Art Works Downtown
1337 4th Street, San Rafael
1337 Gallery
The show opens on March 4 and runs through April 22nd
Receptions, there are two, are on March 11th from 5-8 (coincides with their art walk night)
and April 8 from 5-8
The show opens on March 4 and runs through April 22nd
Receptions, there are two, are on March 11th from 5-8 (coincides with their art walk night)
and April 8 from 5-8
We had a nice group this week. After a chatter and a yummy knosh,
Shirley started us off with an “Eye-heart-ewe” transfer card for Mary. She used a zylon blender pen to make the transfers and then colored it in with watercolor.
Janie did a sweet painting of Sue’s house for her.
Mary gave Marjorie her flying bird at sunset from last week and then made a delightful painting of a house sparrow for Rosalind, who will be back next week.
Marjorie did a majestic, albeit small, heron for Joanie. She also did a larger abstract in reds and oranges for Mary and also gave her a frame from envelopes so Mary could move it around and decide which part of the painting she liked best.
Joanie did a painting of one of her coconut masks in bright colors for Avelina.
Annie came for the first time and brought two acrylic gelli prints. They were in purples and yellows with hints of birds. She generously gave one to Janie.
Sue made Heather trees from a picture she had taken in Japan.
Carole gave Shirley the “Beautiful word of the Day”, in Italian. DIPINGERE-to paint.
Avelina created a sweet valentine-y piece for Joanie and Heather did a spring daffodil for her, too. She doesn’t know why this happened but she feels very, very lucky!
If you haven’t gotten a card yet, come next week. They are very special!!!!
Hugs around!
Joanie
Vocabulary Lesson
Carole introduced us to the word "dipingere", which is Italian for "to paint", so I looked up some words for "watercolor" and found the following:
Dutch - waterverf
French - aquarelle
Gaelic - dealbh
German - wasserfarbe
Icelandic - vatnsliti
Italian - acquerello
Maori - peita wai
Mongolian - усан
Samoan - valivai
Spanish - acuarela
Swedish - vattenfärg
Vietnamese - màu nước
Welsh - dyfrlliw
Zulu - ifasitelana lolwazi