will get some really great deals. For tickets, contact a Board member, or call Save The Light (843) 633-0099.

All the proceeds from this event go directly toward the repair and preservation of the Morris Island Lighthouse.

Charleston Artist Guild, 2011 Juried Signature Exhibition

Pin It

 

April 25th-28th - 2011 Signature Exhibition

Charleston Visitors Center, 375 Meeting Street

Exhibition open: April 25th-28th, 8:30 - 5:00
Award Reception: Apr. 28th

Morris Island Lighthouse

Pin It

Morris Island Lighthouse off of Folly Beach, SC

well, this is a shot of the infamous lighthouse off of Folly Beach. We walked through the park area to get to it. It used to be on land but the beach erosion has worked itself around the lighthouse.  I will use this photo as a reference for my next painting. Stay tuned!

Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery in Charleston

Pin It

 
Hi all,
Just wanted to let you know that I am spending a couple of days in the gallery this week and will be painting on site. It is beautiful out now and many people walking around downtown! Come in and see what is new in the gallery!

Studio 151
151 East Bay St Charleston, SC

Beach Sunset

Pin It

Ocean Sunset

Still on the acrylic kick but just for a bit! After my last work with Wild Flowers, I really liked the colors and movement so I decided to work a bit with the same color scheme but with a sunset over water look. 

Ocean Sunset is acrylic on canvas, size 9.6 x 7 inches.

This painting is on view at Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery in Charleston.

Wild Flowers in the gallery

Pin It

Wild Flowers
Acrylic on paper
matted and framed 16 x 20


This new painting started off with watercolors but I was looking for something more.... vibrant, darker, wild..... so I layered some acrylics on top and got a little wild with the paint, adding some here and there, flicking and swiping.... so I stepped back at one point and said.... "done!" Looks like wild flowers!

Studio 151 Fine Arts Gallery March and April paintings

Pin It

 

 

 The gallery artists have changed, moved and added some new artwork to the walls! 

These 3 photos are my new wall layout. 

Some new ones in there! Come and by and check it out.

Smoky Mountain Morning

Pin It

Smoky Mountain Morning

watercolor 11 x 14 in 16 x 20 mat

Reference photo that was my inspiration for this painting! We took a trip there last fall and took tons of photos during our walks. of course, the photos do NOT do it justice!

Thanks for a great art walk Charleston!

Pin It

 

French Quarter Art Walk

Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery

Thanks to all the great visitors we had at the art walk on Friday! 

Hope to see you again the first Friday in April.

French Quarter Art Walk, Charleston SC

Pin It

March 4

5 - 8 pm

Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery

151 East Bay St, Charleston SC

Start your French Quarter Art Walk at Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery, where you can enjoy fabulous art, wine and snacks! Enjoy this cool March evening as we invite spring into our midst and stroll through the French Quarter with cobbled streets and gas lit alleyways.  As you leisurely stroll the galleries, you will discover the works of hundreds of artists with an array of styles.

Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery is conveniently located just north of Broad St on East Bay St which makes this gallery a perfect starting and stopping point for the art walk. Be sure to stop by and say hello to our talented artists, which will be on hand to chat with you.

Crab Catch

Pin It

Crab Catch

11 x14 transparent watercolors on yupo paper

Pin It

 Here are the next 2 stages of the crab painting. I continued with the crab's legs and when dry, proceeded on with the bodies adding more of the green into the blues and reds.

Painting Crabs with watercolor on YUPO paper

Pin It

Ok, here are the first 3 stages of the crab painting.
I took a couple of the crabs from the reference photo and made up a composition that was appealing and carefully drawing it out on the Yupo paper. Yupo is a synthetic paper which is slick. The paint does not soak into the paper but dries on top.  The paint moves around and does it's own thing! So you never know how it will dry in the end!

Next, I decided to add some texture to the areas that I will leave white. This will tie in with the crabs and bring the painting to the edges. It also is designed to look like a crab net or cage, perhaps? I stamped in the designs with a piece of rubber matting, the kind that goes under area rugs.
When that had dried, I started to paint in the crab legs first and then start in on the bodies, allowing the legs to dry before starting the areas next to them so that the paints from legs would not blend in with the bodies.
I used Cerulean Blue, Permanent Rose and a bit of Hookers Green.

Tomorrow, I will add more of the crab legs!

Crab Catch

Pin It

This photo is from one of our last crab catches just off our dock last fall. The water has been colder lately so the crabs are staying warm down in the mud somewhere!  I am guessing!  I have been thinking of crabs again and can't wait for the season to get going again. Fresh sweet crabs on a weekly basis is a pretty good thing! And in the mean while, I can paint them. This is the photo I have chosen as my reference so stay tuned for a step by step demo on painting crabs on yupo paper.

First Friday Art Walk at STUDIO 151 FINE ART GALLERY, 151 East Bay St, Charleston. Friday, Feb 4, 5 - 7 PM

Pin It

FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK ON GALLERY ROW

Studio 151 Fine Art Gallery is just around the corner of Broad and East Bay.

Come by and meet some of our local artists and see some newly installed art while enjoying 

some wine and food.This Friday night the Broad Street Merchants Association presents First Fridays on Broad, a free evening of  wine, hors d’œuvres, and fine art along Gallery Row.