Tag: color

Fall Wreaths

Join us on Facebook, @galluplibrary, or YouTube at Octavia Fellin Public Library on Mondays at 4:00 PM. Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years and older.

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MONDAY, November 8TH
STARTS AT 4:00 PM

Commemorate the changing of the seasons by making a fall ornamental wreath for your home.

Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Colorful Chemistry: Tie-Dye

Join OFPL for amazing colorful chemistry on Friday, July 23rd at 4:00 PM outside the Children’s Branch near the playground for a tie-dye session. Supplies are limited and available on a first-come first-served basis. You can also bring your own 100% cotton clothing to tie-dye!

Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 to reserve your shirt and for more information.

Panel Discussion: Translating Story to Image

Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Saturday, May 29th at 3:00 p.m. for a panel discussion featuring 7000 BC, a New Mexican independent comics organization, and AIGA New Mexico, the professional association for graphic design.

Translating a written story into a visual language can be done in many different ways. In this panel discussion graphic designers, illustrators, and comics creators elaborate on different methods to translate stories.

Email aprice@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Learn more about these groups at newmexico.aiga.org and 7000bc.org

Art Demo: 30 Day Watercolor Painting Challenge

Join us LIVE on Facebook, @galluplibrary on Friday, May 21st at 4:00 p.m. for an art demonstration featuring OFPL’s own, Joshua Whitman.

During his spare time, he is an artisan and graphic designer creating both digital and physical artworks in the following disciplines: painting (oil, acrylic, & watercolor), drawing (graphite & ink), and digital photography.

Josh will be demonstrating his approach to watercolor painting as an amateur and challenges the community to a 30 Day watercolor painting challenge.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

String Painting

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.

Tune in on Monday, March 29th at 4:00 p.m. to create vivid mono- or dual-color abstract prints utilizing liquid watercolor and string on water-durable paper.

CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Artist Trading Cards (ATCs)

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.

Tune in on Monday, March 15th at 4:00 p.m. to create Artist Trading Cards or ATCs are miniature pieces of art that are traded by artists around the world. Learn how to make your own ATC with an interactive workshop inspired by Courtney Cerruti’s CreativeBug class. Need inspiration? Complete the optional OFPL ATC mini-challenges and win a prize.

CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Pop Art

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.

Tune in on Monday, March 8th at 4:00 p.m. to learn more about the Pop Art movement of the 1950’s with influential artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Create your own inspired Pop Art on a canvas panel.

CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Dr. Seuss Inspired Art

Create your own art using materials found around your home! Courses are geared towards individuals approximately 15-years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form. Videos are posted weekly on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.

Tune in on Monday, March 1st at 4:00 p.m. to create a fun tie-dye doily using a coffee filter inspired by art from the Lorax followed by creating and painting your own Dr. Seuss character.

CREATIVE CORNER EPISODES ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING, VISIT YOUTUBE, @GALLUPLIBRARY.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Collaborative Art Mural

Create with other community members to make a beautiful hanging mural for OFPL.

All of March

Receive one (1) six-inch square Mandala coloring page. Return your coloring page by Friday, April 9th at 5:00 p.m. and watch a time-lapse video of our collaborative art mural being pieced together. Supply kits are available on a first-come, first-serve basis using the Supply Request Form while supplies last.

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Coloring & Mocktails/Cocktails

Join OFPL on Facebook LIVE @galluplibrary on Saturday, December 19th at 1:00 p.m. for an afternoon of coloring and mocktail making. Request coloring pages, colored pencils, and an ingredient leaflet with mocktail/cocktail recipes below:

Online Request Form

Color different pages from characters, scenes, and mandalas. Mocktail & Cocktail Recipes below:

Mocktail Recipes:

Lime Rickey

Ingedients:
• 1 oz. Lime Juice
• 1 oz. Sugar Syrup
• 4 oz. Soda Water
• 1 Lime

Directions:
1. Take the limes and squeeze them into a glass.
2. Pour in the sugar syrup
3. Top the glass with a shaker and shake the contents thoroughly.
4. Take a tall glass, add ice.
5. Pour the shaken contents through a strainer and into the glass.
6. Add the soda water.
7. Stir.
8. Garnish with lime peel
9. Drink and enjoy!

Shirley Temple

Ingedients:

• 1.5 oz. Grenadine
• 6 oz. Ginger Ale
• 1 Lemon

Directions:
1. Pour grenadine into tall glass.
2. Add ice.
3. Pour in ginger ale.
4. Stir.
5. Garnish with lemon peel.

Online Request Form

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.

Cocktail Recipes:

Mojito

Ingedients:
• 1.5 oz. White Rum
• 0.75 oz. Lime Juice
• 0.5 oz. Sugar Syrup
• 4 oz. Soda Water
• 1-2 Sprigs Mint Leaves
• Lime Slices, Garnish

Directions:
1. Muddle mint leaves with simple syrup in mixing glass or tin.
2. Add lime juice, lime hull, and rum.
3. Add to milkshake glass.
4. Top with ice and soda water.
5. Roll drink back and forth in mixing glass.
6. Top with ice and garnish with mint bouquet and lime slice.
7. Drink responsibly & enjoy!

Shirley Temple

Ingedients:
• 1 oz. Vodka
• 1 oz. Grenadine
• 8 oz. Ginger Ale
• Lemon Slices, Garnish

Directions:
1. Add Ice
2. Pour vodka into the glass.
3. Pour in ginger ale.
4. Add Grenadine.
5. Garnish with lemon peel.
6. Drink responsibly & enjoy!

Online Request Form

Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call (505) 863-1291 for more information.