2010 Art Materials Trade Show

Held at the River Club in historic downtown Savannah, the Art Materials Trade Show features professionals and visiting artists in the art and design materials industries who will showcase and demonstrate the best and most up-to-date products relating to art and design, all of which will be for sale to the public at significant discounts.

Trade Show Location: River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Trade Show Hours: Thursday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 1, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 2, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

The trade show and seminars are free and open to the public.

SEMINAR SERIES

Art and design materials specialists and technicians will conduct demonstrations and discuss historical and contemporary applications and techniques, safety and testing, and archival nature of art and design materials, and up-to-the-minute changes in art and design. Seminars are free and open to the public.

Oil Painting Workshop: Underpainting and Glazing

Wednesday, Sept. 29, 11 a.m.

Alexander Hall (Upstairs), Classroom CR3

There is currently a resurgence of interest in traditional oil painting techniques as the means to create contemporary imagery. Painters are incorporating underpainting, layering and glazing techniques to create luminous optical effects with intense modern pigments of the 20th century. Limited seating, please email jrise@scad.edu to reserve a space.

Scott Gellatly, painter and Product Manager for Gamblin Artists Colors, will lead this hands-on workshop focusing on underpainting and glazing techniques. A strong emphasis will be placed on the materials available to painters today, including Gamblin’s new FastMatte alykyd oil colors, in achieving a broad array of optical effects and surface qualities. A brief lecture and demonstration will be given, followed by a hands-on painting session. Materials will be provided by Gamblin Artists Colors and Ampersand Art Panels.

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Color, Pigments, Mud, Dirt, Micas, Iridescence and Nacreous Shimmer…Expand your Knowledge of Color Mixing.

Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2:00 p.m.

Alexander Auditorium

This will be an inventive lecture, with audience participation on color, pigments and micas and more. Mark Golden will give fascinating and useful technical information with a scientific slant; and exploratory, and painterly applications demonstrated by Patti Brady. This promises to be fun, and fact filled and absolutely useful information for any artist.

Mark Golden For more than 24 years, Mark Golden , CEO and cofounder of Golden Artist Colors Inc., has been creating art products with his father Sam Golden. Golden Artist Colors employs more than 130 people, making and distributing products for professional artists worldwide. Golden produces the most extensive line of professional acrylic products within the entire artist paint industry. The company also manufactures the widest variety of gels and mediums and numerous unique products including pastel ground, silverpoint drawing ground and digital ground for transferring computer images to the painting surface.

Patti Brady [www.pattibrady.com] is the working artist program director for Golden Artist Colors. She has lectured and taught on the use of acrylics at numerous universities, art groups and retailers. Brady manages 40 national and international artists for the Golden working artist program in the United States and around the world. In 2004 and 2006, she traveled to Japan to lecture at universities in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto. Brady is also the author of “Rethinking Acrylics: Exploiting the World’s Most Versatile Medium,” published by Northlight Books.