Utrecht’s Free School of Art is in session this Sunday, Sept. 5th! Join us for a great mixed media demo, where Valerie will be showing us how to make cool textured collage/painting/photo transfer mixed media pieces, using a really cool but little known product called Envirotex. Class begins at 3pm, see you there!

Check out this awesome mural of a giant Vietnamese dragon at Skyline College in San Bruno. Instructor Paul Bridenbaugh and the faculty and staff of Skyline have been hard at work on this gorgeous piece. And are those pints of Utrecht’s vibrant but economical acrylic paints you see in the pictures? Yes, indeed, the best value for brilliant colors and broad cover when you’ve got a big project.

http://www.smccd.edu/accounts/skygallery/exhibits/new_mural/nw_mural.html

Get ready students, it’s time to fill those class lists! And everone else should come and take advantage of these amazing back to school savings too.

There are too many things on sale to even list here, but with these discounts and our price match guarantee, there is no reason to shop anywhere else!

For real! Bright white, exclusive Utrecht Edition Chuck Taylor Converse low- and high-tops! They are the perfect blank canvas for your hottest shoe designs. Tired of waiting for a pair of Chucks that’s just right for you? Grab a pair of these and a handful of Molitow acrylic paint pens, and get to work!

About one month from now we will begin an exciting new series of free art classes and demonstrations, every first Sunday at 3pm in the store. We will kick things off on Sept. 5th with an awesome class on mixed media hosted by our very own painter and mixed media artist, Valerie! She will discuss some of her favorite techniques and the process of experimentation. There will be all sorts of materials for you to try out, so come out and bring your friends for an art-filled first Sunday!

This is a lovely work by Berkeley artist Takeshi Tanemori.

We are in the final weeks of our tremendous annual brush and canvas sale, so come in soon and stock up your studio! Sale ends August 15th.

We are very excited to welcome Golden’s Open Acrylic line of paints to our shelves! These gorgeous paints remain open for hours (or even days on the pallet), allowing for blending, shading, and glazing techniques formerly only possible with oil paints. Stored properly, your mixed colors can last for weeks!

To achieve different effects while maintaining the Open Acrylics’ incredible open time, use Golden’s Open line of mediums. To adjust the Open paints’ drying time to suit your individual needs, just mix them with varying amounts of regular acrylic paint or mediums. You can do it all with this paint!

Artists, a call to entry! It’s our annual art competition, and this year we’re offering $15,000 in prizes. The categories are drawing, painting, and sculpture. All you have to do is send in a scanned image of your work. There’s nothing to lose and everything to gain–enter today!! Follow this link for more information.

We’re having an incredible sale on ALL Utrecht brand brushes, canvases, and linens from now until August 15th! From hog bristle to kolinsky sable, from studio canvases to rolls of our finest rolls of Claessens linen–it’s all on sale at unbeatable prices. Come in today and get your studio stocked!

We’ve got a Fan Page on Facebook now and we want you to become a fan of Utrecht Berkeley!  If you simply type “Utrecht Berkeley” into the search bar on your Facebook page you will find us.  Because Facebook streamlines a lot of processes involved in posting updates it’s super easy for us to give you up-to-the-minute info about specials, demos, new products, etc.  A lot of our customers love to chat with our associates about each other’s work, this is a great way to keep up with them as well and have a super quick link to get to see their personal work they’ve posted.  We’ll also send out incentives to get you back into our store asap (aka, info on promotions and COUPONS!).  We’ll of course continue to post updates to this blog as well, but once you’ve become familiar with the benefits of Facebook you’ll understand why it’s so fun to reconnect with long lost folks, find new friends, and meet other artists in our community!