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March 10 - Kay Reinke - Encaustics
Art has been a part of Kay Reinke’s life since she began
painting at the age of 12, when she began studying at The Houston Museum
of Fine Art and the Texas Art Institute. She is a member of several
professional organizations and has received many honors, both regional
and national, for her work.
Many
of her paintings can be described as being in the
genre "abstract realism," that is, taking a real object or scene and
abstracting it.
This allows for the viewer to put him or herself
in the scene in a way that doesn’t restrict the imagery to a single
location or time. She
wants her paintings to suggest experiences and feelings in a way that
sparks viewers’ imaginations, draws them into the paintings and makes
them want to stay. A few examples of her work are shown here. The one at the left
was in the Art Center Membership exhibit last year. To see more examples
of her work, mostly oils, and more about her career, visit her web site
at www.kayreinkeart.com.
This
month, she will give us a demo of encaustics, painting with colored wax,
an example of which is at the right. By coincidence, Karen Groman
brought an example to our last meeting, an abstract using crayons. Kay
will mix oil paints with wax and make an impressionistic painting. Don't
miss it. We will meet at 1:30 for refreshments and conversation. The
meeting will begin at 2, and the demo shortly thereafter. We will meet
at the Central Presbyterian Church, 9191 Woodway Drive. Traveling out of
town on Hwy 84, take the Hewitt Dr/Estates Drive exit. Stay on the
service road (Woodway Drive) past Walgreens and a bank. The next
building is the church. Bring a work
for Show and Tell, and bring friends.
March 10 - Kay Reinke - Encaustics

Kay
Reinke, an artist who has moved from New Braunfels to Waco learned to
work with encaustic
from
two workshops she attended taught by Lily Pell. She brought two
beautiful forest scenes and some smaller works to show us. She explained
that encaustic means “to burn in” by adding pigment and resin to
beeswax. It is an ancient art discovered by the Greeks, and revived
through the centuries by Egyptian and Byzantine artists, and in later
centuries by Diego Rivera and Jasper Johns. It is essentially painting
with wax.
The
supplies Kay used were Dorland's Wax Medium mixed with standard oil
paints. (She especially likes Gamlin transparent earth orange paint.) A
cold wax medium which is not heated can be used, but she
prefers the hot wax method. All these can be bought at or ordered on
line from Jerry's Artorama in Austin. Also needed is a heat gun with an
accessory package to achieve different effects (available at Harbor
Freight) and a mini-craft iron (available at JoAnn's). Kay had many
templates which she picked up wherever she found one that would produce
interesting effects. She also used a palette knife and cheap bristle
brushes which can be cleaned with mineral spirits. An encaustic can be
produced on any material which has a hard surface.
Kay
began her demonstration by putting a blob of wax medium on a paper
palette. She squeezed oil paint on the paper, using transparent
earth orange, green, bright orange, and purple. She mixed each color
with the wax and applied it to a piece of masonite. It looks dull until
heated. She stressed the importance of painting one layer at a time and
heating it, before applying and heating a second layer. She painted the
first
layer with several colors, spreading the paint with her
palette knife. She then heated the layer with the heat gun a few seconds
until the paint was shiny, pushing the paint around with the heat gun to
achieve the desired effect. She used the mini-craft iron to touch up
spots. She also showed how to spread the medium around with a paint
brush. She then encouraged those present to practice using her
materials.
We thank Kay for a very
nice introduction to a medium which was unfamiliar to most of those
present. We also thank those who brought refreshments and those who
brought art for Show and Tell, some of which is shown below.
SHOW AND TELL

Nancy Cagle
Bill Franklin
Judy Franklin Charleen Isbell
Christine Niekamp
March 18 - Exhibit at MCC
Please bring up to three 2-D artworks to the foyer of the
Ball Performing Arts Center at MCC between 2:30 and 3:30 on Monday,
March 18. Bring only works that have not been exhibited there in the
past. Any subject , medium or style is welcome, but for the safety of
the art, we ask that the framed size be 16x20 or larger. It should also
have a hanging wire. Please direct any questions to the Exhibit Chair,
Frank Gutierrez, at
Franksart2@yahoo.com or 666-5030.
March 18 - May 13 - Art Guild Exhibit at MCC
Come see the
exhibit at MCC in the foyer of the Ball Performing Arts Center,
preferably in the evening when it shows up best. Also, many evenings
you can catch a performance as well. The performances are listed
below the exhibit photos. All are excellent and are free and open to
the public without reservations, except Sorcerer and
Eurydice, and they are inexpensive ($10 adults, $8 seniors). For
tickets call 299-8200.

Bill Franklin

Linda Green

Nancy Cagle

Christine Niekamp

Judy Franklin

Frank Gutierrez

Elisabeth Montgomery
Performances during the Exhibit, all
at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted:
April
4-6 Sorcerer (opera)
April
18-20 Eurydice (Drama), 2 p.m. matinee on the 20th
April 22
Rock Ensembles Concert
April 25
Wind Ensemble Concert
April 29
Chorale Concert
May 2
Spotlight Concert (show tunes)
May 6
Waco Jazz Orchestra Concert
May 7
Waco Community Band Concert
Group Painting
The
Art Guild's "Group Canvas" has been donated to the Waco Charter School, 615
N. 25th Street. It may be seen there during Art Guild meetings or
other times by appointment. Call 754-8169.