Volume 49, Issue 1

September 16, 2014 6:30- 8:45 PM

Richardson Public Library

September 2014

Internationally known artist, Linda Lucas Hardy was named as one of the 10 Art-ists to watch in 2008 by Southwest Art Magazine. Her articles and artwork have appeared in The "Artist's", "International Artist", The American Artist "DRAWING", "Southwest Art", "American Art Collector" and Northlight Magazine. Her work has also been published in four art books and one text book.

This organization is funded in part by the City of Richardson through the Richardson Arts Commission

Linda Hardy

Still Life Oil

MAY DEMONSTRATION - RICHARD PRATHER

Richard Prather begins his paintings with a one-color under-painting; that way he doesn’t have to deal with white. He paints on especially processed board.

Typically, he paints the whole picture with one bristle brush which he cleans as he switches to another color. He may change brush sizes.

He begins by blocking in basic shapes and the darkest areas, building up color from dark to me-dium to light. Is there something in the painting that’s driven by the light? Get those things first.

What he loves about oil is texture, which he cre-ates by poking the brush onto the surface. He steps back and judges the progress of warm to cool in the picture. When painting the sky, he puts little dabs of color into the blue paint. Little color spots make it “pop.”

The edges are really important—lost and found. He doesn’t want the object to look like it’s “cut out.” And the land strips are graded.

Since he enjoys painting plein air the most., when he is painting in his studio, it is executed under a special light.

Dianna Powrie was the lucky winner of lovely landscape Richard Prather

donated.

A Close-Up of the Completed Demonstration Picture

October 4 -November 8 Membership Show Linda Clary & Elsie Hicks

January 9 - February 7 Young People’s Show Pete Quaid

February 1 - March 19 Rosemary Cheney Show

March 21 - April 25 50+ show Wanda Grice

Art Demonstrations

Schedule

MEETING DEMONSTRATIONS

September 16 Linda Harvey Oil Still Life

October 21 Charles Mann Relief Print Making

November 18 Tina Bohlman Plein Air Watercolor

January 20 Michael Holter Watercolor Portraits

February 17 Steve Miller Pastel

March 17 Cecy Turner Oil Painting

April 21 Bonny Leibowitz Encaustic

May 19 Jane Jones Experimental Acrylic

DATE ARTIST MEDIUM

General Meeting and Art Demonstrations are 6:30p.m.– 8:45 p.m. Third Tuesday of the month, September through May

Basement Meeting Room, Richardson Public Library

RCAS ART SHOWS DATES SHOW CHAIRMEN

TBD TCAS Regional Art Show

Rosalinda Trevino

Wanda Grice

GETTING TO KNOW YOU Personal Art History of

RCAS Members

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WHO AM I? I AM A WEST TEXAS NATIVE FROM LUBBOCK, TX who through a series of divine events was directed to the Dallas Metroplex in 2000.

I HAVE TRADED CRAYONS FOR PASTELS, finger paint for acrylics and construction paper for canvas as my inner child fulfils its calling to create WandARTful Glory from uncommon objects allow-ing the viewer to experience an Artistic Realm Transformation.

I HAVE CREATED WORKS in watercolor, mixed media and I am currently working in acrylics. Among my works are several wearable art pieces. One of my creations are “bARTtles”, where art meets recycling and ordinary bottles are trans-formed into art.

I AM AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF VAL-Visual Art League of Lewisville were I serve as Director/Past President and I serve as a Committee Chair and Data Entry assistant for the RCAS – Richardson Civic Art Society. I have my anchoring and inspi-ration from my participation in the Prayer Ministry of Westside Baptist Church, Lewisville,TX.

I HAVE HAD THE JOY OF PROVIDING art work advertising for several of the Greater Lewisville Theater productions. It has been my pleasure to lend my art to both my church, community and work environment.

I DESIRE TO BE SEEN AS AN INSTRUMENT

used to share God’s Glory with his creations

Wildflower Project

For two years it has been my pleasure on behalf of RCAS to provide artwork for guitars that are auctioned to benefit the Network of Community Min-i s t r i e s , I n c . T h e a c -tion occurs during the annual Wildflower festival. This honor is one that allows RCAS to con-nect to the community that we serve. I would like to thank RCAS for allowing me to use my gifts to serve.

MEMBERSHIP SHOW As many of you already know, the 2014 Membership Show will be held from October 4th through November 8th on the 2nd floor of the Richardson Public Library.

Take-in will be on October 4th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., however, the library has re-quested that our volunteers arrive at 10:00 a.m. to assist in setting up the panels and preparing for take-in prior to the arrival of the artists.

The Awards Presentation will be held at the beginning of our regular monthly members meeting on October 21st at 6:30 p.m. in the basement of the Richardson Public Library. I would like to show a slideshow of the winning art work during the awards presentation and our juror has also agreed to make a short state-ment about his impressions of the show.

Pick up will be on November 8th from 10:30 to 12:30 p.m.

Our juror for the show will be Paul Booker. He is an adjunct Professor of Art at the University of Texas at Dallas and also at Collin College. He has a Bachelor of Arts de-gree from the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate degree from the University of North Texas. He is both a sculptor and painter whose award-winning work has been exhibited in nu-

merous galleries here in Texas and in New York City. His work has also been published in a variety of newspapers and art magazines. You can see some of his work on his website at

www.PaulBooker.com .

Our retiring President

was read a delightful

poem at the May meeting

in tribute to her two years

as president of RCAS

By

Carol Powell

Thank You, Beth!

And

Thank you, Carol

A Tribute to Beth

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A big THANKS to Asel Art and Artist Showplace for their continued support of the Richardson Civic Art Society. Asel has provided our 2nd and 3rd place awards for many, many years...and their support has been invaluable. Our 1st place award is provided by RCAS and Artist Showplace, which displays the 1st place winner for a month. What a treat! A "Peoples Choice Award" certificate goes to the winner of the Show and Share exhibit. We had a wonderful variety of works by our members in May. Keep up the good work and keep painting !!

MAY PAINTING OF THE MONTH WINNERS

Show & Share John Cheney Bowl Wood 3rd Place Cecy Turner “Laundry Day—Venice” Watercolor 2nd Place Diane McNabb “Phoebe” Watercolor 1st Place Mickey Archer “Jeb” Watercolor

SHOW & SHARE

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Message from the President — Pat Fekete

Richardson Civic Art Society P.O. Box 831027 Richardson, TX 75083-1027

Pat Fekete

We have taken on several new projects in the past several years. We are looking into several new ones for the future. Each started with an idea that was proposed. We need your help in delivering these activities. We are an ALL VOLUNTEER organization. We must ALL step up and help. If each of us does a little bit, we can all enjoy. I look forward to seeing each of you, getting better acquainted and being your president.

As we begin the new RCAS year, welcome to each of you! Whether you are a long-time member or someone searching for something new, RCAS has something for each of you! We hope to inspire, share experiences and help develop the artist in us all. The officers and chairpersons have already been busy working to develop and deliver interesting programs and fun activities for the year. We want to enrich your artistic experience. We hope that you will get involved or re-involved with us. We want to include you.

Relief Print Making

Charles Mann Oct 21