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AUGUST 2008 VOLUME 6, ISSUE 5 www.sandywatercolor.org
Linda Moyer: Our May 2008 Guest/Demonstrator
Linda has been painting seriously for over 30 years and considers herself a transparent watercolor artist. What that means to her is that she uses very few opaque paints and no white paints. The white comes from the paper only.
She has painted her work in series ranging from 28 paintings of one subject to more than 32. She loves to explore one subject by putting together different compositions and/or different lighting. She “loves to explore it until something else takes its place”. It took her 2 1/2 years to do 28 paintings of a ravine called “Forgotten Places”. Her work is about the Creator and/or the Created.
Linda’s palette is limited to 9 colors and she uses the Robert E. Wood palette to keep her paints moist. Her colors are alizarin crimson ,Winsor red, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow pale, burnt sienna, Winsor green (blue shade), Pthalo blue or Winsor blue, ultramarine blue, and purple.
Robert Simmons’ white sable brushes are the only brushes Linda uses, and two of them are #14 round brushes, one for color and one for water. She holds one in each hand and passes them back and forth. She also uses a 3” Sky Flow brush, and the last one is a small one used for detail and to sign her name to the paintings.
Her focus is light. She creates it with layers like cad yellow followed by cad orange followed by greens and then blues.
She makes black out of dull blue-greens and prefers Holbein shadow green.
Her paintings are all large: 29-1/2” X 42” is a double elephant sized paper, and 40” X 60” is a triple elephant size.
Most of the time Linda uses 300# Arches rough paper and uses a full sheet or the larger sizes. She likes to use rough paper always with those brushes because they give the effect she now likes. It is not how she used to paint, and she says she has all kinds of brushes around she never uses anymore.
NEW WATERMEDIA GUILD OFFICERS FOR 2008-09:
President and Show Coordinator: Shauna Alcorn
Vice President: Suzan Rasmussen
Treasurer/Membership: Bobbie Halverson
Secretary/Newsletter: Bonnie Zinanti
Workshops & Paint-Outs: Yvonne Paterson
Web Master: Mari O’Brien
Photographer: Alex Hoshovsky
No one signed up for the Advertising/Promotion Coordinator position. If you are interested in this position for 2008-09, please contact one of the officers.
NEXT WATERMEDIA GUILD MEETING: AUGUST 21,6:30 PM. SANDY SENIOR CENTER CAFE:
Stan Elmer will be our honored guest and will be providing a demonstration on what he learned at at the Sterling Edwards workshop this spring. Click here to see Sterling’s work and check out his calendar. The Utah Watercolor Society has a workshop planned with him in May 2009.
Shauna Alcorn, our new President and Show Coordinator, will be asking for dues at the August meeting. Dues are $15.00 per membership year and should be paid by September 1st.
FUTURE GUEST ARTISTS:
Sept 18: Maura Naughton
Oct 16: Sue Martin
Nov 20: Benton Patten
Dec 18: To be arranged
ARTIST OPPORTUNITY:
The Sandy Watermedia Guild will hang 20 paintings at the Sandy Library Sept. 2 (hanging date) to Sept. 30 (pick up date). Artwork must be wired, framed and ready to hang and stay for the duration of September. Fire up your paint brushes and display one of your paintings!
You will need to be at the library on Sept 2 at 9:00 am to help hang your work. You must be sure to contact Verna Hendricks in order to have your name added to the list. Otherwise you will not be able to hang a painting. Contact Verna by phone (943-7029) or by e-mail so she knows how many want to display artwork. You may exhibit two paintings.
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