Merry Christmas to All & Happy Holidays

Hope you all are having a great and happy season.

Tis the season for thanks and reflection for all we have and wishing more for others.

May you have a happy and healthy new year.  

Monday Morning Critique Group Meeting

The Monday morning group met at the Brunswick library this month. We had an excellent conversation about our art projects. We discussed everything from color temperatures, depth of field and all the other usual  considerations we have in a work of art. One person in our group, Dave, is very good at showing that cropping often helps and sometimes even creates two works of art. We always see different points of view and perhaps something that hadn't even come to mind when we had looked at our own work for so long.

Photograph by Bill

Pastel by Helen

Oil painting by Dave, plein air at Wolf Creek

Pastel by Lee   This is a close up of a very wonderful small painting.

Pastel by Lee   this is a close up of a very small painting. Small paintings can be very charming.

Photograph: Original size

Dave talks about possible cropping and more than one photograph.

Pastel by Helen

Colored Pencil by Donna

The beauty of all the greens

Lee talking about her pastel before the critique

Plein air pastel by Lee

Colored pencil of red coon hound puppy by Valorie

 

Colored pencil by Donna

Oil plein air painting by Dave

Featured Artist for September Wed 5

 

Wednesday    Sept. 5th

7:30 P.M.      

                  Brunswick City Hall

                     4095 Center Road.  

Marleen Farley is our featured artist for September 2012.

Maureen Farley is inspired by the grace and beauty of animals and the natural world. She has enjoyed a lifelong love of painting and drawing which lead to a B. A. degree from the University of Nevada in psychology and fine art. Her artistic achievements include receiving the Douglas County Historical Association Photography award, the Carson Valley Library Award, as well as many awards from the Nevada Artist Association and Western Nevada College.

Her favorite media are colored pencil, digital photography, and transparent acrylic collage. She is known for painting original harmonious images of birds and animals. 
"At this time I am exploring mixed media and collage to produce free flowing abstract assemblages." The assemblages appear to have a fluid quality as they represent the interaction between mankind and our natural environment. She arranges interesting found objects such as colorful rocks or leaves with man made materials including transparent glass and beads. 

The creations are designed to be felt as well as seen due to the depth of the textural qualities. After she fuses the elements aesthetically they are permanently sealed with a non yellowing transparent acrylic glaze. 

She has been selected to join the Avant-Garde Art and Craft Shows organization  in North East Ohio. 

To view more of her work visit: http://maureenidafarley.artistwebsites.com or www.fineartamerica.com/artists or www.nevadaartists.org. You can contacted her by email at mifarley@live.com.

Please Join Us For Talks, Presentations and Demonstrations

                           Wednesday    Sept 5,  2012

                                         7:30 P.M.      

                                Brunswick City Hall

                                     4095 Center Road.  

                           Brunswick, Ohio         44212

free   

Artist of the Month is Always the First Wednesday of the Month

All images are copy right and may not be reproduced or copied with out consent of the artist.

All images on the entire Brunswick Art Works Blog are copied right and may not be reproduced or copied for any reason with out consent of the artist.

Critique Group Thurs Night

 Wonderful critique group meeting at our regular meeting place. Kelly's Cafe is a nice comfortable and warm feeling for talking about our art. We can have a little something to eat or drink too if we like.

pastel by Lee Beuther

 Viewing the art first before contributing comments helps to organize our thoughts.

 Matting helps a lot to view a painting to talk about it even though it may or may not be finished yet.

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Collage Workshop! April 28, 2012! Sign up NOW!

Balloon-bending FUN!!!

As you can see, kids of all ages had a blast at Dave Yeh's balloon-bending demonstration last week.   I'm wondering who had the most fun...

(Photos courtesy of William Beuther Photography)

Jan Householder and The Giving Doll

Meet the artist Jan Householder on August 3, 2011 at 7:30 PM at our regular monthly meeting at Brunswick City Hall.

Jan is Founder and Executive Director of The Giving Doll, Inc., a non profit volunteer program that gives faith, love, joy, hope and comfort to children at times of special need, through the construction and distribution of a cloth handmade doll.  Since the program was founded in 2006, over 8500 dolls have been constructed and given to children worldwide.

Jan retired from Wadsworth City Schools were she taught Family and Consumer
Sciences at Wadsworth High School, was the Advisor for Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) and Volunteer Opportunities for Teens Organization
(VOFT).

Most recently, she was selected as a recipient of the Medina County YWCA Woman
of Distinction Award, received The Women’s History Project of the Akron Area, Inc,
Women of the Year for Creativity, was inducted into the Wadsworth City Schools
Educator Emeritus Hall of Fame and the Wadsworth Older Adults Foundation Senior
Advocate Hall of Fame.

Jan lives in Sharon Center with her husband Mark.