PORT ANGELES — Studio Bob will highlight its fifth annual “Brush Off” performance painting challenge where the artists are the stars of the show Saturday.
This Second Weekend art event will start at 5 p.m. and painting will begin at 7 p.m.
The public is invited to participate in this high-energy show as audience or artists upstairs at Studio Bob at 118½ E. Front St.
Six artists will be chosen randomly to compete in the impromptu speed painting performance.
The theme for each painting will be drawn from suggestions contributed by the audience.
Each artist will select music from a Pandora station, and then have 15 minutes to paint.
The winner will be chosen by popular vote and presented with prize money from audience donation.
All six paintings will be displayed for one year in a new outdoor alley gallery that will adorn the back entrance of Studio Bob.
Artists wanting to participate need to stop in Studio Bob/The Loom between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Saturday and put their name into a drawing.
Studio Bob and The Loom will open at 5 p.m. Saturday for refreshments and sign-in for the drawing as well as suggestions for painting themes.
The six artists for the “Brush Off” will be chosen at 7 p.m.
Brushes, paint, and a 32-inch-by-48-inch primed board will be supplied. Artists are welcome to bring their own brushes if they wish.
Studio Bob will be open Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. for anyone who wants to see the “Brush Off” paintings.
There will be a no host bar serving beer and wine in The Loom.
For information, call Stokes at 415-990-0457.
Kicking off the Second Weekend Art Walk will be the 2nd Friday Art Rock at Bar N9ne, 229 W. First St.
At 9 p.m., 2nd Friday Art Rock (2FAR) at Bar N9NE will feature Seattle band Alki Jones and Port Angeles artist Jeff Tocher.
The $4 cover charge will help support the musicians and artists.
Alki Jones will perform while Tocher paints.
For more information, see www.facebook.com/pages/Art-Rock/ 157702334263991 or email pa2far@live.com.
Also during Second Weekend Art Walk, galleries have these events planned:
• Harbor Art invites the public to visit from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at a new location, 114 N. Laurel St.
This month, Harbor Art features the photography of Keith Ross.
Ross and his wife, Kryztyna, moved to Sequim on a whim in October 2015 after selling their home in Wenatchee and falling in love with the area.
The natural beauty, and especially the abundance of birds and wildlife, spurred on their shared passion for photography, and Ross has since invested himself fully into capturing unique and crisp images of local wildlife and landscapes.
Just two years after starting a journey using self-taught techniques, and taking thousands of images to refine his skills, he was invited by the Olympic Peaks Camera Club to present a seminar on how to photograph wildlife.
At about the same time, he was asked to take over the photographer position for the Sequim Irrigation Festival by Ernst Ulrich Schafer, one of the premier award-winning photographers in the state.
With some coaching on studio lighting from Schafer, he created a home studio and an outdoor studio on his property, and with some practice, formed his own style of portrait photography.
Ross has also created a Facebook group called Sequim Outdoors for local artists to post images from the entire Peninsula.
• The Landing Artists Studio in the Landing Mall, 115 E. Railroad Ave., will host Art Walk from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The public is invited and light refreshments are served.
Larry Bennett, basket weaver, is the featured artist for June. Bennett has been a member of the studio for more than two years.
His pine needle baskets have won numerous awards and have also been displayed at the Washington State Museum in Olympia. The long pine needles are gathered only from Eastern Washington and Georgia. Each basket is skillfully sewn together by hand using split raffia strands in intricate designs.
For information, call Pamela Dick at 360-460-1069.
This month Harbor Art features the photography of Keith Ross including “Bald Eagle Close Up Personal.”
