In-Store DEMO - Free!

Dynamic Color Mixing with
Acrylic Specialty Colors - Fee $7 (Credited)
Friday, September 5, 2:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Your $7 registration fee is refunded as a credit toward any purchase on the day of the demo.

Amsterdam Acrylics offer artists a versatile range of properties ideal for exploring a wide variety of painting and color techniques. This flexibility expands even further with the addition of specialty pigments like metallic and pearl colors—materials that often remain a mystery to many artists.

Join Royal Talens Art Education Director Jeff Olson for a deep dive into the unique characteristics and creative potential of these specialty pigments. Discover how Amsterdam® Pearl & Metallic Specialty Acrylics can be blended with traditional acrylics to create rich, layered, and sophisticated color effects.

Topics will include:
• Acrylic History, Composition and Working Properties
• Introduction to Specialty Pigments
• Color Mixing – Creating secondary colors using specialty pigments
• Free Sample for all participants!

Jeff is the Art Education Director for Royal Talens North America. He holds a BA and MFA in painting and drawing. He has more than a decade of college and university teaching experience in studio art, and more than twenty years in the art material industry with product expertise in a variety of mediums; Olson’s lectures deliver meaningful insights into the history, development, and application of artists’ materials.

Learn more about Jeff: jeffolson-art.com

And remember that we will have lots of one-day sales on the day of the demonstration!

Enter the free raffle—over $100 worth of supplies will be given away!

PARKING Car parking will not be available in the Lenz Arts parking lot. Free parking can be found either behind the lawyer's office across the street or on the streets around Holy Cross Church. There are metered spaces nearby as well.

REGISTRATION:
Important! You must register to attend!
• All seating will be reserved and limited.
• Please answer the two questions, then use the "Buy Now" link below to register. If you have trouble, call us and we can take your credit card registration over the phone.

General Pencil - "You Want Me to Do WHAT with That Pencil?" - Fee $7 (Credited)
Saturday, September 20, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Your $7 registration fee is refunded as a credit toward any purchase on the day of the demo.

General Pencil presents a fun afternoon of “Painting with Pencils” with Artist and Demonstrator Kathi Hanson!

Exciting pencil art contains the "unexpected" mark! After many years of experimentation, Kathi has mastered how to manipulate all type pencil pigments in non-traditional ways to create additional mood, movement, texture, dimension, detail, and of course, the "unexpected” mark! Techniques such as how to grate, pounce, rock, roll, and burnish (all types) of pencil pigment will be demonstrated as well as how you can paint with pencils. These techniques can be mastered by artists of all age levels and abilities and once implemented will take their artwork to the next level.

Drawing/painting tools included. Attendees will get to keep key basic materials!

Kathi Hanson has been teaching workshops across the U.S.A. and Canada for the past thirty years. She is known for her vast knowledge of subject matter and unique special effect techniques in multiple mediums. Her workshops are very popular due to her creative, informative, teaching style and the personal attention she gives to each student.

Kathi has won several awards for her work, has published over 75 art related articles in national art magazines, collaborated/created artwork for several Art Technique books on the market, and has created a variety of instructional painting technique DVD’s available through websites and local art stores.

For the past ten years Kathi has also spent a portion of each year on the road sharing her varied art techniques with college students in Foundations, Sequential, Painting and Illustration departments and conducting district art teacher PD (professional development) workshops.

Learn more about Kathi: kathihanson.com

And remember that we will have lots of one-day sales on the day of the demonstration!

Please stop by the store or sign up for our demo reminder e-mail list online!