Eco Art Girl

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Tax-Free Weekend in Massachusetts August 7, 2007

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Great Barrington, MA

Just in time for the Tax-Free Weekend: New Prints by Gabrielle Senza!

The 6 x 10 foot painting that Berkshire-based artist, Gabrielle Senza is premiering this weekend at the Kasten Fine Art Gallery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts doesn’t meet the state’s requirements for art collectors to benefit from this weekend’s tax-free holiday. If it did, the fortunate buyers would save $2,000 on the sales invoice, as the painting is going for $40,000. However, the Massachusetts limit on the tax-free holiday is $2,500 for retail purchases.

Fortunately, collectors of Gabrielle Senza’s work – or those who’d like to be – can breathe a sigh of relief because the artist has just released two limited edition prints that are available for $2,500 and $1,000.

The archival pigment ink prints (also known as giclées) feature one of the earlier paintings from the artist’s very popular “Promise of Light” series.  Senza’s signed prints feature the second painting in the series – a striking golden river view featuring a distant range of the Berkshire hills and a cluster of trees standing along the embankment. With poetic wisps of grasses and river plants in the foreground, the scene offers a peaceful spot to both rest and meditate.

The artist is releasing the print in two sizes. A large print featuring a 20 x 40 inch image of the second painting in the series, in an edition of 20 prints, retailing for $2,500 each; and a smaller print, measuring 11 x 22 inches in an edition of 50, available for $1,000 each. Each print is hand signed and numbered by the artist.

The prints will be available this month at Kasten Fine Art Gallery and online at www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com. Gabrielle Senza’s collaborators on the project are photographer Gregory Cherin and master printer Fred Collins of Berkshire Digital.

For more information, call Kasten Fine Art at 413.528.3300.

 

Artist Releases Limited Edition Giclée Prints August 7, 2007

Filed under: Art,Berkshire,Business,Landscape,Meditations,News,Painting,Travel,Water — We Can Do It! @ 3:47 am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Internationally recognized artist, Gabrielle Senza will release a limited edition giclée print featuring a painting from her very successful “Promise of Light” series.

“The Promise of Light II” features a striking golden river view featuring a distant range of the Berkshire hills and a cluster of trees standing along the embankment. With poetic wisps of grasses and river plants in the foreground, the scene offers a peaceful spot to both rest and meditate.

The prints will be available this month at Kasten Fine Art Gallery and online at www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com.

The artist is releasing the print in two sizes. A large print featuring a 20 x 40 inch image of the second painting in the series, in an edition of 20 prints, retailing for $2,500 each; and a smaller print, measuring 11 x 22 inches in an edition of 50, available for $1,000 each. Each print is hand signed and numbered by the artist.

Gabrielle Senza’s collaborators on the project are photographer Gregory Cherin and master printer Fred Collins of Berkshire Digital. For more information, call 413.528.3917; or visit www.gabriellesenza.blogspot.com.

 

My favorite colors. . . August 3, 2007

Long ago I gave up mixing colors from a tube on a palette. It would drive me crazy to run out of a carefully mixed color in the middle of the painting. Thank God I somehow came across the oil pigment sticks by R&F Paints. They go on smooth, like butter. Unlike oil sticks or bars from other companies, R&F’s Pigment Sticks have the consistency and controllability of a really excellent lipstick. . .

It is important to remove the skin that forms over the surface of each stick when they’ve sat awhile and dried out. Then you can draw directly on your canvas, paper or wood surface, blend and smooth with brushes, or as I do, move the paint around on the surface with my hands (wearing rubber gloves of course).

Check out the R&F Website for inspiration and information.

Oh yes, the colors. . . Here are some of the colors I use most often:
naples yellow

brownish pink

turkey umber greenish

raw umber

brilliant extra pale yellow

neutral white

the list goes on and on. . .

 

Jambo! August 3, 2007

Welcome to my eco-art weblog where I will be sharing thoughts, observations, great finds and opportunities all related to art, nature, health and wellbeing. My passions include: art, activism, architecture, green design, organic food, clean water, creativity, inspiring artists, music, film, poetry, women’s circles, friends and the environment.

 

 
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