Mary Cocca Obituary
Mary A. Cocca, a former president, officer, and board member of the Fairborn Art Association, passed away early on the morning of April 1, 2015 at Hospice in Dayton. Mary was 89 years old. Morris & Sons Funeral Home will take care of the visitation and burial. Visitation for Mary Cocca was on Monday, April 6 at 9 am in the Bride’s Room inside the entrance of Mary Help of Christians Church, 954 N. Maple Ave., Fairborn. The funeral mass followed at 10 am. Being that it was Easter Monday, there were lots of Easter flowers decorating the church.
April 2015 Watercolor Show in the Gallery
The Fairborn Art Association Gallery will house a display of an art show, “Thursday Class/Paint-in Art Show; Instructor, Misuk Golz.” A reception was held on Saturday, April 11, 2015 from 1 pm to 4 pm where food and beverages and live entertainment were provided. The reception was a huge success with many attendees expressing their enjoyment of the artwork. The show will be open on three consecutive Sundays, April 12, 19, and 26, also 1 pm to 4 pm. Fairborn Art Association Art Gallery is located in the rear of the Fairborn Senior Apartment Building on 221 North Central Avenue, Fairborn, Ohio.
Paintings are available for sale. The artists are members of the ThursdayClass/Paint-in group. We painted together for over two years with Misuk Goltz instructing and coordinating. The artists are both advanced and intermediate watercolorists. At the show you will find a variety of subjects including portraits expressed in beautiful watercolor.
You may contact Shirlee Bauer at [email protected] or Connie S. Gifford at [email protected] for additional information.
Misuk Goltz demonstrates a watercolor portrait
Members’ Spring Fine Art Show
The FAA Members’ Spring Fine Art Show is coming up in May, so get busy and paint! It is time to get ready for the Members’ Spring Show. Registration for the show will be held on Monday, April 27 from 9 am-12 pm and from 1-3 pm; and on Wednesday, April 29 from 10 am-12:00 pm. We need your help for registration, setting up for the show, and sitting the show. The Show will be open to the public the first three Sundays in May. Please contact gayle or Robert Beireis at 937-390-1992 or [email protected] if you are willing to help. Your help is very much appreciated to make this show a success. We are looking forward to working with all of you this spring. The Prospectus for the Show is attached or is available in the gallery or from gayle.
Click here for a 2015 Spring Prospectus.
En Plein Air 2015 Juried Art Exhibition
En Plein Air is a juried painting exhibition presented as a collaboration between B-W Greenway Community Land Trust & Fairborn Art Association. The show is held in the Fairborn Art Association Gallery at 221 North Central Avenue, Fairborn, OH 45324. It was established in 2009 to heighten public awareness of our local greenspaces and the need to preserve them, as well as to foster an interest in painting from nature.
Each year a different location in the Fairborn, OH, area has been chosen as the subject of the paintings. The 2015 location is Lower Valley Pike Scenic Byway, which begins at Rte 40 in Springfield, OH, and continues to Rte235/Rte4 just south of I-70 south of Medway. (A map is provided in the attached Prospectus.)
The juror for En Plein Air 2015 is Mr. Kevin Harris. Kevin Harris teaches Drawing and Printmaking at Sinclair Community College. He is a graduate of Hampton University and the University of Cincinnati. (For more about Kevin, see the Prospectus.)
This show is open to artists 16 years and older, living within 200 miles of Fairborn, OH.
Work must be original 2D, created by painting outdoors from March until July 4, 2015. Painting may be created in oil, acrylic, pastel, or watercolor, and can include mixed media within the painting. Cash prizes totalling $300 will be awarded at the Opening Reception July 12, 1-4 pm.
For more information, please contact: Bob Coates, 937-689-4855, [email protected] or Marti Riddle, 937-879-0725, [email protected]
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April 2015 Meeting
Watercolorist and F.A.A. member Yuki Hall gave a demonstration of her techniques to the membership at the meeting on Tuesday April 7, 2015.
Yuki, a native of Tokyo, Japan, began painting in 2006. She has studied with several nationally and internationally acclaimed artists including David Taylor, Mark Mehaffey,
Yuki Hall demonstrated her talents to the members of F.A.A. on Tuesday, April 7, 2015.
Yuki Hall used her photo of a barn as the subject of her demonstration Tuesday night.
Yuki at work on her monochromatic painting. She works from areas of light to dark. She uses Dervan Liquid Pencil for her work.
Yuki draws in the shape of the barn.
Yuki works on her painting while discussing her materials during her demonstration. She shared her love of the creative process with the members.
Here is the completed painting that Yuki created Tuesday evening.
This is one of the completed paintings that Yuki brought to the demo on Tuesday night.
and Alvaro Castagnet. She has had her work published and has been accepted into prestigious juried competitions.
Yuki believes in planning out a painting before she begins. She likes to do a pencil sketch first, followed by a monochromatic painting. Then she may do the subject in color. For her demonstration, she did a monochromatic painting. She uses Dervan Liquid Pencil for her monochromatic work.
She works from areas of light to dark. She will splash water onto the darker areas to create spatter. She likes to paint with the power of suggestion to invite the viewer to participate in the subject of her painting.
Three important areas that she emphasizes in her work are (a) shapes; (b) tonal value; and (c) edges. She feels that the use of a monochromatic scheme allows the artist to get in touch with tones in a painting. She also discussed the types of brushes and paper that she prefers.