With training and skills hard-won from a lifetime of study and practice, generous QD artists donate time and expertise to create fresh, lively work in a one hour traditional quickdraw, while YOU watch! Be amazed by the talent of your accomplished artists, and bid to win your favorite pieces in the live auction. A great way to decorate your home with unique and stunning art, and it comes with a backstory you can really brag about.
Oils
A painting creates an emotion just like a story does. As long as you’re emotionally involved somehow, you’re going to keep on reading, you’re going to keep looking, keep being drawn into the story, into the painting.
Oils
My grandchild's birth ahead of schedule takes meto Texas, but I offer a Little Gem small work. My newly released children's book is entitled, "Good Morning from the Forest” and features artwork of my forest friends.
acrylic/watercolor
I create dynamic, colorful paintings that tease and delight your eyes. I fearlessly interpret iconic architecture, tobacco barns as vibrant celebrations that let you see the familiar anew in a blaze of color.
Oils
I live in TN with my husband, daughter and our little boy. I teach at Studio 212 in Maryville. With a life in film and studio arts, you'll find motion and dance in my visual storytelling, the beauty of the human condition and its balance of long-suffering and goodness.
Pastel
Headshot to come! I'm entranced by landscape color and pattern, a splash of light on a cheek, the spot of red in a landscape, the glistening of turquoise on the water. I've exhibited in national and international shows, and teach in my Candler studio.
Oils
I have only a desire to paint what is my own – wholly and completely from within – along with the offerings of the earth and her daily miracles of color and light. When I begin a painting, I take inspiration from a beautiful light, color, form or texture and then continue working through observation.
My love of art started early, as my mother often pointed out nature's beauty in a sunset or a cloud-filled sky. I love oil on canvas to portray both realism and my abstract work, with color, shape, texture and value. Teachers and role models inspired me, so I know how vital teachers are to the students in their care.
Colored Pencil
Teresa Pennington is a self-taught colored pencil artist with a talent she says is God-given. Often spending as much as four months on one drawing, she meticulously renders the scenery, landmarks, flora and fauna of Western North Carolina with an emphasis on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Oils
Kelly is an American Representational Painter with a varied and expansive artistic background. Born and raised in the Appalachians of Western North Carolina, she uses elements from the landscape with its flora and fauna to compose beautiful and imaginative paintings and portraits.
Mixed Media
I'm a professor of art education at WCU, and Director of the School of Art and Design. I support the art teacher-as-artist model for training teachers and educating students. My interests include K-12 teaching, printmaking, fiber arts and mixed media.
Acrylic with oil wash
I moved to structural landscape painting from animation. Walking to work for eight years, I was able to observe manmade structures in progressive deterioration, with nature encroaching. The textures, peeling veneer, cobblestones, integrating new with old are fascinating.
Oils
I describe my style as "painterly realism" in oil, and strive for clear color, a strong focal point, and a good design. Living in Western North Carolina provides all the subject matter one could ever desire. We are surrounded by our beautiful natural world.
Oils
I moved from realism to impressionism to capture lines, shapes, lights, and shadows as dancing colors of our lives, bringing depth and movement. I follow my heart and the mood of the day, mixing oils directly on canvas, pushing and turning to create engaging textures and colors.
PLEASE DO CHAT WITH ME AS I CREATE!
Alongside your one-hour focused painters, meet QuickDraw demo artists creating in slower mediums like clay, wood, wax, fiber, textile, or metal, whose processes cannot be completed in the hour. Their lack of time constraint lets you engage and chat with them during the QD hour.
Enjoy, watch and learn as they bring to life some of the many steps involved in creating their works. Demo artists bring an already-made art piece that you can bid on and buy in the silent auction!
Medium: clay
Cathey's passion is functional clay art, hand-building or throwing useful pieces that surmount our daily needs, with a selection of unique glaze colors. Discover her pottery and gourmet olive oil/spice blend products at Corner Station in Waynesville.
Medium: Textiles/ Millinery
Teresa is a fourth-generation textile artist in a dynasty of weavers. She studied internationally under top fiber artists, trained in millinery, and worked with the US textile industry. She makes bespoke and custom hats, and is featured in the Blue Ridge Heritage Craft Trail and in the 2023 PBS series The Weekend Show.
Medium: Metal
I'm creating a unique sculpture for the QD auction, and the sparks are flying at my place so they won't fly across Laurel Ridge.
I work in steel and honed my skills at Haywood CC's Professional Crafts program. My nature-inspired creations can be seen on civic Main Streets and many WNC private homes.
Medium: Torn Paper Collage
Wendy studied at SUNY-Potsdam, raised a son and worked in accounting. She was drawn to the eye-catching technique of paper collage. She uses antique papers and maps, dictionaries and sheet music. Her pet commissions win raves from owners.
Medium: oil & pastel
Susan's Website
The goal is never realism for its own sake. The subject is a vehicle to express my love for light, color, form, and the medium of oil itself. I love the palette knife, which yields beautiful, surprising effects in exchange for a measure of control.
Medium: Colored Pencil
FaceBook: Stephanie Eastwood Art
Stephanie is self-taught in colored pencils, drawing full time after a teaching career. Her nature-themed works reflect painstaking observation to render fine details of fur and feather in her landscape and wildlife portrayals.
Medium: Mosaic
Pam is a self-taught mosaic artist, continuing to follow her muse after studying Arabic art and living in the Middle East. She likes to incorporate glass, tile & pottery in her designs. Her base surfaces are often interesting and richly textural items from across the globe.
Medium: Jewelry
My mountain-inspired collection pays homage to the beauty of the Appalachian mountains. Designs are subtle and organic, with a play of textures and finishes that evoke nature at its best.
Medium: Artisan Fly Rods- bamboo
"It's not the fish we seek. It's our own solitude." Tommy is a fly fishing instructor and vintage rod restorer, and has fished in every state on the East Coast. He crafts and restores rods to their original fishing condition, for your fishing and collectible display.
Tommy and Thomas Custom Rods is the largest purveyor and restorer of British, French and Irish split-cane bamboo rods in the country.
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