Travel Sketchbooks with Sharon Zeugin (Free demo!)

Black Friday Sale!

Black Friday!

Nov 29, 2013

STRETCHED CANVAS, EASELS, & BRUSHES:

7am-9am: Save 40% off of our regular, everyday low prices

9am-11am: Save 30% off of our regular, everyday low prices

11am-Close: Save 20% off of our regular, everyday low prices

COMPLETE CUSTOM FRAMING ORDERS: 60% off until 12/2/2013.

Portraits in Oil - Free demo!

Announcing Kids Art Classes at Jerry's

We are extremely excited to announce that starting in January we will be offering KIDS ART CLASSES! We've partnered with Art Amore Austin to bring to you three awesome classes for your art-inclined kiddos.

Those classes are:

Art Discovery

6 to 9yrs (Saturdays 12-1pm $80 monthly) 

In this engaging class, students will develop drawing, painting and clay skills while learning fundamental art elements: line, shape, texture, color, value and space.

Our fun projects are geared towards developing skills within each theme, while also encouraging individual creativity and expression.  

While many of the projects are guided, each student works with his or her own vision and produces a unique finished piece.

Comicbook Workshops

10yrs & up (1st & 3rd Saturday 2-4pm $39 per class/ $80 per month) 

In this fast-paced workshop, we will cover color theory, storytelling and drawing techniques.  We play games, create comic strips, design our own trading cards and will complete an original comic book. We will cover many different styles of comic story telling, including cartooning, Manga and graphic novels.  

Drawing Intensive

10yrs & up (2st & 4rd Saturday 2-4pm $39 per class/ $80 per month)

Drawing Intensive is intended for  students at beginning and intermediate levels of skill and confidence. It's a completely safe, relaxing, non-judgmental environment where students are taught how to use art techniques to create realistic drawings and sketches.  

As students become familiar with basic drawing skills (proportion, perspective, shading etc), new mediums like comte, charcoal, ink and digital are introduced and students are encouraged to experiment with the techniques and visual effects that each medium allows.

Paper Marbling (Free demo!)

Sky Candy Drawing Session

Attention! Figure drawing fiends!

Sky Candy artists will be doing a session of arial poses and gesture work this Sunday, the 17th during E.A.S.T.  This is the session of a lifetime for all you gesture junkies!!! The entertainment value will also be off the charts.

Jerry's will have a small table at Sky Candy with supplies in case you or your friends forget something.

Holiday Sale at Jerry's!

Once again it's time for amazing holiday savings! Click here to view the full holiday flyer, or check it out after the jump!

Artwork by St. Stephen's Episcopal School

Artwork by artists in grade 7-12 from St. Stephen's Episcopal School

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Sportscars Underwater Chine-Collé by Honoria Starbuck

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Native American Pottery Workshop

DOUBLE WEEKEND WORKSHOP IN NATIVE AMERICAN POTTERY WILL BE OFFERED At JERRY'S ARTARAMA

On Saturday November 30^th and Saturday December 14^th

Taught by Charlotte (Whiteowl) Wheat

This workshop will focus mainly on the Cherokee pottery Tradition. Cherokee pottery is renowned for being the product of one of the longest continual traditions of pottery in America, having been made for nearly 2,000 years. The style of Cherokee pottery has evolved over the years. The earliest pieces were hand built and then elaborately decorated with cross hatching, spirals, and other designs. Other designs used by the Cherokee in their pottery included making pots that looked like people or animals, like fish or birds. These containers were used for storing water or seed or for spiritual purposes.  

The Cherokee tradition of stamping pottery has been reinvented and imitated by both later generations of Cherokee potters as well as other modern day potters. Clay artisans use wooden paddles to texturize the clay with modern or ancient designs. The Cherokee also made use of the shells they found to both stamp their clay pottery and to decorate it. Sticks also were used to create new designs, similar to the way that modern artisans use a variety of hand tools to impress designs into their pottery.

The Cherokee Native Americans also were among the first to experiment with the different chemical reactions that they could cause through different firing times, temperature, and smoke. Today we refer to the latter two elements as varying oxygen and carbon levels, however the results were the same. The Cherokee were able to give their pottery different colors as a result of their experiments in the pottery firing process.

Above are some examples of traditional wedding vessels and animal effigy bowls that we will be making in this workshop.

The workshop is taught by the great-great-grand-daughter of Chief John Brown, who was Principal Chief of the Western Cherokee in 1839 and welcomed Chief John Ross and the Eastern Cherokee when they arrived in Oklahoma at the end of the Trail of Tears.

The workshop will cover 2 Saturdays. The first Saturday will be for hand-building your chosen pieces and the second Saturday will be for pit firing the pieces. The first Saturday workshop will be held at Jerry's Artarama off IH 35 in Austin, Texas and the second Saturday workshop for firing will be held two weeks later at 1104 Delano, Austin, Texas (to repeat - the second Saturday will NOT be held at Jerry's Artarama).

The cost of the workshop is $150.00 for the complete workshop which will include the clay you will use.  You may purchase any tools necessary at Jerry's Artarama before the workshop begins. The hand-building workshop times are from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM with an hour lunch break.  The firing workshop will be a pot luck lunch where everyone brings a dish to share.  The workshop will begin at 10:00 AM and last until the firing is complete, usually about 4-5 hours. The finished products can be picked up a couple days later  after they have sufficiently cooled and will be yours to keep or to make great gifts just in time for Christmas.