Artistic Designs Gallery will be on Channel 6 on September 18 at 11:30 AM.  The show is "Savor Indiana" and they are showcasing seven locations in Hendrick's County.  We are lucky enough to be selected through Rural Routes to Main Street.  Read below for more info.

Savor Indiana – September 18
Recently Jaime Bohler Smith, Associate Director, hosted the Savor Indiana staff on a tour throughout the county looking for locations to be filmed.  Each 30-minute SAVOR INDIANA program consists of a wide variety of segments that focus on the history of the profiled community and various tourist highlights in addition to providing information about various community amenities, shopping and the overall character of the community.  Additional segments contain a combination of:
-   Local Restaurants, both fine-dining and casual establishments
-   Agritourism products & sites; Food Manufacturers
-   Wineries and Micro-breweries
-   Children’s Attractions and Cultural Venues
-   Lodging/Accommodation Highlights
-   Unique Craft and Shopping Opportunities

One whole segment will feature RR2MS!!  Sites will be filmed on Monday and Tuesday, August 30 and 31 and televised on Saturday, September 18 at 11:30 am on Channel 6 – WRTV locally.  They also broadcast on stations in Evansville, Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Terre Haute.  HCCVB will receive the edited and unedited segments for use in future promotions.  When visitors do a Savor Search on their website, they will receive a passport. At each location the guests visit, they will get a stamp on their passport.   When they collect all of them, they will mail it in for a chance to win a prize.  Five of the seven that were chosen are RR2MS sites:  Gallery on the Square, Danville; Artistic Designs Gallery, Brownsburg; McCloud Nature Park, North Salem; Bread Basket Café and Bakery, Coatesville & Danville; Chateau Thomas Winery, Plainfield.  Also, Mayberry Café and Beasley’s Orchard, Danville

Kenny Vermillion just dropped off some new work.  Check it out!!

Art students from The Sketch Pad Art Studio-Brownsburg were in the gallery today working on seascapes and landscapes in chalk pastel. They learned how to blend analogous colors to create the effect of a sunset as well as how to create the reflection of a sun setting  in water by using deeper values in the reflection During the week students also created works of art in oil pastel, polymer clay, and acrylic paint. Registration is open for art classes held at the gallery during  the 2010-2011 school year classes begin August 17, 2010. Click on our Art Classes Tab for more information.

Mark Kelso taught a fantastic workshop in the gallery Saturday. Although this "Plein Air" Workshop was inside, Mark spent the day preparing participants to paint in the field the following day. He explained the importance of being prepared and organized in advance and went over all of the equipment and materials that he uses in the field, as well as all of the different ways that a painter could utilize their brush . Mark led his students through a color exercise in order to emphasize the how atmosphere affects color as it recedes in space. He discussed the importance of composition and demonstrated how to sketch the scene out , block areas of color in and paint foliage, grasses, a rock, and gravel. The painting of the rock that students created was painted with only one brush! The way a painter handles a brush is truly an art.

Be sure to check out the article in the Hendricks County Icon featuring Mark Kelso's work. Mark paints exquisitely detailed pictures of landscape and wildlife.

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The Artistic Designs Gallery  '4th Annual Miniature Fine Art Show ' has been judged!  One hundred and thirty entries were juried into the exhibit out of one hundred and thirty-seven entered.  Awards are given to the following artists:  Best of Show to Linda Rossin for "Freshwater Dunes", Best of Oil Painting to Catherine Girard for "Alabama Blue", Best of Acrylic Painting to Ron Orlando for "Sunlit Red", Best of Transparent Watercolor to Janet Laird-Lagassee for "Basket, Bucket and Pans", Best of Opaque Watercolor to Rachelle Siegrist for "Whitey", Best of Mixed Media to Glenn Leung for "Trail Together", Best of Drawing to Rebecca Troutman for "Strawberries, and Best Sculpture to Diane Mason for "Thompson's Gazelle Bust".  In addition Nancy Still was awarded Judges Choice with her Oil Painting titled "Market Day" and the Gallery awarded Artist, Luke Buck for Best Depiction of Rural Indiana.  This year's exhibit is awesome and not to be missed.

Glenn Roesler and Lynne Medsker are two local artists that exhibit work in our gallery. Both of them will  be participating in the Avon Public Library's fifth Annual Artscape this evening April 17, 2010 from 7:00 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. Tickets are available at the library. Advance tickets are $12 per person or $20 per couple. Ticket will cost $15 at the door.

Glen Roesler is a local potter who has been making pottery for over 30 years. He creates pottery with a warm woodsy look and feel that is strongly influenced by the Japanese aesthetic philosophy and objective of Wabi Sabi. All of his pieces are microwave and dishwasher safe. You can learn more about Glenn by visiting his website www.ivycreekstoneware.com.

Lynne Medsker works with a variety of materials such as metal, paper, glass,  and photographs to create unique mixed media reliefs. Her work is primarily abstract, with an emphasis on layering and balancing geometric shapes, organic elements, and textural surface details. You can learn more about Lynne's work by visiting www.lynnemedsker.com. 

If you are unable to attend Artscape this evening. Mark your calendar for Friday April 23rd or Saturday th 24th. Artistic Designs Gallery will be open in the evening from 5-8 for the Hendrick County ArtsGo. Lynne will be attending the reception and in the gallery all day on Saturday April 24th.