PORT ANGELES — Studio Bob will host “The Collective Works of Carolyn Guske and Robert Amaral” with an opening night and reception during Second Saturday Art Walk from 5 to 8 tonight.
For those unable to attend Saturday’s opening, Studio Bob, at 118½ E. Front St., will be open from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday.
The show will be up during November. Private viewings are available.
Guske’s background includes 30 years as a painter in animation, said Bob Stokes, owner of Studio Bob.
Beginning first in ink and paint, and then attending Fred Fixler’s California Art Institute for five years, she became a visual development artist and background painter at Disney, Dreamworks, Warner Bros. and Sony.
Fifty of her animal illustrations and paintings were published 2014 in the book “An Introduction to Heritage Breeds” and a coloring book for The Livestock Conservancy. Guske now teaches drawing and watercolor painting in Sequim.
Primarily a landscape painter, Amaral is drawn to all facets of nature, enjoying the challenge of drawing and painting birds and animals — exploring their color and form, organizers said.
Amaral earned a Bachelor of Arts in printmaking from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in medical illustration from the University of California at San Francisco.
For more information, call 415-990-0457.
Kicking off the weekend will be Jeff Tocher and the Juan de Fuca Band at 9 tonight for 2FAR — 2nd Friday Art Rock — at Bar N9NE, 229 W. First St.
A $3 cover charge will help support the musicians and the artist.
Local artist Tocher will paint live art while the Juan de Fuca Band plays what is likely to be their last show in which their frontman, Dan Magure, is still director.
Fueled by the words and music from songwriter Maguire and creative leads from the left by guitarist Clark Driese, the band revels in its rootsy journey deep into the heart of American music, organizers said.
Rock, folk, blues, country and other genres are on the play list.
For information, go to facebook.com/pages/Art-Rock/157702334263991.
Also on the self-guided tour of art venies on Saturday are:
• Harbor Art Gallery, 114 N. Laurel St., which will feature work by artist of the month Keven Willson.
The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Willson is self-taught. He began his professional art with metal sculpture in 1973 and became co- founder of “The Art Works, Inc.” in Langley on Whidbey Island.
In 1974, he ventured into stone. In 1978, he moved to Europe to expand his learning of art sculpture. In Spain, Italy and Switzerland, he worked with marble, serpentine, alabaster, travertine, granite and bronze.
He later moved back to the Pacific Northwest.
For the past 28 years, he has been selling from his studio and showing art privately or in local galleries.
• The Landing Artists Studio in The Landing mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave., will host an exhibit during Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
The public is invited and light refreshments will be served.
The studio will kick off holiday shopping with marked-down items from all its artists.
There will be original painted art pieces, art yarn, jewelry, painted rocks, fractals, hair accessories, and scarves, gloves, hats and other items.
The Landing Artists Studio has six full-time and five part-time artists who create art on-site.
The public is always welcome to watch, ask questions and interact with the artists.
• One of a Kind Gallery in The Landing mall at 115 E. Railroad Ave, will honor military veterans during Art Walk this month with art on display from Saturday through Nov. 17.
The public is invited on Saturday to meet the artists of the month, Ines Epperson and Katherine Trammel, stop in to honor veterans, meet the artists and have a complimentary beverage and appetizers.
As an artist, Epperson grew up in the south of France, in a family of writers, musicians and artists.
She studied at the Academie Charpentier in Paris, where she received a strict classical education, which later proved to be a solid foundation for her current style.
After years of experimentation, soul-searching and development, her realistic style has taken a looser, more spontaneous impressionistic quality.
She now paints almost exclusively in oils. On dark winter days she can be found in her studio, but she is most comfortable painting en plein air.
Throughout the years, her work has won many awards and can be seen in collections around the U.S., Mexico and France.
Trammell is a local artist who creates one-of-a-kind driftwood art sculptures.
She incorporates pieces of nature found here on our beautiful Olympic Peninsula. Each piece is unique and can’t be found anywhere else in the world.
Robert Amaral’s abstract paintings will be on view at Studio Bob beginning Saturday.
Carolyn Guske, Sequim artist and teacher, will display her animal paintings at Studio Bob’s beginning Saturday.
Carolyn Guske, Sequim artist and teacher, will display her animal paintings at Studio Bob’s beginning Saturday
