Category Archives: General Meetings

March 2025 General Meeting

Activities, Artwork Displays, General Meetings, Information March 12, 2025

Our General Meeting for March Will Be on Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Meeting Place:
     Homewood Suites
     23320 Hwy 59N
     Kingwood, TX 77339
     6:30 – 8:30 pm Meet & Greet

Our Demo Artist for March Will Be – Linda Hamilton – Acrylic Pour

Upcoming Events

Studio Time – Kingwood Public Library, Lower Meeting Room
March 26, Wednesday, 6 – 8 pm
April 16, Wednesday, 6 – 8 pm
May 6, Tuesday, 5:30 – 8 pm

Garden Artist – Mercer Arboretum
April 1 – Visitor’s Center, 10:00 – 11:30 am (Artist TBA)

Spring Art Show and Competition and Art Gallery – Saturday, April 26, 2025
See our previous post for details.

Art Changeout – Kingwood Public Library
Early May – Details TBA

Summer Program – A new feature! We plan to keep on having meetings in June, July and August, with a special focus for each.
June 17: Portrait Painting with Linney Hamilton
July 15: Collage and Assemblage
August 19: Print Making and Scratchboard
Further details as they become available.

Look Book

We are always on the lookout for new places to display our members’ beautiful art. In connection with that search, we want to put together a “Look Book”, in which the proprietors of display areas can see a sample of the kind of art that they can expect to see. We are asking anyone who might want to offer their artwork for display to the public is asked to submit one page about themselves.
For your page, please send us an email with your full name, email, website, phone, etc. Also, we would like a photo of you, a brief Artist Bio, and 3 – 6 good quality images of some of your work. Send your email to: sheilabucchinoart@yahoo.com
Sheila will arrange your information in a format that looks similar to the one below, and she will keep the pages in our Look Book.

February 2025 General Meeting

Activities, Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Information February 13, 2025

Our February 2025 General Meeting Will be on Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Meeting Place:
     Homewood Suites
     23320 Hwy 59N
     Kingwood, TX 77339
     6:30 – 8:30 pm Meet & Greet

Demo Artist for February: Krystal Brown – Oils

Krystal W. Brown is a fine art oil painter who captures the places, people and moments that matter most. She was born and raised in Northern Wyoming by art appreciating parents who collected fine art and always encouraged her artistic pursuits. She began drawing at an early age and had sold her first portrait at age 15. Krystal is an award winning artist that specializes in fine art oil paintings and commissioned portraits. She works in a variety of mediums including pencil, charcoal, pastel, watercolor, and oil. Krystal has a Bachelor’s Degree in fine art from the University of Montana with an emphasis in painting and has been producing fine art for over 30 years. She has studied with Rob Liberace, Dan Gerhartz, Clayton Beck, Jeffry Hein, Susan Lyon and Scott Burdick. She is continually seeking to grow and improve. Krystal’s work has won People’s Choice awards, Portrait Society of America Merit Awards, and multiple Best in Show awards. Ms. Brown’s work has been Bold Brush Finalist, Raymar Finalist, and a Plein Air Salon Finalist. Her work has been published in Plein Air Magazine and American Art Collector. Krystal’s work can be found in collections all over the country. She is based in the Houston area and is an exhibiting member of the Oil Painters of America, and National Oil and Acrylic Painters. She belongs to the Portrait Society of America, American Women Artists, Cecilia Beaux Forum, Outdoor Painters Society and the Woodlands Art League where she facilitates a life group every week.

“My delight in the environment, model or interior landscape being capturing is felt through the nuances of light and color.  I’ve cultivated through a passionate pursuit of working from life a technique that portrays form accurately. You recognize it and take in the commonality of the scene and feel it through your own story.  It is a sweet circle shared.”

Library Paint Night

Everyone had a great time creating art together at Kingwood Public Library. We look forward to doing this again!

Creative Challenge Due

Your Creative Challenge pieces are due at the February meeting. The theme is “Findings”. After a winner is chosen we will let you know what the next challenge will be.

Library Art Changeout – February 21

We will be changing out the artwork on display on the upstairs wall at Kingwood Public Library on Friday, February 21 at 11:00 a.m. If you have art there, come prepared to bring it home with you and/or replace it with other pieces. If you are a paid member who has helped us with anything in the past (helping hang the art counts), feel free to bring some of your work to share with the public. It should be ready to hang, with picture wire.

Spring 2025 Art Show and Competition

Our Spring Art Show and Competition will be at Kingwood Community Center on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Watch this space for further details as they become available.

January General Meeting Rescheduled

General Meetings January 23, 2025

We have rescheduled our January General Meeting!

We will be meeting at Homewood Suites on Wednesday, January 29, 2025. The time and program have not changed.

Thank you all for your patience! We look forward to seeing you all there!

Stay Tuned

General Meetings January 17, 2025

January General Meeting Postponed

As much as we have all been looking forward to next Tuesday’s meeting, a look at the weather forecast for that day has us concerned. Temperatures are predicted to drop into the twenties, with a high probability of snow. Many of you will likely prefer to stay safe at home and off of icy/snowy streets. So we have decided to postpone the meeting until a more favorable date. We are currently working with Homewood Suites to find a day/time when our meeting room will be available for us.

As soon as we have an alternate day arranged we will let you all know. In the meantime, watch this space for developments!

Thank you all for your patience and understanding.

January 2025 General Meeting

Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Information January 14, 2025

Happy New Year!

We hope that all of you had a great Holiday season, and that you are rested and ready to tackle the New Year! We have a lot of information for you in this newsletter, so be sure to stick with us until the end!

Our January General Meeting Will be on Tuesday, January 21, 20
 Meeting Place:
     Homewood Suites
     23320 Hwy 59N
     Kingwood, TX 77339
     6:30 – 8:30 pm Meet & Greet

We have several activities for our first 2025 meeting. There will be light snacks and a Valentine Make & Take station. If you have any favorite art books you would like to share with us, please bring them in. And in case you are already into spring cleaning, feel free to bring any extra art supplies you would like to offer to others. Plus, let us see any art pieces you are currently working on or just finished for Show and Tell!

But we aren’t just interested in your art materials. We want to hear your ideas, your questions, or any special art tips you have picked up since last we met. There will be a special Ask It basket at the meeting. There is also a survey that you can fill out and leave with us in the box. We would be happy to listen to what you have to say, to answer your questions, and to talk about our future plans for the group.

Reminder – Creative Challenge
Our current theme is “Findings”. Your entries will be accepted at the February General Meeting.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, February 4 – Art in the Garden at Mercer Arboretum. Greg Livingston will talk about scratchboard planning and execution. Visitor’s Center, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Wednesday, February 10 – Studio Time at Kingwood Public Library. We will talk about this at the meeting. Bring your projects to work on, receive feedback/critique, explore others’ media. This is your opportunity to come and make art together at the library, from 5:30 – 8:00 p.m in the 1st floor Meeting Room.

Tuesday, February 18 – General Meeting. Demo Artist Krystal Brown – Oils

Friday, February 21 – Kingwood Library Art Changeout, 11:00 a.m., upstairs

Tuesday, March 18, General Meeting. Demo Artist Linda Hamilton – Paint Pour

Wednesday, March 26, Studio Time at Kingwood Library, Lower Meeting Room, from 6 – 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1, Art in the Garden at Mercer Arboretum. From 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Artist guest TBA

Tuesday, April 15, General Meeting

Saturday, April 26, Spring 2025 Art Show and Competition, Kingwood Community Center

Tuesday, May 20, General Meeting

Membership Fees Due
After our January meeting we will be deleting from our mailing list anyone who has not yet paid dues for this season. Your dues help to pay for our meeting place, demo artists, show judges, and, most importantly, our student scholarship. Be sure to check on whether you still need to pay. The good news is that, for this second half of the season, dues will be discounted by half!