My painting, “Southern Magnolia” was chosen to receive the Manfred Metcalf Award in the Columbus Artists Guild 2013 Members’ Show. It was a thrill to be so publicly acknowledged as an artist.
The painting sold the same day. What a validating experience! The same day this happened, I was commissioned to paint an old family home. This house has had the same family living in it since 1910. They have a strong emotional attachment to the place and I will do my best to convey that. I’ve finished my preliminary studies and completed the final drawing. Now, I will decide on a color scheme and a value pattern. It is a process.

This is my entry for the Columbus Artists’ Guild 2013 Exhibition. The opening reception is on June 8, from 6:00-8:00, at the Illges Gallery, inside the Corn Center for the Visual Arts, part of CSU’s River Park Campus, corner of Dillingham Street and Front Avenue. Public is welcome and the reception is free. My painting, “Southern Magnolia” was inspired by a fresh palette of colors; Cerulean, Antwerp, Cobalt and Ultramarine blues, Aureolin, Winsor and Gamboge yellows, and Permanent Rose, Scarlet Lake and Winsor reds. With this primary palette, I mixed all of my greens and browns. I simplified the shapes in my composition and did a value study before starting. This planning allows me the pleasure of spontaneous experimentation during the painting process.

All of my watercolor and drawing students know they have a standing invitation to any Columbus Artists’ Guild meeting as my guest. Monthly meetings are on third Thursdays. Tonight at 6:00 at the Columbus Main Library on Macon Road (in the Synovus Meeting Room) we will start with light refreshments, followed by a brief meeting and then the scheduled program. Yuriy Totskiy will do a demonstration of his 3-D Paper Portraits. To learn more, visit http://www.columbusartistsguild.org.

This painting is a new subject for my beginning watercolor students. The class is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, 12:30-4:30 each day. I am looking forward to this eight hour workshop because I will have more time to give to each student, more time for demonstrations, more time for detailed instructions than my usual four hour “Watercolor Crash Course” permits.

Thursdays, 6:00-8:00, CSU – “Beginning Watercolor” (4 two hour classes = 8 hours total).

Artbeat of Columbus; a two week celebration of the arts in the Uptown Columbus area – March 14 – 31. Art Exhibitions, Theater productions, Music in the streets and Concerts, just to name a few of the many opportunities taking place. The Columbus Artists’ Guild and the Joseph House Art Gallery will have a Plein Air Art Show and Sale, opening reception on March 23 (5:00-7:00) at the CSU Bookstore next to the Rankin Arts Photography Center on Broadway. All artists who have participated in the plein air experience from March 14 -19 will have paintings of uptown Columbus displayed for the reception. The exhibition will be up until March 30. For more information visit columbusartistsguild.org, josephhouseartgallery.org, and artbeatcolumbus.org. What a great opportunity for artists and art lovers in our community!

Intermediate Watercolor-Technique (Tuesdays 6:00-9:00, Feb.12 – Mar.5              Columbus State