General Meeting Info for the 2024-2025 Season!!!!
Bring your art entry for the Artist of the Month Contest! Must be framed with a wire for hanging. March Meeting! Drawing - Classical Representation with Paul Mohr Paul teaches at The Drawing Studio and works in clay, oil, and graphite. He has a math and science background but when he visited an art gallery and saw sculptures by Rodin, he became hooked on art.
Paul stressed the importance of celebrating our mistakes, hanging on to our older portrait drawings as a means of following our progress and measuring improvement. The beginning of a portrait drawing may not turn out as well as the ending. That’s because we are learning as we draw. It’s harder to work from photos than from a live model as the camera lens can distort things. He went on to discuss anatomy, proportions, and symmetry as well as lighting and good equipment for your studio. Paul discussed and recommended a good drawing book; “Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters” by Robert Beverly Hale. Thank you, Paul. 
2024-2025 March The Artist of the Month
Popular nature photographer John E. Baldwin was raised in Ohio and has a degree in Engineering from Ohio University. During his professional years working for du Pont in the photographic industry, he became educated in both camera usage and film manufacture. The advent of digital photography and image manipulation, combined with his love of nature, gave him the perfect opportunity to further develop his professional artistic skills.
He met Barbara Archer in 2011 and together, they blended their artistic talents of photography and acrylic painting. They have published 2 books chronicling their joint artwork called “BrushedLens’s” John has studied pastel painting under Barbara’s tutelage at her weekly class over the past 10 years and has developed an interest in landscapes and particularly in scenes where perspective, mood and lighting highlight the story. Since moving to Tucson, he has become more involved with the Tucson Pastel Society and participates regularly in their activities and shows. His awards and credits include both photography and pastel pieces primarily in SW Florida Art centers of Venice, North Port and Punta Gorda. He tutors students in digital photography and photoshop editing and also provides artists with high quality digital images for creating reproductions or entering national on-line art shows. He routinely posts images and activity on his Facebook page “The Brushedlens”
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