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The
Palette
Volume 16 Issue 23 November 2015
RGAA NEXT MEETING Saturday November 21 At Cumberland Presby terian Church on Academy & Moon
The Board meets at 8.45am
_______________ November Challenge: Members are invited to paint a self-portrait. At the time of going to press, no further details/instructions are available. _______________
Many thanks to Reebie Nolda for offering to be the Assistant Editor of The Palette, during my absence. Many thanks also to Carole Baron who has also offered to be our stand-in. Carole has the following items for sale: 1) Guerrilla Painter $ThunBpx, 9”x7” $50 2) Half Box French Easel $175 3) French Mistress $75
Tel: 505-220-6322 Carole will bring the above to the November meeting unless sold .
Rio Grande Art Association
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A few words from the President,
The Holidays are fast approaching. That being said, we do have dead-lines for entries also fast approaching. The deadline for MasterWorks is January 22, 2016. I hope you are all feverishly painting for this Show. In conjunction with MasterWorks is RGAA’s sponsored Workshop with Krysteen Waszak as the instructor. She will be doing a 3 day workshop, April 21 - 23, 2016 focusing on plein-air painting using exuberant and live-ly colors. You can sign up for this workshop now to reserve you spot.
You know what else is fast approaching? My tenure as your president. I want to take a few moments to share with you my utmost gratefulness to a wonderful group of artists. We have accomplished a lot, from amend-ing our Bylaws, cleaning up a mess with the IRS, revamping the entry requirements for MasterWorks and Encantada (which is on-going), im-proving our website, transforming the Palette to digital, reestablishing the non-juried Member Show to name a few. In other words we are constant-ly looking at ways to make RGAA a very dynamic association benefiting the membership as well as our community!
I am truly privileged and honored to have served as your President.
Remember to always ‘Paint with Passion’.
President Bonnie Buckley
RGAA’s October Meeting: A Show and Tell of Members’ Works by Diane Buster
For our October meeting, some members brought in current pieces to show us. We also had our first swap meet and sale of art materials, maybe the beginning of an annual event?! We saw a couple of paintings in answer to Mary Stovall’s monthly challenge to create a small painting that emphasized the effect of light. Sheila had a floral painting of daffodils in late evening sun. She worked on the dark values of flowers in shadow. Ann had a painting of an all-black cat working on how to model form with her own mixed blacks. She used orange red, thalo blue, and a touch of yellow to create a range of blacks. Next month’s challenge from Carla is to paint a “selfie” in any medium, size, and manner that depicts an interpretation of yourself. Ann Peterson started us off. Ann is working with Dee Sanchez on a series of challenge paintings from photographs; Ann added an adobe structure to her interpretation of the Placitas photo. Mary Julyan showed us a plein air painting of Steamboat Springs; she was taken by the many wildflowers. Fred “What a Guy” Yost is working with poured epoxy resin with added colorants to create some wonderful high gloss pieces. Fifteen of these pieces will be featured at the Weems Gallery on Montgomery during the month of November. Karen was next with a lovely painting of hay bales inspired from a photograph. Wanda had a large acrylic sun-rise painting of her sister walking on a Florida Beach. Wanda used sponge paint rollers to apply several thin layers to achieve the color effects. Charlie’s brightly colored assemblage had a window to look through, a ball that could be moved; the entire piece then opened up to show a bird in a cage and the opposite cover, a collaged dictionary chart of bird species. Ray Tussing is working in high relief using cake decorating tools and iridescent acrylic paints for the flowers on his skeleton lady. Most of the piece is sculpted from Styrofoam insulation coated with acrylic molding pasted for a hard finish. Tools include hot wire for cutting, sand paper, and a Dremel tool. Bonnie went to Shady Lakes and painted a plein air piece with a turtle on a log. She asked for and received sugges-tions to improve the painting. The suggestions addressed aerial perspective, the contrast of values, softer edges, and varying shapes of similar objects like the rocks. Barb Nahler recently had seen works by artist Jennifer Davenport that emphasized rectangles and straight edges. This inspired her to play with some different textural effects and more geometric shapes for her nonrepresentational piece. Carolyn had a still life with a pumpkin and rosehips. Carolyn also asked for comments and suggestions. Comments included glazing the background to push it back, varying the folds in the tablecloth more, and maybe cropping the paint-ing to offset the center of interest. I n looking back through some drawings he’d done for the Alibi, Rex was reminded of his love of the juxtaposition of chrome and wood in 50’s memorabilia as inspiration for his piece. Using a dry brush technique, Rex worked with acryl-ics on a medium toned stretched Canson paper. Carla went back four evenings to work on her piece, one in a series of winery paintings. Her inspiration was the long cast shadows. Carla works with water miscible oils and palette knife. By the way, Carla plans to use this series to cre-ate presentation pieces to local wineries as part of her self-marketing.
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cont’d from previous pageMembers showing their work and talking about it during last month’s meeting
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LEE MACLEOD is our Presenter for November Lee MacLeod was born in Los Angeles California in 1953. He attended Colorado College and graduated in 1976. He be-gan studying at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1977. He completed his course work in 1980 and began his art career as an illustrator. His most visible projects were the final advertising art for the films “Batman”, “Howard The Duck”, and “Pocahontas”. Lee MacLeod currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Since moving to Santa Fe in 1993, Lee became interested in fine art, in particular plein air and studio landscape painting. In addition to being a member of the California Art Club, Lee is a member OPA, PAPNM, PAAC, OPS, LPAPA, and AIS. He has exhibited in the juried national shows of all of these organizations. He participated in the Torrey Pines Plein Air Invitational in 2008, and the Paint the Rockies Plein Air Invi-tational in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015. Over the years he has had the fortune to study with a number of great artists. His associations with Santa Fe artists, Bill Gallen and Dave Ballew have been invaluable in formulating an approach to both seeing and painting the natural world. For The RGAA presentation, Lee is planning on demonstrating an approach to painting clouds based on some basic rules about how light behaves when effected by distance and atmosphere. This can be helpful, especially when painting out-doors, as clouds are always changing. The approach combines working with observed effects, memory, and design. He will be bringing original art that incorporates this approach.
Other News
5A few examples of Lee Macleod’s work below:
Arroyo Seco by Lee Macleod
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Other Member news and art activities
The Coming Storm by Lee Macleod
The New Mexico Art League presents a Local Color DemonstrationSplash Color - From Ancient to Modern with Ming Franz on Sunday November 22, at 2pm-4pm. Free and Open to the Public.
Left an example of Ming’s Splash Color technique.
Ren Adams
Solo Exhibition - Desert (Loss) Opens tonight! Friday, Nov. 6, 5-8 pm at New Grounds Gallery.3812 Central Ave SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108Exhibition runs through November 28.
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Above: a painting by Red Adams Above: a painting by Nora Sanders
New Art Gallery Opening November 4th in Nob HillAlbuquerque, NM, November 2, 2015 - A new boutique art gallery is opening in Nob Hill. The Blue Lily Atelier is the creation of mother and daughter duo, Nadine Scala and Robin Scala, long-time Albuquerque residents and entrepreneurs.
Blue Lily Atelier will host exhibits of established and emerging New Mexico artists working in a variety of media: watercolor, splash ink, Chinese brush painting, oil, collage and paper. The gallery’s featured artists are Vicki Bolen, Aggie Damron, April Fletcher, Ming Franz, Toyoko Lee, MJ Manford, Ann Pisto, Cynthia Rowland and Nora Sanders.
“Our goal is to create a community space that showcases the arts in all their expressive forms. Our programs are designed to inspire curiosity, engage all five senses and foster meaningful connections with others”, says Robin Scala, Co-Founder and President.
Blue Lily Atelier will open on November 4 and host a grand opening party on Saturday, December 5th, 1-7 pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 12-6 pm.
Blue Lily Atelier is located in Nob Hill at 3209 Silver Ave SE, adjacent to The Fragrant Leaf Tea Boutique, the local tea shop also owned by Robin Scala. For more information visit www.bluelilyatelier.comContact: Robin Scala: 505-263-6675. [email protected]
Blue Lily Atelier
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9RGAA 2015 Officers and Committee
President: Bonnie Buckley 505-480-7020 [email protected]
Vice President: Barbara Nahler 505-823-1264 No email address
Secretary: Sheila Richmond 505-856-0245 [email protected]
Treasurer: Wanda Portee 505-250-7304 [email protected]
Programs: Mary Julyan 505-298-8420 [email protected]
Encantada: Nancy Davis 505-688-9422 [email protected]
Membership: Allen Lowery 505-306-5131 [email protected]
Historian: Charlie Aldrich 505-433-1141 [email protected]
Refreshments: Carolyn Poole 505-828-3909 [email protected]
Newsletter: Nora Sanders 505-891-3820 [email protected]
Associate Reebie Nolda 505-323-4300Newsletter: [email protected]
Website: Ray Tussing 505-800-8108 [email protected]
Masterworks: Bonnie Buckley (Workshop) 505-480-7020 [email protected] Michael Meyer (Webmaster) 505-359-1189 [email protected]
Exhibits and Publicity: Open
Rio Grande Art AssociationThe Rio Grande Art Associa-tion is a not for profit organi-zation dedicated to the educa-tion and promotion of New
Mexico Artists working in oil, acrylic and mixed media not normally shown under glass.
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Rio Grande Art AssociationP.O.Box 53307
Albuquerque, NM 87153President: Bonnie Buckley
Phone: 505-480-7020Email: [email protected]
Above: Flyer for Blue Lily Atelier. Iao Valley Maui by Ming Franz