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 15 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, October 5th at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration of drawing techniques that explores the relationship between form, light, and perspective. Learn simple techniques to create three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface by sketching and defining drawing techniques.
In fine art, the term “drawing” may be defined as the linear realization of visual objects, concepts, emotions, and fantasies, including symbols and even abstract forms. Drawing is a graphic art which is characterized by an emphasis on form or shape, rather than mass and color as in painting. Drawing is quite different from graphic printmaking processes, because although a drawing may form the basis for replication, it is by its very nature, unique.
Email jwhitman@gallupnm.gov or call 505-863-1291 for more information.
Creative Corner features creativity freedom to make your own art from various materials that can be found around your 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 20th at 4:00 p.m. for a meditative experience using acrylic paints set to calming meditative music. Available through our Facebook page and YouTube channel, search @galluplibrary.
The technique of abstract painting exemplified chiefly in the later works of Jackson Pollack and marked by the intricately executed dripping and pouring of the paint on a canvas placed on the floor.
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Courtesy of other artists. (See accreditation).
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.
Continue learning how to draw Manga characters, by learning how to draw clothing and poses at the Children’s Branch on Friday, March 13th at 4:00 p.m.
All supplies provided.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
Learn how to draw your own manga characters like Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto), in this interactive workshop by learning the basics at the Children’s Branch on Friday, February 14th and 28th at 4:00 p.m.
All supplies provided.
Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.
Examples of Masashi Kishimoto’s illustrations for Naruto.
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.”
