August Meeting 8-10-10

REMINDER

AUGUST 10, 2010 MATTHEWS ARTISTS GUILD MEETING

6:30 - 8:30 PM

MATTHEWS COMMUNITY CENTER

Everyone is invited to attend and watch a watercolor demonstrations from our Guest Painter

Shirly Landgraf

Shirley Landgraf had taught art for over 30 years at Central Piedmont. She has a studio in her home where she gives private lessons. She also volunteers her time at Southminster Retirement Community teaching watercolor and won first prize when the Guild of Charlotte Artists held a contest there. Traveling with other plein-air artists is another of her many artistic pursuits. Southport, NC is among her favorite places to create water scenes. "I love to make sure there is human interest in my scenes. When I paint a beach chair, I will put a towel on it to show someone has been there." From nature she also draws inspiration for her abstracts. Her watercolor demonstration for the August 10 MAG meeting will be a waterfall scene. John Lomax, a former student of hers, will introduce her to all of us.

May MAG Meeting 2010

The Matthews Artists Guild meeting was held last night with many members and friends joining us and with plenty of paintings to be critiqued. I would first like to thank Harry Griffin and Anthony Ochoa with Binders Art Supplies and Frames for the fantastic door prizes they provided for our meeting! Harry was in attendance and handed out the prizes as we raffled them off to kick off our meeting (You can see Harry in one of the attached photos). Also, I would like to thank Sally Miller and Richard Siegal two local artist who did an excellent job critiquing the paintings! We also learned from Richard that we have a lot of work to do with our framing... Hmmm, I wonder if he offers a class on framing? What a sales guy (just kidding)... Moreover, Richard is however offering a Plein - Air class through Queens College if anyone is interested and where you can pick up more detail. I'm sure the painters who participated, that between the three Critics or is that critique-rs all walk away with some further insight for development. Heck no one was kicked off the island or sent home... Must be some very good painters!

MAY Meeting Reminder

MAY 2010 Meeting

Critique Your Artwork

Bring in your artwork to be critiqued by three local artist (Sally Miller, Richard Siegal, and Kevin Brown) during our May 2010 monthly meeting. This is an excellent opportunity to receive constructive feedback on your work. This is an important and instrumental process that is practiced by classical art institutions and by many master painters - A process that can help in the development of your craft and your painting at all levels.

This is sure to be an informative session and a learning process that can be helpful for everyone!

Also, new art work will be displayed on the "Art Wall" in the hallway leading to all the meeting rooms - This month's artwork display is from Robert Brooks, Anne Harrell, Tom Hopkins, and Gail Violette. Please take the time to check out their work during the meeting!

The meeting is held at Matthews Community Center

100 McDowell St.

Matthews, NC 28105

6:30 - 7 PM Social Snacks & Drinks

7 - 8:30 PM Program - Critiquing your Artwork

We look forward to seeing everyone!

MAG Presbyterian Hospital Show & Award Results

Jean Yeates 1st Place Winner!

Click on the Picasa Photostream at the top to view all the event photos - Thank you Gayle Snyder for photos!

MAG's Reception and Awards presentation for MAG's Presbyterian Hospital Matthews (Members Art Show) was held on March 11, 2010 and was nicely attended to! The Artwork was amazing and was a very difficult process for Dr. Napier who judged the show for us. She provided an excellent interpretation of judgement for the award winning artworks.

The Awards were as follows:

1st Place - Jean Yates - Golden Pears - Watercolor

2nd Place - Diane Caudle - Little Ballerinas Out of Line - Pastel

3rd Place - Cynthia Haack - Rainy Day Flight - Acrylic

Drawing Award - Jewel Baldwin - Touring Stockholm - Watercolor

4 Honorable Mentions

Carl Sheely - Dormant Volcano - Photography

Susan Hinrichs - Modonna Lily - Watercolor

Sharon Burns - Better Eyesight - Watercolor

Rebecca Wood - A Walk in the Park - Oil

4 Achievement Awards

Peggy Van Dyke - Tulips - Watercolor

Alan Wells - No Trespassing - Watercolor

Bob Beard - Kiva Ladder - Watercolor

Jen Haefeli - Aurora Borealis (set of 3) - Mixed Media

Congratulations to all the winners and all the participants!

A big thanks to our sponsors

Presbyterian Hospital Matthews

Matthews Community Center

Binders Art

Cheap Joe's Art Stuff

January MAG Meeting 2010

Our first meeting of the new year brought out over 50 members braving the cold weather to see and listen to Richard Siegel an award winning artist providing an outstanding watercolor demonstration! Now if you happen to miss this meeting - Not all is lost because Richard will be instructing MAGs first workshop of the new year February 12, 2010 from 9AM - 4PM at Matthews Community Center - The information is provided in the Workshop section and it's limited to the first 15... For $25.oo you better hurry to make the list! We look forward to seeing everyone again at our next meeting in February.

Richard Siegel

MAG Members Painting Out - Plein Air Style!

Scott Boyles Monthly Paint-Out (September 2009)

The following MAG members Kathering Maske, Catherine Clements, Alan Wells, Carole Connaughton, Yevette Brandell, and Virginia Dauth had a great time painting at Scott Boyles monthly Paint-Out that he holds for free each month at various locations.  Even though the weather forecasters were calling for 60% chance of rain... It turned out to be a splendid day! As they say, it never rains at a Plein Air Paint-Out!  In the bottom photo it looks like Scott painted a nice little gem...

Another Event to take notice is Carolina's Got Art & The Piedmont Pastel Society is presenting live pastel demonstrations and classes October 5 - 10, 2009 at The Atherton Mill 2000 South Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28203 - For more information go to their web site which can be found by clicking on the link on the left Events/Classes section.

We are still working out some bugs in this blog such as we still need to make changes to the Art Wall photo gallery section for better display and a few other techno stuff... Just like art a continuous work in progress!

Welcome to MAG's new blog site

Carmella Jarvi - To present at our next Meeting October 13th

Welcome to Matthews Artists Guild's (MAG) new blog site!  This site has been developed to further promote MAG's events, exhibits, workshops, our members artwork, and as a general promotional tool to further compliment our website (which is currently being updated with a makeover - So stay tuned) as an additional means of sharing information to our members and communities.  We will eventually include the monthly exhibits of art work on display along with art contests and challenges.  There will be either a weekly or bi-weekly posting to keep things fresh and entertaining!

Above is a photo of Carmella Jarvi who will be demonstrating at our next Meeting October 13, 2009 at the Matthew's community center (6:30pm) - Everyone is welcome to attend!

Plein air Paint-Out this saturday September 19, 2009 from 9am - 4pm another fun filled free event sponsored by artist Scott Boyle. Click on his name and check out the details.

Last reminder - Our annuals dues are now being accepted - A big thanks to all who have paid up and we are very excited about the number of new members joining!

Continue to check back with us there's more to come...