Welcome to the Art
Guild's
Archives!
September 30 &
October 1 - Art Guild Yard Sale
Many
thanks to all of those who contributed items, and especially to Nancy
and Charles Cagle, Charleen Isbell, Bettye Schwartz and others who
helped sell them. This event added about $200 to the treasury.
October 2 - Acrylic Painting Demo -
Angie Banta Brown
Angie
Banta Brown, TWS, SWS. was born in the small hill country town of Leakey,
Texas and now lives in New Braunfels. She began her art training at the
Warren Hunter School of Art in San Antonio and followed with a career in
graphic design, at Frost Bro., Joske's and the University of Illinois. In
the mid 1970's her focus shifted to fine art and she began showing her
much sought after florals and still lifes in galleries in Texas and the
Southwest.
Painting and teaching are the way Angie
spends her time these days. She is in demand around the country as a
teacher at workshops and demonstrations at meetings of art organizations.
October 2 - Election of Officers
Officers for 2006 will be elected at the
October meeting. Many hands make light work! If we all
contribute, none of these jobs will be too difficult. But if we
try to load everything on a few people, we will discourage them and
limit the good that we can all get from a well run organization.
If you would be willing to serve as an officer or board member next
year, please call Bill Franklin at 254-741-0960 or email him at
physicsnerd@yahoo.com to
volunteer.
October 2 - Election
of Officers and Interim Dues
The Board met on September 29 at Nancy Cagle's
home to nominate a slate of officers. The slate was presented to
the members at the October meeting, and was accepted. Our officers
and chairs through the end of 2006 will be
President and web drudge - Bill Franklin
Vice President and program chair - Nancy Cagle
Recording Secretary - Judy Franklin
Treasurer and membership chair - Rose Larkie
Exhibits - Gloria Meadows
Hostess chair - Charleen Isbell
Because we moved our year to a calendar year
from a school year, our dues expired at the end of September. All
members are asked to pay an additional $10 to cover October, November
and December. Regular yearly dues will be due by January 1 to
cover the year of 2006.
October 2 - Angie
Banta Brown, Watercolor painting
Angie
Banta Brown came from New Braunfels to demonstrate her use
of watercolors. She has been working with - and mastering - watercolors
for many years. The last few years she has also been working in oils.
She feels comfortable with either medium, noting that the basic process
of constructing an image is the same, although the specific techniques
differ. She has
demonstrated
and taught classes in many locations across Texas. In
fact,
many of those in attendance have had lessons from her. She brought some
wonderful examples of her work in both watercolors and oils, a few of
which are shown here. (Clicking on any photo enlarges it.)
For us, Angie painted a floral array based on several photos. She began
by making a
sketch of large shapes, which she then refined to include more details.
She warns against sketching any part of the image in too much detail
before working out the overall arrangement of the parts. Once the sketch
was developed, she wet the paper and began laying in pale and soft-edged
areas of the colors she had in mind, in this case golds, greens and
violets.

After
drying the paper, she began to add layers of stronger color to better
define the shapes of flowers, leaves and stems. What emerged was a
mixture of gold and brown Sunflowers and purple and violet Bachelor
Buttons among green leaves. Most of the flowers were arranged in an oval
whose interior was mostly foliage. Many of the shapes were defined by
darkening negative shapes around them. Some spattering was added for
texture.

With the deftness of long practice, Angie works remarkably fast. Once
the sketch was
completed, the painting took her no more than an hour, not counting a
break. Prior to the break, the audience was watching the progress in the
overhead mirror, but at the break many moved in for a closer look and
stayed there to the end. We had several visitors, including Dorothy
Campbell and a friend from Fort Worth, drawn by Angie's renown. I think
we would all agree it was an afternoon well spent.
finished painting
Show and Tell
Keep
those artworks coming, folks! By sharing your current work,
you give the rest of us a chance to enjoy it and encourage you.
You might even be able to solicit some helpful suggestions.
Larry Garza
Nancy Cagle
Judy Franklin
Linda Morales

Glenn Lyles' demonstration for us was so well
received that arrangements have been made for him to conduct a three-day
workshop for us this fall. He has a BS in Animal Science and
farmed for 19 years before becoming a full time artist in 1992.
Not surprisingly, most of his paintings have been of rural scenes and
animals, but his style and techniques are applicable to any subject
matter. Glenn uses oils. Information about materials to
bring will be available prior to the workshop. For more
information about Glenn see
http://www.fbgartgallery.com/Artist/Glenn%20Lyles/glenn_lyles.htm
Members can attend all three days of the
workshop for $150. If you can't come all of those days, you can
come for one or two days at $50 per day. To enroll, call Linda
Morales at
254.848.9419.