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Minutes - June 25, 2004
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SIGNING IN
Secretary Janice Frost explained the
sign-up papers being passed around with the attendance list. i.e. a card for
President Tom Sexton who is recovering from a stroke, a paint-out planned at the Pefley home on July 14th (must sign in as the area has
a guarded-gate entrance), the paint-outs with the Campbells to Hope Valley in
August and September. Janice also passed out a new CVAA Schedule for the months
of July and August.
23 members and guests were in attendance. Mickie announced that treasurer Beth
Bosmans could not attend because her father passed away suddenly and she was
with the family in preparation for funeral services. Send condolences to her and
family at P.O. Box 742, Minden, NV 89423.
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JULY 4 – GENOA "Pops in the Park" Silent Auction
Linda Townsend, co-chairman for the
Silent Auction for the Reno Philharmonic Concert in Genoa, requested more
donated paintings to be auctioned off and gave her phone number saying she would
be willing to go to the artists home to pick up the donated painting. It helps
with the cost to bring the Reno Philharmonic down. Janice reminded everyone that
last month’s demo painting by artist Gary Jenkins will be in the Silent Auction.
This provides a great opportunity to pick up one of his original paintings for a
good price as well as do something for a worthy cause. |
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DIANE CAMPBELL - Paint-out events.
Diane announced that they could have more
artists at the Greenhouse Garden Center in Carson City August 21st
for a paint-out demonstration that the public can observe. The center has
beautiful flowers and plants to paint, is a gorgeous setting for a paint-out.
She also mentioned the two paint-outs with
the llamas to Hope Valley; one on August 25th and the other September
30th. A map of the areas will be in the August newsletter. Diane and
Chuck take groups out with their llamas on a continual basis from Sorensons just
south of Hope Valley. Their schedule is there. She welcomed any artist to join
these groups if they wish. |
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GORDON PEFLEY
Gordon gave a report on the state of
the CVAA website. At this point in time, since most members have dial-up modems,
he would like to have the CVAA newsletter in text form, for quicker downloading.
He is requesting all members to send him
info he can put on the webpage. Workshops, classes, exhibits, art shows.
He asked members if placing some of the
minutes in would be acceptable. The website is visited by others out there in
the computer world and they might become interested in the CVAA activities. The
suggestion was OK’d.
He is encouraging other art websites to
link to cvart.org. Increased number of links will increase search engine access.
It also expands the information on art projects in northern Nevada which artists
would be interested in going to or be involved in. The members were in
agreement. |
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RON FUNK PRESENTATION
Member Ron Funk, and a member of the
Genoa Historical Courthouse Association, gave an interesting talk on the
historical building. The Genoa Board agreed that it would be very nice to have a
display of six to eight paintings on the walls in the building and would the
CVAA like to have the responsibility of providing the paintings. The members
OK’d the idea.
Mickie Fowler suggested the Board meet with
Ron and work out the details and let every one know the decision. The next Board
meeting is July 6th. Janice said the decision would be placed in the
next newsletter. Gordon will place it on the
www.cvart.com website.
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MICKIE FOWLER PRESENTATION
Mickie had three items she felt needed
to be placed on the agenda.
1. WNCC Hangings – Weds., June 30 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. Bob Tompkins will
bring a ladder for hanging the paintings, Ric Rose will assist. Mickie, Janice,
Mary Sandhagen and Marge Leslie will help sign artists in.
2. CHRISTMAS PARTY - The usual time CVAA sets up for Christmas party has
been taken by others for the CVIC Hall. Mickie presented some available times
and it was decided that the best time would be Sunday December 5th,
6:00 p.m. It is the day after The Kid’s Craft Show
3. SCHOLARSHIP SHOW - Mickie was adamant about getting someone else
besides Margaret Biggs, Beth Bosmans and Mickie to be in charge of the
Scholarship Show. She passed around a paper for members to sign up as a chairman
of one of the three important jobs.
Margaret and Beth assured Janice that they will still be happy to hang the
show.
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NANCY KILBERG REPORTED ON EXHIBITS IN AREA
Nancy reported on the recent and very
successful CVAA trip to the Nevada Museum of Art and the "Impressionists"
exhibit. Car-pooling went smoothly. The group of 20 had a great time and lunch
was most enjoyable. The docent met us promptly at 11:00 a.m. and took us to the
different rooms of display. By 12:30 p.m., we gathered at the Café Muse for
lunch. President Tom’s suggestion that we fill in menu orders beforehand and
turn them in to the chef-owner Robin of Café Muse went extremely well as she had
our orders ready by the time we were ready to eat . The awesome "Albert Bierstadt – "Sierra Nevada in California" painting was worth the price of
entrance and more. Go to
http://www.masterworksartgallery.com/bierstadt to view this painting.
Nancy also told about her trip to Caesar’s
in Tahoe where she saw plein-air artists’ paintings of the Tahoe area in an
impressionistic form and said the works were incredible. The exhibit had a
continental breakfast along with entrance price of $15. The owner of Caesars is
a plein-air artist himself. Nancy brought along some brochures from this
exhibit. She also brought in workshop dates for well-known artists, Lee, Laitinen, Nicholas, Hughes September 13-17; Sept 20-24; Sept 27-31 for a cost of
$375 for 5 days.
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BABY PICTURE IN LAST NEWSLETTER
Janice showed everyone the newsletter
picture and compared it to "cute" Nancy Kilberg. Everyone noticed she
hadn’t changed a bit. |
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PROGRAM WITH ARTIST KATE AUBREY – WATERCOLORIST
Kate brought several of her paintings in
different stages of completion and talked about good composition and planning
your painting. Without good composition, the values are not working nor are the
aerial perspectives. She showed us the tools to use to get people to look at
your painting.
Paintings should have either an "L" shape
pattern, an "O" shape, and "S" or "Z" shape pattern to bring your eye into and
around the picture. This can be done with lines or color or both.
She mentioned two outstanding artists you can find on the internet to study
their use of these techniques to make their paintings ones to study.
Steve Quiller, and Tony Crouch.
She also stated that the hardest part of
doing the painting is the finishing work, putting in the details. Gordon Pefley
suggested that in Photoshop, one can use a "wacom tablet" to work on
different ways to finish a
painting. See:
http://www.wacom.com. An artist in
Maui uses this, and it can be done in a graphics’ program such as PhotoShop or
PhotoDraw.
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CRITIQUING JANICE’S PAINTING
Kate Aubrey critiqued a couple of paintings Janice Frost had brought in
so that Kate could give the audience a sense of good framing. Janice had cut out
everything but one focal point – the barn - which left the viewer stuck there.
When the frame was removed, the eye entered the painting via a light line going
toward the barn, had a sense of where the barn was. The eye moved around the
picture from one place to another….all connected one to another via line or
color.
Kate teaches art classes and can be reached at
moonhawkstudios@sbcglobal.net, on
line at
http://katcaubrey.tripod.com or by phone at 853-7996
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VICE PRESIDENT BOB TOMPKINS THANKED THE GUEST ARTIST AUBREY
for her presentation and members responded favorably with strong
clapping. Afterwards, Bob invited folks to partake in refreshments.
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REFRESHMENTS AND SOCIALIZING. Delicious goodies and lemonade were brought in by Nancy Kilberg and Diane
Campbell. Thank you ladies.
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NEXT MEETING WILL BE JULY 23 AND GUEST ARTIST WILL BE OUR OWN CVAA FORMER
PRESIDENT ELINOR SKILES WHO WILL TALK ABOUT CERAMICS |
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. . . . . .Submitted by Secretary Janice Frost |
