The Olds Art Club's annual fall show and sale takes place this weekend, Nov. 5-6 at the Evergreen Centre.
It will be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This year, there are two featured artists: Theresa Kalika and Doris Stephenson. They'll each have about 20 to 30 pieces on display. Traditionally, the show has a total of about 300 pieces from members.
Kalika's favourite medium is watercolour, although she'll have some acrylics (paintings done with a kind of plastic paint) on display as well.
Kalika worked with acrylics most of the summer, but found watercolours easier to work with.
“(Acrylics) dry fast. I guess I like to do a lot of strokes as opposed to one,” she says.
“In watercolour you can do that as much as you want and nothing bad happens, really, unless you scrub too hard. But in acrylics, the next thing you know, there's a hole in the paint and you cannot really fix the hole.
“In the end, if you work at it enough, over and over and over, you're going to get the result that you want; yes you will, I'm sure of it. But it's like layer upon layer upon layer,” she adds.
Kalika says it took her “hours and hours and hours” just to do one small painting with acrylics.
Stephenson likes to work with coloured pencils.
“I feel like I have some control with pencil,” she says.
“When you have a brush you have a loose end so you have to learn how to work that brush to make it do what you want it to do, so that's why there are so many different types of brushes.
“Whereas, with a pencil, it has a firm point. You can control it. It's not going to control you,” Stephenson says.
“If I gave you a brush to write with on there it would be very hard (to do) because you've got to learn to pull it back and just use the tip and have all the colour in the paintbrush. It is a lot harder.”
