31 Jan ARTeNews – February 2020
Ron’s Palette
February
I coached little league baseball in Santa Fe for years when all my kids were of age. They all grew up as kids do, flew the nest and somehow I find myself looking in the mirror at sixty years old. I have always believed in the use it or lose it philosophy and now I find myself blessed with eight grandkids. I guess that’s why coaching my grandkids on the Artisan Diamondbacks is a no brainer this year (coach pitch).
Little league has been a time marker in my life because my dad was my little league coach for a couple years when I was around nine. He was a very busy civil engineer with his own business, worked all the time and this was one of the special things we shared together…and is still is one of the best memories in my life.
Formerly a lawyer, Paul Grace served for many years as president of Santa Fe Little League, building it up by organizing and funding the team before his sudden passing in 2017. Paul was a force and the glue of the team and could be often found picking weeds from the playing fields, cleaning restrooms and manning concession stands when the need arose…he did it all. When Paul left there was a huge hole in the organization and talk of closing down the league. My son in law, Jared Tafoya stepped as the new interim president and saved the league from collapsing. Currently local policeman Aaron Ortiz, his wife Victoria and a bunch of real dedicated and cool people are taking Santa Fe little league to new levels. Getting kids off screens, off the couch, running around bases, swinging bats, learning to be a team, getting out in the sun, sharing an after game snack…how cool is that…we really can’t afford to lose this. If nothing else the kids are all getting vitamin D.
Artisan has been a sponsor of the team for over 18 years. It really is probably one of the best $500 we’ve invested to have all these cute little kids with smiles on their faces running around bases…with shirts proudly saying Artisan Diamondbacks imprinted on them. For $500 you can sponsor a team…they need bats, balls and uniforms. Or donate $50 to sponsor a kid to play. Or if want to be part of the action then volunteer as a coach or umpire…that would be awesome! If you can encourage just one kid to sign up that would be great…please help if you can….Santa Fe Little League baseball is a really good thing…Santa Fe needs it…or just come to a game…really…when is the last time you had a good frito pie or hot dog for a good cause? Time to step up to the plate!
Namaste,
Ron
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Artist of the Month
Madeleine Durham
Madeleine Durham is a painter of unique abstracts, landscapes, and floral mandalas. A native of New Mexico, she comes to painting by way of her work as an archival paper designer for fine bookbinders. Madeleine has developed a new painting process that has a tranquil quality and is strikingly unique. Her papers are in private and public collections around the world including the archival paper archives at the MET.
Madeleine Durham is a New Mexico native and comes from a family of artists, musicians, and philosophers. She combines her background in these fields to express her colorful and fluid style of abstraction. She has been artistically inclined her entire life. Her highly successful bead store, Beauty and the Beads, was internationally known. Following her creative vision she closed the business and returned to art school to earn her Masters with an emphasis in Book Arts. She teaches classes and workshops from her studio at home in Santa Fe.
Website: madeleinedurham.com
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Things have been in full-swing over at the Santa Fe ArtSpot already and we are plenty excited about all the workshops we booked for February!
Monday, February 3rd, Learn to Paint a Chicken in Oils with Karen Whitmore. This popular 3 hour workshop has a few seats open with all materials included in this $99 price. In this workshop learn to paint a chicken or a rooster!
Friday, February 7th, we welcome another Mini Class – Essentials of PanPastel and Frottage Techniques, $10, hosted by PanPastel and taught by Catherine Trapani. Trapani is a mixed media artist working in cold wax, encaustic and printmaking – combining and traversing media – defying the rules and creating innovative and personalized work. The $10 ticket becomes a store-credit for use the same day – max 12 people.
Monday, February 10th, Learn to Paint a Horse in Oils with Karen Whitmore. This popular 3 hour workshop has a few seats open with all materials included in this $99 price. In this workshop learn to paint a horse – all reference materials are included – don’t miss this class!
Valentine’s Day – ask a friend to join you! Friday, February 14th, Anita Louise West returns with her multi-session workshop – Three Fridays, $110. Anita’s classes are growing in popularity as she continues these three hour working sessions. These classes are beginner friendly and students working in any media should sign-up. Chances are if there’s something you want to learn – Anita can teach you! Enjoy a new demo each week.
On Saturday, February 15th, Artisan is hosting an intensive 3-hour session teaching you everything you need to know about Flashe Vinyl Paints with Sheila Miles, $105 all mat. incl. Flashe is an extra fine, vinyl-based professional grade of matte permanent color. It offers optical characteristics similar to gouache, old tempera paints and primitive painting grounds – the result is a matte, velvety and opaque finish. It is extremely highly pigmented and it works on any surface. This class provides jars of paint to share and everyone will work on a 12” x 16” canvas board.
Monday, February 17th, This popular 3 hour workshop is hosting a special workshop where you can Learn Paint an Animal of Your Choice with Karen Whitmore $99 – all materials are included. Be prepared to transport a wet oil painting home with you at the end of this session. Students really enjoy the positive and encouraging environment while learning everything about the oil process itself – beginner friendly!
Friday, February 21st starting at 2PM Lynne Windsor will be teaching a three-hour session where you will Learn to Paint a Bird in Oils, $99, all mat. incl. This workshop will have reference photos provided by the instructor and if you have a favorite bird to paint – then bring your own! Wear your painting clothes and be ready to transport your painting home, after the class.
Saturday, February 22nd, Richard Guzman will host a six hour workshop, 5 Keys to Successful Alla Prima Painting, $120, BYOM. This workshop teaches you to refine your seeing – Throughout the day you will be immersed in studying unity – the first and most important design principle. Learn about value and temperature; two properties that most strongly determine a paintings form. You will sharpen your sensitivities to the non-technical aspects of feeling and working with your peripheral vision. This class is for experienced students, intermediate to advanced and beyond. Max 12
Saturday, February 29th, Painting with Matisse hosted by Annie O’Brien Gonzales, $120 BYOM. In this workshop with Annie O’Brien Gonzales, we focus on the elements of master French Fauvist painter Henri Matisse’s painting style. For the first painting, we will work from one of Matisse’s celebrated paintings to learn more about the elements emphasized—flattened space, pattern, color and intimate interiors. Discussions will focus on learning from master painters and incorporating elements to create your own unique style.
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Stuff Around The Store
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Artisan carries a lot of unique and/or one of a kind items. Here is one you might find interesting.
All Made by Oblation Papers & Press – Deckled Notes
Large Heart Cream – 5 x 7 inch cream handmade recycled cotton paper heart with natural deckled edges – packaged with single kraft envelope and in clear sleeve
>>>love is in the air—and in the water in our papermaking vats as we fashion these sweet hearts one at a time by hand. deckled edges add to the naturally beautiful shape and are a remnant from the papermaking process.
Small Heart Cream – 3 ½ x 5 inch white handmade recycled cotton paper heart with natural deckled edges – packaged with single kraft envelope and in clear sleeve
>>>love is in the air—and in the water in our papermaking vats as we fashion these sweet hearts one at a time by hand. deckled edges add to the naturally beautiful shape and are a remnant from the papermaking process.
Petite Heart Cream – 3 x 3 inch cream handmade recycled cotton paper heart – packaged with glassine envelope and in clear sleeve
>>>delightful, petite handmade hearts, perfect for adding an extra bit of love! tuck them into a lunch bag, include them with a wrapped present, or slip them into a birthday card as a small gift.
Handmade cotton paper using wind power and recycled fibers from the garment industry. Oblation makes their handmade paper in house using recycled cotton remnants from the garment industry. They charge vats with water and cotton fibers, draw molds and deckles through this slurry nearly 70 times per day, then drain, deposit (couch) onto lightweight felts, and press the post of wet sheets under hydraulic pressure. They then air dry these sheets overnight and pull them from the felts each morning into deckled stacks of rough-edged handmade paper, with stunning surface texture.
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Excerpt from Santa Fe New Mexican…
Artist Elias Rivera, whose color-driven figurative pieces captured the spirit of people engaging in everyday activities, died this December at his home in Santa Fe. He was 82. His wife, artist Susan Contreras, said the painter died of ailments related to Parkinson’s disease.
Rivera, who was born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican parents in April 1937, focused in his early days on the dark realities of the urban world around him — the shop girls and showgirls struggling to make a living, the people riding the subways, men lounging around in shadowed bars and cafes, riots in the streets. Later, after moving to Santa Fe in 1982, bright colors enveloped his work as he pictorially told the story of artists in Santa Fe, a day at the market in Guatemala and religious festivities in Mexico.
“It was all about composition, all about showing the nuances of being human,” his wife said of Rivera’s oil-on-canvas works. He called his paintings “his children,” she said.
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CUSTOM CANVAS STRETCHING
Artisan provides custom canvas stretching of any size. We stretch primed or unprimed, medium, heavy or aluminum bars, cotton or linen.
The canvas on the left is 100” X 144“
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