Artist of the Month was presented by Carole Paquette. She shared information about her mother and artist, Jeanne Kurtz. Jeanne was one of the first members from when SWWS began.
Our Creative Challenge for April was to do a sample complementary color scheme ( two colors opposite on the color wheel).
Here are a couple examples. In both paintings I used the same two colors, an orange and a blue. Depending on how much pigment or water you use can give you a variety of values and intensities.
In May, Char Olson introduced us to painting butterflies on yupo paper
Here are some of the many colorful butterflies that were created.
Joan Krueger shared information about her favorite artist Nancy Noel who is well known for her spiritual and angelic portraits of children.
Lucy Shirek will be participating in the "Spring Art Tour" June 7-9.
Our Creative Challenge for May was to do a sample using three analogous colors ( three colors next to each other on the color wheel).
In my sample here I used blue-green, blue and blue-purple. Notice how fresh and clean the colors are when you choose analogous colors.
Our next "Creative Challenge" for July will be to do a split complementary color scheme. Because the color wheel is made up of twelve colors you will have twelve choices of what your scheme can be. Choose one, color go directly across the color wheel and find it's complement you then use the color that sits on each side of that complement. Fifteen minutes is all you need to spend on these exercises. They're not necessarily meant to be finished paintings just learning experiences.
