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Next meeting is Wednesday July 11, 2012 7:00 p.m.
Clovis Veteran’s Memorial Building, 804 4th Street, Clovis CA
Inside this issue:
President’s Message 2
We Need You 2
Web Site News 2
Pick of the Month 3
Pitfalls of Using Celebrities
in your art 3
Officers & Committees 4
Membership Application 4
Clovis Art Guild
OFFICERS Presidents Pro
Tem
Gail Daley
Gene Butler
Vice President
Toni Magyar
Secretary
Barbara Hamel
Treasurer
Alice Sutton
July
2012 The Oldest and Best art Association in the Valley
ETHEL JAMFREY WILL BE DEMON-
STRATING IN CLAY THIS MONTH
NEXT EXCHANGE FOR OUR STOREFRONT GALLERY
WILL BE MONDAY JULY 2, 2012 @ 5:00 P.M.
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 Albu-
querque, 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 re-
ceived 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”.
Graduating from California State University Fresno with a Major in Art and Minor in Life Scienc-
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
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.
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
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
work in bronze as well using Plastilina (clay with linseed oil mix) as an original form medium.
Page 2 Clovis Art Guild
President’s
Message In each issue of the newsletter, we try and provide at least one informa-tional 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, alt-hough if they run longer we can split them up into separate articles for each month the way we did the cop-
yright myths.
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 contri-bution 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 in-
to the Secretarial position.
NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS! Since I had been sending you the newsletter using an e-mail ad-dress from my personal website, and that will be down for the next few weeks, I have created a new e-mail for the group: [email protected]. This is case sensitive, so if you send an e-mail 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.
MADERA AG ART SHOW
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 Novem-
ber 17, 2012, at the Circle Gallery in Madera.
For more information, phone 559-661-7005.
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.
NOW YOU CAN PARK &
R IDE TO ART HOP!
Pick of the Month is the Guild’s way of supporting our members ef-forts. 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.
P ICK OF THE MONTH
Page 3 July 2012
7 KEY TIPS TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN PAINTING
BY DENNIS LEWIS
1. Values and good design are your most important tools in holding a painting to-gether.
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 be-tween 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.
1st Place Barbara Hamel 2nd Place David Dalgety This could be you
OFFICERS & COMMITTEES
PRESIDENT PRO TEM GAIL DALEY 960-2428
PRESIDENT PRO TEM GENE BUTLER 275-4304
VICE PRESIDENT TONI MAGYAR 299-0690
SECRETARY BARBARA HAMEL 289-0984
TREASURER ALICE SUTTON 787-2386
PROGRAM CHAIR JULIANNE SMITH 323-8496
PUBLICITY GLYNMARY BATEMAN
MEMBERSHIP ALICE SUTTON 787-2386
PICK OF THE MONTH JACKIE MCCOY/MARY ANN FERSTL 787-2451
NEWSLETTER GAIL DALEY 960-2428
REFRESHMENT JEANNE NAITO 255-2146
BARGAIN TABLE SHIRLEY LINDGREN 255-0826
GREETER JOHN ROBERTS 322-6186
SUNSHINE HILDA VANDERGRIFF 322-6557
CO-CHAIR SHARON GARCIA 294-9626
STUDENT PROGRAM GENE BUTLER 275-4304
STOREFRONT ART GALLERY GAIL DALEY 960-2428
WEB SITE MANAGER MA LY
M e m b e r s h i p a p p l i c a t i o n
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:
[email protected] Or mailed to:
5688 E Sussex Way Fresno, CA 93727
BOARD MEETINGS ARE THE 2ND
WEDNESDAY 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.
Name __________________________________________________________
Address ________________________________________________________
___________________________________CA _________________
Phone ____________ _____________________________
E-Mail _______________________________________@__________________________________________
MAIL THIS APPLICA-
TION WITH $30.00 TO
CLOVIS ART GUILD
PO BOX 1594
CLOVIS, CA 93613
To:
Clovis Art Guild
PO Box 1594
Clovis, CA 93613