by Grace Lucarelli | Apr 25, 2018 | Archive
Intro to Watercolor Through Abstract Painting w/Eileen Neville
4 Weeks: Wednesday Evenings, June 20 & 27, July 11 & 18, 2018
6:30 – 8:30 pm
$115M/$150NM
Join us as we explore watercolor using works by classic abstract artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, Monet and others as our “jumping off” point.
Watercolor is a truly diverse medium. Explore basic techniques of washes, learn wet on wet painting, glazing and dry brush methods. We will begin to understand the properties of pigments and when to use them properly. Watercolor is always challenging, fresh and new.
No experience necessary, beginners welcome.
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by Grace Lucarelli | Apr 23, 2018 | Past Classes and Workshops
Colored Pencil with Kristy Kutch, April 20-22, 2018
9am – 4pm
Workshop Full!
$350 Members • $380 Non-members
We are very excited that colored pencil artist Kristy Kutch will be visiting us in April of 2018! She is the author of Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil and The New Colored Pencil and her DVDs Colored Pencil Landscapes: Beyond the Basics, Colored Pencil Techniques: Easy Landscape Painting, How to Paint Flowers, and How to Paint Fruit are available at North Light Shop. Kristy has taught colored pencil workshops nationwide providing an informative, enjoyable, and supportive classroom atmosphere.
In this workshop, Kristy will teach fascinating “painterly” techniques for both “traditional” (waxy) and watercolor pencils, as well as watercolor wax pastels (artist-grade watercolor crayons). Explore a wide range of surfaces which lend themselves beautifully to this dynamic medium. Demonstrations, individual attention, materials to sample, and a cache of take-home supplies. You will be able to explore a wide variety of surfaces generously provided by Stonehenge, Strathmore, Ampersand and Armadillo Art companies and MANY samples of papers, pencils and more will be distributed. We’ll even provide a tote bag for all your goodies. (You will need it! We’re not exaggerating!)
Day One is devoted to basic waxy colored pencil on white surfaces such as Bristol board, Stonehenge paper, 4-ply museum board, etc. (samples provided).
Day Two involves colored pencil on toned surfaces, such as Art Spectrum Colourfix paper and Ampersand Pastelbord (samples provided). Techniques for heat-blending with a heat gun and brush-blending with a stencil brush or pastel blending brush will also be covered.
Day Three includes watersoluble techniques with watercolor pencils as well as watercolor wax pastels (samples provided for students).
Kristy Kutch is a graduate of Purdue University, with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education, as well as a life license in teaching. She has taught colored pencil/watercolor pencil workshops nationwide, sometimes combining the two types of colored pencil for aqueous effects and intensely rich color. Having worked in colored pencil since 1986, she enjoys portraying flowers, fruit, and the Indiana Dunes and its Lake Michigan beaches. She is a Charter Member of the Colored Pencil Society of America.
Artist statement: Growing up in a creative family, I always had the freedom to experiment, make a mess, and generally putter around and entertain myself. My father was a gifted sketcher and used to draw cartoons for our family as entertainment. From the time I was very young, I remember feeling that it was “the ultimate” to have blank paper and fresh crayons – or maybe a set of Prang watercolors.
I enjoy looking at a common scene or subject and probing more deeply to see it at an uncommon angle or from an arresting point of view. Dramatic contrasts of values also appeal to me, and I can get lost in the joy of carefully applying my colors and seeing something literally burst forth from the paper in startling three-dimensionality.
Teaching workshops throughout the country has added a new dimension to my art. The elementary school educator in me still enjoys seeing the enthusiasm when demonstrating or sharing a drawing concept. I learn from and with my students, delightful groups of people from all walks of life. Patience is well-rewarded with the satisfaction – and yes, fun – of beholding that developing art, both for them, and for me.
For more about Kristy, go to her website.
See pictures from the weekend on our Facebook page.
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by Grace Lucarelli | Mar 26, 2018 | Past Exhibitions
Something Blue Exhibit
March 3 – March 25, 2018
“Something Blue” a Juried Competition and Exhibition. Is blue the color of the sky or the sea down below? Is it just a feeling or a rhythm to which you tap your toes? Come see for yourself if there’s more to blue than what you know. Show us what makes you BLUE!
JUROR FRANK PORCU Mr Porcu is an artist and teacher, known for his dynamic larger than life lectures on anatomy for art and medical students He specializes in monumental figurative works and portraiture, in the late classical Hellenistic tradition. He is also well known for his extraordinary skill and mastery of drawing and painting. For more information on Mr. Porcu, visit his website, www.frankporcu.com.
FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after February 15.
AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mention certificates and Student Award/s (if applicable) will be awarded.
by Grace Lucarelli | Mar 21, 2018 | Past Events
Thank You to All Our Sponsors and Supporters!
Friday, December 7, 7pm, at the Village Club of Sands Point.
Honoring: Stan Brodsky, Ann Pellaton and Ed and Karen Adler
Part of the proceeds of The Fling will help fund our education and scholarship programs, and the care of our home at Elderfields.
Karen and Ed Adler
Karen and Ed Adler met while she was at Barnard and he was at Columbia Law School. They attended art and architecture survey courses together, among other dating venues. They married the year after graduating and in 1976 moved from Manhattan to Port Washington. After commuting to NYC together for a couple of years, Karen retired to raise their two children, both of whom are now Port homeowners with their families. Ed still commutes a few days each week to his Manhattan real estate investment and management office while serving as mayor of the Village of Sands Point for the past seven years.
Karen and Ed have been involved in supporting education and the arts for decades, both in Manhattan and in Port. They gave the lead gift to establish the Port Washington Library Foundation’s first endowment fund, and the income from their gift is dedicated to perpetuating the Library’s Art Gallery that bears their names and displays monthly exhibits of the outstanding work of local artists. Steps away, the new Spielman Children’s Library opened last year thanks to a successful capital campaign Ed chaired for the Library. They are enthusiastic supporters of the Guild’s programming and accomplishments.
Stan Brodsky
Born in Brooklyn, Stan Brodsky drew as a child but it was while serving in WWII that he came upon a small box of watercolors with brush, and he began illustrating his letters home. He was awarded the Bronze Star for rescuing a fellow soldier. Returning to the US, he studied at the University of Missouri School of Journalism he realized that he wanted to pursue art. Received an MFA from University of Iowa and a PhD in art education from Columbia University. Following 30 years of teaching at CW Post campus of Long Island University he was named professor emeritus of art. Brodsky has 20 solo shows, numerous group shows, awards and fellowships. He considers himself a post-abstract expressionist whose extensive travels have influenced his abstract landscape paintings. Stan works from his studio in Huntington NY and continues to teach artists.
Author of “The Uncertainty of Experience: An Artist’s Journey.” Post-Abstract Expressionist.
Ann Pellaton in Memorium
Ann Pellaton was a prolific artist who worked in a variety of media including watercolor, oil, etching, monoprint, and collage. Painting since the 1950s and etching since the 1970s, Ann received her Bachelor and Master degrees in Art from Queens College. She studied alongside notable artists including Barse Miller, Paul Wood, Aida Whedon, John Ferren and Angelo Longo. Ann’s travels to Africa, Italy, China, and Spain have inspired many of her works. She has exhibited throughout the United States, in Europe, Canada, Israel, and Egypt and received many awards from distinguished institutions such as the National Association of Women Artists, Heckscher Museum, Manhasset Art Association, and Audubon Artists. Listed in “Who’s Who of American Women,” Ann was the former president of the National Association of Women Artists, and a member of the Aquarelle Club, Manhasset Art Association, The Art Guild and a longtime member of the Art Advisory Council of the Port Washington Library. Her work is included in numerous private collections. Constantly experimenting with new materials and concepts, Ann was a long time member and supporter of The Art Guild. We have been proud to have her participate (and win awards) in our juried gallery exhibits.
Ann continued to work from her studio in Port Washington until shortly before her death in September 2018. She will be dearly missed..
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by Grace Lucarelli | Feb 28, 2018 | Past Exhibitions
Photography Exhibit: Shedding Light on the Subject
Juried Photography Competition & Exhibition
On View: February 3 – 25, 2018
CALL FOR ENTRIES The Art Guild invites all artists, 18 years and older (high school students ages 14-18 years may enter in the student category), to submit photographic works for consideration for “Shedding Light on The Subject” a Juried Photography Competition and Exhibition.
Light enables photographers to make beautiful and striking images. How do you use light, in all its forms, to shed light on your subject and create compelling visions? We’re looking for creativity and originality – work that reflects your unique approach and style.
Criteria All styles from abstract to realism are welcome. All works must be original. The selection committee’s decision is final. Works to be included in this exhibition must be available from January 28 – February 25, 2018.
JUROR OF AWARDS: Katherine Criss is a fine art photographer, with more than sixty years professional experience in photography, painting and creating opportunities for artists to share their vision. In 2001, under the mentorship of Ernestine Ruben, Ms. Criss refined her series of layered surreal images.
A NYC native, Katherine was encouraged by her father, a prominent American painter, Francis Criss, to join a photography class taught by Bernice Abbott at the New School. Later after completing a BFA at SVA, she established a freelance photo business, (Have Camera Will Travel), and consulted on projects such as an exhibition of vintage photographs for the National Board of the YWCA. In 1992 she joined PWP (Professional Women Photographers) and served as President for seven years. Katherine moved to Long Island in 2006 joined the b. j. spoke gallery founding the ongoing Artist Circle group that meets regularly at the gallery in Huntington. In 2016 she created a mural, and donated it to the town of Riverhead. Katherine has served as a juror for the National League of American Pen Women, the Long Island Branch, and has images in the collection of La Maison Euopeene de la Photographie, Paris.
QUESTIONS Email photoshow@TheArtGuild.org. Please put “Photo Show” in the subject line.
CALENDAR
• DEADLINE: Midnight, MONDAY, January 15: Application & images must be received.
• Acceptance/Rejection notification after, Wednesday, January 17
DROP OFF Entries must be delivered to The Art Guild, 200 Port Washington Blvd, Manhasset, NY 11030, at these times.
• Sunday, January 28: 3-5 pm
• Monday, January 29: 5-7 pm
EXHIBIT
• Saturday, February 3 – Sunday, February 25, 2018
Gallery open Saturdays & Sundays 1:00 – 5:00 pm & by appointment
• Saturday, February 3, 3-5 pm – Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
PICK-UP
• Sunday, February 25: 3:00 – 5:00 pm (Exhibit Closes)
• Monday, February 26: 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Join us as we explore watercolor using works by classic abstract artists such as Kandinsky, Klee, Monet and others as our “jumping off” point. 
