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Blaines Art: 1025 Photo Ave. (View Larger Map)
Blaine's Art, is Alaska's place for Artists. We are excited to help develop Alaska's artistic community not only Now but in the future. We hope you enjoy our informative and interactive website and look forward to seeing you both here and in the store.
Always feel free to check back as our website will continually be updated to reflect the most recent activities involving Blaine's as well as activities and events across the state.
Sister Cities!
Sister Cities:
Anchorage and Darwin
kids art is up! Reception
SATURDAY 3:00 – 5:00.
Darwin
Anchorage
Summer Classes Are Here!
Adult Art Classes
With Artist Don Kolstad
Adult classes
WITH DON KOLSTAD
Water color I ($150.00) Mondays 6:30-9:30
- May: 21, 28,(June)4, 11, 18
- June: 25,(July) 2, 9, 23, 30.
Drawing ($150.00) Tuesdays 6:30-8:30
- (figures) May: 22, 29,(June) 5, 12, 19.
- (Fundamentals/perspectives) June: 26,(July) 3,10, 24, 31.
Water color II ($150.00) Wednesdays 6:30-9:30
- May: 23, 30,(June) 6, 13, 20.
- June: 27,(July) 4 {TBA}, 11, 25 (August)1.
OIL (Held @ Don’s House) $150.00) Thursdays 6:30-9:30
- May: 24, 31,(June) 7, 14, 21.
- June: 28,(July)12, 26, (August) 2, 9.
Stop in or call to Sign up! We have supply lists for each class,
friendly staff to help you around the store
and a 10% STUDENT DISCOUNT!
Blaines art supply 1025 Photo Avenue Anchorage, Alaska 99503
Phone # (907) 561- 5344 Fax # (907) 562-5988, Email: sales@blainesart.com
Painting A Day For Nepal Auction!
BIDDING IS CLOSED 7:00 PM
At the beginning of March Blaines Art started Painting A Day 2012, an artist was scheduled each day of the month and would come in and create a work of art, with all of the paintings being auctioned off for charity during the month of April. All paintings will be on display at Blaines beginning April 16th.
To get your bid number and to make a bid for one of these fabulous original paintings by local artists give Blaines a call, Email, or stop by the store. Closing ceremony will be 5:00 – 7:00, pm Friday, May 4th.
All of the proceeds from each sale will go to Helping Hand for Nepal, a charity where all of its donations go directly to the people of Nepal.
Without further adieu, here are some of the results of Painting A Day.
Francine Dufour Jones
Alaskan Light Two (24×18)
Silk Painting
Retail$350.00 Minimum Bid: $100 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$ 100.00
Francine Dufour Jones
Butterfly Fantasy (21×16)
Silk Painting
Retail$350.00 Minimum Bid: $150 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$150.00
Andy Sonneborn
Untitled: (24×12)
Oil
Retail$225.00 Minimum Bid: $100 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $125.00
Betty Atkinson
A Visit From The Jay (8×10)
Oil
Retail$400.00 Minimum Bid: $150 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$ 150.00
Christine Fortner
By The Narrows (9X12)
Acrylic
Retail$425.00 Minimum Bid: $250 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$ 250.00
Cindy Kolstad
Painting for Nepal at Blaines in Anchorage (16×20)
Oil
Retail$425.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $100.00
Diane Block
Not In The Pot (9×12)
Oil
Retail$175.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $100.00
Don Kolstad
Alaska Seascape (8×10)
Oil
Retail$350.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $50
Current Bid! $ 175.00
Don Kolstad
McHugh Creek Waterfall (8×10)
Oil
Retail$350.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$100.00
Ellen Cloudy
Untitled (5×7)
Oil
Retail$150.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $125.00
Janet Hickok
Fall Flight Bay Shore Mud Flats (14×14)
Encaustic
Retail$385.00 Minimum Bid: $125 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $ 275.00
Jean Shadrach
Untitled (16×7)
Sumie
Retail$325.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $100.00
Jeanne Young
Untitled (12×16)
oil
Retail$500.00 Minimum Bid: $175 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $300.00
Jim Leach
Himalayan Lilies and k-2(8×10)
Acrylic
Retail$250.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $25
John Hagge
Trees In The Woods (8×10)
Acrylic
Retail$150.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $75.00
KN Goodrich
Nepal Abstraction 1 (8×11)
Pastel
Retail$400.00 Minimum Bid: $125 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $ 150.00
KN Goodrich
Nepal Abstraction 2 (8×11)
Pastel
Retail$400.00 Minimum Bid: $125 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$150.00
Karen Helton
Hope Springs Eternal (10×8)
Mixed Media
Retail$150.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$75.00
Karen Helton
Love A Work In Progress (8×10)
Mixed Media
Retail$150.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $75.00
Karen Whitworth
Still Life And Sea Breeze (11×14)
oil
Retail$770.00 Minimum Bid: $250 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $300.00
Karren Mattson
Blue Poppies (11×14)
Oil
Retail$600.00 Minimum Bid: $200 Minimum Raise $50
Current Bid! $350.00
Kim Sherry
Crabs and Starfish (10.5×8.5)
Watercolor
Retail$195.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $20
Current Bid! $90.00
Kurt Jacobson
Winds of Ireland (12×16)
Oil
Retail$800.00 Minimum Bid: $200 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$200.00
Linda Parrigin
A Room With A View (10.5×13.5)
Watercolor
Retail$150.00 Minimum Bid: $75 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$75.00
Lynn Boots
Matanuska Hay Field (8×10)
Oil
Retail$425.00 Minimum Bid: $150 Minimum Raise $50
Current Bid! $250.00
Luz Makell
In The Mums (8.5×11)
Oil
Retail$125.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $10
Current Bid! $50.00
Mark McDermott
Chugach Storm # 3 (14×11)
Watercolor
Retail$600.00 Minimum Bid: $150 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $275.00
Marianne Wieland
Untitled (16×20)
Oil
Retail$800.00 Minimum Bid: $200 Minimum Raise $50
Current Bid! $400.00
Nancy Angelini Crawford
Nepal Spins (9×12)
Oil
Retail$300.00 Minimum Bid: $150 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$300.00
Pat Munz
Portage Valley (12×14)
Acrylic
Retail$500.00 Minimum Bid: $150 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! 250.00
Scott Thompson
Untitled (16×20)
Acrylic
Retail$600.00 Minimum Bid: $200 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$ 275.00
Steve Ortland
Untitled (9.5×12)
Watercolor
Retail$500.00 Minimum Bid: $100 Minimum Raise $50
Current Bid!$ 175.00
Stuart Benson
Tulip Shadows (12×24)
Acrylic
Retail$325.00 Minimum Bid: $100 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $175.00
Sue Watkins
My Sister’s Keeper (12×12)
Oil
Retail$500.00 Minimum Bid: $100 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid!$150.00
Suzanne Bach
Courtship (9.5×10.5)
Sumi
Retail$175.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $100.00
Suzanne Miles
Untitled (16×20)
Pastel
(You will be bidding for a one of a kind commission from Suzanne Miles)
Retail$350.00 Minimum Bid: $150 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $ 150.00
Teresa Ascone
Aurora Night (7.5×4.5)
Watercolor
Retail$225.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $ 125.00
Kevin Crowley
The biggest wild owl I have ever met (11×24)
Woodcut on archival paper
Retail$100.00 Minimum Bid: $50 Minimum Raise $25
Current Bid! $10o.00
Jeanne Young: Success in Oils
Don’t miss your chance to be successful with oils!
Success in oils:
March 31 and April 1, Saturday 10:00 – 4:00 and Sunday 11:00 – 5:00
Price $150.00
Call or drop in to sign up
Space is limited, Sign up TODAY!
In this workshop I will cover exercises, paint application, lighting, values, edges, composition, and other painting fundamentals. The first day we will work from the still life on small canvases using exercises that will increase skill in small amounts of time. Using small canvases will allow you to make headway in developing skills even in a busy life.
On day two we will discuss the challenges of working from photographs, how to interpret the information in a photo, and how to use “notes” taken from life in combination with photos to make a successful painting.
I will demonstrate at the beginning of each day and spend the rest of the time helping students apply what we’ve discussed.
I consider this the most beginner and the most advanced class I teach. I offer the most basic of oil painting skills and the skills necessary to take advanced painters to a higher level. All skill levels encouraged to attend.
This week we have painting:
M Sue Watkins 12:00 – 4:00
T Lynn Boots 10:00 – 1:00
W Romie Dechamps and Luz Makell
R Marianne Wieland 11:00 – 3:00
F Jeanne Young 12:00 – 4:00 and Janet Hickok 4:00 – 7:00
S Suzanne Miles 10:00 – 1:00
Don’t forget to stop by this week and say hello to the artists and enjoy some yummy coffee.
Dodie Ballantine: Plan for Spring!
Hi, my ALaska Art Friends,
Looking forward to coming up to ALaska in May – think that snow will still be on the ground?? Wow – what a winter you’ve had!
But spring will come – and me, too, hoping to share some art time with you. May I renew your spring energy for your art?
Blaines has offered me 3 days to teach- F, May 25, S May 26 and Sun May 27.
Would love to fill it with just you, whom I’ve enjoyed working with before, but I’ll open it also to new students, too, as some of you say you have friends to bring in.
Some of you said you’d like 3 days – so here you are! But you may sign up for either 2 days of your choice or 3 days.
Work on projects you choose, form your photo references. Depending on the interests of the group – e.g. who’s into pastels, who’s doing portraits in paint, I’ll tailor the topics of the day. I have new ideas to show in pastels, and new portrait topics, too. Of course, you can work on any subject in any medium every day.
For new students you might bring along, they also can come 2 or 3 days, and I’ll emphasize these topics -
Motivating ourselves – accomplishing goals – more pleasure in our art!
Fri 25 – Pastels, new materials, fresh ideas
Sat 25 -More emphasis on portraits, any medium, for those interested in that
Sun- any of your projects.
F and Sat 10 – 4:30 (Blaines asks me not to start so early as last year)
Sun 10 – 3 ( Seems like on Sun people are ready to head home sooner)
SIgn up at Blaines (but I’d enjoy an e mail to hear your plans, too)
$190 for two days (same as last year); $250 for 3 days
Hope to see you then,
Best regards,
Dodie
Dodie Rufner Ballantine Fine Art Portraits 602 318 3729 www.dodieballantine.com
“Gal’s afternoon out”
Spring is definitely on the way although doubtful we’ll see the daffodils poking up any time soon. In preparation for the season, we’re offering a fun, 3 hour workshop for a “Gal’s afternoon out” this coming Saturday with artist Francine Dufour Jones.
Join us for an afternoon of painting, light snacks and refreshments with professional artist, Francine Dufour Jones. We’ll supply all the product, simply call to reserve and bring a friend. A great way to spend the afternoon with friends
you haven’t seen in a while.. Maybe extend into dinner at one of our local restaurants, like the Spenard Roadhouse.
Saturday, March 24th, 3:00-6:00 pm
Space is limited so call to register!
This week at Blaines: Painting a day.
Painting a day for Nepal artists for the next week!
Monday: Ellen Clowdy 1:00 – 5:00
Tuesday: Scott Thompson TBA
Wednesday: Diane Block 1:00 – 5:00
Thursday: Jean Shadrach 10:00 – 12:00
Friday: KN Goodrich 10:30 – 6:30
Saturday: Stewart Benson 11:00 – 4:00
Sunday: Don and Cindy Kolstad 1:00 – 5:00