Irving Art Association

Entries for IAA’s Wildlife Art Show entries are due Aug. 20 and have switched to a digital entry format (either online or jpegs on CD) for preselection of entries. Previously paintings were dropped off and juried in or out by the judge. The deadline has been moved up a month to August 20 to allow for the digital selection process.

IAA DIGITAL NIGHT Aug. 5: Irving Art Association members that wish to enter the upcoming Wildlife Juried Art Competition and need their work digitally photographed for entry may bring their works to the Jaycee Center for the Arts on Tuesday, August 5th, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm to have them photographed and entered into the digital database of entries for the show. The image submitted must be free of any matting or framing to be considered so please have your works un-matted and un-framed for the photography. Please bring your completed entry form and the works information tags completed and your $35 entry fee. Please RSVP to Ron Stephens by phone at 972-986-7133 or by email at ronstephens2342@verizon.net.

If you’re not an IAA member or haven’t paid your dues, you may participate by joining IAA on Digital Night! For more entry details see the prospectus on the Wildlife entry page at irvingart.org/wildlife. Payment may be made as usual by check or now online by Paypal.

The Irving Main Street Event: Music and Magic on Main Street will be held 3:00 ot 8:00 pm on Sept. 27, 2008 in the Irving Heritage District. The event features music, artists, car show magic, childrens activities, food, etc. and is sponsored by the Irving Parks & Recreation Dept. (website: http://cityofirving.org/parks-and-recreation/index.html)

Artisans and crafters are invited to apply for a booth space (deadline Sept. 1). The fee is $100 ($125 with electricity) and includes a 10×10 tent, 6 ft. table and 2 chairs. For more information call Jacqueline Madden at 972-721-2501 or email jmadden@cityofirving.org.

Thanks to Newsletter Editor Carolyn Kilgo Weinman for agreeing to publish summer issues and keep IAA members up to date on the ongoing activities of the Association and its members!

July issue’s contents:
President’s Message (new exhibits…Hannah’s House finished)
Fundraiser for IAA/Irving Chorale’s Christmas concert
Membership Update
CAAP Program call for artists
Calendar submissions gallery online
IAA’s Online Store
We are proud to announce that…(member news)
Wildlife Art Competition entries
IAA DIGITAL NIGHT Aug. 5
Wayne Hindeman’s Exhibit at IAA (photoessay)
Hannah House Project (photoessay) cont’d
Special Event: Kids Safari October 5, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
2009 IAA Calendar submissions
IAA’s Free Basic Art Lessons
IAA Logo Design Contest deadline Aug. 1
Things of Interest (other shows  and workshops)
Workshop, demonstration and gallery schedules
Reasons to renew your dues

Major changes have been made in this year’s Wildlife Art Competition. Entries have switched to a digital entry format (either online or jpegs on CD) for preselection of entries. Previously paintings were dropped off and juried in or out by the judge. The deadline has also moved up a month to August 20 to allow for the selection process. Payment may be made as usual by check or now online by Paypal.

Entries are also no longer limited to the local area — we now accept shipped entries vis UPS and have made arrangements to store them. The competition has gone national!

The types of artwork accepted have also expanded to include photography and sculpture. The entry categories are:

• Oil, acrylic on canvas paintings
• Watermedia
• Mixed media, collage
• Drawing media & hand-pulled graphics
• Photography & sculpture

The 7th Annual Wildlife Art Show will be on exhibit September 28 – October 30 in the east and west galleries of the Jaycee Park Center for the Arts. The Awards Reception will be October 12, 2:00 – 4:00 pm. A special kickoff event will be the Kids Safari on Oct. 5, 1:00 – 5:00 pm. More details to come on that!

Juror will be Jane Jones, a local watermedia artist who has studied with over 60 of the country’s leading instructors and is in demand herself as an instructor, lecturer and juror. Winner of innumberable prestigious awards in local, regional, and national juried exhibitions. Jane is a signature member of Southwestern Watercolor Society, Associated Creative Artists, Texas Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Watercolor Oklahoma and Western Federation Watercolor Society. She has served as lecturer and juror for more than 80 different art organizations throughout the country.

For more entry details see the prospectus or go to the Wildlife entry page at irvingart.org/wildlife.

Thanks to Newsletter Editor Carolyn Kilgo Weinman for agreeing to publish summer issues and keep IAA members up to date on the ongoing activities of the Association and its members!

June issue’s contents:
President’s Message (new treasurer Abby Lee…Gay Anderson exhibit…Membership dues…Hannah’s House…Wildlife show coming…Irving Chorale donations needed…Logo contest deadline Aug. 1…Sept. deadline for calendar submissions)
Board meeting dates
Membership Update
CAAP Program call for artists
Calendar submissions gallery online
IAA’s Online Store
Things of interest (member news)
Reasons to renew your dues
Photos of May demo by Soon Y. Warren
Hannah House Project (photoessay) cont’d
Workshop, demonstration and gallery schedules

The Irving Art Association presents a five-day workshop with nationally recognized watermedia painter M. Douglas Walton on Oct. 29, 30, 31, Nov. 1 & Nov. 2, 2008. He has taught over 350 workshops in 22 states, and has studied with noted watercolorists Edgar Whitney, Robert E. Wood, and Milford Zornes.

The first Louisiana Tech University WATERCOLOR ENCOUNTER, under his direction was held in Ruston, Louisiana in August, 1977 and the twenty ninth annual WATERMEDIA ENCOUNTERS was held in the summer of 2005. The November 1978, ‘the first foreign JOURNEY ENCOUNTER under his directorship was conducted in Guatemala. And since then he has completedJOURNEYS in over 20 different countries worldwide.

Three feature articles. “Close Encounters with M. Douglas Walton: Discovering a Deeper level of Creativity” Spring 1991, “An Encounter with M. Douglas Walton: Building Self-Confidence,” Spring 1996, and “The Gifts of our Mentors,” Winter 1999, have been published in Watercolor and American Artist. His videos, “Beginning The Odyssey” and ‘The Odyssey Continues” are available worldwide. For more about Doug Walton see his website: mdouglaswalton.com

Watermedia Encounters: The Encounters classes vary in length from a two day weekend session to a two week session that produces the most growth. In each of the Encounters you will be solving problems, exploring and expanding your individual creative processes to do work that is original and imaginative—not trite and mundane. The goal of these programs is to expose you, as an individual, to the beauty of creativity— your own— through lecture, demonstrations, critiques and individual instruction. These are not HOW TO workshops, but THINKING DESIGN ENCOUNTERS where you will experience GROWTH by changing your concepts.

Cost of 5 Day Workshop: $250 for IAA members; $275 for non members. Workshop Registration Participants may register from 1 to 5 days at $50—$55 per day. $70 deposit required to reserve space. Mail registration and non refundable deposit to IAA attn: Walton-Workshop – P.O. Box 153581 Irving, Texas 75015-3581. Make check payable to IAA (Irving Art Association). Get more information from the workshop brochure or call Mary Treadwell at 972.745.1700 or email mary@treadwell.biz.

The Oriental Artists Association (TAO) exhibit will will run through June 27, 2008 in the east (main) gallery at the Jaycee Park Center for the Arts. TAO is a long-time associate of the Irving Arts Association and particpates in Thursday Painters, an informal painting group open to the public on Thursdays from 12:30-4 at the Jaycee Center.

Gay Anderson recently captured Best in Show at IAA’s Annual Members Awards Show in May 2008 with her captivating watercolor “Mums”. That painting is currently on view in the Winners Exhibition at the Irving Arts Center through June 22.
    

See more of her outstanding work in watercolor florals, landscapes and still life on view in the west gallery (members’ gallery) at the Jaycee Center for the Arts through June 27. She is an award-winning artist who has studied with Arleta Pech, Cecy Turner, Margaret Martin and Susan Harrison-Tustain. For more on Gay, see her website: GayAndersonWatercolors.com
          

The Irving Art Association presents a three day workshop with nationally recognized oil painter Judy Gelfert at the Jaycee Center for the Arts, 2000 West Airport Frwy., Irving TX on September 19, 20 & 21, 2008. Preferring oils as her medium, Judy paints in a loose, impressionistic style. By concentrating on value, color, and design, she aims to produce realistic effects of light and shadow with as little actual detail as possible. “I am inspired by light and its power to create a particular atmosphere, be it the serenity of a hill-side in summer, the bustle of a morning farmers’ market, or the coldness amid the shadows of a snowy street.”

A full-time artist residing in Arlington, Judy has shown her work on the local and national level, winning numerous awards, among them 1st Place in the National Society of Artists’ 22nd National Juried Competition near Houston, 2nd in Show at the 2004 Associated Creative Artists Juried Competition in Dallas, and 1st Place People’s Choice Award at the 39-Hour Biennial Art Exhibition 2004 in Fort Worth. In 2005 and 2006, Judy was accepted to show works in the prestigious Oil Painters of America National Juried Competition. For more about Judy, see her website at www.judygelfert.com.

Worskhop outline:
Day 1: Focus: Composition, Drawing, Value
Judy will briefly describe her painting technique and key elements in painting, and will commence with an oil demonstration, continuously touching on these points. After lunch, workshop participants will choose subject matter brought from home. Students will begin with thumbnail sketches to build a balanced composition and work out perspective issues, and a value sketch to determine the darks and lights. Then they will commence with their paintings. Judy will offer individual instruction throughout the afternoon.

Day 2: Focus: Color relationships, Types of Light, Edges
Students will continue working on their paintings, and Judy will offer individual instruction, focusing today on color, mood-creating light, and brushstrokes.

Day 3: Focus: Completion, Group Critique
Students will continue painting, or, if finished with the first painting, begin another. Judy will continue to offer individual instruction, tying together all key elements of painting. Mid-afternoon, students may offer up their paintings for a group critique

Cost: $210 for IAA members; $225 for non members. Participants may register from 1 to days at $70—$75 per day. $70 deposit required to reserve space. Mail registration and non refundable deposit to IAA attn: Gelfert Workshop – P.O. Box 153581 Irving, Texas 75015-3581. Make check payable to IAA (Irving Art Association. For more information see the workshop brochure or contact IAA Workshop Chair Mary Treadwell at 972.745.1700 or email mary@treadwell.biz.

Beverly Fuqua. a prize-winning Colored pencil artist, will teach three levels of drawing — start with the basics and graduate to advanced! The workshops are for children (12+) & adults and each workshop is 10:30 am – 3:30 pm. Cost $20 per day. For more info Contact Beverly at 972-254-5049 or email b_fuqua@tx.rr.com.

June 9 – June 13 Learn to Draw – Basics Workshop
July 7 – July 11 Learn to Draw – Intermediate Drawing
August 4 – August 8 Learn to Draw – Advanced Drawing

Dot Blalock, renowned for her award-winning multimedia scratchboard/watercolor technique, will impart her secrets to you. Cost: $20 per day. 10:00 am – 3:00 pm For more info Contact Dot at 972-255-9337 or email dlblalock@verizon.net.

July 14 – 17  Scratch Board Workshop

These workshops will be taught at the Jaycee Park Center for the Arts in Irving.