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"Local Watercolor Masters" is the featured show in the Studio Gallery at Artworks Around Town for February. The exhibit includes watercolor works by Janet Sheehan, curator of the exhibit, Janet Hart, Janet Rodriguez, Jenny Seibert and Bill Rettig.
The show open with a reception from 5:30-8 p.m. today at the gallery, located in the Upper Market House of Centre Market in historic Center Wheeling. Also on display will be the "Friends and Family Show" in the North Gallery and "Paint It Red" in the North Corner.
The public is invited to browse the galleries, enjoy refreshments and meet the artists.
"Local Watercolor Masters" is a show that depicts a variety of ways watercolor can be used to create atmospheric pieces that exhibit the spectrum from "dry" work to "Wet" work. Dry work is detailed and exacting and usually opaque. wet work uses the technique of floating watercolor pigment in a prearranged but not precise pool of water.
Watercolor has a firm and extensive artistic following in the Ohio Valley. Exceptional local watercolor instructors and visiting workshop presenters have been received enthusiastically by local artists. For many years, Rodriguez and Rettig both taught watercolor painting at Artworks and at the Oglebay Institute Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling.
Sheehan, a local attorney, now teaches watercolor at Artworks. Hart is a watercolorist and pen-and-ink artist who designs greeting cards of local Victorian architecture and of the Centre Market.
Seibert is a local Realtor and creator of many wet works using techniques she learned from local watercolor instructors Kathy Thompson, Rodriguez and Rettig.
Rettig, transplanted master watercolor teacher from the Pennsylvania area, has taught watercolor techniques here for many years. He is a proficient creator of works shown in corporate and home venues.