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WET PAINT WHITE SALE 2012! January 6 thru February 29, 2012
Our annual White Sale has begun, with every tube of white paint on sale & all sheet paper at 20% off Wet Paint's everyday price! Save 40% off MSRP on our just arrived Da Vinci gouache, Golden acrylic & mediums, Gamblin oil & mediums, select Ampersand Museum Series boards (Claybord, Gessobord, Hardbord & Encausticbord), Canson Artist Series pads, and Fluid Watercolor Blocks! Save 50% on Ampersand Artist Series panels, including the new Natural Wood panels, and all Princeton brushes!
Read about these & the range of new products that have just arrived: the revival of the classic Blackwing pencil, the innovative Jack Knife Easel, Wee Scapes, Duroedge safety rulers, Ook, and Jacquard's Lumier 3D.
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VALENTINE MONSTERS! Polymer Clay with Laura Holewa
Saturday, February 11th 11am-2pm
Sculpey, Premo & Cernit polymer clays are oven bake modeling clays that come in a range of colors. They can be formed & blended to make multicolor miniature objects of all kinds: figures, realistic replicas, millefiori beads, jewelry, buttons, magnets & more! When we saw LolaMade Monsters it was love at first sight! Learn some basics about working with Polymer clays & make a loveable little Valentine Monster or heart with Laura Holewa creator of LolaMade Monsters. More info: facebook.com/lolamade. |
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| TRY-IT! NIGHTS AT WET PAINT |
| Thursday nights are TRY-IT! nights at Wet Paint (5:30-7:30pm:
Think of it as a kind of “Open Mic” at Wet Paint, where you can stop by & try your hand at various products or techniques.
Some are loose & informal-- we set the theme & you
explore! Others bring a special guest to share their expertise.
With all of them, you get to try before you buy! |
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TRY-IT! HOLBEIN WATERCOLOR
Thursday, January 12th 5:30-7:30pm
A Japanese watercolor known for its extensive color selection, Holbein produces several unique and very popular colors including Opera (a lovely pink hue) and Shadow Green (a black pigment with a green undertone). Made without the wetting agent ox gall that most other companies add to their water paints, Holbein is a slightly "'slower" paint. We'll have colors out for you to try. |
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TRY-IT! THREE UNCOMMON BLUES BY GOLDEN
Thursday, January 19th 5:30-7:30pm
Last year we hosted a TRY-IT! focusing on Golden acrylics in the red spectrum, and it was a very popular evening. Now, Golden Artist Color offers this unique set focusing on three tubes of heavy body acrylics in blue: Anthraqinone Blue, Smalt Hue, and Cerulean Blue Deep. Stop down & give this set a try. Also, all Golden acrylic paints & mediums (with the exception of High Load) will be on sale throughout January & February, so staff will be happy to tell you about other Golden products as well. |
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TRY-IT! KIRIGAMI: Japanese Paper Cutting with Sheila Asato
Thursday, January 26th 5:30-7:30pm
Kirigami is enjoying a resurgence of popularity these days in Japan. It’s also a meditative & beautiful winter creative activity for Minnesotans! Kirigami designs can be used on cards, lanterns, in book arts and printmaking, as Japanese Mon (family crest) stamps which are cut from erasers and much more! And of course, you can cut snowflakes, using designs from the popular book Snowflakes: Creative Paper Cutouts. We’ve invited Sheila Asato to help us out. Sheila is a book artist & instructor at the MN Center for Book Arts where she also hosts & facilitates The Japan America Arts Forum; a collaboration between MCBA and the Japan America Society of MN. More info on Sheila can be found at her website monkeybridgearts.com |
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TRY-IT! DA VINCI GOUACHE
Thursday, February 2nd 5:30-7:30pm
New at Wet Paint: creamy, highly pigmented Da Vinci gouache. Artists & illustrators have been rediscovering the pleasure of painting with opaque watercolor. Here's your chance to try our newest line from Da Vinci Paint Company in Irvine, CA. It's a high quality gouache offered in economical large-sized 37ml tubes. |
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TRY-IT! BLACK INKS
Thursday, February 9th, 5:30-7:30pm
What better product to try during the White Sale than-- black ink? With so many black inks available, and with so many different working properties, we thought it would be fun to spend the evening exploring a range of black inks. Whether you draw with it or write with it, dip your pen or dip your brush or fill your converter, this is a great opportunity to try different shades of blackness. |
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TRY-IT! BEACH PARTY SKETCH NIGHT with Jennifer Menken &
Friends from the Bell Museum of Natural History
Thursday, February 16th 5:30-7:30pm
It’s our White Sale & even though there’s that white stuff outside, we’re having a Beach Party! Wet Paint is a sponsor of Sketch Nights at the Bell Museum of Natural History! Try out a variety of white & light colored drawing materials on mid-toned & black papers while sketching from sea shells & other light colored specimens from the Bell Museum’s collection. Artist Jennifer Menken, the museum’s Discovery Room & Sketch Night Coordinator, will be on hand with information about the specimens & the Bell Museum Programs. More info on the Bell: bellmuseum.org. |
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TRY-IT! PAPER LAMPSHADES, LANTERNS & VOTIVES
with Jonathan Granlund
Thursday, February 23rd 5:30-7:30pm
“This paper would make a great lamp or lantern” is an often heard comment at the Wet Paint paper counter. Now you can learn how you can do it! Jonathan Granlund is a local artist & construction worker who has worked on everything from pipe organs to pole barns, from timber frames to harpsichords. Jonathan will share his "problem-solving" methods & sculptural sense of structure to demonstrate how to make various lamps, shades, lanterns & votives inspired by our incredible paper selection. Take it from us, Jon’s “can do” attitude & wealth of knowledge is both infectious & inspirational. “Upcycle” that old lamp shade. Or maybe design some light sculptures…. |
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