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JULY 2015 ACAA NEWSLETTER
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Next General Meeting
July 8, 2015 7:00 PM
OPEN STUDIOS MEETING 6:00 PM
Regular ACAA meetings are the
SECOND WEDNESDAY of the month
Location
Amador Senior Center 229 New York Ranch Road
Jackson, California 95642
VISITORS ARE WELCOME
Officers
President: Judy Day
Vice President: Julie Trail
Recording Secretary: Em Rojas
Corresponding Sec’y: Catherine Woodruff
Treasurer: Laureen Shimmon
Board Members
Sandra Campbell
Judy Jackson
Margo Carr
Membership Chair: Marie Mort
www.amadorcountyartists.org
www.facebook.com/Amadorartists
Newsletter Editor: Shari L. Schreiber
Co-Editor Cynthia Dunn-Selph
Newsletter@amadorcountyartists.org
www.facebook.com/amadorartists
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Watercolor Fundamentals
and Intro to Color Theory Workshop
with
Tracy Lewis
at Petroglyphe Gallery
for All Ages and Levels
Saturday and Sunday, August 8 & 9
10 am – 4:30 pm
Tracy Lewis, known for her luminous and stylized watercolors is offering an inspiring 2-day workshop filled with painting demonstrations, watercolor and color theory exercises, individual painting instruction and critiques.
Tracy will share with you her techniques for clean and vibrant watercolors including washes, transitions, isolating whites, wet into wet, glazing and more. You’ll also learn how to use hue, value and intensity to bring mood and impact to your paintings. Whether you are new to watercolor or have been painting with mixed results, this class is for you! Beginners are welcome!
Tracy works primarily in transparent watercolor and is a purest in her approach to the medium. Layering luminous, transparent glazes of pure hue give her work a candy coat of Easter-like color. Her art is fairly realistic with a stylistic twist. Tracy’s teachers have been watercolor geniuses, Gary Pruner and Jeannie Vodden, as evidenced in her strikingly fresh and fluid work.
Art Nouveau, silent movies, flea markets, vintage clothing, Paris, swirly patterns, polka dot, symbolism, animal skulls, flowers, belly dancers, fairy tales and tattoos have all influenced her art.
This workshop is offered indoors at Quarry Hill Studio in Petroglyphe Gallery. The studio holds the resonance of a diversely creative world offered by seasoned artists sharing their process with blossoming students.
Register online at www.gallerypetrolgyphe.com, drop by the gallery or give us a call at
209-286-1387.
Petroglyphe offers fine art, jewelry, sculpture, pottery, art glass, cards, prints, Native American flutes and more. Signature gift wrapping is always free.
The gallery is located at
8317 Main Street,
Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245.
Regular gallery hours are Thursday – Saturday
11:30 am – 5:30 pm & Sunday 11:30 – 4:00 pm. |
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NOTE FROM KAREN CRANE
REGARDING
Open Studios Tour
Report for July Newsletter
39 local artists have signed up to be on the Open Studios Art Tour in Sept, the largest number we have ever had. This promises to be the best year ever!
The new booklet style brochure and increased opportunities to purchase tickets for the Fine Arts Raffle and Moreare exciting changes that promise to bring in more visitors and more money for our programs and scholarship fund.
The new brochure still has a few spaces for business card sized ads, so if you want to publicize your art or classes/workshops, call Karen now. The booklet will be useful for an entire year, so your presence as a local artist (even if you aren’t in the OS Tour) can still be seen though an ad.
Please bring any ideas for improvements or questions to the Open Studios meeting to be held at 6 pm on Wed, July 8 at the Senior Center (just before the regular ACAA meeting). Topics include new publicity ideas, new fine art raffle ideas, new signs, and other topics. All are welcome, new ideas are especially appreciated.
For more information about the Open Studios Tour, please call Karen Crane, Open Studios Chair at 223-1720 or emailkcsoul53@yahoo.com. Also, please check out the Amador Artists Open Studio group on Facebook for up to date information. |
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Artist Opportunities
Call to Artists from the City of West Sacramento
The City of Sacramento is is posting Request for Qualifications for A West Sacramento Bridge District Art in Public Places Project and an Entertainment and Sports Center. Deadlines June 22nd and July 6th. See the complete RFQs here:
http://www.sacmetroarts.org/Opportunities/Public-Art-Commissions |
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Be captivated by the plein air oil paintings of Annie Fountain, featured in AmadorArts Gallery during the month of July. Jewelry artist Karen Crane will also be featured.
Oil Painter Annie Fountain will have a Show in July at AmadorArts Gallery
Starting the Fourth of July, the same date as the 1st Saturday Art Trek, AmadorArts Gallery at 11-A Randolph St. one block off Main Street in Sutter Creek, will open its July exhibit featuring oil painter Annie Fountain. Amid your festivities planned, go to the open-to-the-public reception for artist Fountain on July 4th from 3 to 6 pm inside the gallery.
Annie Fountain is a plein air painter which means she’s dedicated to capturing the essence of the great outdoors by painting on location, outside. She can be found regularly along old roads, ranches, lakes and rivers in the Sierra mountains and foothills. Fountain says she loves dramatic light, and her ability to capture a time and space through color contrast gives her work a vibrant quality. She adds that it's not always an easy task, but the effort is an "exciting challenge that is satisfying and worthwhile".
While she earned a BS in Biology at San Francisco State University, she also took art classes, always admiring the work of the California impressionist painters. She took additional classes at Fort Mason Center and with several recognized Plein Air instructors fine tuning her own style to reflect the beauty of the land that she loves.
Also in the July show will be permanent AmadorArts Gallery contributor Karen Crane of Jackson. She will have a collection of her unique jewelry pieces including smaller earrings and pendants, as well as simple bracelets, selected especially for all-occasion gift giving. AmadorArts Gallery is open Saturdays and Sundays from 12 to 4 pm (until 6 pm on 1stSaturdays). During the week it’s best to call ahead (209) 267-9038. For more information visit www.amadorarts.org. This is where you can see the Amador Art Trek brochure and map. |
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ACAA ANNUAL POT LUCK
The August ACAA meeting will be a Potluck at the Castle Park Clubhouse in Ione. It will be held on our usual meeting night, August 12. This will be our third potluck in Ione. The address is 1400 W. Marlette St, Ione, CA. Bring a dish of your choice and place settings for you and your guest. Join in the fun. BYOB, the hostesses Em Rojas and Donna Plant will supply coffee and punch. Social hour is at 5:00 PM and Dinner is at 6:00. |
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SOUL COLLAGE WITH WENDY WARD
I love SoulCollage® because it is such a simple process that anyone can do, yet it offers an elegant way to access the rich complexity of our true Self and Wisdom.
The next INTRODUCTION to SoulCollage class is JULY 10th! ~See below for details & registration~
Open Studio Card-Making
Sat., JULY 11 from 9:00-12:30
$20 includes supplies to make 3 cards
RSVP wendy@TheMermaidMuse.com or call 295-2224
Learn how to do a Reading using your SoulCollage Cards
Wed., July 15 from 6:00-8:00
$10 donation
RSVP wendy@TheMermaidMuse.com or call 295-2224
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| Lynn Slade has about 40 sheets of Fabriano 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper that was delivered by mistake and she can't use. If you need some watercolor paper it is $45 for 10 sheets or $5 per sheet. Just give Lynn a call at209-295-4667. |
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ART IN PUBLIC PLACES
The schedule to follow your favorite artists for
July - August 2015
Castle Oaks Golf Club in Ione:
Sandra Campbell
Superior Court of Ca. in Jackson:
Judy Day
American River Bank in Jackson:
Dorothy Magoffin
Rosebud’s Cafe in Jackson:
Colleen Williams
Amador Senior Center in Jackson:
Ted Smith
Sierra Eye Care in Jackson:
Judy Regnier
Amador Residential Care in Jackson:
Dave & Leslie Schupp |
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| Sheri Hoeger, who demonstrated for the ACAA earlier this year, held a class at Wendy Ward’s studio in Pioneer. Many of the participants are members of ACAA. Participants provided a photo of a pet, or other animal, and she cropped and reproduced them so that we could paint a portrait using fluid acrylics thinned with airbrush medium. This is the technique she use for her earlier demo at one of the ACAA meetings.. |
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SUTTER CREEK GALLERY
“The outdoor experience for me has always been one of adventure, awe, and a sense of divine peace,” says oil painter Scott Anderson, who will be Sutter Creek Gallery’s featured artist for July. Painting helps him to understand and admire the beauty that surrounds us. The endless sounds of water rushing, birds singing, critters moving in the brush, and breathing the crisp air helps Anderson to see and feel what ultimately gets put down on canvas. “I suppose I want others to observe and take in what I have found in nature to be exciting and inspiring, a place in time where my soul has been re-energized,” he explains.
Anderson graduated from Art Center College of Design in So. California with Honors in Illustration. He began as a freelance illustrator in Los Angeles, continuing as an animator for DreamWorks. He then worked for seventeen years as an animator for Walt Disney Pictures on full length features such as "The Little Mermaid,” "Aladdin," "Beauty and the Beast," "Lion King," "Tarzan," and "Mulan.” Most recently, Anderson joined the Sutter Creek Gallery where his landscapes are on display.
The gallery invites you to meet Scott Anderson at the reception in his honor on Saturday, July 4, from 4 to 7 p.m., as part of the region's First Saturday Art Trek. He is one of the local artists exhibiting at the cooperative located in the heart of Sutter Creek at 35 Main Street. Besides original paintings, Sutter Creek Gallery offers many affordable items including prints, cards, jewelry, gourds and fiber arts. The gallery is open Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For more information, call (209) 267-0228, emailsuttercreekgallery@gmail.com or visitwww.suttercreekgallery.com. |
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