Erika Helsing and Christopher Reitmaier create art out of leftover flowers outside Twilight Artist Collective during the Aug. 13 Art Walk. Helsing is wearing a necklace she made out of a bottle cap she found in France. CLICK IMAGE FOR MORE PHOTOS.
The Aug. 13 West Seattle Art Walk saw a wide variety of artists take over the neighborhood.
Self-taught artist Kerry Smith talked with Art Walk-er Mark Megale about the style he developed called “Dollopism.” He laughed and said he might be the leading Dollopist.
Smith said he starts with four-inch square canvases, paints checkerboards, then diagonals, then swirls and finally adds the dollops.
“Not the fastest way to paint, but it keeps me out of trouble,” said Smith, a Burien resident.
Local artist Janet Ramble discussed the techniques and locations of her paintings at Wild Rose’s Antiques and Gifts.
Leann Davis, owner of Wild Rose’s, said Ramble is so popular she sold almost her entire collection last April.
Erika Helsing and Christopher Reitmaier repurposed leftover flowers into a street installation in front of Twilight Artist Collective.
Inside the Collective, they showed bottle cap pendents they made from found objects.
