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November 2025 General Meeting

Creative Challenge, General Meetings, Information, Scholarship November 15, 2025

Our General Meeting for November Will Be On Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Strawbridge United Methodist Church, Great Hall
5029 Kingwood Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Meet and Greet
7:00 p.m. Meeting begins
Finish by 8:45 p.m

Work On Your Art While Discussing Art

This month, in lieu of a demo artist, bring in an art project that you can work on while we have a question-and-answer session about various art topics, such as pricing your art. We can have a show-and-tell segment, too. Show us what you’re working on, and if you want advice on its completion, we can help you out! We can also supply much admiration, appreciation, and encouragement!

December General Meeting

Our December General Meeting will be on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at Strawbridge United Methodist Church at 6:00 p.m. We will be having our annual Scholarship Award Presentation and dinner. This year’s dinner will be a potluck, so we hope everyone will be bringing something delicious! There will be a sign-up sheet at the November meeting, so if you haven’t yet committed to contributing, sign up at the meeting! Particularly appreciated will be desserts and salads.

Library Art Changeout

The art on display at the Kingwood Public Library will be changed out in January. Further details to come. The current wall display has been very popular, and we hope to come up with another eye-catching presentation! As always, all paid members are eligible to show their art with us.

Look Book

We STILL need artists to help us fill out our Look Book! With an up-to-date Look Book we can approach local potential display locations to show our work to more people. Write a short artist bio and send 4-5 high-res pictures of your art to sheilabucchinoart@yahoo.com.

Membership Dues

It’s that time again. Membership dues for 2025/26 are due. You can pay in cash, Paypal (with a small fee), or via Zelle with a QR code (no fee). Dues are $50 for adults, $10 for students.

Our New Creative Challenge is “Native Flora and Fauna” (NO DEAD ANIMALS, please)

Entries will be due at our December meeting on December 16, which will include a potluck dinner and our Scholarship Award celebration.

Studio Time at Kingwood Public Library

The next Studio Time at the library will be on November 24 in the Lower Meeting Room at 5:30 p.m.

September 2025 General Meeting

Information September 10, 2025

The collage workshop in August concluded our informal summer meetings/workshops. Time to begin the new season!

LHAA New Year Begins this month! Our General Meeting for September will be on Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Strawbridge United Methodist Church, Great Hall
5029 Kingwood Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345

6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Meet and Greet
7:00 p.m. Meeting begins
Finish by 8:45 p.m.

September Demo and Workshop With Greg Livingston

Greg will be teaching us scratchboard at our meeting. He will bring some high contrast photos that we can work with, or feel free to bring your own. They should be high contrast, preferably black and white.

Participants will be supplied with scratchboards, styluses, and tracing paper. If you have your own etching tools, by all means bring them.

Show & Tell!

Please bring your show and tell, any pieces you wish to show us!

Creative Challenge

We will be issuing our Fall Creative Challenge at the meeting. It will be due in November!

Art Supply Swap and Sell

If you are ready to let go of any art supplies and art related items, bring them to the meeting to sell, swap or give away! It’s a great time to purge your workspace of items you wish could find new homes. Bring paints, brushes, pens, paper, canvases, books, magazines, and other supplies that might be of use to someone else.

Ask-it Basket

We will also hold a Q&A. This is a great time to ask questions related to art and get feedback from the group as a whole. Any remaining questions will be held until a later meeting when we offer the Q&A again.

Library Art Changeout – Kingwood Public Library

Our next changeout of the art displayed at Kingwood Public Library is expected to be Friday, September 19, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.

We are asking willing artists to bring examples of their early work to display. We would like to show where our artists started and how they’ve improved over the years. Please bring 1 or 2 early works along with 1 or 2 newer works that spotlight progress.

As always, any paid member can also bring some pieces of art to share. Be sure that it is completely ready to hang, with picture wire on the back. Bring a piece of your early work to show your growth as an artist!

Look Book

We STILL need artists to help us fill out our Look Book! With an up-to-date Look Book we can approach local potential display locations to show our work to more people. Write a short artist bio and send 4-5 high-res pictures of your art to sheilabucchinoart@yahoo.com.

Membership Dues

It’s that time again. Membership dues for 2025/26 are due. You can pay in cash, Paypal (with a small fee), or via Zelle with a QR code (no fee). Dues are $50 for adults, $10 for students.

July 2025 General Meeting

General Meetings, Information July 10, 2025

This will be the second of our new summertime informal workshop meetings. June’s meeting was a lot of fun, and we learned a lot about printing our own small images. We hope you will enjoy this one as much!

Our General Meeting for July Will Focus on Portraiture

Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Strawbridge United Methodist Church
5029 Kingwood Dr., Kingwood, TX 77345
Note: The meeting will be in Room 207 upstairs this month, as the Great Hall is being renovated. When you reach the office door, sign in, take the elevator up, and turn left.

6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Meet and Greet
6:30 p.m. Meeting begins
Finish by 8:30 p.m.

Linney Hamilton will be conducting this workshop, showing us how she creates a portrait. She will be working from a photograph, so please bring a photograph of your own to work from. It should be a head-and-shoulders picture with plenty of shadows on the face to give it interest (so no professional portraits).

Also, bring whatever materials you want to work with – pencils, charcoal, pastels watercolor, etc. You will need a surface to work on, and if you are using water media, please bring a dropcloth.

Look Book – Second Call!

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.

Upcoming Events

August General Meeting – Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Meeting time: 6:00 p.m.
Activity: Collage. Bring all your leftover images, materials, etc., plus a surface on which to construct your collage.

September General Meeting – Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Meeting Time: 6:00 p.m.
Meet & Greet, plus Scratchboard

June 2025 General Meeting

General Meetings, Information, Updates June 11, 2025

May General Meeting

We had a good time at the May General Meeting, Listening to Demo Artist Doug Hiser talk about his art and his books, and demonstrating his creation of a beautiful watercolor wildlife scene.

New Meeting Location and Time!

Meeting will be on Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Henceforth our meetings will be at Strawbridge United Methodist Church in Kingwood, at 5629 Kingwood Dr.
It is at the intersection of Kingwood Drive and Willow Terrace. From Kingwood Drive, turn north onto Willow Terrace. Take the first left turn. This should put you in the parking lot in back.
After parking, go up the stairs on the right side of the parking lot. To the left you should see a sign for the Office. You MUST enter through the office door. A helper will be there to let you in and give you directions.
Meeting time has been changed to accommodate the availability of our meeting room. We will meet at 6:00 p.m. The meeting ends at 8:30 p.m.

What to Bring

Since these new meetings will be starting so early, you might want to bring some light snacks to share, as well as your own (non-alcoholic) beverage. Also please bring a plastic bag to pack your trash away with you. We want to be considerate to our generous new hosts!
Our summer meetings, as we explained before, will be informal workshops. For the June meeting we will be working on Printing and Scratchboard. Here is a list of the supplies we are asking everyone to bring for the work:
Pencil
Clothes they are okay getting dirty
Disposable gloves, if you’d like
2″x3″ in high contrast image ideas – images that will be easy to see through tracing paper
Cleaned and flattened Tetrapak container (juice cartons, etc)
Cut down flat pieces of PETE containers (clear plastic fruit containers)
If you want to see how the printing process will work, try this link.

Change in Dues Payment Options

We are now offering Zelle as an option for paying your dues. It should be very easy, and won’t involve the fees charged by PayPal. So, going forward, we will accept only cash, PayPal, or Zelle for payments. Ask us if you have questions.

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!