Mary Ciofalo and Juan Vargas were accepted by the FiftyFifty Show at the Sanchez Art Gallery. Now the fun begins.
Installation at Center for Spiritual Living
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| Thank you Mary, Avelina, Juliet, invisible Bill and Shirley. Challenging and well done. |
Quotes from Viewers:
Hi Shirley & Mary,
The folks at the Center loved your art!
Thank you both so much for all your hard work yesterday and for all your organization! I got called that everyone loved your paintings!
I am grateful. Thanks again, Juliet
Dear Juliet,
I was at the Center last evening and was overwhelmed by the fantastic art display. You have really set the bar quite high! Thank you so much for your hard work and to all the artists who contributed their works. I think this exhibit can hang around for awhile unless we can sell it out completely! I know most people who were there last night felt similarly .
Thank you both so much for all your hard work yesterday and for all your organization! I got called that everyone loved your paintings!
I am grateful. Thanks again, Juliet
Dear Juliet,
I was at the Center last evening and was overwhelmed by the fantastic art display. You have really set the bar quite high! Thank you so much for your hard work and to all the artists who contributed their works. I think this exhibit can hang around for awhile unless we can sell it out completely! I know most people who were there last night felt similarly .
Kudos to you.
Namaste, Marsha
Tuesday at Creightons - May 19
As we waited for artists to arrive we were talking about what we are afraid to try/what was challenging for us and it was pretty interesting. Each of us is challenged by something different…cars, flowers, architecture, figure, etc. Some of us are planning to use the summer to actually face our little demons!
09 - Paint on a Narrow Sheet
HEATHER took two pieces she had been working on and added more. One was her misty piece and she added blooming trees that had an Asian feel, like graceful ladies in kimonos (my image). She added more foreground detail in her piece on a gessoed background.
MARJORIE managed to produce NINE pieces. She used a poppy piece she had done a while ago as her source. She cropped the edge of that one, then she created a new one that included ink and was freer and another that she used looser blobs of color with cray-pas. She was going for Bolder and Freer! She also did two versions of a waterfall, two copies of Cezanne and two of Obata trees.
LEE produced a lovely and subtle Rothko and a little Helen Franken Faller. She loves abstract.
SHIRLEY shared her third Japanese kite that was full of color and pattern. She says she has one more and that she is ready to be done and needs a break from the intensity of the Iridori paints.
AVELINA did a reinterpretation of a portrait of her step-daughter that they lost two years ago. It was an ethereal pencil drawing over a background wash. Lovely tribute!
SUE and JOANIE didn’t do their homework…there is nest week!
Check out the Rothko video!
Next week: 39 - Combine the Figure with Landforms
Soon, Joanie
Presentation on Turner
Hi Gang,
Here is the information on the Kerrin Meis presentation on Turner. It will be held at the Corte Madera Store on 51 Tamal Vista Blvd. The date is June 26, 2015 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The cost is $40. You can register on line at: BookPassage.com.
You can also register at the store ahead of time or on the day of the event. I would not suggest registering on the day of the event because the space they usually use is not large and I’m sure it will be well attended.
Depending on the number who want to attend, I could go earlier and save seats if your tickets have been purchased ahead of time. Please let me know if you plan to go and have purchased a ticket.
Regards, Camille Morishige
Tuesday at Creightons - May 26
Hi, TACers,
We continue to be a smaller group with some of us travelling.
09 - Paint on a Narrow Sheet
There were large to tiny narrow pieces of paper and, as usual, a wide variety of subject matter.
JANIE started us off with a double duty piece (paint from another painting and using a narrow sheet) of a waterfall from one of her oil paintings. It had a delicate Asian feel and was incomplete. We offered suggestions.
AVELINA used strips of poster board and created three fun and playful pieces. She had brightly colored tall giraffes, a water-ish blue piece that she used torn masking tape and a delightful “shoes of my life” piece that also showed the skirt lengths of her life and we all related. So fun!!!
She said the poster board was very hard to work on and it pilled and tore easily.
SUE had a big Turner impression piece. She did a yellow under wash that made the water just glow!
SHIRLEY did a long colorful figure on a dark background of a beautiful Osmoroid mahogany ink. She said it was old.
MARJORIE did a colorful and fun long necked bird that curled it’s long neck back into the picture frame. Her second was a straw blowing abstract with felt pen and the third was an arching tree that she did with a palette knife and some blowing and the smallest branches were the side of the palette knife. The background was what she called a sloppy graded wash.
JOANIE had two small pieces. Her narrow piece was the smallest and showed a cross piece of a salvia. Her other piece was her copy from a painting and she had a blue background and created the dandelion with alcohol drops.
HEATHER’s background was a soft “palette cleaning” color over which she used wax to nice effect. The she divided the paper and created two different sides that she made “speak to each other”.
We also talked a little about ways to blow paint. Remember when we learned about this? I know I often forget about some of those interesting techniques. I was delighted at what happened when I used alcohol this time.
Ideas: regular drinking straw, cocktail straw, canned air, a Mouth Atomizer, and, of course, just your breath.
Next week: 39 - Combine the Figure with Landforms
Have fun painting this week!
Joanie and Shirley
