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Date of event: May 30, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm Julie Marsh, a mixed media artist from the San Francisco Bay Area and a member of SanFrancisco Women Artists. our current exhibit feature, will be here on Saturday to inspire and delight working in mixed media. She has studied painting for many years with a variety of teachers. Her earlier work focused on “the extraordinary ordinary”. Julie sees mixed media as a doorway to explore the creative process transforming old, ordinary, and di …

Date of event: May 23, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm Pamela Rhodes is a skilled portrait and landscape artist and her graphite, colored pencil and watercolor work is owned by clients throughout the US, Mexico and England. As the founder and director of ARTroads, Pamela has taught drawing, portrait and watercolor classes for numerous organizations and in workshops in Italy, Mexico and the States. Her signature class, “Learning to Draw so You Can Paint”, is offered year round in San Francisco, ann …

How to make a faux patina painting-what to use and how to do it Kim Menzel, FLAX's Paper Department Manager and Wildlife Photographer, saw a picture she liked in a magazine of a wall with wood finishes and verdigris patinas. She realized she could make something similar using our Modern Masters Metal Effects and Patinas and the proverbial ball started rolling... Kim came in to work the next day and gathered a 24x30 canvas, some acrylic mediums for added texture and the Modern Masters Meta …

Date of event: May 16, 2015 1:00pm - 4:00pm Jess Zepeda, grew up in Tulare County in Central California and has been interested in has been drawing since a young child. Excelling in High School and eventually he moved to San Francisco where he attended  The Art Academy University and received his MFA. The artist credits Sidney Kittenger of Auberry, California who inspired him to pursue drawing and painting. switching frequently from one medium to the next using graphite pencils …

FLAX interviews local artist Brett Goodroad Brett Goodroad (b. 1979) grew up in Montana and lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has previously exhibited at the Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco (2013), and the Drawing Center, New York (2014). Goodroad has been the recipient of the Millay Colony for the Arts, NY (2009) and Vermont Studio Center awards (2006), and most recently, the Tournesol Award, Headlands Ce …