StellaLily Studio
Chicago, IL
2017 booth # 32A
I hand print my photographs on fiber paper and mount them onto painted birch panels. I add lacquer, UV coating and hand pour resin over the whole piece. This adds depth and a clean finish. I also hand transfer my photos onto white marble. The paper is removed and I add multiple layer of acrylic to the surface. Cork is then added to the back. These can be used as coasters or small pieces of affordable art.
© Juana Ryan
Minneapolis, MN
© Sue Mooney
2023 Booth #126
Molding paste was applied to the canvas to give it more depth in it texture. Then acrylic paint was applied with a palette knife.
Josh Merrill Photography
Lisle, IL
2017 booth #.
The artist creates compelling photographs of the natural world with a unique vision and skilled use of color. He then prints, mats, and frames with the highest quality archival substrates.
© Josh Merrill
© Oscar Matos Linares
2023 Booth #89
Through my images, I seek to express inner tranquility and peace. My work is shown on both metal and traditional paper prints.
S.K Photography
Chicago, IL
2017 booth #.
Most of my photographs were taken in the moving clouds and mist, which result in strong pictorial effects. They express the exquisite and tranquility of nature. I try to merge the tradition with the modern, the East with the West. The more you look at my works, the more you will enjoy them and relax yourself.
All my works are produced using traditional photography techniques and tools. Some of my works are combinations of two or three negatives. I have tried to show in my works special atmosphere, best pictorial layout accurate colors. Rich layers and finest framing.
© Sunny Liang
Jamie Heiden Photography
Holmen, WI
2023 Booth #103
Jamie Heiden lives in the beautiful Driftless area of western Wisconsin. For as long as she can remember, she has been a collector of images. She stores them in her mind; she captures them with her camera. For her, pictures really can tell a story. Life’s simplicity is her inspiration and conveying that story is her goal.
Jamie is a photographer first. But when she sits down at her computer, the beginnings unfold. Her finished images contain multiple photographic layers using tasks once performed in the darkroom, now tools she has at her fingertips on the computer. What would have taken hours years ago can be done and then undone in half the time, not necessarily making the completed process any shorter but allowing for ten times the amount of experimenting within.
All of her work contains multiple photographic layers combined digitally. She works on each individual layer. Of course all images are Jamie's and no filters are used in the process. The end result is an image ever-so-slightly removed from traditional photography.
© Jamie Heiden
Sweetlight Photographic Images
Climax, MN
2023 Booth 29/30
My name is Andy Hall and I am the owner of Sweetlight Gallery/Andy Hall Photography in Crookston, MN. I’ve been a full time photographer for the past 25 years and I feel very fortunate to be able to make a living doing what I love! I grew up in SE Minnesota, lived in Mpls. 26 years and moved to NW Minnesota 8 years ago. I currently live in the metropolis of Climax, MN (pop. +/- 200) with my beautiful spouse Kris. We recently became grandparents, and we are over the moon with love!
© Andy Hall
My photographs are created using a variety of basic equipment including a digital camera, various lenses and always a tripod. However, my latest body of botanical images has been created in studio using a full quite of strobe lighting and a precision screw driven macro rail for focus stacking. Images created this way allow for extreme detail and focus control and involve shooting and stitching together up to 200 individual captures. Software is used to assist with the final stacking.
Nature and still life photographs offered on paper and canvas. I perform all steps of the process!
© Andy Hall
Allen Gray Photography
Burnsville, MN
2019 Booth # 108
Color and Black and White photographs digitally processed, printed, and framed by the artist.
© Allen Gray
© Doug Cavanah
Blaine MN
2017 booth # 50
Landscape & Cityscape Photography framed fine art prints, canvas prints, unframed prints & note cards.
© Bill Cady
St Paul, MN
2017 booth # 100
Andrea Martin is an award winning local artist and papercutter. She received her BA in biology from Indiana University and studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been cutting paper for about 7 years and started working as a full time artist after retiring from teaching science. Andrea exhibits her work at art fairs and exhibitions in the Twin Cities, as well as nationally and internationally. In addition, her work was featured on the Twin Cities Public Television series Minnesota Original.
Andrea uses cut paper to create nature scenes that explore the interactions of plants, animals, and humans in the urban landscape. Each design is cut from one piece of paper using an x-acto knife. Sometimes multiple layers of colored paper are used to enhance the design.
© Andrea Martin
© Andrea Martin
Iconic Quilling
Minneapolis, MN
2020 Booth
Hand-cut paper designs. I start by drawing a design on a piece of paper, which I then hand-cut using an x-acto knife. Sometimes I add color to the design by adding several layers of colored paper, paint or ink.
@ Aaron Furuseth
Red Wing, MN
2017 booth # 94
I combine different watermedia to create stylized landscapes reminiscent of a woodcut or a batik.
© Dan Wiemer
Minneapolis, MN
2017 booth # 87
I started painting over 14 years ago. At that time I was photographing City scapes and was attracted to photographing buildings so it was a natural subject to paint. I paint 3 different series of oil paintings; Twin City Icons, Signage and Urban Extracts. The major Icon's Of the Twin Cities have been a pleasure to re-creating with Oil Paint. I try to capture the most intriguing angles along with heightening the light and color the subject already has. The immediate connection the viewer can make from my work is what makes the subjects of our beautiful neighborhoods so rewarding to paint. I'm continually honored by the memories and pride my work inspires from those who view it.
I have sold at art fairs nation wide for several years. I've sold my work in several galleries within the Midwest and east coast. Locally I'm with the Douglas Flanders Gallery Minneapolis. If I have sold the original Oil painting of my Iconic Twin Cities pieces; they are then sold as limited edition Giclee prints made from the digital scans of the original oil paintings.
I work in Oil paint on canvas. A few of my pieces have sharpie marker used in them too. First I under paint my work using acrylic ocher, that way light colors such as whites have to be painted a bit heavier and the painting over a dried ocher seems to brighten my colors. I Varnish my paintings with a high gloss to bring out the door even more in them.when they have dried long enough.
My process starts with my taking pictures of my subjects. I try to shoot photos that are close to the final layout of my picture as possible. I photocopy the image large enough to trace just the outlines of my composition. As I paint I carefully study the color of both screen and printed versions of my picture to paint. This helps me create pools of color I record for each area I paint. This way i create hues and shades of color uniquely my own off of observation of the real colors.
With the Urban Extracts series I visually translate my urban environment by extracting structural areas and recreating them though color, shadow and cropping. Density of buildings and their relationship to each other in connection with the atmospheric light are essential elements I use to translate reality into my paintings. I hope that by observing my work a new recognition for our urban landscape evolves and sparks a respect for new and old building structures.
© Mike Welton
Minneapolis, MN
2018 booth #139
I consider myself a modern impressionistic painter. Depending on the feeling I want to get across in my paintings I use acrylics, watercolor, or alcohol inks. Alcohol inks provide the most vibrant of colors and are fun to use because of their unpredictability and quick drying time. Acrylics and watercolor provide more thought provoking paintings.
Capturing the beauty of everyday places and nature is what I enjoy doing most. What I want to convey through my work is a feeling or emotion of the places that I am painting. A place created by using vibrant color where one can look and think "I've been there and felt the same feeling". A place where you would want to revisit again and again.
© Carman Stoner
Ginger Street Studio
St Paul, MN
2023 Booth #88
My work is created with acrylic paint, metal leaf, and oil paints on cradled wood panel.
© Greta Sandquist
Waconia, MN
http://www.jenniferspaintings.com/
2023 Booth # 10
The expressive style of painting allows for me to be my authentic self. I feel. I move. I paint. Shapes are left fragmented and undone. Collections of lines & shadows & shapes form as layers of acrylic build.
© Jennifer Patnaude
Dan Mondloch Watercolors LLC
St Cloud, MN
2017 booth # 77
Original landscapes, Plein Air and Studio Paintings in Watercolor, Acrylic, and Oil.
© Dan Mondloch
Green Bay, WI
2022 Booth #109
I use a layering technique that allows me to build up the oil paints for contrast and bright colors.
© Melvin McGee
St Petersburg, FL
2018 booth #73
I travel and paint using oil and acrylic paints on canvas and wood. I paint on site as well as from photos, sketches and memory using palette knives, brushes and towels.
© John Maurer