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Art by Sheri Jones www.cfai.co/sherijonesFrom the May Art Challenge

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rtistAlthough I’ve always had an interest in sketching and archi-tecture I’ve had no formal art training outside of an art class in high school as well as the abundance of information available in books and online. Over the last 15 years or so I have made a living as a draftsman, aircraft dispatcher for Continental as well as a sailor although 90 percent of that time was as a civil engi-neering draftsman. I was a music performance major in college on the trumpet and taught private lessons as well as playing around town in various jazz bands, orchestras as well as ensem-bles from the university.

My personal taste for art usually leans towards classical realism although I appreciate all forms of creativity outside of paint-ing including music, architecture, classic wooden yachts, film, sculpture, pottery and the list could go on and on and possibly become quite boring!

Features this month in Visual Language

Painter’s Keys - Robert GennPage 9

New Artists Pages 6-7

Art Challenge Pages 16-21

Hall Groat II Art Reviewpages 38-39featuring Deanna Jaugstetter

Features this month in Visual Language Colors on My Palettepages 22-29

featuring Amy Whitehouse and Melody Cleary

Blog Review Floridapages 40-41

Florida Artists Special Reviewspages 42-47

Mark Schwartz, Sally Shisler, Diane Mannion

Daily Painters Pages 54-55Hall Groat II Art Reviewpages 38-39featuring Deanna Jaugstetter

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Sign up for Robert’s letters on his site. Read this letter online and share your thoughts on talking about your work. Live comments are welcome. Direct, illustratable comments can be made at rgenn@saraphina.com

The Workshop Calendar: Here is a selection of workshops and seminars laid out in chronological order that will stimulate, teach, mentor, take you to foreign lands or just down the street. Many of these workshops are recom-mended by Robert and friends. Incidentally, if you are planning a workshop and have photos of happy people working, feel free to send them to us and we’ll include a selection in the workshops feature at no extra charge.

Robert Genn’s Studio Book

May 28, 2012 Dear Laurie, Odysseus, in Homer’s Odyssey, is ten years getting back to Ithaca from the Trojan Wars. All kinds of crap and corruption take place while he’s gone, including interference with his wife Penelope. Our odysseys need not be so traumatic, and regular little ones can invigorate. I recommend three- and four-hour car-sorties. In our family we call it “mosey driving.” Unlike your regular trip to Costco, you move around so you can look and see and perhaps record. Your mind needs to slow down and drop into a visually aware trance so you can access your latent “appreciation mode.” A lot of good stuff can probably be found just blocks from your home. Because of the “click and go” habit, a camera can be counter-pro-ductive. You need a journaling pad or sketchbook. I often use small stretched canvases hooked over the steering wheel. We’ve put some photos of my system at the top of the current clickback. To mosey in foreign lands, with no particular itinerary, is my idea of artist’s heaven. Starting this September, my friend Don Getz of Peninsula, Ohio, is planning a year-long coast-to-coast US odys-sey of watercolour journaling. Don has chosen to be in selected small towns and villages on certain dates, and he’s giving two- and three-day workshops in many of them. A lifetime of commercial art and obsessive sketching make Don the “King of the Journaling Instructors,” and anyone who has seen his work will know why. We’ve put Don’s work and info at the top of the current clickback. Don’s system is to draw the perimeter first, then, without benefit of pencil, using a permanent laundry marker called Identi-pen, he commits his lines in ink. “Ink gives confidence and a deadly eye,” says Don. After the draw-ing is more or less the way he wants it, he comes in with watercolour washes. The idea is to keep the work under-stated, fresh and lively. Don’s journals are not pretentious; they are the passing stations of a lifelong odyssey. Best regards, Robert PS: “With journal sketching a great deal of work can be accomplished in a rather short period of time. Speed is key, and speed comes from practice.” (Don Getz)

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Logan Bauerwww.cfai.co/loganbauer

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Born in North Dakota, Bauer’s formative years were spent overseas. He took his first painting class in England at age 13. He graduated from Trinity University in Texas and continued his art education while pursuing other professional goals. Now a full time artist, Bauer’s impressionistic and contempo-rary work is imbued with a vivid sense of color and light. His oil paintings are characterized by years of watercolor techniques that blend color in un-suspecting ways. Bauer is a member of the Arizona Artist Guild.

His work is available at www.loganbauer.com

Recent works have been shown at the Herberger Theatre Center in Phoenix, Arizona, and the Ari-zona Art Alliance’s Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona. Presently, his work can be seen at the Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art in Las Vegas. In 2011 he also appeared in the publications American Art Collector and Southwest Art. In addition, he will be seen in the 2012 publication “International Contemporary Masters V”. ,and the subsequent exhibition by that name in Las Vegas from March to June 2012.

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“A Chill In The Air” 24x36 Pastel“Best Of Show” at the Pastel Society Of Southern California 2012 Members

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Amy Whitehousewww.cfai.co/amywhitehousehttp://www.cfai.co/colors-on-my-palette/amy-whitehouse/

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When did you realize you loved art and wanted to be ‘an artist’? As far back as I can remember I loved drawing, fi nger painting (still do!), and any kind of art. I remember in 2nd grade walking around my neighborhood and selling my artwork to kind neighbors. I’ve always been an artist at heart even though there have been years when it was on the back burner.

Who has been the greatest infl uence from your past to mentor you to this career? All the Impres-sionist and Post-Impressionist painters. Degas, Monet, Manet, Berthe Morisot, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Gaughin, Odilon Redon all spring to mind. Having lived in Paris for a full year as an undergradu-ate student, I was able to visit the Jeu de Paume (now the Musee D’Orsay) several times a week. I could never look at those works enough; I went so often I had it memorized, yet each time I saw the individual paintings I was enchanted.

Who is your mentor today, or another artist you admire and why? Recently I took a workshop at Scottsdale Artists School with Logan Hagege who awakened a keen interest in exploring landscapes and seascapes more fully. A few artists whose work inspires me include Dreama Tolle Perry, Liz Hill, Diane Whitehead, David Boyd, Jr., and Mike Rooney. Kimberly Conrad and Laurie Justus Pace have been men-toring me as well.

What is your favorite surface to paint on? Describe it if you make it yourself. My favorite surface on which to paint would be gray linen. I love the feel of the weave and the medium value it provides.

What brand of paints do you use? I use primarily Gamblin and Sennelier paints, for their consistency and full pigment feel.

Do you have a favorite color palette? I usually have on my palette: Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red, Ultramarine Blue, Sap Green, Yellow Ochre, Citron Green, and any Transparent Oxides.

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Melody Clearywww.cfai.co/melodyclearyhttp://www.cfai.co/colors-on-my-palette/melody-cleary/

When did you realize you loved art and wanted to be ‘an artist’? I was very inspired when I won fi rst place in my grade school art competition and again in a high school competition. My mother found a local art center and I enrolled in drawing and oil painting classes during high school. It was not to be that I would attend art school or get an art degree, but I knew art would be a life long interest and so I moonlighted tak-ing art classes whenever I could. When I retired in 2000, I spent years seriously practicing and developing until I realized my ‘style’ and produced a body of work.

Who has been the greatest infl uence from your past to mentor you to this career? First, I would say, my mother. She knew I had a gift and she supplied me with the tools to practice it. Next, I would say my father who was a talented drawer of designs in the granite and marble industry. I would draw next to him at the kitchen table. In his retirement, he took up oil painting as a hobby and had a love of nature and land-scape, as do I. He was always interested in my work and what I was producing next, though, he really didn’t look at it as a business or career.

Who is your mentor today, or another artist you admire and why? My critique group is very important to me. Many of us come from a local art co-op and have been meeting monthly for a few years now. A few have B.A.s in Art or Art History, one is a traveled career art teacher, and others are hobbyists. As well as sharing friendship, we share input on each others work and I always gain insight on whatever I’m work-ing on. We have viewed some art videos, and California artist Robert Burridge is a big infl uence on me to loosen up and get creative. And the colors! I surely became a colorist - it just speaks to me. Other current artists who’s work inspires me are Dale Witherow (WA), Ellen Dittebrandt (OR), Lynn Boggess, Kathleen Earthrowl, and Kentree Speirs (OR), just to name a few.

What is your favorite surface to paint on? Describe it if you make it yourself. I work mostly on stretched gallery canvas, 1.5” depth, with a medium or smooth tooth....no framing is required. I’ve also worked on gessoed watercolor paper.

What brand of paints do you use? Liquitex and Golden acrylics, mostly.

Do you have a favorite color palette? I have a variety of yellows, reds and blues....phthalo blue, manga-nese blue, cad orange, any medium and light yellow, pyrrole red, naphthol red light, yellow ochre and white. I’ll add some alizarin crmson or dark green to mix up dark darks. For a brilliant orange, I’ll use some Holbein Luminous Opera. I’ve often used this and yellow to make a brilliant background for nature scapes.

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Melody Clearywww.cfai.co/melodyclearyhttp://www.cfai.co/colors-on-my-palette/melody-cleary/

Jill Saurwww.cfai.co/jillsaur

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Jill’s tagline, “joy on canvas”, captures the essence of her remarkable work. Art lovers have collected her radiant aspen and birch tree paintings for over twenty-fi ve years.

Expressive, dynamic, and full of life, Jill’s paintings are oft en hung as the focal point of a room. Looking to the future, Jill feels that the best is yet to come.

Right Page Top Right: Awake Before Winter (2) 36x48, Acrylic on CanvasRigiht Page Top Left : Abundant Brilliance 36x48, Acrylic on Canvas

Left Page Below: Autumn Beauty 48x36, Acrylic on CanvasRight Page Bottom: Th e Gathering 48x36, Acrylic on Canvas

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Barbara Churchleywww.cfai.co/barbarachurchley

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Barbara Churchley is an award winningartist who captures the moods of the landscape one canvas at a time in an expressive style all her own.

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Rae Andrews Artist of Australia and Artist of Texas

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Above: Ethereal Koi 1 30 x 40Middle: Refl ections 40 x 40Right: Fireglow 24 x 48

Rae Andrews is an Australian artist who lived on the island of Maui for many years before moving to Texas. She works in all mediums, and likes to challenge herself with a variety of subjects, although water and movement are very identi� able with this artist. Her layering technique of bold color veils achieves a translucent, sometimes fractured result in her works. Rae is a teacher in both Australia and the U.S.A.

Rae Andrewswww.cfai.co/raeandrewswww.yessy.com/raeandrews

RaeAndrewsGallery.blogspot.comLeftTop: White Water Tumble 30 x 40Left Bottom: Can’t See The Forest for the Trees 30 x 40Middle: Walk with Me 24 x 36 Right: Escarpment 24 x48

www.cfai.co/deannajaugstetter

When studying the work of Atlanta-based artist, Deanna Jaugstetter, it’s evident that she perceives the world that surrounds her as both a repre-sentational and abstract painter concurrently. Paintings such as, Passages, appear at first glance to be completely non-objective in nature, how-ever when studying them beside representational pieces such as, Brugge Canal II, one begins to see abstract architectural elements slowly emerge. Deanna’s abstract works seem to be distilla-tions of her realistic paintings, whereby build-ings and landscape elements are deconstructed into various geometric and organic shapes and then re-assembled into a new configuration she perceives in her imagination. My hunch is that this creative process at times may be conscious; however most of the time is subconscious and natural.

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Contemporary Fine Art Reviewby NY Art Critic Hall Groat II

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Painter Hall Groat II, professor of fine and media arts at Broome Community College, teaches foundation courses in painting, drawing, color theory, and computer graphics. Groat earned a master of fine arts degree in painting and drawing from City University of New York at Brooklyn, a bachelor of arts in art history, minoring in studio art at Binghamton University, and attended graduate and certificate programs at Buffalo State Col-lege, Syracuse University, and Savannah College of Art and Design. He also attended summer sessions at Chautauqua School of Art, Chautauqua, NY, and Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vt.

Several of her abstract works are reminiscent of the late Clyfford Still who was the leader of the First Generation Abstract Expres-sionist movement in New York during the 1940s’. The large 30”x40”, acrylic on canvas painting entitled Life is a Dance contains a series of fragmented organic shapes that appear to be floating overtop an ethereal field of color. The warm and cool atmospheric color contrasts add a compelling sense of depth, while evoking rhyth-mic motion. The quirky titles that she thinks of are as inventive as her abstractions. The Evolved Soul and When Lightning Strikes are two painting titles that indeed pose more questions than pro-vide answers. Perhaps Deanna’s future paintings will combine both aesthetic and conceptual elements from her abstract paintings with the ones that are created from direct observation. This would be tantalizing!

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Armella Benton Artist of Colorado

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Nancy Standlee Artist of Texas

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Filomena Boothwww.cfai.co/filomenaboothFilomenaBooth.com

Strong composition, visual texture, bold use of color, and trusting her intuition are just some of the elements that Filomena employs in creating works that elicit emotional responses from viewers. Her work, at times, may be subtle, and at other times vibrant and bold. She is a prolific painter and credits her ability to master a variety of techniques to her experience as an art teacher. Filomena considers herself an ex-perimental abstract expressionist artist. Her paintings often begin with thin washes of paint followed by layered glazes of color. The addition of collage materials, texture, and metallics may be used to enhance the composition as it slowly emerges from the canvas. The process involves the gradual buildup of many layers of color and texture to cre-ate the final image. She holds a B.A. degree in fine art education from Newark State College, now Kean University, in New Jersey. She has taken a variety of graduate courses at Montclair State College in Mont-clair NJ, as well as studied at the Dunedin Art Center in Florida. She has also participated in and taught several art workshops in Florida as well as acted as juror for Art in the Square outdoor art festival in Southlake, Texas.

Artist StatementTo create a powerful and moving abstract image is a gratifying experience for any artist. To have that image appreciated by the viewer is an even greater joy.

LISA McKINNEYwww.cfai.co/lisamckinneyLMcKinneyGraphics.blogspot.comLisa-McKinney.artistwebsites.com

Lisa McKinney is the daughter of an internationally collected painter and a renowned microbiologist.The mix of the creative and the logical always felt like a pull of two very conflicted worlds.

As a child, Lisa’s drawings and paintings were chosen each year to be displayed at the elementary school art shows in the local opera house. But as time went on, she found herself focused on more ana-lytical endeavors and abandoned art altogether.

After studying Social Work and working with troubled teens for several years, the artistic side had long been forgotten. But when she began experimenting with graphic design, photography, and digital art, the worlds collided into an emotional and visual experience of the right and left brain.Lisa currently works as a graphic designer, and as an artist focuses on graphic paintings, photography and editing, and mixed media graphics.

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Gigi HackfordAmerican Flag Series 2012

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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE SUMMER 2012: June 2 – Nancy Standlee– Mixed MediaJune 9 – Liz Hill – Mixed Media, WatercolorJune 16 - Pat Meyer – RosesJune 23 - Tina Bohlman – Watercolor July 7 - Kay Smith – WatercolorJuly 14 – Sheri Jones – Palette KnifeJuly 21 – Nancy Medina – FloralsJuly 28 – Bob Shepherd – Oil Painting August 4 – Nathalie Kelley – WatercolorAugust 11 – Laurie Pace – Palette KnifeAugust 18 – Caroline Ratliff – PastelAugust 25 – Barbara Jones – Still Life/Oils

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Liana Yarckin Artist of Texas

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Liz Hill Artist of Texas

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Nancy Medina Artist of Texas

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Diane Whitehead Artist of Utah and Montana www.cfai.co/dianewhiteheadDianeWhitehead.com

Diane Whitehead is an avid outdoors woman and a self-taught artist. She is highly praised for her strong brush strokes and bold use of color; both of which make her work come alive. Diane paints what she loves best; nature and animals. Her fl owers and landscapes refl ect the moods of the western mountains she calls home and her ani-mals look you in the eye with a majesty and gentleness that create an instant bond. At once elegant and whimsi-cal, Diane’s animals touch our soul and our sense of humor. Born in Spokane, Washington, Diane began to paint earnestly when an uncle gave her his set of oil paints. One of eight children, she found painting to be her most treasured “quiet time”. Originally determined to be a veterinarian, Diane feels she has combined her love of ani-mals and oil paint to make the perfect marriage of creativity. Diane is a full-time artist working from her studio in Park City and when the weather allows, a Plein-air painter in the mountains she loves. She has participated in workshops with Reid Galey, Carolyn Anderson and Jove Wang and continues to pursue new techniques for her creative expression.

Mary Jo Zorad Artist of Washington

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Mary Jo Zorad has been drawing and painting since a young child. She always wanted to be an artist. Her fi rst teacher was her father who spent time drawing while he tutored her in math. Her fi rst solo art presentation occurred in High School. She has painted and sold art for over 20 years. Her career took a turn into Psychology and Art away from a full time artist aft er Junior College where she studied art and art history. While in graduate school she continued painting and drawing while writing her dis-sertation. She sold and gave away many of her paintings while studying psychology and art therapy. During that time her graphic design drawings were included in mail order catalogues and her paintings in business offi ces. Mary Jo’s subjects vary from domestic animals such as cats and dogs, to landscapes, people, still life, horses and wildlife. She paints in oils, watercolors and pastels. She was born in Indiana, moved to California where she studied, and now lives in Washington on a 5-acre organic farm.

Mary Jo states “I am fortunate now to realize my expression and passion for art and make a living with this creativity. It is the expression of life and nature surrounding me that I seek to portray. I paint what I see and feel in my soul. Nature – closest to our soul, creates the vibrant colors that sparks the eye and warms the heart”.

She was never far away from her true calling of creative expression.

Kimberly Conrad Artist of Colorado

Pouring Color into Your Life www.cfai.co/kimberlyconradKimberlyConradDailyPaintings.blogspot.comKimberlyConradFineArt.com

I am a full time artist, dividing my time between painting and teaching in my Colorado studio. Having painted on most every surface imaginable, at this time I work primarily on canvas, board, and paper. Th ough my style remains quite diverse, I believe I have the heart of an Abstract Expressionist, or even more accu-rately, an Action Expressionist, as I am most defi nitely an “action painter”. My preferred application, used in my landscape, seascapes and aspens is to “pour” my paint, manipulating the fl ow with water and body movement. I use no sketches or brushes, rather allow the paint to move freely and tell it’s own story. Each painting is a journey, dictated primarily by my current thoughts and emotions, be they happy, sad, peace-ful or frenzied.It is a mysterious relationship, and is thrilling when the painting fi nally reveals itself, and our private journey becomes a story to share.

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Judy Mackey www.cfai.co/judymackeyJudyMackey.comJudyMackeyArt.blogspot.com

Debbie Grayson Lincoln Artist of Texas

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Debbie Grayson Lincoln Artist of Texas

Laurie Justus Pace Artist of Texas www.cfai.co/lauriepaceEllePace.comLauriePace.blogspot.com

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Laurie Justus Pace Artist of Texas

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