Essex Art League

"OPEN STUDIO"  Memorial Weekend  

May 29-30, Come see artists painting and selling their work in a beautiful newly constructed space at 8 Essex Way (next to Post Office), Essex Center, VT.  Modest refreshments served.  Plenty of free parking and free admission.

Caroline Brown: Watercolor and Oils

Celeste Forcier: Watercolor Rice Paper Collage

Barbara Lang: Polymer Clay Jewlery, One of a kind Swarovski Crystal Jewelry

Margaret Maffin: Watercolor

Lynn Magie: Watercolor

Susan Noel: Acrylic

Mary Pacifici: Watercolor

Lynn Ann Powers: Watercolors, Acrylics, Photo cards, Fabric art and Trout Fly Paintings

Deb Runge: Watercolor

Lucy Wilcox: Photography

Artists Get Wet – Again!
Thursday, April 22nd (Earth Day)
6:30pm-8:00pm Phoenix Bookstore, Essex Junction

Hors d’oeuvres, Drinks provided and available for a fee at the Bookstore café

Program
LCC Staff Scientist and author Mike Winslow will provide a
reading from LCC’s book Lake Champlain: A Natural History and also provide some tips on actions citizens can take to protect the lake in keeping with our Earth Day theme.

The evening may also include a poetry reading.
The lake artwork will be displayed on the walls and available
for purchase.

Open Studio at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery

Kathleen Berry Bergeron is the featured artist at the Memorial Day weekend Open Studio in Jericho, Vermont (Barbara Farm Road).

Diana D. Dunn's portaits and watercolors will also be on display at the gallery.

Both artists will be present and will provide demonstrations of their techniques.

Back to Basics: Two one-day workshops with Jane Neroni

First Congregational Church, 39 Main Street, Essex Junction, Vt. 05452

Each of these sessions will be packed with structured exercises and variety of drawing experiences.  Be prepared to try new things and to look at the world of drawing and composition in unique and challenging ways.

Take one session, or both.  $75. a day. Max. students 15, minimum 10.

First Session: April 15, 2010. Time 9:30 to 3:30 pm.

If you see it, you can draw it!

The challenge of observational drawing.

Spend the day brushing up on your drawing skills, learning new “tricks of the trade”, and sharpening your powers of observation.  Using traditional still life objects, as well as natural forms, we will explore new approaches to drawing what we see.  We will learn to use sighting sticks and view finders in several different ways, and, through a series of graduated exercises we will explore methods to accurately depict proportion, perspective and unusual foreshortening situations.  Using only graphite, and three values, we will add form and volume to our collection of drawing “tricks”.  By the end of the workshop you will be more confident drawing a wide variety of subject matter accurately and quickly.

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Second Session: May 13, 2010

Composing a landscape in line, value and shape

Get ready for spring by perfecting your composition and design skills.  The arrangement of line, shape and space in artwork is an art form in itself and the difference between a pleasant picture and amazing artwork is often found in composition.  Structured exercises will help us to trust our intuition and develop new ways to approach perspective, proportion and point of view. By using devices such as cropping, framing and pattern identification we will learn to simplify and strengthen our drawings. A careful study of value in the landscape will add atmosphere and emotion to our work. Finally, a variety of images from various resource materials will give us the building blocks to create our own unique landscapes. 

Plan on bringing an 11X14.drawing pad (Strathmore has a good one in its 400 series), several #2 pencils, a kneaded eraser and a pencil sharpener to both sessions.  Pack a lunch, a drink and several snacks.  Those joining the “composition” workshop should also bring a few landscape photos with them (either photos they have taken themselves or those clipped from magazines).