Clovis Art Guild July 2012 Newsletter

Clovis Art Guild

July

The Oldest and Best art Association in the Valley

2012

Next meeting is Wednesday July 11, 2012 7:00 p.m.

Clovis Veteran’s Memorial Building, 804 4th Street, Clovis CA

ETHEL JAMFREY WILL BE DEMONSTRATING IN CLAY THIS MONTH An award winning sculptor in bronze and clay, Ethel Jamfrey pursues her fascination with horses and their movement through her artistic creations.

While she has pieces in private collections across the country and has shown her bronzes in Albuquerque, New Mexico, San Francisco, Palm Springs and locally, she is still developing her style and expression in sculpture and returning this year to hand built forms in clay…and bronze.

Her early work in sculpture had its rudimentary beginnings in the long summers of hot afternoons on the farm when she whittled poplar suckers into horses and crafted “paper Mache” into a model of her Paint horse. By the time she went to high school she was painting in oils with discarded brushes and left over paints that someone had given her. Her great fortune came to her in the wonderful teacher she had in Art at Madera High School, Heinz Kusel. His passion for art and life was boundless and he conveyed it to his students. He recommended her for the Bank of America Award in Art which she received as a senior in 1961. As a student at Fresno State she was again fortunate to have had Adolf Odorfer as her Ceramics teacher. Odorfer was from the “old school” of learning which demanded that students understand the medium of clay and how to make it work for you within the bounds of its physical and chemical properties. Under his strict supervision and guidance her “sculptural mind” was formed. It is a way of looking at 3 dimensions that reduces it to its simplest form. It takes the essence of a subject instead of interpreting it literally… to show movement, interesting composition and form with an awareness of positive and negative shapes…showing characteristics of the subject without “copying what God has already done better”.

OFFICERS Presidents Pro

Tem Gail Daley Gene Butler

Vice President Toni Magyar

Secretary Barbara Hamel

Treasurer Alice Sutton

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Graduating from California State University Fresno with a Major in Art and Minor in Life Scienc- President’s Message es, she became an Art and Biology teacher for 38 years.

Along the way, between teaching and “life”, Ethel found time to continue sculpting in clay, and We Need You learn the craft of working wax and casting bronze…as well as breeding, raising, training and showing Arabian horses, and photography, and spontaneous gesture drawings of horses on clothing, logo’s for horse entities, etc.

Web Site News Her emphasis currently is on clay forms in high relief on a plaque which allows for a pictorial quality as well as actual three dimensional images. These pieces will be fired. Experimentation Pick of the Month with surface enrichment in glaze (fired) and acrylics as well as use of different clays is also part of these adventures. Subject matter is also in an exploratory state. She plans to continue her Pitfalls of Using Celebrities work in bronze as well using Plastilina (clay with linseed oil mix) as an original form medium. in your art

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MADERA A G A RT SHOW

In each issue of the newsletter, we try and provide at least one informational or instructive article. This month Dennis Lewis graciously agreed to allow us to re-print the information sheet used in his last demonstration. I know that Clovis Art Guild has many members with years of valuable experience. I would like to encourage all of you to consider submitting articles on art related subjects. The articles should be around 200 to 300 words, although if they run longer we can split them up into separate articles for each month the way we did the copyright myths.

The entry deadline for the Madera Ag Art Show is August 1, 2012. Entry forms can be found on line at www.maderaarts.org. The show will run from October 4, 2012 to November 17, 2012, at the Circle Gallery in Madera.

For more information, phone 559-661-7005.

I hope you have already started painting for the Veteran’s show, or at least have an idea of what you intend to create. We should have the prospectus ready for distribution in August. Last year’s show really showed our patriotism and how much we value our Veteran’s contribution to our defense, and I know this year will be the same.

Gene Butler & Gail Daley

THANK

YOU

BARBARA

Thank you Barbara Hamel for being willing to step into the Secretarial position.

N OW YOU C AN P ARK & R IDE TO A RT H OP! Our Art Hop Trolley’s first stop is At the Art By Hand Water Tower Gallery & Gift Shop 2444 Fresno Street, where you can park and ride! Cost is $1.00 (pay only once!) The short line stops every 15 minutes, stays around downtown and there is music. The extended line goes out to the Tower District with storytelling.

NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS! Since I had been sending you the newsletter using an e-mail address from my personal website, and that will be down for the next few weeks, I have created a new e-mail for the group: ClovisArtGuild@att.net. This is case sensitive, so if you send an email please use the caps key where shown. Also, Please add this e-mail to your address book, so that your newsletter isn't routed to your spam folder.

Thanks, Gail.

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PICK

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Pick of the Month is the Guild’s way of supporting our members efforts. We need at least 7 paintings to award 3 places, so please participate!

We’d like to see what you’ve been working on! Don’t forget to bring your art to the meeting! We would love to see your work. Classwork is acceptable too.

1st Place Barbara Hamel

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2nd Place David Dalgety

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K EEP IN M IND W HEN P AINTING B Y D ENNIS L EWIS

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1. Values and good design are your most important tools in holding a painting together.

2. Think about large shapes when designing. Block in large masses or shapes in your subjects which you can easily see when you squint. Squinting eliminates the details and shows you the big areas of similar values.

3. Drawing quick thumbnails and or painting value studies will help you develop a concept for a strong painting.

4. Crop and balance your shapes for a better design that supports your intentions.

5. Balance and establishing good proportions is a key to a good design. Have more dark than light or more light than dark. Play active areas against passives areas.

6. You can unify several elements into one larger shape by softening the edges between them or painting them in similar values so the edges seem to disappear.

7. Use harder edges to separate shapes. This will help you retain the flow of your design.

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If you wish to submit an item for the newsletter, please do so by the 25th of the month. Items should be sent to Gail Daley at: ClovisArtGuild@att.net Or mailed to: 5688 E Sussex Way Fresno, CA 93727 BOARD MEETINGS ARE THE 2ND W EDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH BEFORE THE GENERAL MEETING, AT 5:30 P.M. IN THE VETERAN’S MEMORIAL BUILDING, 804 4TH STREET, CLOVIS CA. MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.

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