South Central Region of

SUMMER 2010

HOMECOMING HUES September 7-12, 2010 North Bend State Park Cairo, West Virginia

CREATIVE PAINTING

CONVENTION February 27-March 4, 2011

Tropicana Hotel Las Vegas, Nevada

SOUTH CENTRAL

REGIONAL MEETING March 26-27, 2011

Location TBA

SOUTHEAST REGIONAL MEETING

April 7-10, 2011 St. Simons, Georgia

“A week ago it was the mountains I thought the most wonderful, and today it’s the plains. I guess it’s the feeling of bigness in both that carries me away.” (Georgia O’Keeffe)

Hi Everyone.

How’s your summer going? I’m getting a bunch of work done for classes. It is way too hot to go anywhere, so I just hibernate in the a/c and paint.

Donna Clewell has been doing a lot of looking for a new place for the 2011 South Central Regional meeting. She has located 3 or 4 places to check out. So, we will be doing that as soon as the weather cools. We are looking for something very different with more to do in the evening and closer to the Kansas gals. Trying for halfway between. Some of you may want to stay an extra day and just relax.

Be sure to check out our website – www.artteachers.org – for the news from other regions and to view the artwork now included from each region. Harold Champagne, Ollie Trawick and Smokey Beare have been doing an excellent job with the website.

Try to stay cool and plan now to attend our next regional meeting – March 26th & 27th, 2011.

Carolyn

“One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.” (Salvador Dali)

South Central members report in on their recent

activities.

From Naomi Armstrong-

Young in Alaska: She is conducting a painting class up at the Copper River Princess Lodge. She had worked there for the past 5 years and has given classes there every year to the employees. She

also has been commissioned to do small mural painting on the walls for the Cross Road Medical Clinic where she is currently working. She is planning a mural with local animals and scenes. She reports she has been working at the clinic for 5 months and loves it although it is extremely busy and leaves her little time to do other things she loves—like painting.

From Regina Bell in Texas: She’s been bvsy doint pet portraits and sent the following pictures of her

projects.

Maggie, a Pit Bull and a certified therapy dog, is Retina’s baby

Simon, a Doberman with cancer is a certified therapy dog.

Bella is an English Mastiff and a certified therapy dog.

Her next pet portrait project will be Jessie, a Bernadane (a cross between a St. Bernard and Great Dane). Sadly, Jessie died recently. She was black and white and an absolute joy. She looked like a miniature horse. Regina also sent a poem for people who have lost their precious pets which she wants to share with you.

THE GATE Jvsu a noue uo leu yov knox hox I’m doint since xe had uo paru. To leu yov knox I’m doint fine and uhau yov suill hold my hearu.

There are beautiful lakes to swim in and I can suay ‘til late, But many times I excuse myself to go and check the gate.

Now angels do play fetch and I bring it back, then wait. Yet after several throws I leave to go and check the gate. And I can

eat all the cookies I want but after I ate, I saved one to bring to you for you might be at the gate.

So when among all your loved ones that meet you at the gate, Take the time to look for me, for iu’s uhere uhau I xill xaiu.

And ewen uhovth uhere’s belly scrauches and yov knox I uhink uhau’s treat,

Heawen xon’u be heawen ‘uil I see yov au uhe taue.

Poem by Judy Gregg

She also senu a picuvre of Mattie xho sleeps by Retina’s desk xhen she’s nou posint for a poruraiu and one dressed in her therapy dog togs.

From The Art Shack in De Soto, Kansas: The ladies have been busy with many projects since the last newsleuuer. Amont uhe painuints we’ve done are uhe following:

Margaret Johnston with her recent oil painting of an old man. (No one she knows, she claims!)

Neva Shaw just finished an oil painting for her granddaughter who is pregnant and expecting a little girl later this year.

Katie McCarty is just starting her next painting – a Tuscan street scene.

June Head is also starting the Tuscan street scene.

Lorena Green is working on an acrylic painting, her media of choice.

And---whenever the horses decide to drop by, everyone goes out to give them apples and carrots, which we keep on hand for them. They know when we’re at The Shack and they stand outside our door and look in the window at us. They usually show up an hour or two after we arrive. There are 4 horses that vie for our attention – and get it.

From Anne Ballard in Texas: ‘Hunter and I

went to Georgia in March to visit her breeder and play with the puppies, 7 girls and 1 boy, all half-siblings to H}v|ey. Wutle �e �eye |ueye, Ktw (H}v|ey’z byeedey) needed to go herding with her Champion, Sparkle, to practice for the upcoming herding trial. After suggesting we take Hunter to see some sheep, she took Hunter to a lounge-ltve tv|o |ue pev �t|u 3 zueep avd |old uey “a�ay” which means to go after them. Hunter did just what she �az |old. Wuev {t~ev |ue “cowe by” cowwavd zue brought the sheep back. Proud Mommy, Anne, thinks she is imbued with certified herding instincts. There is no herding club in Texas so Hunter cannot continue to get a herding title.’ Anne says |uey uad a {yea| |twe avd ‘NO’, zue dtd vo| bring a puppy home even though the breeder wanted her to bring back a boy. Hunter is a good traveler, as was her beloved Logan and she loves to go riding in the van. Anne sent the following pictures of Hunter doing her “|utv{”.

Hunter, relaxing at home. It looks as if she deserves a little time off.

Prayer List: Byevda Hayytz’ u}zbavd, Ro{ey, tz ba||ltv{

a variety of vascular problems. He is to see a specialist August 20th to determine what treatment he will undergo. Please, everyone, remember Roger and Brenda in your prayers.

From Carolyn Vandeventer in Texas:

“ We now have a new member of our family. Brownie, a wtvta|}ye dacuzu}vd, tz 3 wov|uz old. He’z ~eyy raz| avd loves to chase my cat, Callie, around the house who is not happy about the situation at all! By the way, Brownie is Caya’z p}p.”

Vida Folstadt, Cayolyv’z sister-in-law, fell and broke her left arm just below the shoulder. She is mending but it will be awhile as she is now 89 years young. The doctor says she �ov’| yeq}tye z}y{eyy, �utcu tz a ~eyy {ood |utv{.

Well, this has certainly turned out to be a

newsletter about our 4-le{{ed rytevdz. We dtdv’| plav t| that way, but everyone sent items about their pets this |twe. I lo~e t|! I|’z be||ey |uav |alxing about the heat - which we are all suffering through this summer.

Avd‚.sust how hot is it? Anne Ballard sent the following picture of an Ice cream truck in Oklahoma. Now tua|’z pretty doggone hot!

“What a funny thing painting is. The abstract painters always insist on their connection with the visible reality, while the so-called figurative artists insist that what they really care about is the abstract qualities of life.” (Marlene Dumas)

IN THE NEWS….In recent news from Paris, The Associated Press reports the enigmatic smile remains a mystery, but French scientists say they have cracked a few secrets of the “Mona Lisa”. French researchers studied seven of the Louvre Museum’s Leonardo da Vinci paintings, including the “Mona Lisa” to analyze the master’s use of successive ultrathin layers of paint and glaze – a technique that gave his works their dreamy quality.

Specialists from the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France found that da Vinci painted up to 30 layers of paint on his works to meet his standards of subtlety. Added up, all the layers are less than 40 micrometers, or about half the thickness of a human hair. The technique, called “sfumato,” allowed da Vinci to give outlines and contours a hazy quality and create an illusion of depth and shadow.

Tradition holds that the “Mona Lisa” is a painting of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo, and that da Vinci started painting it in 1503 and a da Vinci biographer wrote that the perfectionist da Vinci worked on it for four years.

From the Associated Press: Holt, England.

Eight-year-old Hailed as a Painting Prodigy.

Kieron Williamson is Briuain’s mosu ualked-about young artist. His paintings fetch hefuy svms and uhere’s a lont waiuint lisu for his eagerly anticipated new works.

When asked to share his thoughts on art, he said, “Cows are uhe easiesu uhint uo painu. Yov don’u have to worry about doing so much detail. Horses,” he conuinves, “are a lou harder. Yov have to get their legs right and you have to make their back legs mvch bitter uhan uheir fronu.”

Paintbrush prodigy Kieron – dvbbed “mini Moneu” by uhe Briuish press is a global sensation. All 33 of the pastels, watercolors and oil paintings in his latest exhibition sold within half an hour for a total of $150,000 pounds ($235,000). Buyers from as far away as the United States lined up overnight outside the gallery and there is a 3,000-strong waiting list for his impressionistic landscapes of boat-dotted estuaries, snowy fields and wide marshland skies.

He has a website and a business card. Journalists from around the world travel to his small home town in eastern England to interview

him.

Donna Clewell is working diligently to find

us a suitable place for our 2011 South

Central Regional meeting. She has found

several locations that might work for us

and now it’s just a matter of making a final

decision.

Also, Carolyn has some ideas about a

teacher for the meeting. We’re trying to

find one that everybody will enjoy painting

with. We’re trying hard to make the next

meeting an enjoyable experience for

everyone. Since this will be the first time

the Texas group has had to travel far for

the meeting, we want you take home good

memories as well as good paintings. Just

as soon as all the details have been

finalized, we’ll let you know so you can

make reservations and travel plans. Stay

tuned!

We now have 33 paid members in South

Central. Wouldn’t it be great if every one of

us could get a friend or painting buddy to

join South Central?

Have you seen the slide show on our

TEAM website yet? All the pictures from

our last newsletter are now featured in the

slide show, so be sure to take a look at it.

Our Webteam does such a great job it

would be shame to not see what they’ve

done for us. Go to www.artteachers.org to

read all about South Central as well and to

read about the other regions in TEAM.

Tell your friends about it so they can see

what you’re doing. Encourage them to

become members of TEAM.

“The painterly painter avoids the how-to approach, suspicious as ever, that technique will obscure his or her vision.” (Charles Movalli)

You are invited to attend

HOMECOMING HUES ARTIST RETREAT

In North Bend State Park, Cairo, West Virginia on September 7-12, 2010. There are still a few classes open. For complete details contact Kitty Gorrell at http://KittyGorrell.com and then open the Homecoming Hues link. This is a wonderful opportunity to study with three of the most popular teachers in the country and go home with beautiful paintings as well. As of August 3rd, the following classes are still available for sign up: Brenda Harris is scheduled to teach 4 paintings.

“Eagle Bend” “Rest Stop”

“Yesterday” “Out to Pasture”

Dorothy Dent will be teaching “Sycamore Street”

Mark Polomchak will teach “Fuchsia”.

If anyone wants to attend this event, you obviously need to move quickly to get signed up.

Several of our TEAM teachers are teaching at the 2011 Creative Painting Convention in Las Vegas again this year. Please go to your TEAM Website Home page (www.artteachers.org) and click on the “TEAM TEACHERS @ VEGAS” link to view the classes being taught by some of our members. We are fortunate to be represented at the largest art and painting convention in the West. Make your plans to attend as soon as you can to get the best class selections. All the info you need can be found at www.vegaspaint.com. Hopefully we can all gather together one night again this time.

Among the TEAM teachers on the roster are Smokey Beare (Alaska), Dorothy Dent (Missouri), Carol Earle, Roy Gould, and Joyce Ortner (all from California), Gary and Kathwren Jenkins (Nevada), Kitty Gorrell (West Virginia), Brenda Harris (Florida), Floyd Hook (Ohio), Arlee Jenkins (Rhode Island), Vicki Kucera (Georgia), Mara Trumbo (Tennessee) and Rose Starling (Colorado). To see the paintings each of these teachers will be teaching, go to the website.

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievement of American workers?

The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City.

Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From them developed the movement to secure state legislation.

The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in recent years, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change, however, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation’s strength, freedom and leadership – the American worker.

MOVIE REVIEWS FOR ARTISTS

There are many movies on the market about artists and their lives. You’ve probably seen most of them, but to review, here’s a partial list of some that are worthy of seeing either again or for the first time. If you are movie-goer (DVD watcher) all of these films are available from Amazon.com and various other venues.

Lust for Life (1956) starring Kirk Douglas as Vincent Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin. Mere passion seems inadequate when describing this fictionalized biography of Vincent Van Gogh. Based on an Irving Stone novel, Kirk Douglas, in a deservedly Oscar nominated performance, is physically and emotionally perfect as the tormented Dutch painter. The film centers on Van Gogh’s stormy friendship with fellow artist, Paul Gauguin. The artist’s lust for life also fed his madness and this film deeply understands the fine line in between.

Vincent and Theo (1990) starring Tim Roth as Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Rhys as his brother Theodore. Directed by Robert Altman, it takes us to the utterly squalid hovel where Vincent lives – reminding us that the artist sold but one painting in his poor, tormented lifetime.

Georgia O’Keefe (2009) A Lifetime Movie Channel offering starring Joan Allen as Georgia O’Keefe and Jeremy Irons as Alfred Steiglitz. When fiercely independent and then unknown artist O’Keefe discovers famed photographer Steiglitz is displaying her drawings in his gallery without her permission, she confronts him and orders him to remove the collection. They fall deeply in love and he eventually leaves his wife for Georgia. As their relationship suffers, Alfred finds twisted ways to emotionally wound her, including taking a younger lover. It focuses on the latter half of O’Keeffe’s life, when she discovers solace and inspiration in Taos and Abiquiu, New Mexico.

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) Charleton Heston portrayed Michelangelo and Pope Julius II was played by Rex Harrison. Based on the Irving Stone novel.

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Worhol (1990) A look at the life, work, and impact of Andy Warhol (1928-1987) pop icon and artist. Warhol coined the word “superstar”, became one, and changed the way the culture looks at and understands celebrity.

Pollock (2000) Starring Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock. In 1981 a 19-year old unknown graffiti writer took the New York art world by storm and the rest is art history. The film focuses on his struggle with the cultural strip-mining which is the art market. Harris also directed this film.

Basquiat (1996) Jeffrey Wright stars as artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. He is cited as the first painter of African

descent to become an international art star. He started as a graffiti writer in New York City and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist paintings. In spite of his success, this turbulent and talented young painter was also plagued by loneliness, self-destruction and the belief that people really did not accept him for who he was. He died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988 at the age of 27.

Girl with A Pearl Earring (2003) Speculative account of artist Johannes Vermeer with Colin Firth as Jan Vermeer and Scarlett Johansson as the girl he paints with a pearl earring.

Frida (2002) The movie starring Selma Hayek as Frida Kahlo chronicles her life with artist Diego Rivera played by Alfred Molina. From her complex and enduring relationship with Rivera and her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic and sexual revolutionary.

Moulin Rouge (2001) starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor and (1952) starring Jose Ferrer as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The Royal Academy (2006) A delightful little film about a 74-year-old woman artist with failing eyesight who fights to get her work accepted by the Royal Academy of Art in England. She’s entered her work every year since l965, and the film shows her latest attempt. You will absolutely fall in love with her. Filmed and directed by her son, when it’s over, you just want more!

American Splendor (2003) Part biopic and part documentary, Paul Giamatti is perfect in his portrayal of angry everyman and Crumb-collaborator Harvey Pekar. His ranting life observations are the spark for the gritty autobiographical comic book series from which this movie takes its name.

Klimt (2006) John Malkovich stars in this character study of Gustave Klimt. We see Klimt in his tudio, we meet his mother and sister, who suffer from mental illness. On his deathbed and as a younger man, he imagines things and in memory encounters ministers and waiters and women who are willing participants in his pleasures.

Surviving Picasso (1996) Starring Anthony Hopkins. In1943 a young painter, Francoise Gilot meets Pablo Picasso. For the next ten years, she is his mistress, bears him two children and paints within his element. She also learns slowly about the other women who have been or still are in his life. Gilot’s response is to bring each into her relationship with Picasso. How does one survive Picasso? She keeps painting and she keeps her good humor and her independence