Welcome to the Grand Junction Brush & Palette Club
The Brush & Palette Club meets on the third Thursday of the month at 1:00 p.m. at the Art Center, 7th & Orchard, Grand Junction, CO. The meeting starts with a short discussion on club events and member voting on the mini-show (club members are asked to bring a recently completed painting for the show). It is followed by a program at 1:30.
All meetings, workshops, and demonstrations are open to the public. Members receive a discount for paid events.
Keep on painting!
Brush and Palette Club Member Artwork
B&P Members: Helen Stenmark and Linda Dembitsky. Artwork by Connie Syas at Lincoln Park barn.
February 18, Dalton Carlson, portraiture, Art Center, 1pm
Dalton is a graduate of Colorado Mesa University who moved to Grand Junction from Aurora, CO. He paints, teaches, curates, and displays his art in galleries and online. For this demo, Dalton will paint a portrait from a live model in oil. Hope to see you there. ...
March 5-April 29, B&P member display of artwork at the Mesa County Library
March 18, Joan Anderson, abstract painting, Art Center, 1pm
Joan Anderson is an award winning painter and instructor. Her works in watercolor, collage and more recently cold wax and oil have been featured in regional and national exhibits and in private collections throughout the U.S. Her work has always been predominately...
April-July 2021, B&P Display at the City Building. Open to all current members. There is no commission on sales.
April 15, Mark Akins, landscape painting, Art Center, 1pm
May 20, Janice Kiehl, gourd painting
Reach out for inspiration and learn something new, how to create beautiful art on Nature's Canvas: a hard shelled gourd. Unlike their fall cousins, the soft shelled ornamental gourds, hard shelled gourds, once dehydrated properly, develop a wood-like outer shell. This...
June 17, Judy Rogan, Art and Soul Studio, 523 1/2 Main Street , 1pm
Paint/Draw at Michaels
The Brush and Palette Club has reserved the classroom at Michaels every Friday afternoon. Unfortunately, Michaels has closed their classroom until further notice to help stop the spread of covid 19.
Terrie Lombardi Workshop Notes
What does a judge look for in a painting? “Composition” – stay out of the center“Shapes” – shapes are unique and different“Lines” – lead you through a painting“Edges” – hard to soft; soft edges around the outside and harder in the interior and at...
Nancy’s Post: Jac Kephart Workshop
Jac Kephart provided a two day workshop over January 23 and 24 to a packed gallery of 18 eager participants (sponsored by the Grand Junction Brush & Palette Group). As Bob Martin said, "He is one of the most benevolent artists I have encountered," and never were...