Month: July 2020

I dropped off three watercolor paintings for the show at the Spokane Art School. They are of my favorite subject, winter ski views admired during my ski patrol days. Snow scenes up in the mountains still hold a real dear place in my heart. I carried a camera with me when it wasn’t common for everyone to have a camera on their person.

If you have not participated in an art show before, you may not know what it looks like before the gallery goes to all the hard work of hanging the work. You walk in with your pieces of art, sign papers and stack them where they tell you to put them.

This is going to be a unique show displaying Spokane Watercolor Society members work. All of the paintings are small, and the same size at 8″ x 8″.

We used an alternative method of framing for this show where the watercolors are mounted on board, then waxed to seal them.  I love this method of preserving a watercolor painting without having to cover it in the glass. When we are matting, and framing it under glass it often seems to make the painting harder to see under the glare. The colors are so vibrant and warm in this waxed method and I can’t wait to see the display of this wide variety of talent up on the walls of the gallery. There are many You Tube videos showing how to do this alternative method of framing for watercolor paintings, see Angela Fahr here.