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2005 March 28th and 29th - George Boutwell Workshop
 The
Art Guild of Central Texas was pleased to offer the first chance to
paint along with George Boutwell. This was the first workshop he
has ever conducted! He has developed a distinctive style and
innovative ways of achieving it. It was interesting to see how
Boutwell-like our artists' paintings turned out. It will be even
more interesting to see how they incorporate his techniques into their
future works, if indeed they do.
We are grateful to the Carleen Bright Arboretum for the use their
facility for the workshop, and to the Central Texas Watercolor Society
for the use of their mirror frame.
A few photos of the workshop participants follow.

Pat Blackwell
Nancy Cagle
Christine Niekamp Saundra Vasek
2005 March - Civic Theater production of "Fools"
Art Guild will be exhibiting, for the month of March 2005, at the Waco Civic
Theatre, 1517 Lake Air drive. for the theatre production of Neil Simon's
"Fools!," a play set in rural Russia. Paintings were used that could
suggest the play locale. Please attend this wonderful comedy and see
some our members artwork in the lobby. Three overall shots are below.
As is true of all the thumbnails on these pages, clicking on one will
enlarge it to the full screen. A few of the paintings also appear
singly below them.


Ellen Foster
Bill Franklin
Judy Franklin
Rose Jacobson

Martha McKinney
Linda Morales
Christine Niekamp
2005 March 13 - Glenn Lyles (Plainview, TX)
 Glenn
Lyles was interested in drawing and in animals from a very early age, and
began art lessons in the third grade. His love of animals led to a degree in
animal husbandry, but art won out over ranching. He credits lessons from
Jack Sorenson for much of his success. He adopted Mr. Sorenson's color
palette, his approach to using color, and the use of a fairly large, flat
brush. His understanding of animal anatomy is also very apparent in his
painting. Before he began painting for us, he related
some aspects of his use of color and how he uses elements of composition to
draw the viewer's eye to the focus of his painting. Among other things, he
creates deliberate lines pointing to the focus, and he tries to make the
strongest color and value contrasts at the focus.
Mr. Lyles does his sketching with a thinned, earthy-brown color, making
bold
lines with a broad brush. He takes photos of likely subjects constantly as
he travels, and uses these as he paints. He often concentrates on negative
shapes as he sketches. For example, in the painting of horses he did for us,
he drew the legs by working with the shapes of the spaces between them,
rather than trying to draw the legs themselves. He also turns the painting
upside down to look for problems.
 He
begins with the darkest colors in the scene, then the highlights, and
gradually fills in the gaps, jumping about from place to place. White spaces
bother him, so he puts some paint in them, establishing at least what color
will end up there as he works from broad strokes to finer details. Areas
away from the focus are given duller colors and less detail so that they
won't distract the viewer from the focus.
He
has an extensive palette of about fifty blobs of color, grading from top to
bottom from cool blues and violets through warmer colors to greens and
grays, and grading from left to right from darks to lights. These blobs are
mixed from a smaller set of tube colors, small blobs of which are placed in
the lower right for use when brighter accents are needed. He mixes a few
drops of clove oil into each blob to slow the drying of the paints, using
more in the dark colors than in the light because he finds that the darker
colors tend to dry faster. He can generally do four or five paintings before
he has to throw out the palette and start over.
Mr.
Lyles shared his insights very generously, and those present were an
attentive and interactive audience. The possibility of a workshop with him
next fall will be explored.
Show & Tell
Only the Franklins brought painting for show and
tell. Come on people, bring your work in and share it with the
rest of us.
Bill Franklin Judy Franklin
2005 March - Exhibit at the Hippodrome
Be sure to see our exhibit at the Hippodrome, 724
Austin Ave., during March. Some of our members judged the entries
and chose Christine Niekamp's painting, Young Man with Guitar" for
the First Prize, and Bill Franklin's "Dance, Dance, Dance" for the Second Prize.
These two entries are shown below. A sampling of other entries appear
below that. We will be removing the March exhibit and installing
the April exhibit at 1:30 p.m. on April 1.
The
paintings, sculptures, and other works are visible 24 hours a day through
the glass storefront. Look for them when you attend a Hippodrome event
or anytime you are in the downtown area. The works selected as prize
winners are above. A
sampling of the others artists appears below. Altogether, there are 28 works by 12 artists.
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Charleen Isbell
Butterfly on Sunflower
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Ellen Foster
Petunias
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Jean Larkie
Flowers and Hummingbird
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Jean Larkie
Roses on Ceramic
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Larry Garza
Ballerina
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Nancy Cagle
Thai Dancer
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Sue Young
Hanging Basket
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Linda Morales
Comedy and Drama
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Judy Franklin
Chorus Line
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Rose Larkie
Vase with raised vines |
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