Another fun afternoon with the Valley Arts Group! Instructors Alice, Christine and Gwen organized a workshop on the art of Zentangle. Gwen guided us through the process step-by-step. Participants included members Gwen, Alice, Reka, Penny, Beryl and Robbie, plus guests Brenda and Diana.
If you would like to create your own Zentangle artwork, check out the book One Zentangle A Day by Beckah Krahula. It is available through the Whatcom County Library.
Checkout the new website pages for our current featured artists, Stephanie Strong and Karen McCormick. You can see more of their work and read their bios!
The Valley Arts Group invites you to visit our latest exhibit of artwork.
We have two featured artists this quarter. Stephanie Strong is the featured artist at the Sudden Valley Clubhouse (by El Agave). Karen McCormick is the featured artist at the Sudden Valley Creekside Barn (by Ken’s Cozy Corner and the YMCA).
Visit all three of our galleries:
For a sampling of the show, checkout: www.valleyartsgroup.org
Thank you Virginia for organizing our first Plein Air session for this year! We found a nice spot to settle in on AM Beach. Here are a few photos of the scenery and the artists hard at work.
The Valley Arts Group invites you to visit our latest exhibit of artwork by Sudden Valley artists at the Creekside (YMCA) Barn. The show runs from July 15th to October 14th.
For this quarter, we put out a challenge for artwork related to flowers. The flowers and other artwork are displayed in the Creekside Barn, as well as the library. Our featured artist this quarter at the Sudden Valley Clubhouse is Debra Elliot.
Stop by for a visit. Enjoy a cool drink and/or lunch from Ken’s Cozy Kitchen while you relax with friends and browse the new artwork!
Visit our website to see a sampling of the show at www.valleyartsgroup.org.
Stephanie Strong guided us through a fun silk painting class this afternoon. Participants included Gwen, Alice, Danila, Roz and Robbie.
Silk painting is a lot like working with watercolor, but special dyes are used instead of paint. The basic steps are to stretch a piece of silk on a frame, draw a design on the silk using a “resist”, paint with the dyes in the areas defined by the resist, dry with a hairdryer, paint on “dyeset”, dry again, remove silk from frame, rinse, pat dry, and then iron completely dry.
Here are our results (some still in progress):
Back by popular demand, Gwen held another “Watercolor Batik” workshop on Tuesday, April 25th. Participating members included Beryl, Danila, Karen D., Karen M., Robbie and Roz.
Watercolor Batik is a process of layering watercolors and wax on rice paper. The “fun-scary” part comes after you are done applying the wax and paint. You crumple or accordion pleat your paper, lay it flat, and apply a wash to the cracks in the wax. After another layer of wax, you press the painting between newspaper using an iron.
First, an example of Gwen’s beautiful watercolor batik paintings.
Below, a few examples of artwork produced in the workshops.
The Valley Arts Group invites you to visit our latest exhibit of original art by Sudden Valley artists at the Creekside (YMCA) Barn. The show runs from April 8th to July 8th.
For this quarter, we put out a challenge for artwork related to birds. We thought we might not have enough birds to fill the feature wall. Instead we had an amazing response – a collection of 37 bird creations by various members of the group. They are displayed in the Creekside Barn, as well as the library. Stop by for a visit and see if you can find them all!
Enjoy a warm drink and/or lunch from Ken’s Cozy Kitchen while you relax with friends and browse the new artwork!
Our featured artist at the Sudden Valley Clubhouse is Reka Zoltan.
Please visit ValleyArtsGroup.org for more information.
What a great turnout for the VAG Open House at the Barn! Lots of folks in attendance throughout the afternoon to enjoy our exhibit and take the opportunity to meet the Sudden Valley artists behind the pieces on display. It was a wonderful show of support from our community!
Penny had three textile pieces accepted into the Juried Spring Show at the Jansen Art Center in Lynden. They are currently on display in the Jansen Art Center library with other textiles: some silk painting, some nuno felting and some exquisite applique/quilting.
Congratulations, Penny!
The textile exhibit will be on display for two months. The opening party is Thursday, March 2, 6-8pm.
Sudden Valley Art In the Barn 