This week WE LEARN NEW TECHNIQUES

Next week


Jill will share highlights of what she learned in Patti Brady’s acrylic workshop. The workshop focused on all the different ways you can use acrylic paint and mediums. Patti is the director of Golden Acrylic’s working artist program. She is also an artist and author. You can check out her work at http://www.pattibrady.com/.
in case YOU want to attend one of her workshops....

TODAY

Justine and Melanie shared some of what they learned in Robert Burridge’s Abstract Florals class. If you would like to check out Bob’s work, and sign up for a full workshop yourself take a look at http://www.robertburridge.com..



If you would like to experiment with some of the techniques bring watercolor paper that has been gessoed or a canvas. You will also need a brush, water holder and paint.

Welcome Spring 2009!

We will begin a new semester on Wednesday February 4 in Crestline.

Together we will study a number of new "sources of inspiration" and paint/create every other week.

For the first time we are having a RETREAT to the beach...
to spend a few days perfecting our craft or just "rubbing elbows" with
other creative types.

We welcome you to join us.

Also, if you haven't checked out Church of the Highlands...
as a creative person who has been SO blessed because of my relationship with
God in my creative life as well as my personal life....

Give it a try....
you will love it!

We are up to more than 12,000 "Happy People" (that's what they call our church..
not a bad description :)) who are being filled up and pouring out our talents across this city and this state.

Blessings in 2009...may the "creative bug" get you!

Allison

Printmaking

We spent a day learning about printmaking from Lorraine Mitchell, who learned all about it at UAB in art school.

With pencils and some fun,sharp carving tools, we created designs in blocks of wood, spread ink with fun rollers and printed everything that didn't move, including the dog!


Thanks for another fun way to stretch our creativity!

A NEW SEASON BEGINS

We began our first meeting for the fall semester today and have a great group.

Forstall Art Center sent Ernie Elridge to kick off the meeting with coupons and announcements on some great classes.

Our own Melanie Morris will be teaching on Oct. 11, from 9-3
Acrylic painting Workshop

go online to see their schedule
FORSTALL ART CENTER

We will study the CREATIVE CALL and paint on alternating weeks so there are
no excuses! By the time the group ends, together we will create more than 5 pieces together...enough to pick one to enter the ENERGEN show!

Come visit!

Creative Call

In 2007, a group of women artists joined each week to study the book, Creative Call, by Janice Elsheimer. The book provides inspiration so that we may become the artists God made us to be.

Each week we gather to share information, to encourage each other, to listen to praise and worship music and to explore our gifts of painting- in a attempt to wake up the creative spirit that lives within us.

Goal one is to come to the realization that because we create, we ARE artists.
Our first semester brought us to a comfortable place in our new title as ARTISTS.
Semester two we studied Scribbling In the Sand by Michael Card.

Other books of interest:
The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron

Spring 2008, we will read If You Want to Walk on Water, You Have to Get Out of the Boat.

We visit local art events together, share learning experiences by inviting local artists to do demonstrations and view member artist's work and techniques.

The group has grown into a close-knit group of friends who are now more than "colleagues" but are friends.
We invite you to join us today and check back as we share our creative endeavors with you online.


"Our talents are a gift from God, and I am to use them to fulfill his purposes in my life and his world. I humbly acknowledge and accept my gifts as I ask to receive God's vision for how I am to use them. I ask the Holy Spirit to free me from self-doubt and self-absorption. I pray this work will bring me into closer alignment with God's plan for me as I seek to bring my gifts and talents into his light and to become the whole and complete person he intends me to be." Amen