Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors on Southwestern Grand Tour
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September 22, 2008
Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors on Southwestern Grand Tour
(New York, NY) Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors brings its color experience on a Southwestern Grand Tour. Discover what’s in a tube of artist paint and why authentic pigments are important to successful painting. First stop: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors will return to Santa Fe for the seventh year, to host a color sale on October 18 & 19 at the Hotel Plaza Real, 125 Washington Ave., Santa Fe, NM. This first of three stops is a free show and sale featuring over 95 handcrafted traditional artists’ oil colors to try out and have demonstrated by the two painters who make it, Gail Spiegel and Stephen Salek.
  Gail Spiegel Stephen Salek
The Grand Tour continues into Arizona where Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors will be a sponsor of the Sedona Arts Center’s 4th Annual Sedona Plein Air Festival taking place October 19 to 26. This week long event features 30 of America’s best landscape painters invited to capture the beauty of Sedona and its surroundings. Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors will give each of the festival artists a set containing 8 unique colors at the start of the festival week as well as a $500 gift certificate at weeks end to one of the participating plein air painters for creating an exceptional oil painting. On October 22 & 23, Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors will demonstrate and sell their handcrafted traditional oil colors at the Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Rd., Sedona, AZ, as part of the festival’s Tools of the Trade special event that is free and open to the public.
  Josh Handfilling Paint Tubes Josh Hand Crimping Paint Tubes
Third stop on the tour will be Scottsdale, AZ, where Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors will host its final color sale of the trip on October 28 & 29 at the Days Inn Scottsdale Fashion Square, 4710 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale, AZ. Over 95 handcrafted traditional artists’ oil colors will be available to try out at this free show and sale.
  Hands At the Mill Steve at the Mill
“By carefully researching and selecting traditional materials and paintmaking methods, I can offer the modern day painter pure colors containing more pigment than any other brand and absolutely no artificial extenders or fillers,” says paintmaker Stephen Salek. In fact, he still, after more than a decade, handcrafts his paint in small batches and then intentionally hand-fills every tube. Each pigment (or color) has its own character and advantages that a painter should be allowed to appreciate and control. Using old world, traditional methods of manufacturing makes this possible. The extraordinary amount of time and effort required to work with genuine pigments, such as the natural earths, bone black, and genuine naples yellow, further demonstrates the commitment Vasari Classic Artists' Oil Colors makes to bringing the best materials to the art of painting.
Grand Tour Show Hours:
Santa Fe, NM: Oct. 18 & 19, Sat. 9am-6pm & Sun. 9am-4pm, Hotel Plaza Real
Sedona, AZ: Oct. 22 & 23, Wed. 10am-4pm & Thurs. 10am-4pm, Sedona Arts Center
Scottsdale, AZ: Oct. 28 & 29, Tues. 11am-9pm & Wed. 11am-9pm, Days Inn Scottsdale
Contact:
Gail Spiegel
Vasari Classic Artists’ Oil Colors
323 W. 39th St., Suite 606
New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212/947-1858
Fax: 212/947-6974
E-Mail: vasaricolorsny@aol.com
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