Ken Hosmer Watercolor workshop
Special Techniques

October 23, 24, 25.
9 to 4

Over many years of teaching Ken Hosmer has developed several favorite techniques which enrich the watercolor painting with natural texture and increased value contrast. He will demonstrate these in this workshop. As an added bonus, ‘color secrets’ and design ideas are revealed each day. Ken offers guidelines which encourage you to creatively interpret paintings subjects in your own style. Painting demonstrations emphasize free flowing watercolor and cover a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, flowers, human figures and animals

Ken is a frequent workshop instructor across the US and around the world. He has been published in several watercolor magazines. The picture on this brochure was in American watercolor Society 2014. Website: www.kenhosmer.com

Cost: $145 for LAG members
Minimum needed 10 Limited to 18
Send $80 deposit to Joy Frame. Cancellations 10 days prior to workshop returned. After that deposits must be paid to instructor
Questions? Call Joy

Please welcome new members, Jennifer Euteneuer, Madeline Kivett, Jana L. Trauernicht, Aurelia Thomas, Andrew Faughn, and Doris Minchow, to the guild!  Here is their information to add to your membership books:

Jennifer Euteneuer
1525 N. 58th Street
Lincoln, NE 68505
(402)310-5675
jennsportraitart@gmail.com
oil, acrylic, pastel, colored pencil, mixed media

Madeline Kivett
5220 S. 40th Street #67
Lincoln, NE 68516
(402)560-2516
madeline108k@hotmail.com
acrylic, colored pencil, graphic design

Jana L. Trauernicht
1306 Surfside Ct.
Lincoln, NE 68528
(402)432-8711
jana@hotmail.com
acrylic

Aurelia Thomas
3030 S. 48th Street
Lincoln, NE 68506
(402)464-8524
acrylic

Andrew Faughn
10321 N. 142nd Street
Lincoln, NE 68462
faughn402@yahoo.com
(402) 540-6220  or (402)786-3088
oil, acrylic, clay, glass, wood, metal

Minchow, Doris
5901 Lillibridges St. Apt. #15
Lincoln, NE 68506
(402) 601-2553
Pastel, colored pencil, wood, fiber, leather, feathers, stone

Deb Monfelt from Beatrice will be doing an instructional demonstration Sept. 2nd, 7-9 p.m. at the Capitol City Christian Church, 7800 Holdrege Street, Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a past president of ANAC, art judge and teaches art in Beatrice to children and adults. Deb will be doing a reduction drawing, so folks should bring sketch books or paper and drawing boards. They should also being soft vine charcoal, kneaded eraser, and white erasers.

Deborah Monfelt, MFA: ARTIST’S STATEMENT
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.”
– Major, Animal Farm, George Orwell

I grew up on a farm in Southeastern Nebraska that was very active in crop production, as well as raising livestock. Although today the family farm’s livestock is reduced to a cow and calf herd, we once had dairy cows, chickens, ducks, dogs, cats and pigs. I had a couple of ponies, until one of them almost killed me and my Dad said that was enough of that, but I still love horses. Moments of exhilaration and anxiety accompanied the birth of baby pigs and calves. Often we had to keep them warm in the basement or call the veterinarian to pull a calf. Having livestock on the farm taught my brother and I early that life and death were intertwined. It also taught us responsibility and accountability for our actions. If the gate was left open and the pigs got out, guess who helped to put them back in…. sometimes in the wee hours of the morning? I could tell lots of stories, but I’ll save those for conversations with viewers should they like to hear about them.
I have lived in a small town for 18 years now, but I still own a farm. I still go to the farm to enjoy the quiet open spaces. During the past year I have been reflecting more on my childhood and the animals that have come in and out of my life. This is evident

The august meeting was received with great anticipation of learning great instruction for doing pastel art and that is what they got  The expertise that Julie Lemons has developed in this medium over the many years in the art world, gave the members an outstanding demonstration and everyone saw a beautiful landscape develop right in front of their eyes.  Many were creating their own pastel pictures as they learned tips about type of pastels and types of paper to use.  It was a good evening of learning.–Joyce Jacobs

The LAG Seward Show was a success! Tens of hundreds of people see the show during the city’s 4th of July celebration. The show was up for two months-June and July and well viewed. Numerous votes were made and the top three were close! Congratulations to the award winners!! Each year the Seward Arts Council gives a wonderful trophy to the top winner and offers them a solo show the following year. The results are as follows:

First People’s Choice Award (trophy) Jan Pippitt with her painting “An Historic Home”
Second place, Jan Blank with “Cute Chick”
Third place, Judy Martindale with “Mother and Child”

Howard Kaye is showing watercolors during September at the Burkholder Project.  The first Friday reception is September 5, 7-9 pm.

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”        BY: Kurt Vonnegut

The First Friday Reception for the Lincoln Artists’ Guild is featured on KETV’s website here: http://www.ketv.com/news/lincoln-artists-guild-brings-inimitable-message-artwork-to-first-friday-event/27511466#!bEi2y1

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I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.

~Georgia O’Keeffe

Eight of our members enjoyed a delightful day at Union College with Art Professor Jim McClelland on July 18th.  Jim demonstrated painting a beautiful landscape (from his imagination) in the morning.  After a lunch break, we students worked on various paintings in acrylic with instruction from Jim, and finished with an informative critique.  We all appreciated the $15.00 subsidy from LAG, bringing our $50.00 cost down to $35.00.  Jim showed us parts of a mural he is working on about the 7 days of creation for the science department, which will be completed soon.