From Teresa Tamfer:
The Batavia Society of Artists is having a virtual hands-on watercolor art demonstration by artist Shauna Blake at 7 p.m. on Tuesday May 11th.
Members will get an email with sign-in info.
There is a $5 fee for nonmembers and they need to go to our Facebook page to sign up.
To participate in this hands-on demo on painting with watercolors you will need:
- Watercolors
- Watercolor brushes -- (Blake uses mostly rounds size 4, 6 & 8)
- Watercolor paper
- Board or plastic mat to tape watercolor paper down
- Masking tape
- Pencil
About Shauna Blake, Artist
She paints in a wide variety of mediums including, watercolors, acrylics, pen and ink, and silk dyes.
In 1994 she graduated from The Art Institute of Pittsburgh with a major in Graphic Design and Illustration.
She worked in the Graphic Design field for seven years before joining her husband, Brendan, in his glass art business in 2001. Here she expanded her art by studying and creating lampwork glass beads.
Shauna currently sells her hand painted silk scarves, silk ribbons and art prints worldwide on her website -- www.QuintessenceSilk.com -- and on the popular online Etsy handmade crafts site.
Top image, submitted by artist Shauna Blake, is her whimsical rendering of the early spring fuzzy catkins of the genus Salix, aka pussy willows.
