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10/31/2016

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The DaVinci Artists Gallery was re-opened on September 1, 2016, after flood remediation and reconstruction. The gallery is up and running, and the artists are anxious to see you. Join us for fine art, wine and refreshments on the SECOND SATURDAY of November from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm. That date is November 12. The gallery will be open all day for your convenience. Regular gallery hours are now Friday and Saturday, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm.
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We welcome NEW ARTISTS Elizabeth Browning, Linda Jarnagin, and José Reyes to the DaVinci Artists Gallery. Click on Artists in the top menu to view a few of their fine art works.
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Paint Pears with Roberta Sajda at DaVinci de Vino

6/27/2016

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This Thursday, June 30, Roberta Sajda will be painting PEARS! Please help by sending invitations to all your friends.
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The above painting is midway through the process. From there Roberta will add touches of color to the fruit and background. A mere $35 covers all your supplies and your own DaVinci apron. BYOB and a smile. All levels of experience are welcome. No experience? NO Problem!
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An image from the June 23 sunflower class held to raise funds to replace gallery equipment damaged in the April 2016 flood. We will be holding a fund raiser painting class each Thursday night. Go to our website Home page for info, dates, times. Register for a class at our website store. www.davinciartistsgallery.com

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New Art Studio for Melissa Farrell

6/24/2016

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Looking from the Wet Studio into the Dry Studio.
Melissa Farrell joined DaVinci Artists Gallery when she retired in 2008 and has been working diligently on her art ever since. She enjoys working with a variety of media including Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Photography, Digital Graphics, Printmaking, and occasionally Jewelry.

Melissa recently moved into a new art studio that  is any artist's dream. The new studio is really two studios in one, including a wet studio, dry studio, plenty of storage areas, and a dark room.


Wet Studio: Areas to paint, work in sculpture (clay, wood, metal), and create jewelry.

Dry Studio: Areas to draw, work in Digital Graphics, and do Printmaking.

Both studios have storage areas for the different media including both vertical and flat files. There is even a half-bath that can double as a Dark Room.

Melissa Farrell's work can be found in private collections all over the United States and Europe. View more of Melissa's artworks here.
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Roberta Sajda Summer Art Classes

6/17/2016

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Roberta Sajda continues to explore life through watercolor this summer. After retiring from teaching in Klein she turned her energies to her own path as an artist. She enjoys portraits and regularly does commissions of loved ones. Her photography, sculpture, drawing and paintings have won countless awards. This July she will be teaching on Tuesdays from 1-3:30 in her studio. She can be reached at rodon@flash.net

​View additional paintings by Roberta Sajda here.
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DaVinci Involvement in Community

6/10/2016

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Recently, forty energetic and inquisitive honor art students and their teachers from Magnolia West High School stopped by the Art Studios for a symposium on the role of Da Vinci Gallery in the community and in an artist’s life.
 
Hilda Rueda,Visual Artist, and Sande Larson, Potter, demonstrated how their studios worked while giving the students information on the life of the artist.
 
The students were split into two groups and spent an hour with each artist. Questions flowed from a variety of perspectives, befitting a group of budding artists, after which each student created a design on a tile, using a live model, with Hilda and manipulated a lump of clay to create a small sculpture, mask or face with Sande.
The students were open and receptive and from their involvement and the pieces they created, we will be seeing beautiful works of art from this next generation of artists.

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New Watercolor Art by Reva Power

6/2/2016

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Reva Power has announced three new watercolor paintings with the first, center below, winning 2nd place in the Woodlands Art League Spring 2016 contest.
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Reva competes locally, nationally and internationally.  She has taken numerous first, second and third place ribbons through WAS-H and the various LSAG leagues. She has received many awards including Best of Show in LSAG, TAL, Best Watercolor in Northwest Art League and Livingston Art League. She has won ribbons in the WAS-H International Exhibit & their Membership Show.
Click here
to learn more about Reva Power.
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Barbara Cooledge, Pastel Artist

5/25/2016

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Chairs of the Past, May 2016.

Pastel on board; 23 1/2" high x 19" wide, dimensions include the frame.

Location, Varner-Hogg Plantation,
Brazoria County.

Chairs of the Past will be on display at the re-opening of the DaVinci Artists Gallery along with Liendo Oaks (of the same size) and other landscapes.

Visit Barbara's page here to view Liendo Oaks.
When asked about her inspiration for this painting, Barbara answered, "The chairs made me think about the people who lived and worked there. This scene was at one of the side buildings. In my younger days, I was very drawn to painting tea cups, shoes and chairs. Only recently did it occur to me that those objects belonged to someone who was missing. The sets had a lonely feel, but I could never put my finger on the meaning. My paintings for the most part are done from photographs I have taken."

The Work in Progress

Barbara Cooledge earned her B.F.A. in painting and printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1981, and she earned her M.F.A. in painting from Boston University in 1986. For her thesis exhibition, Barbara created large scale nonobjective and expressionistic work. She also did etching and intaglio.

Click to learn more about Barbara Cooledge at the website link below.
Art by Cooledge

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Mike Williams, Metal Master

5/18/2016

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Mike Williams is creating a custom artwork security gate for a client's doorway. Feast your eyes on a visual treat as Mike shows us the work in progress.
Mike Williams creates mostly 3d sculptural works and wall hanging plants, fish and wildlife, along with some abstracts, some functional knives, axes and spears. Mike is a multi-talented man and when asked about his other interests, he responded, "I hunt with compound bow, blackpowder and shotgun; I fish mostly freshwater and some saltwater; I study and teach Shin Shin Jujitsu."


​Follow Mike Williams on Facebook to view more of his metal works.
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In the Meantime ...

5/15/2016

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The Gallery was wet from floor to ceiling.
Mold remediation continues while we wait for insurance adjusters to do whatever it is that they do. The DaVinci Artists are anxious to be back in the Gallery, awaiting the re-opening and the next artists' reception. I can tell you that the reopening will not happen on June 3 as we had hoped. Now we are hoping to be open in July.

Every cloud has a silver lining, so it is said, and if this cloud has a silver lining it will be that the DaVinci Artists are using this time to create new works for the future grand re-opening of The DaVinci Artists Gallery in Tomball.

Looking toward that event, I will be sharing some of the new works by the DaVinci Artists over the next few days and weeks. I hope you will follow the blog and stay abreast of new works and be prepared to see new works in person at our next First Friday reception (date to be announced).

​Stay tuned to the blog for photos of the newest metal works of Mike Williams.
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Into each life, some rain must fall.

5/1/2016

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The bad news is that the DaVinci Artists Gallery flooded from above during the April storms. The ceiling, walls, and floor are in remediation and rebuild. The wall cabinets and pedestals took on water and had to be removed. Computers, printers, and digital equipment were waterlogged and damaged since they were in the direct path of ceiling leaks. All in all, the water damage was much worse than we initially thought.

Unknown to anyone, the roof drains couldn't handle the 15-20 inches of rain that was falling during the storms. Once the roof drains could handle the flow, water drained off the roof for the next two or three days--that is, the water that had not already found its way into the gallery space below.

The good news is that the majority of the DaVinci Artists' paintings escaped damage. The Artists of Texas featured art in the center of the gallery escaped any damage. For that we are grateful, but we do empathize with those who had works damaged.

Grand Reopening June 3 (maybe not)

We hope to have a Grand Reopening of the gallery on June 3 which is the First Friday in June 2016. We will keep you posted on our Home Page here at http://www.DaVinciArtistsGallery.com and also on our Facebook page. All events have been postponed until June. If you signed up for the April 21 event, Painting Van Gogh Sunflowers, the date has been pushed forward to June 23. We will keep you posted but please check here for updates as June approaches.
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