P.O. Box 3268 Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701 info @ artistsnwarkansas.org
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
| |
 |
|
- July 16 ANA Meeting Presents
- Megan Chapman
Please join us Thursday, July 16th at 6:30 p.m. at Nadine
Baum Studios,
Spring and West St., Fayetteville, AR.
Megan Chapman was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas and
received her B.F.A. in painting from the University of Oregon.
Megan has shown her work over the past ten years in
Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington,
as well as in various publications and in private collections.
She is currently represented by the DDP Gallery in
Fayetteville, River Market ArtSpace in Little Rock, and by
Blue Moon Gallery in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Megan's work is about her love of color and the subtle
changes that occur when colors overlap, react, and create
something new. She also love textures and how layers of
color and texture come together. She enjoys exploring
space and balance within her work. In past bodies of work
Megan has also explored different motifs that she finds
natural and comforting. These shapes are repetitive at
times, and often peek out from a hidden space in the
painting or brazenly take the foreground. These shapes
reflect her love of mark making and how she enjoys the
imperfect smudge of charcoal or the gritty pencil line as it
floats along the painted surface. Intuitively, Megan brings
these elements together to create an otherworldly
atmosphere. You can learn more about this artist and her
work at www.meganchapman.com
- June 18, 2009
- ANA Meeting in Review
- by Gloria Pendry
Our June 2009 program was given by award winning painter Tim
Tyler. He was accompanied by his daughter Hannah, who also
appears in several of his lovely portraits. Tim brought one actual
portrait of her that was not quite finished. It was very glossy, he
explained that was a result of the medium used. He used
Gamblin Slo Dry; this name is misleading as it actually expedites
drying.
He used a projector to give other examples of his work and talked
about principles found in them such as reflected light, posing the
model, the use of texture of the paint and a sepia painting using
only 3 0r 4 colors. Several were painted of Tuscany and Florence,
Italy.
Tim showed a video of him discussing other artists, called
“Examining Portraits-Quotes”, the first was the Sargent paintings
for the Boston Public Library called the “Frieze of the Prophets ”.
Tim pointed out the abstract shapes, strong verticals, variation of
sizes and great negative shapes. Several paintings by John
Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, and Guillaume Adolphe
Bouguereau were favorites of Tim. He also showed work by
Robert Henri, Rembrandt and Franz Hals to illustrate points. He
explained the grisaille method of Bouguereau which gives a
lovely translucent skin versus Sargent’s more flamboyant style.
To sum up, Tim answered questions of the audience. #1 about
glazing –he doesn’t. #2 He likes thin dark shadow areas and
thick lighter finishing strokes. He said many of Sargent’s paint
passages are very thick. Sergeant did much of his painting
looking at his canvas from 20 feet away. #3 Tim uses mineral
spirits in early parts of picture (the Fat over Lean rule). #4 He has
tried water based oils and likes only certain colors of Holbein
brand. #5 In sepia paintings he uses Mars Orange, Yellow Ochre
and white. #6 In preparation- he thinks about composition a great
deal and believes intuition comes to you with experience, that you
have to tinker, you can only go so far with contemplation. #7 He
stressed indoor light should be the same on the subject and on
the canvas. #8 He also admires
Turner and Fechin.
ANA welcomes Tim as a new member. He now lives in
Fayetteville.
- May in Review
By Elizabeth Christie
May 21st Karrie Evenson came to the Nadine Baum Studio to
demonstrate her skills in painting with acrylic. Karrie’s canvases
for the demonstration were painted yellowish-green, and one
was a line drawing of a stylish girl holding an umbrella in one
hand and a handbag in the other. Several paintings of these
whimsical women were drawn without facial features, but with
birds on their shoulders and were painted with bright, vibrant
colors.
Karrie has been interested in painting since she was a child. Still
life was her forte then and her first love was the artist Bob Roth.
Painting the still lifes and landscapes was a hobby to her, but it
helped to improve her drawing. Karrie got married and gave birth
to three children. Her youngest is now two years old and not well.
Due to her daughter’s illness, she decided to take lessons with
Gail Stoops and learned to paint in a more abstract style. This
helped her to apply paint with freer strokes, and working in this
manner, she is able to find her own world.
Karrie draws the subject with charcoal and uses tissue at times
to erase some of the unnecessary charcoal. She then sprays it
and lets it dry for a few minutes. Then she continues to paint the
canvas with acrylic paint, leaving details for the very last. The
background was painted with orange paint, creating the image of
a building. As she worked on the canvas, blue was painted
around the figure. She sometimes used the end point of her
brush to create some texture. The painting is allowed to dry, after
which more layers of paint, including details in the figure’s dress,
etc., are applied. Karrie uses a miser palette system that helps to
keep the acrylic paint wet for a longer period of time. You can
purchase this item at Jerry’s Artarama.
Karrie does not want to think when she paints; she needs to feel
free and happy when she is painting. She wants to have fun,
while giving her patrons the same opportunity to enjoy her art and
method of painting. Karrie’s email address is karrieevenson@art.
com. You can see Karrie’s paintings at the Art Emporium in
Fayetteville, Eureka Springs Fine Art in Eureka Springs, and Poor
Richards Fine Arts in Rogers. I want to thank Karrie and her lovely
daughter who was her assistant for providing us with a very
interesting demonstration. She has a very relaxed manner of
working, which I found to be a charming experience, just sitting
there watching her paint.
The ANA News is published monthly,
except in December, by Artists of
Northwest Arkansas, Jerry Plumlee
and Elizabeth Christie,
Co-presidents; John Dillingham,
2009 Editor.
Articles, news items, sketches and/or
glossy photos are always welcome
and are due to John Dillingham for
the 2009 newsletters by the 1st day of
the month. Items received in regular
mail will not be returned unless a
SASE is provided. Please add your
last name to the photo .jpg's.
Please submit "ready to publish"
items when possible, for the 2009
newsletters via e-mail to:
John Dillingham
johndill@pgtc.com
except in December, by Artists of
Northwest Arkansas, Jerry Plumlee
and Elizabeth Christie,
Co-presidents; John Dillingham,
2009 Editor.
Articles, news items, sketches and/or
glossy photos are always welcome
and are due to John Dillingham for
the 2009 newsletters by the 1st day of
the month. Items received in regular
mail will not be returned unless a
SASE is provided. Please add your
last name to the photo .jpg's.
Please submit "ready to publish"
items when possible, for the 2009
newsletters via e-mail to:
John Dillingham
johndill@pgtc.com
|
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|