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January News

Artwork Displays, Creative Challenge, General Meetings January 14, 2015

The Prez Sez…

Happy New Year!!! New years always feel like new beginnings and can be very motivating. Hopefully you all made a New Year’s Resolution to paint more!! It is good for us to set goals because we give ourselves a target to reach for. For painting, keep it simple!! Choose some aspect of art or technique that is maybe giving you trouble or that you’d like to know more about and work to master it. Our Spring Show is in April, so now is the time to plan ahead with an April target for completion. You can’t use up Creativity. The more you use, the more you have!! Since we didn’t have a regular meeting last month, don’t forget that the Creative Challenge for this month is Reflections. I look forward to seeing how you interpret that theme. I will see you all at the meeting on January 20th.

Demo for January General Meeting

GOLDA RADER CDA/CZT – “Collage/Zentangles”

Golda is a Certified Decorative Artist and a Certified Zentangle teacher. She has taught design and published for over 20 years. She is a member of DPPT in Humble, TX and a teacher at the Conroe Art League. Golda currently has a new book with Laurie Speltz called “Tangled Together’. For more information on Zentangle classes and video classed, please see the Raderizms on Facebook, Pinterest and Blogspot.

Creative Challenge – January

Our next Creative Challenge will take place in January (no CC for December). The topic is “Reflections”.

Community Art Displays

The dates for the artwork change-out at the Library and Cafe Du Bois have been set:

• Wednesday, January 284th at 10:30am at the Kingwood Library
• Thursday, January 29th at 2:45pm at Cafe du Bois

Please contact Carita Curfman for more information.

LHAA members who volunteer their time will have the opportunity to have their artwork selected to hang in our scheduled hangings at the Kingwood Library and/or Café du Bois at the discretion of our Community Art Display Chairs.

LHAA Presents Scholarship

On December 9^th The Lake Houston Area Artists and guests gathered for a holiday celebration and delicious dinner at the Café du Bois Restaurant. The occasion was the presentation of the 2014 LHAA scholarship award to Luis Aleman, an art student studying at Lone Star College-Kingwood.

Luis is focusing on the Graphic Design Field. The LHAA Scholarship judges (Sheila Bridges, Linda Hamilton and Kristin Dumas) were impressed with Luis’s ability to handle a variety of subject matter and express themes in a creative way. Skillful handling of the challenging mediums of graphite and charcoal in his work create a large range of values from light to dark.

Luis is a young man with his eye on the future. In his spare time he has been self- studying the Japanese language. His goal is to become a comic book author, and be the illustrator for his own stories.

December News

Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Scholarship, Tips & Resources December 4, 2014

The Prez Sez

Tinsel, bows and wrapping paper, busy malls and the fragrance of pine and cinnamon, the Nutcracker and that jolly man in a red velvet suit. Must be Christmas!! Tis the season for family, food and fun – I hope you all get just what you asked for from St. Nick. Mostly I hope you will have a wonderful time with family and friends at this special time of year. I would like to take this opportunity to once again congratulate the ribbon winners from our Fall Show. I continue to be impressed and inspired by the wonderful art that is created by the members of our group! I know you are all now in the midst of creating some new, exciting paintings to enter in the Spring Show. There will be no regular meeting this month as we will be having the Scholarship Dinner instead. I hope you will all be able to attend. It is very rewarding for our group to be able to aid a future artist even in a small way. So until next year, enjoy your families, unwrap lots of goodies and paint every chance you get. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

Holiday Dinner

For those who RSVP’ed, just a reminder that we will be dining at Cafe du Bois, and dinner starts 7pm! We will be presenting the LHAA Student Scholarship to the winner from Lone Star College at this time.

Creative Challenge – January

Our next Creative Challenge will take place in January (no CC for December). The topic is “Reflections”.

Demo for January General Meeting

GOLDA RADER CDA/CZT – “Collage/Zentangles”

Golda is a Certified Decorative Artist and a Certified Zentangle teacher. She has taught design and published for over 20 years. She is a member of DPPT in Humble, TX and a teacher at the Conroe Art League. Golda currently has a new book with Laurie Speltz called “Tangled Together’. For more information on Zentangle classes and video classed, please see the Raderizms on Facebook, Pinterest and Blogspot.

Golda Rader

Art Tip of the Month

Value does all the work, but Color gets all the credit. This is an artistic truth we all know, but sometimes forget about in the frenzy of creation. In order to be more aware of the value of Value I suggest the following tip: Before adding the finishing touches to your artwork, take a picture with your digital camera using the black and white setting, or change it to black and white on your computer. You’ll be able to quickly judge if your values are correct.

You can also make a simple value viewer by cutting a small piece of white card stock or other heavy paper into about a 2″x2″ square, then punch a hole in the center. Make 2 and use one on your reference photo and one on your painting to check not only value, but also for correct color.

November Meeting recap

Thank you Deborah Hill for introducing us to your unique style and to a wide range of new projects. Perhaps those in our groups who tries out these techniques will be willing to show off their creations!

Deborah Hill

November General Meeting

General Meetings November 4, 2014

The Prez Sez

Show Time!! The Show must go on. There’s No Business Like Show Business!! Obviously, I’m excited about this month’s upcoming art show, on November 15th! I hope everyone will be able to easily enter your pieces on the computer. If you know a member who’s having difficulty please try to help them as well. All the information for the show is on the website and can easily to downloaded and printed out for entry. I hope everyone is keeping up with the group through the website. Kristin and Kelly have done an outstanding job of putting it together and now the Newsletter has also been incorporated into the website. So if you have a question about the next meeting date, need show info, want to see pictures of the winners of the Monthly Challenge or any other questions about our group, please check the website. If you will click on the Follow button, you’ll receive an email letting you know that new things have been added. The website is now a great tool to help all the members keep up to date with what’s happening. Be sure you check it out – LakeHoustonAreaArtists.com

Art Show & Competition, November 15th

Visit the Shows & Comeptitions page which contains information you’ll need to enter the show.

Demo for November, Deborah Hill using Mixed Media

Deborah Hill is a professional artist using water soluble art materials, collage and found objects interchangeably in her work. She paints imaginative images that are distinct and inventive yet immediately recognizable. Her assemblage/bricolage sculpture reflects the same esthetic and attention to subtle detail.

Visit her website to learn more about her and to see more of her artwork.

Creative Challenge

Don’t forget to create something for the creative challenge this month. The topic is “Pumpkin Patched”.

October Meeting recap

Thank you everyone for coming to the October Meeting. Bob Shepherd gave a great demo, and we had lots of Show and Tell and Creative Challenge entries! Lots of fun! Here are some photos from the meeting:

Show & Tell

General Meeting

Bob Shepherd

Creative Challenge Entries

LHAA Holiday Dinner

General Meetings October 31, 2014

Our December Meeting is our annual Holiday Dinner where we gather for good food and present our LHAA Student Art Scholarship. Last year’s event at Cafe du Bois was a huge hit, so we are going to have our dinner there again this year!

Our Holiday Dinner will take place at Cafe du Bois in Kingwood on December 9, at 7pm!

You will need to RSVP and pay for your seat/dinner at the next general meeting on November 18. The cost is $25. If you cannot make the November Meeting, but would like to attend the Holiday Dinner, please contact Randi Barrett.

You choices for your dinner are:

Starter: Choice of one

Cup of Soup – Mushroom, Chicken & Sausage Gumbo or Soup du Jour (unknown at this time)
Petite Salad – Pear & Danish Blue salad – Baby field greens with fresh pears, crumbled Danish
Blue, roasted pecans & our blueberry port dressing or Mango/Avocado salad – Baby field greens with avocado, mango, tomato and Feta cheese, served with oriental sweet chili vinaigrette

Entrees: Choice of one

Bacon Cheeseburger Balls over a bed of linguine pasta in an Alfredo sauce
Honey Grilled Shrimp over a bed of rice with mixed vegetables
Steak Tips Diane with roasted potatoes and mixed vegetables
Chicken Chardonnay – airline cut of chicken in a creamy chardonnay sauce served with rice and mixed vegetables

Drinks:

Price includes iced water, iced tea and coffee.

Sodas and alcoholic beverages may be purchased for an additional cost. Sodas are $2.00 with unlimited refills and beer is $4.00.

We can offer our house wines or house champagne at $6.00 per glass.

B. Carlos Cabernet Sauvignon (Argentina)
B. Carlos Malbec (Argentina)
B. Carlos Shiraz (Argentina)
Ceviche Sauvignon Blanc (California)
Estrada Creek Chardonnay (California)
Tiamo Prosecco (Italy)

October General Meeting

General Meetings October 15, 2014

The Prez Sez…

Ghost, Goblins and Princesses oh my!!! The holiday season is fast approaching with Halloween being the beginning and that means our first show is right around the corner. I hope everyone is busy finishing up on their entries for the November show which will be Nov. 15th at Homewood Suites. We are hoping for record entries this year so get busy in the studio!! I think the new show venue will give our art work more exposure to the public which could lead to more sales.

At the beginning of our new year, I need to remind all members to get their dues to Linda Achard as soon as possible. Your dues ensure you are eligible to enter the shows, hang your artwork at the library and Café du Bois and continuing attendance at the general meetings. It also helps Linda with the bookkeeping so please bring your check to this month’s meeting or mail it to her this week.

Our meeting is Oct. 21st and I’m looking forward to seeing you all there.

Demo for October

Bob Shepherd,”Shep” will demo “Paint Like A Venetian”, using Old Masters technique.You can see his artwork on his website, Portraits by Shep, and also sign up to follow his blog.

Creative Challenge

Don’t forget to create something for the creative challenge this month. The topic is “Autumn Impressions”.

September Meeting recap

Our first meeting of the year was a great success! We had demonstrations by two of our own artists, Linda Dumas and Vanita Doyle, as well as a community painting, Show & Tell and a Creative Challenge. Welcome to all of our returning and new members!

Thank you to everyone who was able to join, and we hope to see you at the October Meeting!

Photos of our September Meeting