The RGAA MEETING Saturday, October 20th 10:00 AM (Presbyterian Church @ Moon & Academy) Speaker and Demonstrator: Holly Roberts V O L U M E 1 3, I S S U E 9 O C T O B E R, 2 0 1 2 Holly Roberts is a nationally known artist, teacher and a true local treasure. Her work resides in dozens of public and corporate collections and has won many awards. Her work is currently on view in Oaxaca, Mexico and will soon be showing at the Catherine Edlinger Gallery in January 2013. She has published 3 books and, as you will witness, produces very creative and astounding collages that utilize drawing, painting and photography. If you get a chance please visit: http:// hollyrobertsonepaintingatatime.blogspot.com As your devoted Program Chairman for the past year I implore you Do not miss this one. F. G. Yost Encantada 2012! Update Mark your calendar better yet, refer to the special calendar attached to this newsletter for the opening of Encantada! 10 a.m. 5 p.m. Saturday, November 3 in the Sheryl Stapleton African American Performing Arts Center & Exhibition Hall EXPO New Mexico, 310 San Pedro NE, Albuquerque. Artists reception is 2 5 p.m. with the awards ceremony at 3 p.m. Show runs until November 24. Encantada! is RGAA s annual juried exhibition of member and nonmember paintings, and this year s show promises to be one of the best ever. There are 101 pieces in a variety of mediums and styles by 58 artists. Postcards announcing the show will be available for distribution at the RGAA meeting October 20. Plan to attend with suggestions on where to distribute cards. Free parking passes will be available when artists deliver their work 10 a.m. noon Nov. 1 at the show venue. Refer to the calendar and determine which date (including alternate dates) you will be available for sitting the show (shifts are 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m or 1:30 5 p.m.). Free passes are issued to only those who are sitting the show. For questions on reserving times, contact Wanda Portee: wportee4529@comcast.net For more information about Encantada! 2012, please contact Depy Adams (505-828-2225) or Tom Blazier (505-323-2246).
Page 2 The PALETTE Rio Grande Art Association SOME OF THE TOP SCORED ENCANTADA 2012 ENTRIES... Below: Charlie Aldrich - Luddite's Dream Above: Yvonne Korotky - Standing Out Below: Jan Denton - Poblano Chilies on a Plate Above: Tom Blazier - Spirit of the Sky
Rio Grande Art Association The PALETTE Page 3 Encantada! 2012 Calendar Hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily (except where noted). Morning sitting is 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Afternoon sitting is 1:30 to 5 p.m. Please note where sitters are still needed and contact Wanda Portee at wportee4529@comcast.net with date and time you are available to sit Thanks :)
Page 4 The PALETTE Rio Grande Art Association ART SEE/ ART SPEAK WHAT A LINE! The line you heard in a bar or used as an excuse when you forgot to do something is a verbal line uttered to hide the truth. A visual line is not that easy to describe. The best description in art terminology is LINE is a mark which moves from point A to point B. A line's activities are worth a thousand words. I'm not fibbing! Here is the proof. Take a good look at your hand. Notice how your eyes separated the shape of your hand from the space around it. Although this shape was not actually drawn, it was traced by your eyes following the edges of your hand, a positive shape from the negative space around. Laymen would call this invisible line an outline. The proper art words are CONTOUR LINES. Want to play more with movement and line tricks? Raise your hand. Wiggle your fingers and whirl your hand gracefully in the air. Are you watching this activity? Wow! Your eyes speed up as they follow those curves and twists. When action is drawn instead of a contour, the result is a GESTURE LINE. While a lines may move the eye in any direction, they are either STRAIGHT or CURVED. Watch out! They can change types as quickly as you can blink an eye. To make matters even more complex lines are able to go from being as thick as a couple of inches to being as narrow as a human hair or become no more than an edge where a black object touches a white one. The emotional response to straight line domination is straight forward, inflexible, and so rigid it seems machine made. If the lines cause the eye to move from side to side (horizontal) there is a lack of liveliness, and endless expanse of empty space. If the straight lines are repeated in a vertical top to bottom direction, the eye feels more activity and dignity as if a person was sitting stiffly upright, standing tall with stomach pulled tightly in and eyes staring forward or pausing before a second before taking another step kind of formality. If the straight line pattern is pointed in a diagonal direction, the activity the eyes see is formal and orderly as though the activity being viewed is a marching band or wind blown field of grass. However if the straight diagonal lines point in different directions so they cross, beware. The eye becomes confused about which way to go as a conflict is taking place. When curved lines dominate a drawing, the eyes follow the direction, but the mind's eye senses a more light hearted topic. Just like the straight line, curved lines convey a mood. Lips curve up to smile and curve down to scold. When both upper and lower lip corners go in the same direction, all is in harmony be it happy or sad and angry. When straight lines crossed, the mind was confused, but when curved lines go in opposite directions, the eye makes a circle - a line without beginning or ending! Curved lines are not as perfectly precise and formal as straight lines, but they have there ups and downs like smiles and frowns. The emotional response to curved lines is that they give the mind a chance to be a wee bit lighter and frivolous as they skip on their way like edges of candy shop awnings, the swirl of a plant's growth or ruffles along the ladies skirts. Did I mention, domination of a linear type of line tends to suggest a gender to works of art? Strong firm lines seem masculine and wiggly curvy lines seem frivolously feminine. Watch for next month's Art See/Art Speak article on the magic of optical illusions. HAPPY HALLOWEEN Y'ALL!!!!!! Jeanne Weitz
MasterWorks 2013 Update The prospectus for Masterworks 2013 is now available online at the RGAA website: http://www.masterworksnm.org/ Registration is open for the RGAA sponsored workshop with Frank LaLumia. Details are in the Masterworks 2013 prospectus. Mr. LaLumia s work can be viewed on his website: http://lalumia.com/ For information, contact Lyle Brown: 505-867-2133 or lhbrowart@msn.com Diane Walton Reitz had a watercolor painting accepted into the New Mexico Watercolor Society Fall Exhibition 2012 Show. The show will have the Opening Reception on Friday, October 5th, and will run from October 6 until October 28 at the Fine Arts Building at the NM State Fairgrounds. Hope to see you there!! NEW MEXICO VETERAN S ART SHOW New Mexico Veteran s Art (NMVA) is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization If you are a veteran, you are eligible to enter their upcoming show in November. Take-in day is November 4th at 10:00 AM (No digital image submission required). For entry requirements and show details visit www.nmveteransart.com
Rio Grande Art Association The PALETTE Page 7 RGAA 2012 Officers and Committee President Cecelia McRoberts 805-294-3097 mtlforev@aol.com Vice-President Diane Reitz nmreitz@aol.com 505-281-4125 ABOUT RGAA Co-Secretary Diane Buster 505-281-3600 The Rio Grande Art Association Diane_buster_1@msn.com is a not for profit organization dedicated to Co-Secretary Magda Burger Magda43@q.com 505-821-2171 the education and promotion of New Mexico artists working in oil, acrylic, and mixed media not normally Treasurer V Ann Peterson 505-559-4939 shown under glass. vaprio2009@yahoo.com Programs Fred Yost 505-480-4619 Rio Grande Art Association fgyost@comcast.net P.O. Box 53307 MasterWorks John Meister & Lyle Brown 265-5218 & Albuquerque, NM 87153 meister1@comcast.net 867-2133 President, Cecelia McRoberts lhbrownart@msn.com PHONE: (805) 294-3097 Encantada Depy Adams depya@hotmail.com 828-2225 Email: mtlforev@aol.com Tom Blazier tblazier@hotmail.com 323-2246 Exhibits & Publicity Open Membership Toni Black 505-980-6990 toni6b@yahoo.com Historian Magda Burger 505-821-2171 Magda43@q.com Refreshments Diane Reitz 505-281-4125 nmreitz@aol.com Newsletter: Editor Wanda Portee 505-899-8134 wportee4529@comcast.net Assoc. Editor Open Websites www.rgaanm.org www.masterworksnm.org John Meister - Sunflowers (One of the top Encantada entries)