New Blog New Look Ouray Colorado

I love the new setting of the blog.  We have a new look for my page from a photo taken looking up the valley.  This is one from a couple of weeks ago just after the first snow fell.  We were on our way home and it was such a great day with the color of Ouray and looking up the valley.  Ouray is known for the jeeping, swimming in the hot springs pool, fourth of july celebrations and now the largest man made ice climbing park.  The Ouray Ice Festival will be January 5-8 this year.  Check out the http://ourayicefestival.com/ for more information on our ice.

In the studio I am working on snow and ice for my jewelry.

That is what is going on!

Ridgway Rendezvous Art & Craft Festival

Working on the new Ridgway Rendezvous Art & Craft Festival 2011 show.  Getting all the applications together so we can get our new jury in to review them and choose our artsits for this year!
What a great time to be in the show and for everyone to look forward for August 13 & 14!

Around the Corner Gallery

New jewelry at Around the Corner Gallery in Montrose, Colorado.  They have the newest in pendants and earrings for spring.  Come check it out!
http://www.montroseart.com/
To buy art or visit our gallery...


Around the Corner Art Gallery

447 East Main Street

Montrose, Colorado 81401

(970) 249-4243

We are open Monday to Saturday, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

working on my wholesale show this spring

Super busy right now working on my wholesale show this spring.   I will be at the Wholesale Crafts show in Las Vegas, Nevada at the start of June.  My art is going well for the show and my earrings and pendants are the centerpiece for this show.  I am so excited to be going.

Here is a photo of my new jewelry sets.  They are poppies and are called "Summer Poppies".  I am working with sterling silver bezel and crystal clear resin over the top of a printed giclee on canvas.  It is a dynamic combo.

Art 101 Basic Drawing Handouts

Art 101: Basic Drawing

by Kentee Suone Pasek

Basic Shapes with Shadow and Layout

Here is the handout I gave out in class for practice:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more on the class visit http://www.weehawkenarts.org/art101_drawing.html

Basic Drawing Information Class Art 101 by Kentee Suone Pasek

I am posting my handout for Art 101 class for

Date: This Wednesday Night (September 28th)

Location: St. John's Church in Ouray.

Time: Class is from  6-8pm. 

Cost: This class is FREE!  (Drop in rates after this wednesday is $28 per class)

Subject: Art 101 Basic Drawing

Here is the handout but remember the best instruction comes from class participation in order to really learn! Really learning how to draw is first seeing, and then doing!

Anything you put on paper is an illusion of what actually exists:
     • All objects have a highlight, medium light, low light, shadow and reflection
     • Objects begin as:
              o Ball
              o Rectangle
              o Cylinder
              o Square
     • Draw what you actually see not what you think you see
     • Make the right choice of lines, shadows, and highlights.
     • Composition choice of how you place an object on a piece of paper is
         just as important as the shape itself.

Keep Going:
     • Take time to finish a picture from start to finish
     • Remember the more you work on the picture the better it is.
     • If something is not working stand back and squint at the object you are
          drawing and then at your work.
     • Get another opinion.

Shadows:
     • Deep dark black shadows will keep your object on your surface.
     • Make sure you keep the shadows deep and ground an object.
     • Look for reflective shadows as well.

Highlights
     • Super light spot helps shape the object
     • A lighter highlight will help around the super light spot.
     • Highlights are important to help shape the object.

Direction of your pencil
     • The direction you shade needs to be the direction of your object.
     • Cross hatch is a good shadow technique
     • Make each pencil direction count!
     • Lighter directions of your pencil can make sure your object seems round
         and not flat.

3D into 2D
     • Think how you can make this 3D object 2D. Where is the curves, the
          shadows, the highlights to make this object round?
     • How do you take something and make it the right shape. Sometimes
          what you see will just be weird on paper. Think about your painting
          and how you begin to lay it out on the paper. Then think “Is this a
          shape others will understand?”

Layout or Composition
     • What is the best way to take what I want to paint and make it “real”
           and “understandable”?
     • Is my composition of what I want to paint make since to me? To others?
     • What do I really want to focus on in this painting?
     • What do I want to feel?
     • Others to see?
     • What is my voice?
     • Where is my object on the canvas?
     • Does my Negative Space make an interesting shape?
     • Does my Positive Space make an interesting shape?

Jewelry Giclees!

Here is the Gerber Daisy Big Blue Necklace on Stirling Silver Neckring.  The image is a canvas Giclee printed with pigment ink.

Newest Oil Painting Jewlery Line

I have had such a busy summer!  First of all I took on being the Creative Director for the Ridgway Rendezvous Art and Craft Festival, as well as doing a booth at the RR Festival along with an art booth at the Telluride Jazz Festival and an art booth at Phish Telluride Concert as well.  Did I say all three where the same weekend?  Okay so that was a little crazy but what came out of it was a new Jewelry Line!

I have taken my Giclees on canvas, shrunk them down and made jewelry out of them this summer.  I will get photos and publish them as well.  These are all of my flower oils which I have hand made into beautiful necklaces, earrings, and bracelets as well.  They were a hit at all three shows and sold well.

I currently have them at the Wildflower Boutique in Ouray, Colorado as well as Around the Corner Gallery in Montrose, Colorado!  You have to go and check them out!

So the story behind the Jewelry is quite fun and goes like this:
I had this thought that I might not sell as well to the Phish crowd so I was wondering how to turn my artwork into something I could sell for a different crowd.  I knew this crowd would be different than the average Art Show patron and I spent hours thinking of how this would work for me.  I thought that Jewelry might work for where I needed to be for this show.  I came up with the idea and then thought "this could go really well or really bad" but I trudged on.

I printed out a small Giclee on paper and did not like the feel so I went back and printed a Giclee on canvas.  That was so much better.  I found a casting resin on-line, ordered it and tried to free form the necklaces.  I was not happy with the professionalism of the outcome so I scratched that idea and then found the solution of a mini frame of silver around the necklace.  I then hand poured the resin and made a necklace that would work well with my line of Original Artwork.

So I now have a series of handmade jewelry that are giclees on canvas!  You can wear a mini painting!  It is fantastic!  It worked!  Yea!

Around the Corner Gallery in Montrose

The Around the Corner Gallery had asked me to be the guest artist for April.  Guess what?  When I went in to pick up my art they asked me to stay on as an artist!  So now my artwork is at Around the Corner Gallery in Montrose.  The owners Patt and Bob are wonderful people and the gallery is the best!  Thank you!
Come down and see my work.

Around the Corner Gallery: Guest Artist for April

I am the guest artist for the month of April at Around the Corner Gallery!
You are invited to:
Around the Corner Art Gallery
447 East Main Street
Montrose, CO 81401
(970) 249-4243
montroseart.com‎
Monday-Saturday 10:20-5:30.

Special Opening during Art Walk
April 2nd from 6-8
The Guest Artist Show runs the month of April.

I have my large 36x36 oil on canvas paintings as well as my giclee limited edition reproductions and greeting cards for sale.

New to this show first time on display the paint still wet so to speak are: "Poppy Summer" 36x36 oil on canvas, "Water Lily Pads" 24x36 oil on canvas, "Daffodil" 14x11 acrylic on canvas, and "Columbine Rocky Mountain" 16x20 oil on canvas.

The giclees are all on canvas and are hand pulled by me from beginning to end.
Web-site at www.kentee.com
Blog: http://kenteesuonepasek.blogspot.com/