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Demonstrations in Easton
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Nancy Boren: 9am – noon
Nancy Boren will demonstrate figure painting. She
will discuss her board preparation, underpainting, and the way the board
texture can be used to add interest and atmosphere. Learn how to imbue a
painting with life instead of slavishly copying a photo reference. Nancy will
show how to paint beyond the form, use reflected light and what to think about
when setting up a model. For examples of her work see
www.nancyboren.com.
Colleen Howe: 1-4pm
Colleen K. Howe has spent almost 20 years in the
study of pastel painting. Her demonstration will focus on how to simplify a
landscape photo to an effective composition and value study. Then she will
show how to translate the value patterns into color for a painting. She uses
sanded pastel paper with a loose watercolor underpainting, then applies
pastel, allowing some of the underpainting to show through. Value structure
and color harmony will be stressed in making a successful painting. See
www.colleenhowe.com
Monday, October 12
Karen Crain and Joy Beckner: 9-noon
Two Sculptors, Two Challenges
Karen E. Crain, an accomplished, award-winning sculptor who specializes
in figurative sculpture that tells a story, will demonstrate sculpting a
female figure in water base clay with an emphasis on adding drapery to the
form. See
http://www.kecrain.com
Joy Kroeger Beckner has been sculpting for nearly 20 years, first using
human subjects and, more recently, the canine friends for whom her work is
best known. Using oil-based clay, she will demonstrate the methods she uses to
create a bas relief. Information from this demo will apply to a bas relief of
any subject. See http://joybeckner.com
Bethanne Kinsella-Cople: 1-4pm
Award winning painter Bethanne Kinsella Cople will
share her inspiring passion for paint, teaching the fundamentals of a
successful painting with an emphasis on composition, color and paint
application. Bethanne will demonstrate how to compose a larger studio
painting using, as references, several smaller plein air studies. Cople has
received numerous awards, such as the Tansin L. Holzer Memorial Award for
"Best Traditional Painting" at the National Arts Club in New York City,
Bethanne was selected as an Artist to Watch by Southwest Art Magazine in their
February 2006 issue, and was juried into Plein Air-Easton! 2005, 2007 and
2008, where she won Best Pastoral in 2005 and 2008.
Monday, November 9
Carol Swinney: 6-9pm
For this palette knife painting demonstration, Carol
Swinney will be demonstrating how she starts her landscapes by painting
the most distant areas first and then moving forward to the areas closest to
the viewer. By layering in this manner, with a wet on wet knife technique,
she will show how this can achieve depth in landscape painting. Carol will
also show how to use all edges and surfaces of the knife to create interesting
textures that you see in nature.
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