COLOR WORKSHOP

Instructor: Sandy Meyer

Saturday, June 14 9:00 am -4:00 pm
Members: $75 Nonmembers: $95
Fee includes all materials and box lunch

This is a workshop for all artists and would be artists, working in all mediums, who want to create more exciting art through a new awareness of color. We will make color an object of special consideration, and learn to use it in more creative ways. For many artists, their handling of color is a hit and miss affair. By becoming more aware of the properties of color we can become more proficient in the use of color and desired results become attainable. This workshop is an intense study of the effect that one color placed next to another can have. Colors are rarely seen in isolation. Putting the right colors together to create a pleasing rightness is what people have the most difficulty with. Colors juxtaposed play tricks with the eye; as soon as they are put together they change. These are some of the items that will be explored:
Brief history of color
Psychological effects of color
Simultaneous contrast
Qualitative Contrast
Figure-ground relationships
Forbidden colors
Color illusions

Sandy's work has been featured in American Artists Magazine, The Artist's Magazine, and Watercolor Magic. Her works are included in museums and many other prominent collections. She holds signature status with Watercolor USA Honor Society and the Transparent Watercolor Society of America. Sandy recently had a Thirty year Retrospective of her works at the Quincy Art Museum, Quincy Illinois, where PBS did a program of the works.

To learn more information please call 616-831-2928 or visit: www.gramonline.org

"2008 Winter Festival" Award Winners Named

Juror Chris Stoffel Overvoorde awarded Wanda Anderson first prize for her mixed media abstract painting. Second place went to Catherine McClung for her watercolor painting, and 3rd place to Patty Sevensma. Gerald Laferty Jr. won the Grand Haven Area Arts Council award and Howard Garet won the Mayor’s award. The juried art exhibition will be on display through March 1st. For additional information, call 616-846-5460 or visit the gallery.

"2008 Winter Festival Juried Art Exhibition"

Gallery Uptown at 201 Washington, Grand Haven will again host the "2008 Winter Festival" juried art exhibition Feb 1 -Feb. 25. Juried by Chris Stoffel Overvoorde, Professor Emeritus, Calvin College, artists are asked to submit their entries by Wednesday Jan. 23 through Friday Jan. 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sat. Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The opening reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 1st from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded at 7:00 p.m. Entry forms are available at the gallery. For additional information,
call 616-846-5460 or visit the gallery.

Gallery Member's Newsletter

Volume 2,   June 2007

Our monthly look into what the gallery members are doing. Here are the recent accomplishments of gallery uptown members. Congratulations to each of you. We share your joy and success!

We are happy to announce the June exhibitors. Margaret Benefiel, Marlan Cotner, and Sandy Meyer offer a variety of images for the viewers to feast their eyes on during the month of June. This exhibit titled Whimsy & Reflection will also include a gallery talk at 7 p.m. the evening of the opening reception, Friday, June 1. There will also be something new mid-month. On June 16 from 11 am. to 1 p.m. stop in for Coffee, Cookies and Conversation about art.

MARGARET BENEIFEL and ELIZABETH REYNDERS

They currently have a mini exhibit of their delightful works at Gallery of Frames in Grand Haven.

LARRY BLOVITS:

Larry had two works accepted into this year’s Arts Festival 2007 Regional Arts Competition, hosted at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, May 11-June 3. Larry will have an exhibit at the Constance Petter Gallery in Sagatuck, MI from May 27th – June 10th. Two works by Larry were accepted into the Muskegon Art Museum 79th Regional Exhibit.

CAROL COUSINEAU:

Carol had three pieces accepted into the Arts Festival 2007, Grand Rapids. Her oil pastel “Barn” won the Miller Johnson Purchase Award.

Carol also has a piece in the 79th Regional at the Muskegon Art Museum.

HOWARD GARET:

Howard was busy the weekend of May 19 & 20, at the East Lansing Art Festival. He will be attending two other art fairs before our next newsletter comes out, Kalamazoo Art Fair June 2 and Northville Art in the Sun June 16 & 17.

HELEN LYSTRA:

Helen’s painting “Morning at the Lake” has been included in the Michigan Watercolor Society’s 2007 exhibit, which opens at Wayne State University June 22.

SANDY MEYER:

Sandy received two awards for her painting “Saturation # 10” at this year’s Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapids. She received the Warner Norcross & Judd, LLP Purchase Award, plus the Elmer & Rita Judd Memorial Award. Sandy’s painting “Red Squares” won a Purchase Award and a Merit Award in Watercolor U.S.A. at the Springfield (MO) Art Museum. She also has three pieces in “Feast For the Eyes” Exhibit at the Quincy (IL) Art Center, June 1 through July 29. Sandy also has a watercolor in the 79th Regional Exhibit at Muskegon, MI.

Steve Tagg

Steve won first place in the mixed media category of the Tarpon Springs Florida annual Fine Art Show.

Watercolorist Mark Mehaffey to conduct local seminar

Published Wed, Aug 1, 2007 Grand Haven Tribune

Lakeland Artists are bringing nationally recognized watercolorist Mark E. Mehaffey to town for a three-day water media workshop.

The Oct. 1-3 workshop titled "Composition, Color and Experiments in Watercolor" is designed to jumpstart the work of experienced artists and provide a solid foundation on which advanced beginning painters can build stronger visual statements.

"Mehaffey is much in demand as in instructor and we are fortunate to have him come to our area," said Helen Lystra, a Lakeland Artists member and one of the workshop organizers. "I've taken his workshop and found him to be an excellent instructor — friendly, knowledgeable and very giving of his expertise. He knows how to teach."

On the first day of the workshop, Mehaffey will help artists explore ways to create stronger paintings using design and compositional tools.

Color is the topic of the second session. The artist will discuss and demonstrate how neutrals and neutralized color can be used to create mood, and how to effectively use complements, saturated color and analogous color schemes.

Day three is devoted to intuitive exploration of textures, mono printing and painting on slippery surfaces.

A resident of Williamston, Mehaffey is a former public school art instructor. His paintings are included in private, corporate and permanent public collections across the country, including the Muskegon Museum of Art.

A signature member of the National Watercolor Society, the American Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America-master status, among others, Mehaffey has won major awards in juried exhibitions across the country.

The cost of the three-day workshop is $150 for members of Lakeland Artists, and $175 for nonmembers. A deposit of $25 is required to reserve a space, with payment in full due by Sept. 1. The 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. sessions will be held at the Grand Haven Area Arts Council, 1045 Columbus.

For more information on the workshop, call Lystra at 846-5429, or e-mail lakelandartists@hotmail.com.

April Newsletter

Volume 1, printed May 2007

Each month we will look at the recent accomplishments of gallery uptown members. Congratulations to each of you. We share your joy and success!

To start off our first newsletter, we are happy to announce the month of May’s exhibitors. Photography will be highlighted with three exceptional artists, our very own ELIZABETH REYNDERS and IRA TROWBRIDGE, plus guest artist MIKE SMITH. The opening is Friday, May 4th.

MARGARET BENEIFEL and ELIZABETH REYNDERS

currently have a mini exhibit of their delightful works at Gallery of Frames in Grand Haven.

LARRY BLOVITS:

Larry has been a very busy artist. It was our pleasure to host the exhibit, “The West Michigan Eight” for the month of April. Larry was an important part of that exhibit, both as an exhibitor and as part of the hanging committee.

He also had a piece in the International Association of Pastel Societies Annual Exhibition in Naples, Florida, March 24 – April 9th.

Larry served as judge and exhibitor for “Changes of Seasons”, a juried exhibition at the White River Gallery in Montague, MI, March 1 – 31.

HOWARD GARET:

Howard’s works were on exhibit at Park Congregational Church in Grand Rapids from April 1 – 25th. His pastel landscapes and still lifes shared the spotlight with works by Grand Rapids artists Kathleen Putnam and Barbara Schilling.

HELEN LYSTRA:

Helen had two pieces of art accepted in the Boca Grande Art Alliance National Exhibition, April 1 – 30, in Boca Grande, Florida. Michigan had great representation.

SANDY MEYER:

Sandy was “Artist of the Month” for American Artist Magazine’s On-Line Magazine. The article was on-line March 19 – April 15.

The watercolor “Red Squares #5” has been accepted for this year’s Watercolor U.S.A. 2007 Exhibit at the Springfield, MO. Art Museum.

"Log Cabin" The Winterfest 2007 Exhibit Winner

by Sandy Meyer

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Inspiration

The quilt pattern is called Log Cabin. It was the first quilt that I ever made. At the time, we were living in a log cabin, which was built in 1836, so it seemed appropriate. In the log cabin pattern the center block is always red, representing the fireplace, and the heart of the home. The repetition of shapes and colors is what makes quilts so enjoyable to look at, the same elements that give us pleasure in art. I carefully arranged the quilt so that the layers were visible. The backing is as important as the top. The white areas of the painted quilt were the most challenging part to paint. Earlier paintings of this series are not as three dimensional as this one. To keep the ripples held high during the week of painting, I stuffed rolled up towels between the layers. When Log Cabin #5 was in an art fair exhibit, I heard one gentleman say, "The real artist is the lady who made the quilt." I politely told him, "Thank you". He walked away without another word.

Sandy Meyer

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