Our year is drawing to a close. Lois Smith has been generous to offer her workshop again in hopes of an enrollment increase. Please sign up right away so we can plan on the workshop. We are making plans for 2022 and will have a 12 month calendar of activities in our new gallery meeting space.
| UPCOMING EVENTS | ||||
| 2021 Date | Speaker | Topic | Description | |
| 10/12/2021 7-9pm |
Lynette Fast | Member Meeting Activity: Let’s Draw | Experience an evening of brief drawing techniques to build your eye and skills. These techniques can be used at any time to warm up, include in your final work, or just have fun! Lynette will instruct you through various drawing activities that build eye awareness and hand movements for wet and dry drawing and painting mediums. Experience activities like: scribbling, doodling, gesture, contour, positive/negative space, etc. Please bring: – 2-3 dry mediums: pencil, colored pencil, charcoal, chalk, oil pastels, etc. – 1-2 wet mediums: marker, watercolor, watercolor pencil, water based crayon, ink, brush, water container, towels etc. – sketchbook or 25 sheets of paper that will take wet or dry media |
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| 10/23/2021 9am-4pm | Lois Smith | WORKSHOP : Watercolor Painting, Let’s figure it out | This all day workshop on October 23rd, 2021 will be full of information specific to watercolor. We will learn about properties of individual pigments (sedimentary, staining, non-staining, temperature, etc.) and how those properties affect the way different colors work separately and together. Participants will experience several activities that develop understanding of these concepts and will paint to practice the concepts. Participants should bring a lunch and the instructor will provide a supply list with paid registrations or supplies are available for an additional $22 from the instructor. The workshop will be held at the Lincoln Artists’ Guild Tai Chi Room, 2634 N. 48th Street. Doors open at 9:30, workshop starts at 10:00, cleanup at 4:00, out of building by 4:30. $60 members / $75 non-members workshop fee includes rental of space and instruction. Prepay to reserve by October 15th. Participants will be provided a supply list upon registration. Contact Lois Smith to register (402) 276-1437 or loissmithartist@gmail.com. 8 participants minimum-12 maximum. Send check to Lois at: 124 East Parkway, Columbus, NE 68601 | |
| 11/9/2021 7-9pm |
Margaret Berry | Member Meeting Activity: Encaustic | Margaret Berry is a mixed media artist specializing in encaustic. She teaches individuals and small groups in her home studio in Lincoln but has been a Nebraska Arts Council artist-in-residence for 12 years and a national workshop leader. She was a founding member and national exhibition chair of the International Encaustic Artists. She will demonstrate how she uses wax in paintings as well as with photographs and collages. Participants will be able to experience both encaustic collage and painting and take home a small work. Cost is $5 for materials. | |
| 12/14/2021 7-9pm |
Guild Holiday Planning Committee | Member Meeting Activity: Holiday Gathering | Members will share in a pot luck at the Guild Gallery, 2634 N 48th Street | |