Skip Navigation Website Accessibility
Logo


Welcome to the Sylvania Location!

We have two locations open 7 days a week!

Click below for Bowling Green's Website:

Jules Webster
Owner + Founder of The Art Supply Depo
American Landscape Painter, born 1983.

About the Work:

Like every landscape painter in history, I was for a time "chasing light" by using mixed color to create the illusion of luminosity. More recent breakthroughs have allowed me to capture light through multiple glaze layers that will optically change the appearance of a painting depending on the amount of light in a room and the color temperature of that light, especially natural vs. artificial, and the angle of how the work is viewed. I no longer chase light, I study how to manipulate light through material. The shifting light in the work creates the illusion of the passage of time in the landscape.

In my current studio practice I oscillate back and forth between landscape representation and abstraction, tight and loose landscape renderings in both oil and acrylic. I enjoy painting calculated imagery in tight glaze layers on canvas and panel. I also love abstracting the landscape using thick cold wax, R&F Pigment Stick, Colored Pencil, Oil Pastel and Williamsburg + Gamblin tube paint on an Arches Oil Paper substrate. Both styles of painting are based in material exploration.

As the founder of two niche art materials stores, I have the unique perspective of understanding the practical applications of thousands of art materials, and the variations of products available by manufacturer. I am now using that knowledge to design material experiments to understand more thoroughly the optics of light, color, color perception, and how to manipulate the physical properties of various substrates, color formulations, and paint materials to achieve highly unusual, shifting lighting scenarios on a two dimensional surface.


The images below represent a portion of my Acrylic explorations from 2020 - 2023.


 





















The images below represent a portion of my early acrylic glazing, iridescent, + interference works from 2017 - 2019 which sparked my long-term curiosity to try to harness the optical capabilities of light passing through acrylic materials.

Elephant lifted by balloons
green bird on leaf
green bird on stem in front of flowers

 


Schedule dependent, I am able to host private or group workshops + lectures on site or off site for teens - adults in the following topics:

  • Mixed Media Exploration: How to Layer Drawing + Painting Mediums
  • Acrylic Mixed Media: Understanding the Viscosities of Different Paints + Mediums
  • Oil Mixed Media: Combining R&F Pigment Stick, Oil Paint + Gamblin Cold Wax
  • Variations on Acrylic Substrate Preparation
  • Variations on Oil Substrate Preparation
  • Brush Selection: How Brushes are Different, and What they are Capable of
  • Glazing Techniques in Oil or Acrylic
  • Color Theory: Understanding Mineral + Modern Pigments, How to Select Colors to Achieve Desired Results
  • Surface Decoration for Ceramics: Beginning to Advanced Underglaze Painting Techniques (studio must have their own kiln to fire work)

Please allow 2 months or more for scheduling. Lectures + workshops can be tailored to include hands on components and vary depending on time allotted and prior participant art material knowledge. Number of persons that can be accommodated for workshops vary by venue and topic. For more information or to schedule, please contact me through this form.


Press:

January 9, 2009 / Enjoying Toledo / Winter Hiatus

March 31, 2010 / The Toledo City Paper / Shiny, Gloomy Ceramics

November 3, 2010 / Toledo Free Press Star / Relative Value : Market Size Impacts Advertizing

January 19, 2011 / Toledo Free Press Star / Schedule C For Artists Made Simple

April 6, 2011 / Toledo Free Press Star / Urban Activist Roundtable Discussion

July 20, 2011 / UToday / UT Grad to Open Art Store in Downtown Toledo

November 6, 2013 / Toledo City Paper /The Business of Creating and Cultivating Art

June 1, 2014 / Toledo Free Press / Heart, Blood, and Tears

September 10, 2014 / Toledo City Paper / Focus on The Arts / Jules Webster

June 15, 2015 / Toledo City Paper /Exploring the Creative Landscape

August 4, 2015 (taping date) / WGTE Deadline Now Episode with Jack Lesenberry

May 1, 2016 / Urban Innovation Exchange / Jules Webster

February 13, 2017 / Nick Corbin Productions / Toledo, Ohio Documentary: Reclaiming Spaces

September 11, 2017 / Buckeye Cable Arts Network (BCAN) / Bright Spot: The Art Supply Depo

Summer 2017 / Art Materials Retailer / Double Duty

January 19, 2019 / Art Dog Blog / The Art Supply Depo Joins iAMart

March 19, 2019 / Toledo City Paper Podcast /Talking Shop with The Art Supply Depo’s Jules Webster + Stephen Owczarzak

December 22, 2019 / The Toledo Blade / In the Cards: Art Swap Lets Artists Share Small Works

July 27, 2023 / The Toledo Blade / Inaugural Sylvania Plein Air Festival Kicks off Tuesday

August 5, 2023 / The Toledo Blade / Sylvania Painting Competition a Success

November 9, 2023 / The Toledo Blade / Athena Art Society Continues Its Long History in Toledo

July 2024 / WAKT 106.1 Toledo Radio / Interview with Paula Ashley for Community Matters

June 30, 2024 / The Toledo Blade / Hendel: Summer solstice brings fireworks, reunions

July 27, 2024 / The Toledo Blade / Just Plein Cool: Sylvania Plein Air Festival

University of Toledo / Department of Art / A Few of Our Outstanding Alumni

The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo / Our Impact