A fun bunch of artists met in Old Washington for a day of still life painting.  The theme was musical instruments.  We had a banjo, mandolin and guitar as models.

Betsy Adams working in pastel.

Philip Saunders sketching with pastel.

Mary-Louise Dean working in oil.

Ruvonna Bevard painting in acrylic.

Ken Swinson worked on a monotype of each instrument.  You can see a short video of his prints going through the press below:

if you don’t see the video above, follow this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQVUSMFOwQ

We have had a great weekend at ORVAG with Frontier Christmas.  Artist’s showing their creative work,  the smells and sounds of the Holiday’s, good friends stopping by to shop, chat, enjoy the spirit of the season and well wishings to all.  If you left before the bagpiper arrived, he was great and you missed a treat.  The Guild will be open on the 9th and the 16th from 1:00-7:00 pm  for all of the community and members to get together and share in the “Holiday Spirit”.  Refreshments will be served. 

Some photos from our October Still Life Painting session

Our Still Life for this month…my favorite table with pumpkins and a guitar

Mary-Louise Dean with her painting

Rob Weingartner with his painting

Ken Swinson with his painting

We have been meeting every second Wednesday at the guild to paint still life. Each month, a different artist sets up a still life…providing a different style.
We meet at noon, and everyone is welcome!

Thanks everyone for working together and creating such a great art show. I put a few video clips together to let others see what they missed!

Claudia, Toby, Vicki and I setup the display at the Maysville public library.  This year, we thought that instead of highlighting individual member’s artwork, we would highlight our service to the community.

The display showcases some of the artwork and photos from art camp.  Along with two slideshows with pictures of camp, and our other activities.  In between pictures, the slideshow has announcements for our upcoming events like our auction.

The display also has information about how to join the guild, and an announcement for the Edgar Allan Poe Art Contest.

I think that if we show the community what we are bringing to it, they will be more likely to support us in the future (like at our shows and auction).

Hi everyone – Area art teachers are excited about our upcoming Poe art show for students!

Here’s a link to a cool mosaic mural in Canada:
http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cochrane.html

be sure to click on the mural to see the details.

we should do something like it on our floodwall!

Sorry I’m late with a few reminders.

We are meeting today, June 1^st for the final meeting before art camp at 5pm the guild building. If you have not already volunteered to help, it’s not too late, this is going to be a lot of fun, and the more artists that participate, the richer experience we will be able to give the children. Come to the meeting!

Tomorrow, The Maysville Cultural Arts District Association is having an accessibility lecture/breakfast/workshop on June 2^nd at 8am at the Museum Center. As visual artists, we have been well represented at these meetings…there are a lot of exciting plans for the arts downtown, and I think we should continue to be a part of these plans…try to make it.

The Cynthiana Arts Council is having an art walk July 24, and 25^th. There is more information available at their website:

http://www.cynthianaartscouncil.org/ArtWalk.html

If anyone is interested…it might be a good show. They have a nice website. Maybe the guild would be interested in setting up as a group to promote our region/activities.

Happy Hour For Humanity is having an auction to benefit the UK children’s hospital. Artists can chose to spit the auction proceeds 50%-50% with the hospital or donate all proceeds to the hospital. This could be a good opportunity to get your artwork in front of a new audience…and make a little money. The time frame is short, but if you want to participate, contact:

Nathan Zamarron

859.255.2951

nzamarron@lexarts.org

Jacob Werline has opened a new antique store/gallery downtown on second street next to the Downtown Market Deli. He has offered space to any guild members. It looks like a good opportunity for our local artists to have their work represented in downtown Maysville. I would like to see him succeed with local artists, and I am going to take him some work today. Potters, he has shelves.

Here is his contact information:

606.301.3210

jacobwerline@yahoo.com

Finally, KET came to the museum center and filmed Marjorie’s exhibit for their program, “Kentucky Life”. They are planning to visit her home and do an interview. Doug Hendrickson has graciously given us the use of one of his windows on second street, where we have put a nice display of Marjorie’s work. It makes me smile everytime I walk by…it’s great what a difference art can make to our neighborhood. Now that Marjorie’s exhibit is down, we need to change our website’s homepage. If someone can give me an article with photos, I will put it up!

I wanted to share the photos we took at the museum while hanging the show.

Marjorie Sauer with her wonderful work.

Marjorie and her friends

Here is a picture of my son Mark’s sculpture that he brought home this Easter weekend called “The Flower in Bloom”. It is 11” high and 10” wide and was carved from Indiana Limestone. He is a stonecutter in Lexington and carves sculpture sometimes in his spare time. We’d like to encourage his talent and would be interested in any opportunities you might know about.

George Jones