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John will discuss photographing your art with your cell phone. Using photography to capture printable scenes.
Becky will talk about the do's and don'ts of creating your own web site. Rita Anderson, Show Chair, will go over entering art with ShowSubmit.com. We are encouraging all of our members to enter the online member only show starting in April. Art does NOT need to be framed but it does need to be correctly photographed. Entering the show will be with ShowSubmit.com. February Meeting!Program: Brian Freeman - Bovine Beauties!
Brian Freeman gave a wonderful demonstration on how to paint devine bovines. He began by giving us his back story on how he became an artist then talked about what to consider when painting animals. First of all, know the framework. If you’re entering an animal portrait into a show be sure that you have the anatomy correct! He suggests to do a mockup with overlays of tracing paper but he likes to sketch rather than trace. He begins with a mid-tone on a painted background using alcohol. Then he goes to lights then darks. The final stages are the highlights and the creation of edges and negative shapes. He prefers using UART 400 paper which is very similar to Wallis which is not made anymore. He showed many examples of his cow paintings, but we all loved his painting of a baby cow that he demonstrated in his presentation. by Penny Mazer We lost sound part way through, but you can still see how Brian created the little calf.
Finished painting!
February Artist of the Month
Donna spent the majority of her college and adult years on the East Coast. She studied Fine Arts at University of Massachusetts North Dartmouth.
Her love for pastel started in New Hampshire back in 2015. After taking an introductory class to the medium, the love affair started! 11 years later, she has successfully been juried into 3 shows with The Pastel Society of Cape Cod, The Tucson Pastel Society and the New Hampshire Pastel Society. In 2023, Donna was awarded Second Place in the Tucson Pastel Society show. In 2024, Donna was honored to receive third place in The Amerind Pastel Show. In 2025, The Tucson Pastel Society held a show at the Desert Museum, and I was awarded Honorable Mention for one of my desert landscape paintings.
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