Workshop event

BRIO Fine Arts Center / New Visions Campus      5 Thursdays, October 6th -November 3rd, 2 - 5 pm  Art, Courage & Creativity II --- The Series!    Based upon the popular one day BRIO course with Karen Leeds ("Taking It Further") this new 5 partseries offers longer painting times to more deeply explore composition & feelings. Come relax, revive and reinvent yourself! We use rich, colorful oil pastels, loosening up exercises, and mixed media to gently free us from beliefs and habits that may be holding us back.  All materials are supplied. While there is ample technique taught, the emphasis is on creating original art by intuition, and on learning to recognize and act upon the inner guidance of your own unique voice.  Appropriate for both newcomers and graduates of Karen's other sessions.          COST:                     $160  +$10 supply fee each session ($50)                                        Register by August 31st for 10 % DISCOUNT!                                        Click Here   Or call 480/941-8310 (Diane)                                         Space is limited. Registration Required.                                         Directions  to New Vision location

Exhibit opportunity

The deadline for the 42^nd Annual River Road Show is approaching.  This show is a national juried exhibition sponsored by the Louisiana Art and Artists’ Guild with cash prizes of $3000.  Entries are being received until September 16, 2011.   Entry fee is $40 for three entries and $5 for each additional submission up to 10.     All United States artists 18 years and older are invited to submit any original two-dimensional art except photography or digitally-created/enhanced works.  The exhibition will be juried and judged by Pam Ingalls, renowned artist and instructor.      The actual exhibition will be held  December 5 – January 27 at the Louisiana State Archives building in Baton Rouge, LA.   The Prospectus and pictures of the 2010 are available at www.laag-site.org/River_Road_Show.html.   Direct questions to Gary Drinkwater at (225)485-8884 orlaagbr@laag-site.org.

Luba's workshop

Luba will be teaching 2 workshops at Plaza Artist Materials:
Sat. July 23, 1-4pm - Introduction to Oil Pastel. Baltimore (Towsen) MD (410-823-6406)
Sun. July 24, 2-4pm -Painting Flowers in Oil Pastel: rose.    Rockville, MD (301-770-0500)
For more info please visit her site: http://www.LubaSterlikovaArt.com

Tatiana news

Two of Tatiana's oil pastels are represented at second annual show of Daily Painters of Pennsylvania. The show was hanging for a month (June) at Capitol Building of PA and now moved for another month to "Gallerie 13". Mechanicsburg, PA. I'm showing two of my bigger paintings - Spots of Attitude (Jaguar) and "Double Glory" (irises).

http://dailypaintersofpennsylvania.b...lvania-at.htm

Tatiana was invited and juried into American Society of Traditional Artists. Fairly new group, very similar to Guild of Realism (mostly the same people, but also plenty of Western Artists). Group will be concentrating on promotion of traditional classical art, running annual museum exhibitions etc. So far to support my position there I'll have to work in traditional oils and egg tempera, which is OK with me. Perhaps some day I'll be able to show my oil pastels too, but not at beginning.    http://www.astartists.com/new_members.htm

Workshop with Luba

Please, join me to share your interest in oil pastel :)
Here is information on my 2-day workshop in Lorton, VA.
'Oil Pastels & Painting the Orchid ', 2-day workshop at Lorton Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA , Sat July 2 & Sun July 3 (11am-2pm, each day)
To get registered, please, call the Lorton Workhouse Art Center at 703-584-2909. (Debra)
Artists who participate in Lorton workshops are entitled to submit their works for the annual art exhibit in January-Lorton Workhouse has a beautiful gallery.
Purple Orchid, oil pastel on Canson paper,25x27 (63x68 cm)
http://www.facebook.com/l/ebfb94uG7edFYkx0xTO-hjkK64A/www.LubaSterlikovaArt.com

Exhibit Opportunity

THE 42^ND ANNUAL RIVER ROAD SHOW, a national juried exhibition sponsored by the Louisiana Art and Artists’ Guild, is receiving entries for the December 5 – January 27 exhibit at the Louisiana State Archives building in Baton Rouge, LA.  Deadline for entries is September 16.  Entry fee is $40 for three entries and $5 for each additional submission up to 10.  This is a national juried competition with cash prizes of $3000.  All United States artists 18 years and older are invited to submit any original two-dimensional art except photography or digitally-created/enhanced works.  The exhibition will be juried and judged by Pam Ingalls, renowned artist and instructor.   The Prospectus and pictures of the 2010 are available at www.laag-site.org/River_Road_Show.html.   Direct questions to Gary Drinkwater at (225)485-8884 or laagbr@laag-site.org.

Congratulations!!!

Russ Mackensen's painting "Mine Eyes Have Seen" was accepted into "Tell Us A Story: 2011 Summer Group Exhibit" at Segil Fine Art in Monrovia, CA. 
Show dates are June 18, 2011 to August 20, 2011. 
Not only was the work juried there was a requirement of a 100 word "Story" about the piece, his was:

My Eyes Have Seen, what you may wonder. Have I seen death in my family, the destruction of my home or terrorists running my country? I’ve seen a life alone without my husband and children. I’ve seen the daily struggle to survive in a land that is not hospitable to a widow. I’ve seen foreigners looking at me and wondering who I am and how pitiful I appear. All this I have seen, but now I see strength and resolve to overcome all this because I am a proud woman, a strong woman because My Eyes Have Seen.