October Meeting

On Wednesday, October 12th, BJ Wilson will be critiquing members' artwork.  BJ was the judge for our member show in 2010 and spent a lot of time considering all of the paintings and wrote comments about each painting to help the artists with future work.

On Wednesday, please bring 2 paintings for her to critique.  It should be a very enlightening meeting for all of us.

As usual, the meeting will start at 7:00.

September Member Show

Better late than never, here are the winners of our Member's Art show held in September.

Best in Show 

Solitude by Angela Haupert

Oil

1st   Venecio by Anita Zantos

2nd  Tuscan Villa by Ed Doyle

3rd  Truck in the Woods by Joyce Lang

HM  Old Sycamore by Linda Keyes

Watercolor

1st  Uniformity by Marsha Lindsey

2nd  Roses by Cathryn Anderson

3rd  Old Town by Marcia Divona

HM  Harbor Scene by Yukon Hsia

Mary Aslin was our judge and she scored each painting from 1-10 on composition, competence and content.

In the case of a tie, she also considered harmony, mood and framing.

June Meeting

On Wednesday, June 8th, we will have a drawing demonstration by Natasha Shoro.  She has taught at Irvine Fine Arts center and has been recommended by two of our members.

There will also be a raffle for some interesting new items donated by our members.  So far, we have:

"Barefoot Contessa" cookbook donated by Linda Keyes
Dom Perignon champagne donated by Barbara Shaw
Handmade silk scarf donated by Nancy Goldman

If anyone else would like to donate a new item or if you would like to buy raffle tickets to help support our club, please come to our meeting next week.  We will be meeting at our regular time and place.  If you are new, this info can be found at the top of this blog on the "meetings" page.

May Meeting

This month we are having a plein air workshop with Victoria Templeton.  We will be meeting at Irvine Regional Park.  The cost is $20.00 plus the cost of parking.  At the moment, we think the workshop is full (3 people still maybes) but if you are interested in attending, please contact Marsha to get on the waiting list.  Her contact info is:

fuzz_42@pacbell.net
714-544-7715

Chemers Gallery Reception

Please come to the reception for the "Scenes of Tustin" juried competition at Chemers Gallery this coming Saturday, April 30th from 5:30-8:00.  There will be lots of wonderful art, great food and you will be able to meet many of the artists whose work is displayed.

The address is 17300 17th Street, Suite G (Enderle Center), Tustin, CA

If you can't make it to the reception, be sure to check it out another day.  The show will be on display through May 14th.

April Meeting

This month, our meeting is on Thursday, April 14th at 7:00.   Our guest artist will be Hyatt Moore.  He will be painting a portrait in oil.

Don't forget to get your entry forms in for the Chemers Gallery show.  The deadline is this Saturday, April 16th.

March Meeting

Lisa Ruiz will lead a colored pencil workshop on
March 9th at 7pm at TUSD Board room. Lisa teaches
colored pencil, drawing, and charcoal portraiture at
Irvine Fine Arts Center. She will demo an apple and we
can draw that or bring another round object. This workshop
is for members only because of space. Members should
bring colored pencil, prismacolor (not varathin) is
recommended, an eraser, a sharpener and something to
support the paper. TAL will provide the paper.