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Havre Montana July 14th-19th

The Great Northern Nair in Havre Montana will be on from the 14-19th of July this year.

Havre Montana artist Bob Williams will be showing seven pieces of artwork this year at the fair

In acrylic artwork there will be a 16x20 Falls painting, an 16x20 painting of Niagara Fall on the Canadian side, a 16x 20 painting of a Hummingbird.

In oil paintings there are three still life's , and apple blossom , a Pansies in a bowl, and an Asian Vase.

There is also an Agate with the painting of a Dolphin on it.

The entry to the fair and parking are free, so plan to attend the Great Northern Fair , and stop in and see the artwork of Bob Williams of Havre Montana

Havre , Montana July 14th 2015

Bob Williams will have his art opening July 17th Friday from 6-8 P.M. @ the Artitudes Art Galley in the Atrium Mall , Havre Montana. The Public is invited to join for what should be a wonderful get together.

New pieces will be introduced, some never before seen art pieces are listed below.

An oil painting of the famous sea stack "the warrior" of the coast of Ireland, 18x24 in size.

Two acrylic paintings ( a young lion cub) called Leonidas and a (blue tit bird) hanging sideways off a branch( see press release image)

The new agate paintings are of a (cougar) and a (red fox)

Most of these paintings will now be able to be seen of the Fine Art America site (www,bobsartforyou.com)

Artist Bob Williams will attend Western Art Week which is an annual visual arts festival held in the city of Great Falls, Montana, every March.

The focus of the Art Shows is Western art, and the festival is always held the same week as the March 19th birthday of Western artist Charles Marion Russell.
Various Art Shows are held during Western Art Week, including the C.M. Russell Museum's "The Russell" art sale, the Western Heritage Artists Association Art Show, the Jay Contway and Friends Art Show and this year a new name to an old show "Out West Art Show and Sale" will be March 18th thru 21st.
The event draws bidders and artists from around the world, and the travel guide Frommer's has called it one of the finest Western auctions in the United States. Other sources have said the event "is widely regarded as the nation's largest and finest auction of original western art of the 19th and 20th centuries."
Western Art Week in Great Falls was founded in 1969. The...

Harlem, MT - March 12,13,14th

Artist Bob Williams will be showing again at the 65th Harlem Seed Show in Harlem Montana. This will be his 1st year back but has shown at the Annual show quite a few times in the past, a seven year run at one time. Below are listed a few of the artworks he will display. The Artist will be displaying Clayboard Engravings (a form of scratch art) of a Timber Wolf, Dolphins and also a Red Fox. In the Acrylic Paintings on Canvas he will show " The Falls" a wide many level falls( see image to you left on this release) and "Ruby" A hummingbird in a field of flowers, "Escaping the Yellowstone Fires" A Bull Moose in Yellowstone Park. Oil Paintings , the Artist will show Still Life's , Apple Blossom Time , Pear Martini. Paintings on Brazilian Agates will be a Cougar, Red Fox, Mountain Goat and beautiful Blue and Gold MaCaw. In the Airbrushing medium will be a large 20x24 Grizzle Bear , airbrushed on canvas. There will also be an Art...

Artist Bob Williams will be showing again at the Havre Art Association. This will be his 2nd year in a row but has shown at the Annual show quite a few times in the past. Below are listed a few of the artworks he will display.

The Artist will be displaying Clayboard engravings (form of scratch art) of a Timber Wolf and also a Red Fox.
In the Acrylic Paintings on Canvas he will show "Ruby" A hummingbird in a field of flowers, "Escaping the Yellowstone Fires" A Bull Moose in Yellowstone Park ( see image included on your left) , Oil paintings , the Artist will show Still life's , Apple Blossom Time , Pear Martini.
Brazilian Agates will be a beautiful Blue and Gold MaCaw. In the Airbrushing medium will be a large 20x24 Grizzle Bear , airbrushed on canvas.


Havre Art Association Annual Show & Sale guest artist will be Joseph Yellowbird. The show includes artists from Montana displaying and selling their art. There is also a SILENT...

Starting Oct. 12th artist Bob Williams will start a Still Life Gallery on his website at Fine Art America.

He will add one oil painting to the still life gallery daily for the week.

The still life's will all be oil paintings on white clayboard , done in the style of the Old Dutch Masters with very dark backgrounds.

The press release image still life is call "A Pear Martini" , where we have a red pear in a martini glass with grapes around it.

Stop by the Still life gallery and see all the new artwork, www.bobsartforyou.com or you can always go to FAA and search for Artist Bob Williams.

Enjoy the other Art Galleries on the Artist website, just to name a few....Clayboard Engravings....Paintings On Brazilian Agates Art......Seascapes...Oil Paintings of Landscapes.......Paintings of BIRDS.......Airbrushing.

Also as always you can purchase any artwork in almost any usual sizes for only a fraction of what the original...

Artist Bob Williams will be showing some of his artwork at " DIXIE CLASSIC FAIR" in Winston-Salem North Carolina , from Oct. 3-12th 2014

He will be showing an Acrylic Painting of a trapped sail boat in the sea trying to head for a headland. The acrylic paintings is a 16x20 on canvas.

The oil painting is of mixed media. It is a painting of a MaCaw in the jungle. The background trees and ferns are painted in acrylic paints while the bird is painted in oil .

Bob Williams has displayed at the Dixie Classic a few times and has displayed Clayboard engravings, Brazilian Agates with wildlifel painted on them.

To see more of his artwork you can go to www.bobsartforyou.com

There is a home page (s) with artwork and it is also broken down into different art gallery's . Oil painting, wildlife, seascapes, landscapes just to name a few .

Artwork can be collected in canvas prints, regular prints, framed prints, metal prints, I-phone...

Sept. 15th 2014

Havre, Montana

Montana Artist Bob Williams has put a few of his Brazilian Agates on display at his website with Fine Art of America.
If you are unsure about Brazilian Agate Art and what it is or looks like , I think you'll be in for a treat. It is very unique and very pretty , We 'll go through the process in steps below.

The 1st step is to find what you would like to paint on an agate. The agates he uses are between 4x6 to 8x12 in size so don't plan a large landscape'
He like to paint mostly animals and mostly head shots, but you could do the complete animal and some habitat.

The 2nd is to pick the agate, most people would think this would be the first step and it can be sometimes. Now we match the agate with our painting plans , for example maybe a deep blue agate for a killer whale piece , a green agate for a jungle scenery for a Macaw. Will the agate be to small or to big for the image and the shape of the agate, will it...

If you don't know what art form Clayboard Engraving is, you may know it by it's other name, Scratch Art. It originated in England and France in the 19th century for newspapers and such.

The best method for doing Scratch Art is to use a factory board designed just for the process.The board is like the Masonite panels used for oil painting but is layered with white kaolin clay and then layered with a coat of black India ink. Ampersand Scratchboard is the material used in the images at this Website www.bobsartforyou.com .

Step one of the four step process is to draw out your image in pencil and get it where you like it.

Step two is to transfer that artwork to the clayboard. This is done different by every artist and is a matter of choice.

Step three is to use a scratch tool to scrape off the ink and leave the white clay showing thus Engraving out the image of your pencil drawing.

Step four is to leave it black and white or to color it. Inks,...