Category: Blog
The Highwaymen and Albert Earnest Backus
The Highwaymen and Albert Earnest Backus – A Floridian Artist who spent his life paying it forward. Larry, the Director at The Rumriver Art Center, told me about the Highwaymen, which he had discovered by watching the Antique Roadshow. I thought I would look into it and see what they were about. The Highwaymen were a loose… Read More
Pencil Feather Drawing
Watch how Deborah Ann Kirkeeide takes you through the process of a pencil drawing of a feather. Materials you will need is pencil, eraser and drawing paper.
Lakefront Watercolor Project With MaryLeah
MaryLeah Marshall takes you through step by step to create your own summer lakefront watercolor. Materials you will need; 140lb cold pressed watercolor paper, watercolor pans or tubes, watercolor round and flat brush.
Grumpy Cat Project
Tardar Sauce, is a cat and Internet celebrity known for her “grumpy” facial expression, and thus known by the common name Grumpy Cat. Her owner, Tabatha Bundesen, says that her permanently grumpy-looking face is due to an under bite and feline dwarfism. This adorable grumpy cat will be used as our inspiration for our drawing… Read More
Cherry Tree Blossom Watercolor Project with MaryLeah Marshall
Watercolor artist MaryLeah Marshall takes you through layer by layer to create cherry tree blossom. You will need 140lb cold pressed watercolor paper, watercolor paint and around round watercolor
Ring Tailed Lemur Project
The Ring-tailed Lemur is a large strepsirrhine primate and the most recognized lemur due to its long, black and white ringed tail. Like all lemurs it is endemic to the island of Madagascar. It is omnivorous and active exclusively in daylight hours. The Ring-tailed Lemur is highly social, living in groups of up to 30… Read More
What makes a good mentor? What makes a good mentee?
The Rumriver Art center has a call out for our new 55+ Mentorship program. The purpose of the Artist Mentorship Program is to provide older adults who never had the opportunity to find their artistic voice during their youth a chance to explore and find it now. Many older adults had to put their art and creativity… Read More
Postcard Reflections by Angie Renee
“It is not how much we give but how much love we put into giving” Mother Teresa In mid-April I was inspired by a Webinar from Time Slips to create a Zoom class for the community at Rumriver Art Center. This class would inspire the students to create postcards for the folks at Lyngblomsten Senior… Read More
Watercolor Sunset/Sunrise Project with MaryLeah Marshall
Have always wanted to paint a watercolor sunrise or sunset? Let Watercolor Artist MaryLeah Marshall take you step by step in creating your own sunrise or sunset landscape watercolor painting. The materials MaryLeah uses are 140lb Cold Press paper, #10 Round brush, #1/2 flat brush and palette pan watercolor paint.
Inspired by artist Wolf Kahn by Angie Renee, Part 2
Watch Angie create an oil pastel sunrise painting inspired by the work of Wolf Kahn. You will need pastel, watercolor paper or even a piece of cardboard will work, a set of oil pastels, a pencil with an eraser and your imagination.