Sunday, December 6, 2015

Review of new medium by Irina Rieppi

Dear Artists, 

Let me share with you an interesting wet-medium which can work as watercolor: water-soluble graphite ArtGraf (by Portuguese producer Viarco).

I discovered it recently during one of the demos at Binders and here are the reasons why I found it a very interesting medium:
  •       Beautiful earth color palette
  •       You can take a looooot of pigment on a brush and make really thick strokes
  •       It can be lifted up from paper with an eraser once it’s completely dry
  •       Most of pigments granulate beautifully on cold press and torchon paper
  •       You can combine both techniques, usual pencil drawing and watercolor, using just one graphite disk
I think all these make it a fantastic instrument for sketching!

Here are the video demos on how to use it: 


Saturday, November 21, 2015

Holiday Greetings from the Friday Fanatics. We've started our Christmas cards. Have you?


 Dave Kaplan's Yuletide Carols Being Sung by a Choir.


 Patsy Cannon's watercolor Christmas bear.

Jane Springfield's oil-in-progress -- Patagonia Christmas Penguin.

Friday Fanatics share some recent work from our November 20 session.



 Clyde Draughon paints a reenactment.

 Ujjagar Wassan painted on a recent cruise.

Patsy Cannon (coached by Dave Kaplan) did her first oil painting.

Friday, August 14, 2015

You are never too young or too old to paint with the Friday Fanatics

This week Erik Georges, student member, painted with us one more time before he leaves for his freshman year at college. Jerry Solomon, lifetime member (who just celebrated his 95th birthday), painted with us like he does every week.

Monday, March 2, 2015

Friday Fanatics Are Quite Productive on Feb 27

Serious painting was accomplished last Friday. Here are some of the results. We also enjoyed learning from an art video while we ate lunch.

 By Adele. Is it finished?

 Clyde paints a ship ...

 ...and a ferry?

 Deanna takes a break under a shady tree.

 Patsy tackles a baby.

And Sharon just contemplates cleaning her palette.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

You are invited to Faces and Places

You are invited to a reception featuring three Friday Fanatics: Betsy Cozine, Mickey McConnell and me plus AAC member Jan Ross.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

The AAC Friday Fanatics are planning an exhibit at the Buckhead Library to hang May 23- June 30, 2015. Thirty artists have signed on to what will be an outstanding show. Dave Kaplan, show chair, will give more details that will be published here. Stay tuned.

This is a watercolor painting by Dave on watercolor canvas.



Friday, February 20, we watched a John Lovett video which inspired Dave Kaplan and Deanna Jaugstetter to challenge each other to a 15-minute painting. They then swapped their final pieces.