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February 13 - Gloria Meadows - Painting
Animals in Acrylic
 Gloria
Meadows has a special way with animals,
and
 she's
agreed to share her approach with us. Some examples of her animals
paintings are shown here, including small paintings on tile and stones,
which
have been big sellers at our Apple Tree Bazaar booth. She will start
with a brief introduction
to painting
 with acrylic,
then deal specifically with animal painting,
which
should
be helpful to users of
any medium.
We will
meet at our
usual time and
place,
Waco Charter School,
 615 N 25th Street. Come at 1:30 for
refreshments
and conversation. The
meeting and
demo
will
begin at
2:00. Bring friends  and also bring a piece of your art
for the "show and
tell" and for the voting of favorites. First time visitors attend free
of charge.
February 13 - Gloria Meadows - Painting Animals in Acrylic
 Gloria
said she had been painting for many years. She had been
drawing ever since she was a small child. She has taken lessons from
Tommie McLaren and Don Magid. She showed us some of her early work. She
plans her work carefully, making preliminary drawings, and using a grid
to enlarge them. She transfers the drawing to the canvas using graphite
paper. Her palette rests in a box with a wet sponge
in the bottom with damp Sta-Wet Pro-Palette paper on top (lower left
photo).
 She
sprays water on her acrylic paints occasionally. She
uses an acrylic glazing liquid which makes the paint more pliable. In
answer to a question about her painted rocks, she said after washing the
rock thoroughly, she uses white latex house paint as a base coat. Then
she layers on craft acrylic paint. (lower right)
 For
her demonstration today, she had placed the gessoed canvass under
 water,
used waterproof sandpaper to smooth it, and then put a tooth coat on to
help the paint stick. She used a palette of raw sienna, burnt sienna,
red, orange, and yellow. She had already painted the background color -
a soft reddish tan, and the face of the
 golden
retriever which was her subject. She applied layers of gold and brown to
the body and legs of the dog with a flat bristle brush. She added
shading and dimension with the darker color, and the texture of the
dog's fur was developed with a smaller bristle brush and a fan brush.
The lower right image is the still unfinished painting at the end of the
demo. She promised to bring the finished painting to the next meeting.
Thanks to Gloria for an interesting demo and many helpful
hints. Thanks also to the board members who brought refreshments and to
those who brought works for Show and Tell, shown below. In the monthly
voting, 1st, 2nd and 3rd went to Bill Franklin, Linda Green and Kathe
Tipton.
Show and Tell:
Nancy Cagle
Bill Franklin Judy Franklin
Charleen Isbell
Linda Green
Kathe Tipton Bobbee Watts
February 10 - Art Lessons at the Waco Charter School
Judy
and Bill Franklin gave a lesson to
 third graders on February 10.
They
arrived about 3:45 intending to start at 4:15, but were immediately
given
 the requested materials (crayons and markers, and ten
students.
The students were asked to make a pencil sketch one of their shoes, and
then flesh it out with crayons and/or markers. Then they were encouraged
to morph
the shoe into something else.
Bill
showed his made into a face
(at right). The students made various things, including a house and a
submarine. Several left before the lesson was over, and the lesson ended
when only one was left, about 5:00. The students were receptive and well
behaved, all had a pleasant experience.
February 16 & 23 - Pat Blackman and Nancy Cagle - Art Lessons at WCS
 Pat
and Nancy showed about 15 Waco Charter School 5th graders a variety of
their art projects to see what struck them as interesting. They then had
them do a paper collage. They came early and stayed late, spending
nearly two hours. The students wanted more, so Pat and Nancy returned
the following week and helped the students paint an acrylic landscape.
Only 3 primary colors white and black were provided, so the students had
to learn to mix these to obtain colors such as green and brown. The
students were pleased with their work, and Pat and Nancy enjoyed the
experience as well.
Get in on the fun! While you are welcome to extend your lesson, as
some have,
 we really
only anticipated providing about an hour, so you can come anytime after
3:30 and can stay until almost 5:30
(when they close), but any hour within that period is enough. Be sure to
call Marla Hoffman at the school (754-8169) a few days in advance to
tell her which grade you want to work with, when you are coming, and
what materials you need (crayons, scissors, etc.). Bobbee Watts needs a
helper next week for the pre-K class. Give her a call to volunteer. In
future weeks, we still need to do something for the K, 1st and 2nd
grades. To be part of this, call
Bill Franklin at 741-0960 or email him at physicsnerd@yahoo.com.
February 22 - Removal of the exhibit at the
Arboretum
Please pick up your art
between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 22, or
have someone do it for you.
Current and
Future Exhibits
The Art Guild of Central Texas has scheduled the following exhibits:
= January 5 - February 22 Carleen Bright
Arboretum, reception Jan 9
= March 3 - aprox. May 5 (depending upon their
concert schedule) MCC
= Exhibit rules are found on our Bylaws & Rules Page.
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she's
agreed to share her approach with us. Some examples of her animals
paintings are shown here, including small paintings on tile and stones,
which
have been big sellers at our Apple Tree Bazaar booth. She will start
with a brief introduction
to painting
with acrylic,
then deal specifically with animal painting,
which
should
be helpful to users of
any medium.
