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WET PAINT BACK TO SCHOOL SALE 2010!
June 14 thru August 15, 2010
Wet Paint's Back to School Sale thru the end of September. During this time the following special prices will be in effect:
- All pads & journals 20% off
- Golden Acrylics 40% off MSRP
- Cobra Water Mixable Oil 40% off MSRP
- Gamblin Professional & Sketching Oil 40% off MSRP
- Montana Gold spray paint $6.75/400ml can (reg. $9.75)
- All Princeton artist brushes 50% off MSRP
Plus sales on select Rhodia pads, Krylon sprays, Ampersand panels, gesso & Gamsol, and more!
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Nature Printing with Sue Filbin
Saturday August 14th 11am-2pm
The dog days of summer are a perfect time to try nature printing. There is an abundance of vegetation & it’s that stagnant time in between summer activities & back to school. Leaves, vegetables, even flowers can be inked & painted to create gorgeous monotypes on paper or fabric.
Nature provides its own exquisite printing plate. Join our friend Sue Filbin for this all ages demo to learn this simple & affordable process. This demo will be fun for the whole family!
Sue Filbin is a member of the Nature Printing Society, Colleagues of Calligraphy & works as a graphic designer. She teaches & demonstrates nature printing at White Bear Arts Center & around the metro area. She began her Nature Printing demonstrations at Wet Paint several years ago & since then she's made several popular appearances at the store at those times of the year whenever there are plenty of leaves around. |
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Plein Air with Tom Maakestad
Thursday August 19 2-5 pm mnartists.org Field Day 2010
MN Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center
Visit mnartists.org or walkerart.org for full event details
Local Plein Air painters of all styles & abilities are invited to the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden to paint versions of the iconic artwork & skyline. Bring your own easels & supplies & join the party.
While you’re there, stop by the Wet Paint-sponsored Plein Air demo by Tom Maakestad near Claes Oldenburg’s monumental Spoonbridge Cherry. Watch Tom work on location while he shares from his considerable experience with plein air work including getting set up with ease, what essential colors to have & how to deal with the many situations that arise when working out of doors.
Tom is a Minnesota painter whose work is collected internationally. He currently is showing at the US Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia & is represented locally by the Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis. |
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Art in the Air!
Montana Spray Paint & Grex Airbrushing with Juxtaposition Arts & Eric Molkenberg
Saturday August 21st 11am -2pm
Back by popular demand! Our aerosol art demonstration, featuring Montana Spray paints & Grex airbrushes!
Stop by to watch artists from Juxtaposition Arts in Minneapolis as they create letter-based & character-based aerosol imagery on canvas with high quality artist colors by Montana spray paint. And on a smaller scale, airbrush artist Eric Molkenburg will use Grex airbrushes on paper, fabric & 3D objects like the hockey masks he is known for. Grex has several brushes with pistol style trigger for superior ease of use, comfort & detail control. If you’ve never tried out an airbrush, Eric will show you the ropes.
Roger Cummings & Peyton founded Juxtaposition Arts in 1995 as a way to engage & guide urban youth along the paths to success through visual arts. You can learn more about this arts group at their website.
Artist Eric Molkenburg is well known for his work with hockey masks. Combining his passions for art & hockey, Eric started A.M.Studios in 1993 specifically to produce totally unique & one of a kind airbrushed goalie mask designs. Check out his website.
Also at this event you will be able to try out painting on a prototype canvas easel being developed by Tara Fredrix for 5x10' grommeted canvas! |
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 Tri-Art Acrylic Event
Friday August 27th 10am-8pm & Saturday August 28th 10am-6pm
Wet Paint is very excited to announce the Tri-Art Acrylic super sale weekend!
On Friday August 27th & Saturday August 28th Wet Paint will be offering its complete line of Canadian-made Tri-Art Acrylics at an unbelievable 60% off of the manufacturer’s suggested retail price. 60% off!!!
If you are not familiar with Tri-Art then you need to come to this event, as Tri-Art may very well be the finest maker of acrylic paint on the planet! What makes Tri-Art different? Tri-Art uses a new age acrylic that allows them to pigment load their paint more than any other paint sold on the market today! Higher pigment concentration means your color will go further, so you’ll use less paint, making Tri-Art a great value for the artist. You will be amazed when you see 80% polymer medium mixed with 20% paint make pretty much the same color that comes out of the tube!
And you will see it at this event: Representatives from the Jack Richeson Company (US distributor for Tri-Art) will be on hand to demonstrate the Tri-Art range & to answer any questions you have about Tri-Art Acrylics. They will also have samples of each of the Tri-Art paint lines found at Wet Paint so you can put them to the test yourself.
Featured Products:
- Solucryl Tri-Art’s Resoluble Acrylic student fluid acrylic. Resoluble Acrylic…No way! Yes way! Come by & see how this awesome paint works.
- Rheotech A medium body acrylic with the feel & performance of artist acrylics at half the cost.
- Quiller Acrylics A high viscosity artist grade acrylic that is the “Finest” in the land.
- Tri-Art Acrylic Ink A beautiful, high performance acrylic based ink. A slightly thickened consistency prevents separation as well as hard settling in the jar.
- SpectralColour An innovative combination of coloured mylar in 100% acrylic polymer emulsion…it’s professional grade glitter paint!
- Sludge A recycled paint product that can be used as a gesso or can be used for creating unique forms of artwork. 100% recycled to help save our planet!
Some paint manufacturers make good paint for professionals, while some make good paint for students. Tri-Art makes the best paint for ALL painters no matter what their age or skill level. Come by Wet Paint & decide for yourself.
Also at this event you will be able to try out painting on a prototype canvas easel being developed by Tara Fredrix for 5x10' grommeted canvas!
All Tri-Art Acrylics will be 60% off for these two days only! Plan now to visit Wet Paint, as you may never have the opportunity to purchase this quality paint & ink at this amazing discount again! |
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 Encaustic Painting with Jeffrey Hirst
Saturday September 18 11am-2pm
Always one of the most popular events on our calendar, Jeffrey Hirst is back to demonstrate his modern approach to this ancient medium. Encaustic paint is composed of pigment, wax & resin. It is applied molten to a rigid surface & fused to create a lustrous, enamel effect. Wet Paint carries a full selection of encaustic paints, waxes, mediums & accessories from R&F & Enkaustikos.
Jeff is a Minneapolis based painter who works in encaustics. His work has been exhibited regionally & nationally. |
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Visual Journaling with Liz Carlson
Thursday September 23 5:30-7:30pm
 Visual journaling is the practice of documenting everyday events & images through artistic means. Artists of all levels keep visual journals as a way to discover, collect & develop their ideas; it’s like a portable research lab, always at the ready for the next experience. And Wet Paint’s own Liz Carlson always has a visual journal-- or 2-- okay, maybe 3-- at the ready! One of her favorite things is to help others set up for creative exploration. Liz will give us a guided tour of her favorite art materials for visual journaling, including the new Visual Journal series by Strathmore, and discuss how to put together a portable tool box with supplies appropriate to your vision.
Liz holds a BFA in Children’s Book Illustration from the American Academy of Art, Chicago & has worked in the art materials world for over a decade.
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R&F Pigment Stick Panel with Richard Frumess, Joyce Lyon & Michelle McCreery
Friday October 1st 5:30-7:30pm
 Reservations required, $5 deposit
(refunded with $5 coupon for R&F Paints following attendance).
Due to anticipated response, this event will be held at the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center at Macalester College; directions & map available at Wet Paint & here.
A very special evening with R&F founder Richard Frumess and artists Joyce Lyon and Michelle McCreery.
Join us on Friday October 1st from 5:30-7pm as we welcome Richard Frumess, president and founder of R&F Handmade Paints, the manufacturer of R&F Encaustic Paints and R&F Pigment Sticks. Artists Joyce Lyon and Michelle McCreery will join Mr. Frumess to discuss their use of Pigment Sticks. Learn about the development and unique qualities of the paint Bill Creevy called “An oil painter’s dream come true” in The Oil Painting Book.
A New York based painter, Richard Frumess has been producing artists’ color for nearly 30 years, first for Torch Art Supplies and, soon after, for his own company (originally named R&F Encaustics to give the appearance that there was more than one person involved!). Today, R&F Paints employs 12 full time employees in its upstate Kingston, New York facility.
Michelle McCreery is an instructor at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul. She holds a BFA Cum Laude from the University of Central Missouri and an MFA from the University of Minnesota. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
Joyce Lyon has a BA from Barnard College, studied at Pratt Institute and received her MFA from the University of Minnesota, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Art. She is a three-time recipient of Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowships and was a participant in a Fulbright-Hays Seminar in Poland. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally; in Minneapolis she exhibits at Groveland Gallery and Form + Content gallery.
R&F Pigment Sticks are richly pigmented, with a lipstick soft consistency that gives them the same fluidity & durability of traditional oil colors. They’re also 25% off MSRP through the end of September!
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Silverpoint with Jean Formo
Tuesday October 12 5:30-7:30pm
The practice of drawing on a prepared surface with a tarnishing metal dates back to the Middle Ages. Silver was the most popular due to its ability to hold a consistently fine point. A silver-point drawing produces a delicate gray line that, over the course of months, gently darkens to a warm brown tone by air exposure. Although silver-point is usually associated with a classical style of drawing, depending on your ground, it can be bold, expressive & contemporary.
Jean Formo will discuss surfaces & grounds for silver-point & demonstrate silver-point drawing using designs she creates called Zentangles, a fascinating, new, easy-to-learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns.
A Minnesota based calligrapher & lettering artist since 1976, Jean is recognized for experimental alphabet design & innovative one-of-a-kind artist books. Type "Jean Formo" into any of your favorite search engines & you're bound to get some interesting results! |
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 Wet Paint at the Mid America Print Conference
October 13-16, 2010 Regis Center for the Arts, UM, Minneapolis
The 2010 Mid America Print Council Conference (MAPC), its theme being “New World/Old World,” will take place October 13th-16th.
The Conference is based at the University of Minnesota Regis Center for the Arts, but events will take place at venues around the Twin Cities at locations including The Walker Art Center, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, The Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Aesthetic Apparatus, Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities, College of Visual Arts and the Minneapolis College of Art & Design.
The MAPC 2010 aims to engage a younger and more diverse group of students and artists in a contemporary dialogue with the practices of printmaking.
Wet Paint is a proud sponsor of the 2010 Mid America Print Conference.
Watch for our booth at the MAPC Vendor Fair, which Wet Paint will share with our good friend Gil McMillon, importer of Kunst & Papier & ABIG Tool Company. Gil will show Kunst & Papier portfolios and ABIG’s extensive line of print making brayers, etching tools & sundries. |
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 Boo Bash! Face Painting
with Jillian Ranweiller
Sunday October 24 12n-3pm
Let Wet Paint be the first stop for your little ghouls, elves, witches & whatevers during Grand Avenue’s Boo Bash! Stop by Wet Paint for free face painting with our pal Jillian Ranweiller & other Wet Paint friends. |
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Sumi & Soul: Sumi Painting with Yuming Zhu
Friday November 12 10am-4pm, Bloomington Theatre & Art Center
Contact Bloomington Theatre & Art Center at 952-563-8587 for registration & details; there is a fee.
Wet Paint, in partnership with the Bloomington Theatre & Art Cen ter, presents this class with instructor Yuming Zhu. Paint what you feel, as well as what you see in the natural world. Both new & experienced painters interested in Eastern watercolor painting are welcome.
There will be demos & one-on-one attention, as well as warm up & grounding time. Topics include dot, line, surface & negative space. We'll paint from flowers (feel free to bring ones you'd like to arrange & paint) & do exercises for brush strokes, branch forms & more.
Yuming Zhu is an artist & educator whose work represents a blending of Eastern & Western styles & CEO of Paragon International Arts, an importer of Asian art materials. You can find examples of his work & his extensive teaching & exhibition credits at his website yumingfineart.com. |
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| UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, ALL SALE PRICES ON THIS PAGE VALID AUGUST 16 THRU SEPTEMBER 30, 2010 |
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