Newsletter for November 2006
GENERAL MEETING: Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 9:30am at Augustana Lutheran Church, 5000 East Alameda Ave. Remember that we meet on the 3rd Saturday at 9:30am.
Your furnished name tags should to be worn to each meeting because if you wear it and your signup number is called out by a guest you win $5! The Hello stick’em tags are only for guests!!!
The PROGRAM will be with Judy Patti who will demonstrate the use of Encaustic. This will be a hands-on workshop style for all members to participate. Judy will show us various techniques, etc - the process is very simple and it will be amazing that all of our pictures will turn out. Special irons are used, Judy and several members will furnish these. Judy will have available various sizes and textures of paper along with the colored waxes needed. We ask that everyone who is going to participate in this give $4.00/person for the supplies furnished.
She recommends if you have available shiny paper with colored pictures, bring them along - amazing what one can do. Also bring some Kleenex that is used to polish up your cooled painting.
Encaustic: a method of painting which uses pigments melted with wax and fixed or fused to the painting surface with heat.
Review of last months program: Was a very interesting critique of our paintings with Victoria Kwasinski. Her rules for painting ---> The 3’s: Select what you want to paint. Subtract what you don’t need. Simplify what you have. She recommends that you tone the canvas with Naptha Crimson (Liquitex).
Christmas Party:
December 8
6:00pm - 10pm
Marion Wrights home (3333 E. Florida, #30)
$2.00 per person to cover cost of the meat
Meat (Turkey and Ham) cooked (by a DAAG volunteer) and furnished by DAAG
Beverage will be furnished by DAAG
Pot Luck - you will be given and notified of choices to bring
Chinese Auction (bring a handmade gift)
Signup sheet will be at this November meeting. If you cannot attend this meeting but still want to participate in this party, call Marion Wright at 303-282- 5273 before the 4th of December.
Our web site is www.daagonline.com is up and running with Karl Johnson our webmaster. To set up a member page, update your page, or have new photos taken of your artwork call Joyce Madden at 303-771-2019 and make arrangements. Slides and/or photos can be sent directly to Karl and he will get them online. Be sure to include a short (5 or 6 lines) biographical note. A fee of $25.00 to each member will give that member a page of 6 paintings plus the bio. There are links to agencies, retail outlets (Meininger’s, etc), and organizations. Once your page is up and approved, your $25.00 is due. If you want to change one picture in your web site that is free, any more than that there is a flat fee of $25.00. Karl’s address is 2423 S. Yarrow Way, Lakewood, CO 80227 - phone: 303-980-0501 - email: Karl@colorado-artist.com.
You need to get your updated resumés (form layouts are available) and photos of at least three (3) of your artwork to Joyce Madden and if you have something for the Historian book you can bring that along and give to Floy Walberg. Our History book is wonderful and if you haven’t taken a look thru it, please do.
REFRESHMENTS for this November 18th meeting will be furnished by Ann Hanscom and LaVeryn Talmage. The Christmas Party will be December 8 - more later in this newsletter. January 20th refreshments will be furnished by Tony McCrary and Thelma Gash. If you have any questions, you can contact Sally Moore at 303-698-2003.
Addition to your membership book:
Jane Thaden
(welcome back, Jane)
Deadline for the January 20 newsletter will be January 5. Oh, and a reminder, there will be no regular meeting or a newsletter in December.
The next Board Meeting will be Friday, November 30 at 3:00pm at Joyce Madden’s.
Shhhhhhhhh
Out of courtesy for our demonstrators/speakers, please refrain from talking during the program. You have plenty of time to converse with your friends at the break, before and after the meeting.
Please keep the meeting room clean as you found it - also it would be helpful if you would put your chair back in its original position when you leave.
Club Notes:
Floy Walberg had knee replacement surgery on November 1st and is home now recovering. And Floy had 3 paintings accepted in the Lone Tree art show.
Mary Lou Rose is now home from a weeks visit in the hospital for pneumonia.
Ann Hansom has one painting at the Colorado History Museum and it sold. This show was sponsored by the Colorado Watercolor Society.
Dolores Hartman had two paintings in the Gateway Show and two in the Littleton Fine Arts Museum and one painting won 2nd prize.
Sally Moore is home recovering from wrist (carpal tunnel) surgery that she had on October 17th
Joyce Madden sold a painting at the DAAG sponsored “Best of Show” exhibit
Tony McCrary is doing just great - he attended our guild meeting in October..
Ann Blecha is still in rehab recovering and resting for upcoming back surgery.
Helen Colvert has moved to Taos, NM to be near her family. Her new address is:
Future DAAG programs planned: (mark your calendars)
November 18 - Judy Patti - Encaustic with member participation. With the supplies furnished, there will be a $4.00 charge to each member to cover those expenses. If you save some of the slick ads that come in the mail, they can be used in some of the Encaustic paintings
December 8- Christmas party at Marion Wright’s. More information in this newsletter, but the Chinese Auction will be one of the features (besides the food).
January 20 - Joanne Burney (pastellist) - critique
February 17 - Bruce Tilsley - Oil demo - also Bring-A-Friend Day
March 17 - Bruce Gomez pastel demo (St. Patricks Day)
April 21 - Lori Williamson - Critique
May 19 - Helen Buznedo - sketching/drawing (member participation)
June 16 - White Elephant sale/trade
July and August - no meetings
Future DAAG exhibits:
February - Curtis School of Humanities
Denver Botanic Gardens
Littleton Towne Hall Theatre
Montview Presbyterian Church
* This is the true name of Taos........
Other shows/workshops: There is far too much information concerning future workshops, classes, etc. to put in this newsletter, so each month we make this information available to you by putting the flyers and information sheets on the table at our monthly meetings. Examples would be Colorado Artists Guild; Heritage Fine Arts Guild; Photoshop workshop; Aurora Arts Guild; Hudson River Valley art workshops; Curtis School of Humanities; City of Littleton arts exhibit; Abend Gallery; Lafayette, CO arts project; etc.
If you have information that you want included in the newsletter, please call Joyce Madden at 303-771-2019.
Some ideas for painting:
When at an impasse, look at the works of the masters.
Dont allow yourself to be crushed by failure. Rembrandt had failures Success grows from failure.
Keep it simple.
Take pride in your work.
If youre at a loss for what to do next, do a self-portrait.
To paint, draw. or create from the heart, rather than from the ego; the true artist is the creator within us.
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