Art & Frame of Sarasota

Do not let our store front deceive you.......  3 floors and 10,000 square feet of  art supplies awaits you inside. 

We welcome all artists.  Beginners or Experienced.   A great way to gain experience showing your art . Artwork Drop off: Monday July 16, 2018 - 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Opening: Friday, July 20, 2018 - 6:30 pm Awards: 7:30 pm   Light refreshments   Click for details 🎨🎨🎨

Which black oil color should I paint with? Black is the product of fire. Color in the absence of light. Black is also the color of mystery, mourning, and Johnny Cash. Why use black in a painting? Simply put, no other color quickly or effectively creates shades as black. However, the strong mixing strength and/or temperature of some blacks can be difficult to control in nuanced color-mixing. Just as we have different whites in our Artists Grade line of oil colors, we offer six different blacks, each with their own unique characteristics. The relative opacity or transparency, tinting strength, and color temperature of a black all influence how it will behave on our palettes and in our paintings. For this run-down of our different blacks, we’re including both Van Dyke Brown and Payne’s Gray as their temperature biases factor importantly into the discussion. Gamblin’s six blacks: Click this link for more information

Through June 2, 2018

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All Shizen Papers are 100% recycled made from cotton scraps from the Indian Garment industry.  Shizen (means 'Nature' in Japanese) offers a wide range of unique and exotic Handmade Papers.

For Alzheimer’s Patients,  Art’s Therapeutic Effects Are Transformative  In the 1990s, Berna Huebner was struggling to communicate with her mother, the painter Hilda Gorenstein, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. “I asked, ‘Mom, do you want to paint?’” says Huebner, who heads a Chicago charitable foundation. “And her eyes opened up and she said, ‘Yes, I remember better when I paint.’” Gorenstein, a marine artist who had once painted murals at a 1933– 1934 Chicago World’s Fair, “wasn’t able to focus at all,” remembers Huebner. “I thought it was her hearing. I called her doctor, and without even blinking he said, ‘Why don't you call her old school and get some students to paint with her?’” Gorenstein subsequently began to paint with a handful of students from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her alma mater. After working with a student for several weeks she began to paint again. “It struck a chord,” adds Huebner. Fast forward to 1999, and Hueb...