Over 60 Competition
The Artist’s Magazine is sponsoring a competition for artists 60 years of age and older. There will be 10 winners of $100 each. They are looking for artists age 60+ working in two dimensions in all traditional art media. Submit your work and you could see it featured in The Artist’s Magazine! You must enter by October 1, 2013. For additional information, go to the announcement at http://www.artistsnetwork.com/the-artists-magazine-over-60-competition?et_mid=636313&rid=236206845
Fairborn Sweet Corn Festival 2013
This year’s Sweet Corn Festival was a huge success! It was a beautiful weekend with great weather. We would like to thank all the many, many volunteers who helped plan, answer phones and call volunteers, secure vendors, mark the field, work the information booth, tend the vendor’s gate, work the watermelon booth, sell ads for the booklet, and help with the parking.
A big thanks goes to all the watermelon booth workers! This year we made $3036.00, the most profit that was ever made in the watermelon booth. Since we charged $2.00 for each cup this year instead of $1.50 and didn’t have to pay for ice, the profit was $1452.38 more than last year. The best part was that we didn’t have to use quarters for change. A special person or persons are needed to chair this booth for next year. Jane Trame, current chairperson, will help to make the changeover successful. Please say you’ll help. Thank you! —Submitted by Jane Trame
Sterling Edwards, TWSA, CSPWC, Watercolor Workshop
The Fairborn Art Association is sponsoring a 5-day watercolor workshop with Sterling Edwards from September 30 to October 4, 2013. The workshop will be held in the Fairborn Art Association Gallery located in the rear of the Fairborn Senior Apartment Building, 221 N. Central Avenue, Fairborn, OH. Sterling Edwards is a contemporary watermedia master. He is a signature member of Transparent Watercolor Society of America, as well as Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor, an international organization based in Toronto. He is also an author of the North Light Book, Creating Luminous Watercolor Landscapes, a Four Step Process. He is also a contributing artist to numerous other magazines and books. His instructional DVDs are marketed worldwide. The cost for this workshop is $260 for a FAA member, $280 for a non-member. This is a bargain compared to charges at other workshops taught by Sterling Edwards. There are several places left in the workshop. To register, send a registration form (available at the Gallery and on our website), along with a check, to Yuki Hall, 4136 Fox Fern Court, Beavercreek, OH 45432. Make check payable to the Fairborn Art Association. For additional information, contact Yuki Hall at 937-426-7229 or email [email protected]
Sterling Edwards workshop registration form (Word Document)
Watercolor Paint-Ins with Misuk Goltz
Misuk organized some fun “paint-in” meetings in June, July, and one in August for FAA artists and their friends and family. The meetings were bustling with painting, socializing, and enthusiastic critiquing. She plans on continuing these meetings starting in September, every other Thursday from 10 am to 2 pm (as before). Dates of painting are: September 5, 19, October 10, 17, 31, November 7. Time of meeting: 10am–2pm. Misuk plans to hire models for us to sketch for a couple of sessions. The total cost for each session is $5 (including the $2 gallery fee, snacks, drinks, and model fee). Please send your registration with a $30 check (for 6 sessions) to Misuk Goltz, 2489 Sherbourne Way, Xenia, OH 45385. The registration form and additional information for these sessions is attached.
Misuk 2013 Fall Paint In registration 2 (Word Document)
Misuk 2013 Fall Paint In registration 2 (Pdf File)
Watercolor New Beginnings with Yuki Hall
Yuki will be teaching an 8-week class from September 16 to November 25, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm (class will not meet on Sep 23, 30 and Nov 4) at the Fairborn Art Association Gallery. In this 8-week course, you will gain fundamental knowledge and techniques about watercolor painting such as variegated wash, graduated wash, granulation, glazing, etc. You will also learn basic drawing skills with a main focus on perspective drawing. In addition, various methods of simplifying complex subject matter will be discussed. This course is primarily designed for beginner level and advanced-beginner level students. However, a broad spectrum of subjects will be addressed, enabling strengthening and refinement of skills at all levels. The cost is $85. To register, please send the payment and the registration form to Yuki Hall, 4136 Fox Fern Court, Beavercreek, OH 45432. For questions, call or email Yuki at 937-426-7229, [email protected] The registration form and additional information is attached.
Yuki Watercolor New Beginning (Word Document)
Yuki Watercolor New Beginning (Pdf File)
Colored Pencil/Pen & Ink with Tom Kinarney
Need a change of pace? Explore a couple of mediums that might surprise you with their ease of use & dramatic, beautiful results. This 8-week session at the FAA gallery begins Tuesday, Sept. 24 thru Nov. 26 (no class Oct. 1 & 15) from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Cost is $70 for the session. Tom also has classes Wed. mornings & Thur. nights at Rosewood Art Ctr. in Kettering & Fri. mornings in Vandalia. If interested in any of these you may contact him at 236-1959 or at [email protected].
Fun with Watercolor with Sandy Kinnamon
Sandy will be teaching a watercolor class for Fairborn Art Association beginning Wednesday September 11, 2013, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. The class will run for 8 weeks (no class on Oct. 2) ending on Nov. 6th and is geared for beginning and intermediate students. Kinnamon has a B.A. in art and is a signature member of both Ohio and PA Watercolor Societies. She is the author of the books, Watercolor Creations and Watercolor: Step by Step, and has published many magazine articles on watercolor. She also is a national travel teacher for watercolor workshops. The classes will focus on individual attention and demonstrations. Techniques, values, and composition will be explored. She is an excellent teacher. A variety of subject matter will be taught. Call Sandy at 543-9990 to register or for more information.
Soup and An Art Show
All FAA members and friends are invited to help support the Soup and Art Show to be held on October 26, by hand building bowls to be sold at the event. You only need hands, washable clothes, the ability to play (in clay) and a desire to help others. All materials will be provided as well as examples to inspire you and a few simple basics of working with clay to guarantee success.
Come to the Fairborn Art Association Gallery on Thursday, September 12 (time up to you if scheduled in advance), and/or Saturday, September 14, 10-2, to make the bowls. After they are fired and ready to be glazed you can return on Thursday, October 10 (3-8 pm) and/or Saturday, October 12, (10-2) for the glazing. Old clothes, shoes, and an old apron will be helpful as some glazes are staining. The clay will wash out easily. The bowls will be fired again and will be available for sale at the Soup and Art Show.
To join the fun at the clay and glaze tables please call Dora Lawson or email her at [email protected]. Please put FAA soup bowls in the subject so I do not miss you. Also indicate which dates you will come and the time, if on Thursday.
—Submitted by Dora Lawson
Lynda Pauley— Prairie’s Edge Studio
Lynda Pauley has announced her class schedule for September and October (attached). She says there is limited space in these classes. The Thursday Oil class is currently full. She is taking enrollment this week (August ) for other classes. For additional information contact Lynda at [email protected]
Lynda Pauley Schedule (Word Document)
Fine Arts Tent at Sweet Corn Festival
After a 3- or 4-year absence, the FAA members’ fine arts tent was back at the Sweet Corn Festival this year. Many people came through to look, buy, and learn about our group. I want to thank everyone who helped with the tent in every way, from Clarice Moore who gave us the idea and brought many people to the tent by offering her caricature drawings, to Jane Trame for sharing her notes on running the tent and helping to staff it, to all the members and four husbands who helped set up the artwork and take it down. Thanks to all the members who brought in works for sale and sat in the tent to sell our offerings. We did sell a painting, several prints, and many purses! Besides the caricatures, we had two other members demonstrating their painting techniques, Tom Hock and Cass Barth. Other members who offered their work for sale and/or volunteered in the tent were Gayle and Robert Beireis, Susan Bertke, Sue Brezine, Misuk Goltz (and Mark), Yuki Hall, Teiko Hawkins (and Jerry), Cora Newell (and Jeff), Mary Peirano, Connie Webber (and Don), and Mayumi Kiefer’s husband, Steve. Thanks to you all. It was a great opportunity and a fun weekend. —Submitted by Dora Lawson
