November 20th Show and Tell

We’ve been challenged to paint or draw a Thanksgiving, Christmas or Winter artwork and bring it to this meeting. Your artwork may be any media and any subject related to the challenge.

Be prepared to Show and Tell your challenge artwork at the Pal meeting and explain your process. Our masterpieces will then be placed on a table for all to admire. This lesson is for Holiday fun!

Something to think about – you have an opportunity to exhibit your masterpiece in the new Treehouse Café Show ‘Luminous Winter’ which runs Dec, Jan and Feb.

For information regarding the Treehouse Show, contact Kay Boyce. This is the final Third Wed event for 2024. Your PAL Third Wed Committee is busy planning educational, interesting and fun events for 2025.

Ingrid Amirault demo on the Right Side of the Brain

On October 16, Ingrid gave a demo and a tutorial on how to draw with the right side of the brain. The right side of the brain is where our creativity, intuition, and imagination reside. Ingrid gave us several exercises to help us utilize our creative side when drawing.

Ingrid (left) explains how she composed the shapes in her painting.

Ingrid and the upside-down table she used as a drawing challenge.

An example of drawing the negative space of the table

PAL Booth at Poulsbo Arts Festival

PAL will have a booth at the Poulsbo Arts Festival this summer.

Third Weekend in August 
Poulsbo Arts Festival 2024
Aug. 16th. – 18th.

Friday:         Noon – 6 PM

Saturday:   10:00 AM – 6 PM

Sunday:      11:00 AM – 5 PM

For over 35 years the Poulsbo Arts Festival (previously Arts by The Bay) has been celebrated on the beautiful waterfront park in downtown Poulsbo on the third weekend in August.  There is something for every family to enjoy – including original fine art, prints, note cards, jewelry, photography, metalworking, ceramics, fabric arts and woodworking. Raffles of artwork, demonstrations, live music, dance and much more complete a fun weekend at the park.

Poulsbo Artists League (PAL) has supported Fine Arts in Kitsap County for over 42 years. Meeting weekly all year long, PAL provides members with a warm and welcoming place to create art, while meeting old and new friends.  Included in our membership we offer Demonstrations, Plein Air outings, Art Challenges and more.  We hope you visit us at our booth and join our membership!

February Concertina Sketchbook

For the Third Wednesday of the Month Program, On February 21st, PAL Board Secretary Judy Guttormsen demonstrated how to “Make Your Own Concertina Sketchbook”.

A concertina sketchbook is a sketchbook that is bound in a non-traditional way so that there is effectively just one long page that is folded like an accordion into a sketchbook size. They can be enjoyed as one long work of art or they can be paged through like a traditional sketchbook.

Judy did a wonderful job of demonstrating and it was a lot of fun. Members shared papers, and other supplies to create their own sketchbooks to take home.

Showing our paintings at Treehouse Cafe

The Treehouse committee, consisting of Kay, Jan, Judy and Valerie, makes the following announcements. There will be four shows lasting for three months each for our first year.  Along with each title we are providing some ideas to illustrate what we are looking for.  If you would like to be considered as the featured artist for one of them, please let us know.

September— The Elements Air, Water, Earth and Fire

   Sky, seascapes, dewdrops, landscapes, fire, abstracts that relate and probably have a title that relates.

December—Luminous Winter

  Winter light, shimmering snow and ice, animals in winter landscapes, cold, rainy cityscapes, and abstracts leaving the viewer with an overall feeling of Winter in color and composition. 

March—Spring Magic

   Flowers, whimsical images, spiritual, young critters, spring landscapes and fashion, abstracts in bright spring colors. 

June— Color Fusion

     Think  bright saturated COLOR of summer, bright sunrises and sunsets, gardens in full bloom, buildings, boats and people,  colorful abstracts