The Sweet Home Oregon Coalition for Arts and Scholastic Enrichment begins a new year of art shows with the “wet-on-wet” paintings of local artist and teacher Don Ross from Jan. 25 to Feb. 15 at the SHOCASE Gallery, located inside the Sweet Home City Hall, 3225 Main St.
Ross came to art relatively late in life after many years in the business world. He is essentially self-taught, but once he got started, he followed with classes in German painter Bill Alexander’s “wet-on-wet” method and also as an instructor for adults and children.
He works primarily in oils but has also done watercolors and the occasional acrylic painting. His sense of humor plays into his work, as well, resulting in an early art-competition win with an oceanscape on a saw blade entitled “Sea Saw.”
Ross has presented demonstrations in many locations and currently offers workshops for adults and children, families and individuals at his studio in the Sweet Home hills. The artist particularly enjoys teaching children, enthusing, “They have such great enthusiasm and creativity!”
A public reception for the artist will take place from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, in the City Hall lobby. Light refreshments will be served.