Category Archives: Shows & Competitions

September General Meeting

General Meetings, Information, Shows & Competitions September 9, 2015

Welcome back, artists!  

The Prez Sez

Another Summer season is in the books and it’s time again to get together for demos to motivate, fellow artists to inspire us, and the fun of socializing with other members. We have another great year lined up with lots of exciting artist demos, paint outs, and opportunities to hang our work in Art Shows. The Fall Show is a little earlier this year, so get busy finishing up your latest masterpieces!! The Fall Show will be October 24th at the Kingwood Christian Church. Our first meeting is Tuesday, Sept. 15, 6:30pm Meet & Greet, 7:00pm Meeting. It will be an Open House style gathering again with several artists doing demos at once with time to walk around and visit with the new and old members. This is the perfect opportunity to invite or bring someone new!! Our meeting location is the Homewood Suites Hotel, 23320 Hwy 59N. Looking forward to seeing you all there.

Our first meeting of the new art season is scheduled for Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Hospitality: 6:30 p.m.
Meeting:  7:00 p.m.

Our location as last year, will be:
Homewood Suites
23320 Hwy 59N
Kingwood, TX  77339

The Homewood Suites are located just north of Kingwood Drive between Loop 494 and the 59 N access road. ALL levels are art ability and experience are welcomed. School students, adult students, non-professional, semi-professional and profession levels are available for competition and shows.

This first meeting will feature an open-house format,
with several members giving demos:

  • Vanita Doyle: Zentangle, incorporated into a small painting.
  • Linda Dumas:  Black & White plus a surprise.
    This 4-inch square is non-threatening when black, and a great way to warm up.
  • Kristin Dumas:  Acrylic paint pulling techniques.

Mark the date!

General Meeting Schedule for our 2015-2016 season:

  • October 20, 2015: Linda Dellandre demonstrates Pastels
  • November 17, 2015: Mark Stewart shows working with watercolor
  • December 8, 2015: will be the scholarship dinner with time and place to be announced
  • January 19, 2016: Daniel Elliott shows how to work improvisationally with oil paints
  • February 16, 2016: Gina Rector leads a demo of fiber art with member participation
  • March 16, 2016: Debra Jones shows pastels in another direction
  • April 19, 2016: Shelly Porter will demonstrate abstract watercolor/acrylics
  • May 17, 2016: Amanda Armisteat Pecjacek will show working with mixed media

Our Fall Show & Competition this year will take place on October 24, 2015.

Location:
Kingwood Christian Church
3910 W. Lake Houston Pkwy
Kingwood, TX  77339

Further details to follow.

This year’s Christmas Scholarship Dinner will be on December 8, 2015 at 3.00 p.m.

Location:
Chimichurri’s South American Grill
1660 W. Lake Houston Pkwy.
Kingwood, TX  77339

Membership Information

Click here for information about becoming a member.

Come join us for another creative year!

Summer News

General Meetings, Shows & Competitions June 4, 2015

LHAA is on summer holiday, but we have a few notices for you before we break.

LSAG Convention

Registration for LSAG has begun. If you qualify please visit the LSAG website to enter.

September Meeting

Our September General Meeting is schedule for September 15th, 2015.

Our meeting location remains the same:

Homewood Suites
23320 Hwy 59N
Kingwood, TX
77339

We are looking for members to do a quick demo at your own table, for our Sept. Open House Meeting.  Nothing fancy, you can show a technique you like, or just sit and draw, or paint, or do a craft for others to walk by and look and ask you questions.  We’d like 4 or 5 members to participate to make it bigger and better than last year.  Contact Carol Showalter or Vanita Doyle with any questions or to volunteer.  Friends could do it together.

email: Carol Showalter
email: Vanita Doyle

Enjoy your summer vacation, and create lots of art!

Spring Show & Competition

Shows & Competitions March 24, 2015

It is hard to believe that our spring show is less than a month away. I hope that the cool rainy weather has given you the opportunity to get lots of artwork done for the show.

Our show is now posted on the Lone Star Art Guild website at lonestarartguild.org. Online entries can be made any time between now and April 13th at the regular fee, and April 14th or 15th at the late fee.

Please see “shows and competitions” for show information including online instructions. If you have never entered our show before, you will need to send me your email address and what division you would like to compete in so that I can send you an activation link. My email address is amymcleod.conroy@gmail.com

We are encouraging each of you to email or print out our promotional poster and invite family and friends to come to our event. The show is open to the public from 12:30 pm to 4:00 pm.

Our show will be held at Kingwood Christian Church which has a nice, big kitchen and lots of tables and chairs to sit and visit.

We ask that anyone who would like to bring a beverage, appetizer or dessert to share to please do so. Just bring it when you come in on Saturday.

The judge walk through is scheduled for 2:00 pm and is always a great opportunity to glean valuable information about your artwork and others as well. The judge for our show is quite an accomplished artist. Details about our judge, Karen Vernon, can be found at our website.

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Amy Conroy and Becky Hall
Amymcleod.conroy@gmail.com
Rebecca.hall44@gmail.com

Spring Show & Competition

Shows & Competitions March 13, 2015

Our Spring Show & Competition is coming up in April. We hope to see you there!

Saturday, April 18, 2015
Kingwood Christian Church
3910 West Lake Houston Parkway, Kingwood, TX 77339

For more information, visit the Shows & Competitions page where you will find Registration Instructions, Show Rules, Divisions & Categories and a downloadable poster

Schedule of Events:

Friday, April 17, 2015

Panel Pick up from storage: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Panel set up at KCC: 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Artwork Check-in: 9 am-10:30 am
Judging 11:00pm – 12:30 pm (Judge and support team only)
Public Viewing and Reception: 12:30 pm – 4 pm
Judge Intro, Best of Show Award, Judge Critique and Walk Through: 2 pm
Artwork Pick up/Show Take Down: 4 pm

Deadline for Show Entries: Monday, April 13, 2015
Late Entries accepted through Wednesday, April 15, 2015
All Artists MUST pre-register through the LSAG website, no walk-ins accepted.
Entry fees are due at the Artwork Check In.  Cash or check is acceptable.

Welcome our Judge!

Karen Vernon  is a very active painter.  She has been painting in watercolor, oil, pastel or acrylics since her childhood.  She has worked in watercolor for over 50 years and her skill in this medium is demonstrated in each of her paintings which are a visual enchantment of color and light.  She is constantly seeking to interpret life around her and depicts her images in vibrant , often oversized images.

As a professional artist with a worldwide market, she has achieved notable recognition.  Karen was invited to show her work in a three year traveling museum exhibiton entitled “Sea to Shining Sea”.  She was one of 47 artists selected to participate in this major project honoring our country.  Her paintings hang in museum collections in Europe and in the United States, as well as private and corportate collections, such as the Royal Family of Saudi, Delta Airlines, the Chateu de Vuilliens, the National PGA Headquarters, the Moody Gardens Resort Hotel, and the Walt Disney Corporation.  She has been elected to the Birmingham Watercolour Society, Birmingham, U.K.,is in Who’s Who in American Art, Strathmore’s Who’s Who and holds a signature membership in the Texas Watercolor Society and the Watercolor Art Society – Houston

Karen Vernon is the founder of ACT, Artist Changing Tomorrow, a fundraiser to maintain and sustain art education.

http://www.karenvernon.com/about.html

LHAA Poster Spring 2015

March General Meeting

Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Shows & Competitions March 4, 2015

The Prez Sez…

Our February General Meeting was very fun. We had and artist from Jerry’s Artarama come for the demo hour. He brought great door prizes and other new products that he introduced us to. He then painted an entire acrylic painting using some impasto techniques along with the acrylics. He was very entertaining, funny and talented. You can see the finished painting on the website or on our Facebook page. I encourage all members to try to attend the General Meeting each month. It is fun and very motivating. We have had a series of fantastic artists this year so far and I’m looking forward to the next meeting.

The General Meeting is one of the best reasons to join the group as it affords us the opportunity to meet together and visit as well as receive instruction in art forms that we love or those we aren’t as familiar with. Please mark your calendars for the 3rd Tuesday of each month!!!

The date for our Spring Show has been finalized for April 18th and it will be held at the Kingwood Christian Church on W. Lake Houston Parkway as the Homewood Suites will be in the midst of a remodel at that time. The Prospectus for the show will be posted on the website soon.

Our March meeting will be held:

March 17, 2015
Homewood Suites,
23320 Hwy 59N, Kingwood, TX, 77339
6:30pm Meet & Greet
7:00pm Meeting & Demo

March ‘s Demo – Marty Caldwell Wax Batik

Marty Caldwell is a Decorative and Fine Art Painter and Instructor with a passion for painting. Her painting career began many years ago with a winning piece of art in the third grade. This passion for painting has led her to many areas of the decorative art and painting world. Now she enjoys in sharing through teaching, designing, and being with fellow artists and students!

She is an active member of the Society of Decorative Painters with membership in two Houston, Texas area chapters, Decorative Painting Pals of Texas – Humble, TX and Decorative Artists of Texas – Pasadena, TX . She served as President of the Decorative Painting Pals of Texas in 2007. And She is also a member and past president of the Liberty Art League in Liberty, TX.

Marty Caldwell, Wax Batik Marty Caldwell, Wax Batik

Creative Challenge

Congratulations to our February’s Creative Challenge Winner, Vicki Zahand!

Frozen-Vicki-Zahand

The topic for March’s CC is Wind Swept. 

See previous winners in our Creative Challenge Gallery.

Art Tip of the Month

Mirror corrector – When you know there is “something wrong” with a painting but you can’t figure out what, try looking at it in a mirror. Perspective problems and portrait problems show up immediately. If working from life, use a hand held mirror to look over your shoulder at the painting. If you are at home in the studio, you can take your painting to a larger mirror such as a bathroom mirror.