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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Upcoming PAL Demos!

June 26, 2012: Georgina Calanderia Wells will demo on Maritime in Watercolours. She is a member of the American Society of Maritime Artists. Please come and see her demo. All are welcome.
7:00 P.M.—Public Welcome
Cottesmore Retirement Center
2909 14th Ave NW, Gig Harbor 98335

September 25, 2012: Beverly Peterson will demo the "Way of the Frame". Her demo will be a humorous and yet serious look at framing your art works. She demonstrates how to frame in the most economical ways. Join us!

Upcoming PAL Events:

Gig Harbor Summer Art Festival July 21-22, 2012, in Beautiful downtown Gig Harbor, WA'

PAL Regional Art Show: Deadline for entry is May 31, 2012. See the Peninsula Art League web site for details.
At the May 22, 2012 PAL meeting, we presented the Peninsula Art League Poster Competition winners with their awards. Natalie Burke is shown here receiving the 1st place award. 1st place winner receives a $100.00 award, and the poster submitted is used for all PAL announcement and memorabilia for the Annual July Summer Art Festival of Gig Harbor. Other winners include 2nd place Naomi Porter, 3rd place Kaitlyn Sanders, Honorable Mention Danielle Buckell, and the winner's High School instructor, Karen Beck. Thank you great future artists!


May 22, 2012 PAL demo news. We had artist Jacqui Beck demo her acrylic style. Her emphasis was on the "feel" of the work as opposed to the technical side. Jacqui's work uses a lot of under painting and texture. She uses a lot of mixed media for her lovely creations, with vivid colours, to brighten anyone's day. Jacqui shared her means of keeping acrylic paints from drying out in her paint box and on her palette. Thank you Jacqui!
April 24, 2012, David Gray shared his style for Oil Painting with PAL. His work has the feel of the old Dutch masters, capturing that timeless lighting.

Virginia Alvarez, Lynda Desmarteau and Anne Knapp attended a pastel workshop on a PAL Scholarship. In March, they shared their experiences with PAL. Each brought some different insights as to what they learned back to PAL. Here are some images from that Demo.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Fiber Art Demp

Finally found the right way to post the photos here. Some of these are great. We had SO MUCH FUN!




Bienhong Calligraphy Demo



Here's an example of Bienhong's Calligraphy from the Demo she gave at the PAL meeting on February28, 2012

This was a fascinating look into Chinese culture and art.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Artist Bienhong from China giving a demonstration of her Chinese Caligraphy to the Peninsula Art League.

Peninsula Art League Demos March - May 2012

Dates are :
March 27, April 24, and May 22.

March is : "Gems from Many Workshops" PAL members report on their Scholarship activities.
April is : David Gray "Oil Painting"
May is : Jacqui Beck "Acrylic and Mixed Media"