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| David C. Willis |
Artist, craftsman and furniture maker, David C. Willis sees art as a part of his everyday life revealing his true loves. He chooses many different mediums to express and explore its many facets. In painting, his techniques and applications run the gamut from oil, watercolor and gouache, to drawing in charcoal, graphite and colored pencil. All of these elements allow him to create what his heart feels in life around him from realism to the abstract. This varied approach can be seen in his oil painting "Whole Lotta Love" that shows a large heart for the night sky above, the bright sun of day giving life to the earth and the forest which are placed on a quilt of multiple hearts.
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"Attitude"
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| Pair of tennis shoes |
David's subject matter is as varied as his selection of mediums. This can be see in the realistic rendering of a pair of used tennis shoes or in his portrait of a young man's face titled "Attitude". The latter captures a dramatic image of realism in order to reveal a state of mind. The viewer is left with choices as to the young man's posture and suggestions shown by his puckered lips.
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| "Sea of Love" |
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| "Another Heart - Ever Changing Heart" |
It should be no surprise that when you venture into the Blue Whole Gallery on First Friday the 7th of February and throughout the month you will experience a variety of subject matter in various mediums by a versatile artist David C. Willis. His art work features all styles from realism to abstract, revealing the degrees found in a serious or fanciful heart and even heart breaking. But within them all there is Love.
You can contact David at: (360) 504-2146
Carol Janda
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| Carol Janda |
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| "Mosaic World" |
Sharing the spotlight as featured artist at the Blue Whole Gallery in February is the talented & also versatile member artist Carol Janda. After many years as an artist, and teacher she has explored colors and textures in both clay and painting. Both mediums continue to be a driving force and pleasure in her life and reveal her accumulated ideas and philosophy through art. Carol's years of experience have allowed her to venture into diverse subject matter that continue to challenge her. This chance to explore the great variety that art offers allows her the openness to see and appreciate differences: her's is a mosaic world of many pieces.
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| Square Dragon Fly Vase |
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| "White Sea Gulls" |
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| Flower Maidens |
The spectrum of differences in Carol's heartfelt art work is quite extensive. Using clay as a medium of expression she focus on images such as dragon flies, figures, owls, frogs and even a praying Buddha. Using a stoneware Art Nouveau glaze or a Shino Glaze the subjects are graphically outlined and allowed to cover the surfaces of her hand built vessels, figures or tiles. Fired at stoneware low temperatures which help to stabilize the forms allowing her workmanship to remain intact and her creations to reveal her inventiveness. Its an achievement of complete involvement in clay art.
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| "Hurricane Ridge Huckleberries" |
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| "Winter Road" |
This exploration of the clay world does not stop Carol from also picturing the beautiful & heart touching views of the Olympic Peninsula. She has ventured wide and far in capturing those views in watercolor. Whether the scene is discovered at Hurricane Ridge or in her own flower garden she makes every effort to give them sensitivity and boldness that marks her style. To appreciate her efforts and acknowledge her life's work one only need to visit the Blue Whole Gallery where Carol Janda will be one of two featured Artists on First Friday, February 7th and throughout the month. It will be a visit you will remember and take to your heart. For more information about Carol visit: Claythingsplus@blogspot.com
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