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 ArtisanDemonstrations
Gallery 26, 26 West Dover St
Monday-Saturday, 12pm-3pm and 5pm-8pm
Sunday, 12pm-3pm
Meet the artisans who create these unique, handmade gifts as they demonstrate their crafts. Demonstrations feature mosaics with gallery owner Jennifer Wagner, basket weaving with Heidi Wetzel, crocheted metal jewelry with Annie Hynes, hammered copper sculpture and torch-made glass beads with Sharon Stockley, collage with Karen Maskell-Peck, and bronze sculpture with Larry Bechtel. See the At-a-Glance schedule for dates and times of each demonstration. Visit working studios and gallery rooms of various artists and photographers. gallery26easton.com 443-521-4084
Learn about the opportunities at the school, see a slide show of instructor artists’ works and enjoy a cool drink. Plein Air-Easton! competition artists are welcome to use our framing station and we will be open late on Thursday night. Tables and tools provided throughout the week. 410-770-8350 www.eastonstudioandschool.com
 Silk Scarf Painting Demo with Rebecca Snure
The Little Yellow Paintbrush,
10 West Dover St
Wednesday, July 21, 2pm
Rebecca Snure learned the French serti method of painting on silk during a stay in Burgundy. It has become her artistic passion, and her inspiration comes from nature, her everyday observations and her surroundings. To make her scarves, wraps, pillows, etc…Rebecca will first draw freehand onto stretched silk, mix dyes and let them fuse with the silk. Then they are set permanently so that her creations can be worn and washed for years to come! Come watch her demo her method in the Little Yellow Paintbrush Gallery! www.thelittleyellowpaintbrush.com 410-980-1166
**Local Color Artists Paint en plein aire
Vicinity of Historic Tidewater Inn, N. Harrison, Goldsborough, Dover, and N. Washington Sts.
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
Throughout the Day . . . Watch invited “Local Color” Artists Painting Outside. Look for Linda Kirvan, Leslie Belloso, Jane Bollman, Karen Wood, Fred Craig, Jim Rehak and Meg Walsh.
 David Grafton, Painting from Memory and Small Sketches
Grafton Galleries, 32 E. Dover St.
Friday, 10am – 12pm
David Grafton, painter and owner of Grafton Galleries will present a demonstration on “Painting from Memory and Small Sketches.” His contemporary art rendering of classical landscape subject matter creates images of universal appeal. Grafton has the insight to pull out the essence in the landscape so that it has its own sense of place. www.graftonart.com 410-822-8922
Kevin Fitzgerald Artist Talk & Book Signing
Troika Gallery, 9 S. Harrison St.
Friday, 11am - 12pm
Don’t miss the opportunity to meet renowned artist, Kevin Fitzgerald, a nationally recognized tonalist whose dedicated collectors span the globe. Fitzgerald’s sought-after, evocative landscapes and moody seascapes have been described as compelling, daunting, complicated, and peaceable. Fitzgerald will talk about plein air painting’s role in the birth of modernism, tracing the development of new studio practices and methods that led to new forms of expression. www.troikagallery.com 410-770-9190
**Debra Huse, "I've been blessed with having the talent of seeing and the passion for painting."
Historic Tidewater Inn, Dover & Harrison Sts.
Friday, 1pm – 3pm
Debra was third place winner of Plein Air-Easton!, 2009 and is the 2010 judge of the "Local Color" Show. She will present a painting demonstration following her announcement of the 2010 “Local Color” award winners. Huse is a member of Oil Painters of America, the National Association of Women Artists, and more. See Debra's bold, luscious and colorful art work at www.debrahuse.com.
Friday, noon – 1pm - Join Judge Debra Huse before her demonstration for the 2010 “Local Color” awards presentation and reception. Light refreshments will be served
Caricatures by Jim Rehack
Talbot County Visual Arts Center, TalbotTown Shopping Center (Washington & Harrison Sts.), under Piazza Italian Market.
Friday, 1pm - 4pm
Jim
demonstrates the popular Art of Caricature Drawing. Stop by and have a caricature created for yourself.
410.819.0966, www.talb-art-center.org
**Stewart White Painting Demonstration
Historic Tidewater Inn, Dover & Harrison Sts.
Friday, 3:30pm – 5:30pm
Stewart White was the Grand Prize winner of Plein Air-Easton! 2009. He is a Baltimore artist, working in oil and watercolor and is a sought after painter of murals and public art as well as residential sized paintings. A member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association, his clients include the Smithsonian and the Naval Academy. Stewart is a recipient of many awards; visit www.stewartwhitestudios.com
**Bethanne
Kinsella
Cople, Palette Knife
Historic Tidewater Inn, Dover & Harrison Sts.
Saturday, 8:30am – 10:30am
A Plein Air-Easton!, 2005 and 2008 winner, Bethanne will present a "palette knife" painting demonstration. Bethanne studied at George Washington University. "She follows the light, both here and abroad to produce paintings in an impressionistic style." Resident of Alexandria,Virginia. Bethanne excels at expression and uses numerous techniques to produce her pieces. www.bethannekinsellacople.com
 Joan Bennett Sculpture Demonstration
South Street Art Gallery,
5 South St.
Saturday, 1pm – 5pm
Joan Belleville Bennett of Oxford, Maryland, is particularly taken with the beauty, power and energetic grace of the horse. She finds that through sculpture, she can show her knowledge of anatomy as well as her love of this very special animal. Please stop by and watch Joan sculpt on the gallery porch.
410-770-8350, www.southstreetartgallery.com
 Live Body Painting by Jessica Gordon
The Little Yellow Paintbrush, 10 West Dover St
Saturday, 2-8pm
Come witness interactive art at its finest, created and presented by artist Jessica Gordon along with the Little Yellow Paintbrush Gallery. Jessica has been working with women of various shapes and sizes, hoping to address the body image issues and insecurities most women experience throughout their lives. On this Saturday night, Jessica Gordon will be recreating famous artistic classics on models that will wander around the gallery. Come be surrounded by art and beauty, in the flesh. www.thelittleyellowpaintbrush.com 410-980-1166
**Rob Barber Painting Demonstration
Historic Tidewater Inn, Dover & Harrison Streets
Saturday, 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Rob was the Grand Prize Winner of Plein Air-Easton! 2007. He is a member of the Plein Air Painters of America & Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters. His work, during a career as an illustrator, can be seen in Natural History Museums. Rob Barber is fascinated with the appearance of things & the continuous state of change in the world. Visit http://www.robertbarber.com.
Edwin Remsberg Workshop, A Photographic View of Agricultural & Working Lands
Gallery 26, 26 W. Dover Street
Saturday, 3pm – 4pm
Edwin Remsberg is a national-award-winning photographer who specializes in documenting agriculture, Maryland’s heritage, and the changing nature of traditional work in a modern economy. In 1987, Life magazine selected his photograph of the Amtrak crash in Chase, Maryland, as one of their “Pictures of the Decade.” An exhibit of his portraits of disabled individuals in the workplace—a project for Goodwill Industries, illustrating the positive effects of rehabilitative employment on self-confidence and pride—is currently traveling the state. Remsberg’s photographs are featured in several books, including Maryland’s Vanishing Lives, Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington DC, and Dishing Up Maryland: 150 Recipes from the Alleghenies to the Chesapeake Bay. Remsberg will sign copies of his books following the workshop. www.remsberg
Carol Lee Thompson, Taken with Talbot County
Troika Gallery, 9 S. Harrison Street
Saturday, 4pm - 6pm
If you didn’t get your fill of watching painters at work during the week, here’s your chance to get a glimpse of the process of making a plein air painting. Carol Lee Thompson will explain and demonstrate how she works to capture the mood of a local landscape. Thompson is our featured artist for July—stop by Troika Gallery and see her stunning work. Her art covers a wide range of subject matter including still-life, landscape, portraiture, equine, and Native American subjects. A Classical Realist trained in the methods of the Old Masters, Thompson uses only fine Belgian linen and panels she prepares herself, hand grinds her pigments with black oil, and makes her own Flemish Medium. She has competed at Plein Air–Easton! for five years.
 “Choosing a Winner” with Judge Jean Stern
Academy Art Museum, 106 South St.
Saturday, 8-9pm
Awards judge, Jean Stern will use his 2010 winning selections to impart what makes a successful plein air painting. This is a prime opportunity for art buyers to see paintings through an expert insider’s eye as Stern discusses how and why he selected the winners. He will also walk patrons through the competition galleries and point out other examples of great plein air paintings throughout the Academy Art Museum. Mr. Stern is a highly-regarded authority on California Impressionism. He has been executive director of the Irvine Museum in Irvine CA since its inception in 1993. He is a sought-after author, curator, lecturer, and teacher.
**Gavin Brooks Painting Demonstration
Historic Tidewater Inn, Dover & Harrison Streets
Sunday, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
Gavin was the Grand Prize winner of Plein Air-Easton, 2005! She paints in the style of the Post Impressionists. A childhood in the outdoors fueled the memory and imagination that impacts her work today. Tonalist colors are her trademark. She paints often on Maryland's Eastern Shore and in Western Maryland. Gavin is represented in galleries nationally. Visit http://www.gavinbrooksstudio.com.
**Presented by the Working Artists Forum (workingartistsforum.com), host of the “Local Color” Show.
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