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Creative Corner – Collage 101 w/ Found Materials

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 13th at 4:00 p.m. for a demonstration on collaging with paper materials that can be found around your home. Use old magazines, photographs, books, glue, markers, paint, and more. Available through our Facebook page and YouTube channel, search @galluplibrary.

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Collage Definition

Collage is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.

5 Contemporary Collage Artists Adding New Layers

  1. Laslo Antal’s Collage – Visual Diaries
  2. Lance Letscher’s Collage – The Pull Towards Collage
  3. Raquel van Haver’s Collage – The Collage Mindset
  4. Vanessa German’s Collage – From Found Objects Towards Assemblage
  5. Wangechi Mutu’s Collage – Female Motives

View the full article HERE.

Artist Spotlight

Joshua M. Whitman

@artisan_josh23

Collage. Recycled Books, gold foil, and white ink. 11 inches by 17 inches. Circa. 2020 (Right).

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Creative Corner – Color Theory Basics

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.

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Color Theory, Terminology, & More.

Color Theory Definition

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.

Color Wheel

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.

Basic Color Wheel.

Terminology for Review:

Analogous Colors

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.

Complimentary Colors

Complementary colors are any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green.

Hue

An attribute of a color which makes it unique. Example: Red, Forest Green, Cerulean, Violet, Pink, Magenta, etc.

Primary Colors

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

Secondary Colors

These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors.

Example: Green, Orange, and Purple

Shade

Refers to the mixture of a hue with black or any darker color. This mixture reduces the overall color brightness.

Tertiary Colors

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

Tint

A tint is created when you add white to a hue and lighten it. It is also sometimes called a pastel color.

Tone

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.

Bubble Wars

Come by the Children’s Branch on Tuesday, March 10th at 4:00 p.m. to celebrate National Bubble Week with a Bubble War competition.

We’ll be making our own bubble solution and bubble wands with different materials to see who can make the biggest and strongest bubbles.

Email childlib@gallupnm.gov or call 505-726-6120 for more information.

DIY Terrariums

New Year, start with something fresh! Make your very own miniature biome to brighten up your office desk or home atmosphere.

Join us at the Main Library on Tuesday, January 21st at 5:30 p.m. to make your very own terrarium. *Supplies provided.*

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

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Saved by Art

Diné artist Jerry Brown finds inspiration in traditions, upbringing

Gallup Independent. November 19th, 2019. Vida Volkert, Staff Writer

GALLUP – The sight of a nun walking down Thoreau’s NM Highway 371 with an acoustic guitar strapped to her shoulder is one of the reasons Jerry Brown changed the course of his life.

Brown, now a successful artist from Mariano Lake, had dropped out of high school and had no direction. In his own words, “I was too wild.” He had spent a few years in different boarding schools in the area, a school in Utah and public schools in Thoreau, Wingate and Crownpoint. Continued after Image

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.

‘Too wild”

“I started the public school, but I didn’t like it there and walked back to the house.” he said

It was around 1988 when Brown saw the nun walking down the street in Thoreau. The nun was “Sister Michelle.” She was the principal of St. Kateri Tckakwitha school in Thoreau, which later became St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School.

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.

Brown remembered the school was known as “the academy,” and it was a small campus. He was so intrigued by the sight of Sister Michelle walking with her guitar that he decided to visit the school.

“They put me in 10th grade. I met all the teachers. They came from all walks of life. They were missionaries that were doing the good thing for the natives,” Brown said.

Newspaper article featured in Gallup Independent. Scanned 11.22.2019 by OFPL Staff member, Joshua Whitman.