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Demo & Dialogue:
a joint venture between MEININGER ART SUPPLY
& Art Students League of Denver

Andi Mascareñas
Figurative Clay Sculpture
Saturday | February 20 | 1-3pm
Denver store only. No registration.
Limited seating. FREE!

Sculpture by Andi Mascareñas: A Village Greeting ©

Mascareñas' classical sculptures are created from emotion and intuition and have been featured in Southwest Art and Art Talk magazines. "Capturing the essences is what challenges me creatively," she explains. She is represented locally by SmithKlein Gallery, Evergreen Fine Art Gallery and Saks Fine Art Gallery. Click here for a complete Demo & Dialogue schedule.

Lecture & Demo:

Mary Morrison
Golden Working Artist
Saturday | February 27 | 1-3pm
Boulder store only. No registration. Limited seating. FREE!

Painting by Mary Morrison: Plum Thicket ©

Extensive information about Golden acrylic paints, gels and mediums is presented, including the new OPEN acrylics. Learn about the new Digital Mixed Media grounds. You will have an opportunity to feel how paints and gels mix together, how to extend your paint, how to create unique textures and surfaces. Artists of all levels will come away with fresh, new insights. Click here for more information about this event.

Free with purchase

Buy 6 tubes of Golden OPEN Acylic Paint and get a Free Intro Kit* containing 2 fl. oz. OPEN Acrylic Gel (Gloss), 1/2 fl. oz. OPEN Thinner, 1 fl. oz. OPEN Acrylic Medium (Gloss) and an introductory DVD.

Golden OPEN Acrylics have a remarkably relaxed working property that facilitates blending, softening, shading, glazing and fine detail. The unique characteristics of OPEN Acrylics allow them to be used with natural fiber brushes and for a range of techniques including portraiture, plein air painting, monoprinting and screenprinting.

All Golden paint, mediums and sets are on sale for 40% OFF LIST PRICE through 2/21/2010.

*While supplies last. Excludes set purchases. Limit one per customer per retail purchase. Available at the registers at time of purchase.

For more information about Golden OPEN Acrylic, click here.

Faber-Castell announces the launch of their new interactive website. Spend some time "In the Studio" and get inspired by videos featuring professional artists, or upload your own artwork and inspire others. Learn interesting tips and techniques and stay up to date on upcoming workshops and new products.

Visit artgraphic.fabercastell.com/

Around the Towns

Used: Mixed Media, Recycled Exhibit, through February 24.
Kids Artist Trading Cards Workshop, on Saturday, February 6. To register, click here and select Youth and Teen Classes under Class Type or Shoepke Erin under Instructor and click on search.
Go to the Art Students League of Denver website for more information on exhibits, classes and workshops.

Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design offers a year-round schedule of Continuing Education courses for high school students, art educators, professionals and aspiring professionals.  Visit www.rmcad.edu for more information and click on “Continuing Education”.

The University of Colorado Museum in Boulder, mission is to contribute to knowledge of the natural world and humanities through research, teaching and public education. Two exhibits currently showing, Navajo Weaving: Diamonds, Dreams, Landscapes and Weaving Memory: Monotypes by Melanie Yazzie explore the designs and dreams of weavers who lived primarily in the expansive landscape of the desert southwest.

Seeing Stories at I.D.E.A., Colorado College InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts in Colorado Springs, through March 27. Visual storytelling featuring Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime paintings by American self-taught artists Henry Darger and Mose Tolliver, linocut prints by Namibian artist John Muafangegjo and 19th Century ledger drawings by Northern Cheyenne artists.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, just opened several new exhibits featuring Michael Borremans, Samuel Beckett, Eric & Heather ChanSchatz, Lorraine O'Grady, A.G. Rizzoli and William Stockman. You can experience Freeness with MCA DENVER's Penny Saturday each first Saturday of every month for only one cent!

Strathmore Greener Options for Valentine's Day Cards
Show some love with these beautifully recycled cards from Strathmore Artist Papers. Great for making your own Valentines for the ones you love. Ideal for use with stamps, pen and ink, block prints, collage and much more. Click here to view and purchase.

Gift Cards
Express your love by giving a gift they will love. Purchase a Meininger gift card online.

Love your Memories,
and share them with
the ones you love…

Creating Memory Books
Memories should not be scattered about in dresser drawers or stuffed into shoeboxes. They are meant to be shared and enjoyed. If the photos are not labeled we often forget the specifics of the event or the participants. How sad it is to end up with a box of life’s keepsakes and not know the stories behind them.

Scrapbooks, also called memory books, provide peace of mind knowing that you will leave your loved ones an organized treasure of life. Using the proper techniques will allow your cherished memories to be kept and preserved for long-term storage. New developments in acid-free paper and permanent markers help create archival albums that will prove valuable treasures to share with succeeding generations. In fact, sticky page photo albums cause premature fading and pocket page albums can release gases that cause rapid deterioration.

The Meaning of Archival Supplies
Using archival-quality materials will help preserve your memories. Archival does not necessarily mean that materials are acid-neutral or acid-free. In fact paper, because of its composition, is truly the only type of substance that can be referred to as having an acid level. Therefore, only paper products can be referred to as being acid-free. Because your photos and other memorabilia will be in contact with the paper in a scrapbook for a very long time, acid-free pages or sheet protectors are essential. When considering your other supplies, quality is what is most important.

It’s Not Work – It’s Fun!
Part of the fun of creating memory albums is decorating the pages. This can be done very simply with just photo corners, a permanent marking pen and your pictures or you can acquire a bevy of clever items and get really creative. Fanciful edged scissors and colored papers are used to create fun borders around photos and small decorative shapes are produced easily with paper punches. Rubber stamps can be used to embellish a page of photos by repeating one design as a border or as a single bold image. Colorful stickers are easy and fun to use and are often geared toward popular photo book themes such as weddings, holidays vacations and babies. Remember, events in the photos are more identifiable and memorable when titled – assorted archival-quality marking pens are essential.

Meininger Art Supply has a great selection of photo/scrapbook albums, such as the Kolo Newport series shown here and available online and archival-quality marking pens like Prismacolor Brush Tip and Chisel Tip Markers; Gelly Roll Pens and Pigma Micron Pens.