The Fort Collins Artist Studio Tour and Sale is a free self-guided tour of local artist studios and galleries revealing the creative process in and around Fort Collins. The included artists and galleries reflect the amazing, creative talent right in our community!
Enjoy refreshments, live music, door prizes, and 5 artist demos each day while you're on your tour around Fort Collins
Watercolor is Deb's medium. It’s exciting, unpredictable, challenging and fun. She says you can't quite control watercolor as it has a mind of its own, but you can help direct and lead it.
Deb will demo her watercolor process and will have a few of her new prints on sale during her event.
Chandris works in stained glass. She gathers her inspiration from the nature that surrounds her and from her travels. With a focus on a smaller scale of stained glass pieces, she loves to create modern designs in a medium that has been around for centuries.
For her demo, she will share the steps of producing a stained glass piece, including showing the foiling and soldering process.
Chandris will also be giving away a free honeycomb charm with any stained glass piece purchased.
Martha creates highly decorated, functional porcelain art pottery. It is wheel thrown, hand carved, and hand painted with a mandala motif.
If the weather isn't too cold, Martha will bring her portable wheel and throw some pieces during her demo. If the weather doesn't cooperate, she will carve and paint pieces that are in progress.
Julie loves the feel of fabric, the smell of a hot iron, and the hum of her sewing machines.
The first quilt Julie ever made was for her newborn son two decades ago. Since then she has made lap quilts with matching doll baby quilts, healing infused message quilts, prayer quilts, memory quilts, and numerous graduation quilts.
During the demo, Julie is offering a free bookmark with any purchase of her work.
Bruce works in oil and acrylics, and enjoys painting small-format landscapes (Typically 9 in. x 12 in. or smaller) featuring scenes from Colorado and the American Southwest.
Come to the demo watch him work on a small acrylic painting featuring a scene near Fort Collins.
Susie loves the smooth, earthy feel of clay and turning a lump of clay into functional pottery. She also enjoys working with colorful dichroic fused glass.
Her time is divided between working with clay and the bright shinny colors of glass. She cuts and assembles pieces of glass and then fires it in her kiln. She most enjoys designing jewelry and creating whimsical glass creations that sometimes combine fused glass, wood and clay.
Watch her creative process at the event.
Diana specializes in bright colors, patterns, and layers, drawing inspiration from fashion, home decor, and travel. She enjoys the freedom of expressive painting and letting each piece develop organically.
During Diana's demo, buy a piece of her art over $50 and receive a free card of your choice!
Bonnie paints landscape scenes, mostly from Colorado, using the medium of soft pastels. Soft pastel are created from pure pigment and a small amount of binder and applied to a sanded paper.
During her demo, Bonnie will share a display of a pastel painting in several stages of completion from start to finish. She will be demoing a painting, and bring some materials, sanded paper and pastels for people to try out themselves.
Bonnie will be giving a 10% discount on all framed artwork (not prints) during her demo.
Deanna creates collages made mainly of fabric. She uses a variety of techniques and materials to accomplish the finished pieces.
The process of layering materials in unusual and nonconforming ways, actually feeling the texture of the fabrics, fibers, and embellishments is an exciting and fun process that is freeing and feeds Deanna’s soul.
Come enjoy watching Deanna's creative process!
Michael uses professional digital art programs and a Cintiq Pro screen display tablet that allows him to digitally create art that emulates familiar natural medium techniques such as oil and acrylic paints, watercolor, pastels, pen and ink, pencil, etc.
Learn about Michael's process - including his Cintiq tablet - during his demo.
He is also offering a 10% discount on his work during the event.
