Create your own art using various materials found around your home! These courses are geared towards individuals 15 years of age and older.
Tune in on Monday, October 26th at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration on learning the basics and application of photo transfer onto canvas, wood, metal, and more. Create personalized gifts for family or decorate your walls with unique photos.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Create your own art using various materials found around your home! These courses are geared towards individuals 14 years of age and older. Supply kits are available at OFPL on a first-come, first-serve basis and can be requested below.
Tune in on Monday, September 28th at 4:00 p.m. to learn the basics of watercolor painting, techniques, and watch a demonstration on creating works of art.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Artist: Joshua Whitman
Instagram: @artisan_josh23
Creative Corner features creativity freedom to make their own art from various materials that can be found around their homes and/or are inexpensive to purchase. Art courses are for the inner creative geared towards individuals 15 years of age and older.
Tune in this upcoming Monday, June 6th at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration on the color wheel and a discussion of Color Theory and terminology. Available through our Facebook page and YouTube channel, search @galluplibrary.
Color theory encompasses a multitude of definitions, concepts and design applications – enough to fill several encyclopedias. Color theories create a logical structure for color. For example, if we have an assortment of fruits and vegetables, we can organize them by color and place them on a circle that shows the colors in relation to each other.
The Color Wheel A favorite of designers and artists, the wheel makes color relationships easy to see by dividing the spectrum into 12 basic hues: three primary colors, three secondaries, and six tertiaries.
Any three colors which are side by side on a 12-part color wheel, such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange. Usually one of the three colors predominates.
Complementary colors are any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green.
An attribute of a color which makes it unique. Example: Red, Forest Green, Cerulean, Violet, Pink, Magenta, etc.
In traditional color theory (used in paint and pigments), primary colors are the 3 pigment colors that cannot be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these 3 hues.
Example: Red, Blue, and Yellow
These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.
Example: Green, Orange, and Purple
Refers to the mixture of a hue with black or any darker color. This mixture reduces the overall color brightness.
These are the colors formed by mixing a primary and a secondary color.
Example: Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green & yellow-green
A tint is created when you add white to a hue and lighten it. It is also sometimes called a pastel color.
In art, the term “tone” describes the quality of color. It has to do with whether a color is perceived as warm or cold, bright or dull, light or dark, and pure or “dirty.” The tone of a piece of art can have a variety of effects, from setting the mood to adding emphasis.
Calling all OFPL neighbors! Celebrate Summer Reading 2020 (May 1st – August 1st), OFPL is having a bookmark design contest. Fill in the bookmark space with an original design and turn it in to either the Main Library or the Children’s Branch by Friday, July 31st at 5:00 p.m.
All entries will be displayed in an online poll on our website for community voting during the entire month of August and the winning bookmark in each age group (See Number 9 under Contest Rules) will be printed and distributed to both libraries.
All entries become the property of the Octavia Fellin Public Library and may be reproduced for public distribution, displayed within the library, and posted to the library’s website. OFPL may use each winner’s name, design, and photograph for publicity purposes.
We’re doing family-friendly science experiments that glow in the dark, light up and change color!
Stop by the Children’s Branch on Saturday, February 29th at 3:00 p.m. To make blacklight paintings, glow bugs, and color-changing slime.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
In case you missed our first coloring afternoon.
Join us at the Main Library on Saturday, January 25th at 2:00 p.m. for an afternoon of childhood throwback as you color different pages from scenes to mandalas.
Contribute to our community coloring mandala that we will display once finished. Mocktails will be provided for added fun!
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
GALLUP – Josh Whitman was making non-alcoholic mojitos with club soda instead of rum, and Shirley Temple with grenadine syrup and lime juice during a mocktails-and-coloring event at the Octavia Fellin Public Library Saturday.
On the table, next to the cups, syrup, ginger ale, ice cubes, and mixers, Whitman had a spread of designs and colored pencils. On another table behind him, Whitman had a set of speakers and was streaming indie music on Spotify.
“Coloring is one of the things you can do and not stress about it.” Whitman, the library’s experiential learning coordinator said. Continued After Image
“I have 14 different designs for them to choose from, and three different cocktails – I call them mocktails. The holidays could be stressful time of the year when people are shopping.” he said. “This is a free of stress and gives them a nice creative outlook to creative expression.”
Danielle Leekity, 32, and her children Anjelica, 11 and Jacob, 5, learned about the activity on Facebook and decided it was a good way to spend their Saturday in Gallup. The mother and her two children were sitting next to each other on an adjacent table and were coloring while enjoying their drinks.
“My daughter is very artistic. She has pastels at home and taught herself how to draw,” Leekity said. “We usually come her for the events. Everybody says it gives children something to do but it is also for the families. a relaxing wat to spend the weekend. We go to the ArtsCrawl every month. The fun part about this area. everything is within walking distance.”
Timmy Telescope returns to Gallup!
Join us at the Children’s Branch on Friday, November 15th at 3:00 p.m. for fun with light and color. Look at the sun through a solar telescope and make light-reactive bracelets.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
