Still Life Commission

I just finished this commissioned painting for friends that will hang in their dining room.   They have lovely accents of red and green in their decor so the challenge was to create something they could live with and enjoy for years to come.  The fall hydrangeas are from their garden, with touches of green from Indiana Osage oranges (or hedge apples) and purple asters.  I chose pomegranates for the touch of red because they are in the market now and compliment the green.  Apples would have worked as well, but pommegrantes are a fun fruit to paint and just a bit out of the ordinary.

It is painted on a full sheet of  Bockingford watercolor paper with a limited palette of  American Journey paints from Cheap Joe's.

Christmastime Paintings

Christmas is in the air and it's great to reflect it in painting.  I just finished a four hour workshop with several students painting poinsettias.  Every Christmas I paint poinsettias using different techniques, but always with a live poinsettia in front of me.  The students enjoyed trying out the technique on a small painting before launching into a larger one.  This painting is still in progress.

Normally I don't paint conceptual paintings, but I was asked to create a Christmas Concert inspired by the music our church choir is singing.  It was a fun challenge to pay attention to the lyrics and see a thread running through them that could be reflected in a painting.

This fall I've enjoyed being a part of a wonderful women's contemplative Bible study at church.  This painting is another conceptual painting experience  trying to capture the essence of the study - listening with open heart to the Scriptures and each other.

Fall Fundamentals' of Watercolor Workshop

Saturday, November 16, from 10:00 to 2:00, I'll be giving a workshop on painting a fall tree scene with textured watercolor paper.  Jerie Artz – Artzart

“Fun” – damentals of Watercolor

         www.artzjerie@gmail.com

At Basketworks – the Art of Life Café              www.jerieartz-artzart.blogspot.com

1020-C Sagamore Parkway West                                            www.artzjerie@gmail.com

West Lafayette, In;   Payless Shopping Center                     Questions? Call Jerie (765)838-8359

Fall One Day Workshop

Saturday, November 16, 10:00 – 2:00 $50

Registration and Supply List Attached

“Fall Fantasy” – textured trees technique, completed in one day

Fall - textured trees

Jerie Artz – Artzart

“Fun” – damentals of Watercolor

                      www.artzjerie@gmail.com

At Basketworks – the Art of Life Café              www.jerieartz-artzart.blogspot.com

1020-C Sagamore Parkway West                  www.artzjerie@gmail.com

West Lafayette, In;   Payless Shopping Center           Questions? Call Jerie (765)838-8359

I highly recommend Cheapjoes.com to order your supplies. Paints are more reasonable than Hobby Lobby or Michaels.  If you have these colors or if you want your own, great, if not, I can provide enough paint for these projects for an extra fee of $5.00.

Fall One Day Workshop

Saturday, November 16, 10:00 – 2:00 $50

Registration and Supply List Attached

“Fall Fantasy” – textured trees technique, completed in one day

Supply List

·        1 piece of 10” x 14”, 12” x 16” or 14” x 20” piece of 140 pound weight water color paper

·        Paint: artist quality, Winsor Newton, or American Journey by Cheap Joe’s; NO student grade paints.   Ultra marine, Prussian blue, Quinacridone gold, Burnt Umber

·        1” flat watercolor brush, ½” flat watercolor brush, 1 rigger (small, long haired brush for details)

·        Drawing pencil; water container

·        Bath towel (to place under your painting – great for blotting brushes, no need for paper towel)

·        White glue, tissue paper and craft brushes provided

December O ne Day Workshop

Saturday, December 7, 10:00 – 2:00 $50

Registration and Supply List Attached

“Christmas Poinsettia” – completed in one day

Supply List

·        1 piece of 10”x14”, 12” x 16” or 14” x 20” piece of 140 pound weight watercolor paper

·        Paint:  artist quality, Winsor Newton or American Journey by Cheap Joes:  NO student grade paints.   Quinacridone Red (Permanent Rose), Cadmium Yellow or Joe’s Yellow, Winsor Red or American Journey Red Hot Momma; Ultramarine Blue

·        1” flat watercolor brush, ½” flat watercolor brush, 1 rigger (small long haired brush for details)

·        Drawing Pencil, water container; artist eraser (I have them for $1.00)

·        Bath towel (to place under your painting – great for blotting brushes, no need for paper towel)

***************Registration****************

Name___________________________________________ e-mail__________________

Address ______________________________________  Phone ___________________

____ Fall Fantasy Class    $50 Registration Due: Nov. 9,    

                                     ______$5 fee for paint

______Christmas Poinsettia     $50 Registration Due: Nov. 27

                                                            _______$5 fee for paint

Mail registration and check to Jerie Artz, 3635 Goodall Court, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906.  (765)838-8359

Inward Journey - Outward Journey Exhibit Now Open!

The exhibit at the West Lafayette Public Library is officially open for the month of November.  Forty one paintings trace my journeys over recent years - both the inner and outer journey to France, Israel, with Nature and the Seasons and the Wabash Valley.  I hope the public enjoys the exhibit as much as I enjoyed creating it.  A big thanks to my husband, Steve, and my sister and brother in law , Sue and Brian Henderson for helping to hang the paintings.

Solo Exhibit in November

These days I'm getting ready for a solo exhibit at the West Lafayette Public Library.  It's a good reason to get all of my work re-organized, matted and framed to hang.  Thinking over the paintings I was going to hang, a theme came together for me:  The Inward Journey - The Outward Journey.  

The Inward Journey - the Outward Journey

is the theme of a solo watercolor exhibit featuring the art of Jerie Artz, at the West Lafayette Public Library the month of November.  The exhibit is a retrospective of the artist's work reflecting her journeys to France, Israel, Southern Illinois and recently the Lafayette area.  Deeply influenced by nature and the changing seasons, the artist strives to express a "joie de vivre" as she "dips her paintbrush into her soul and paints her own nature into her paintings," a favorite quote by Henry Ward Beecher.

The public is invited to attend an opening reception, Sunday afternoon, November 3rd from 3:00 - 4:30 at the West Lafayette Public Library, 208 W Columbia St, West Lafayette, IN 47906

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Trio - quick paint pears

Just finished a quick paint of pears.  The neighbors behind us thought they bought an ornamental pear tree for their front yard - but this year it is loaded with pears - probably Bartlett.  The pear butter is cooking in the crock pot, a little pear pie for Steve is nearly devoured, but this trio I just had to capture in watercolor instead of throwing them in the pot!

Trio

Okay - just playing around - had to add Susan Bostwick's sculptured pears to the mix, just for fun! this is one of those times where Thomas Merton's quote is so apropos! "Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time..." it's fun getting lost in pears!

Sunflower Obsession!

These past few weeks I've been inspired and obsessed with sunflowers!  It all began when a friend planted some sunflower seeds in the community garden where she lives.  Watching them bloom and bloom and bloom has been an absolute joy.  I've picked them and painted them.  I've stood facing them, towering above me and held on to my watercolor paper blowing in the wind trying to sketch them.  I had our watercolor class, including the gardener who planted them, paint them.  I may not have them out of my system yet - but here are two, nearly completed paintings.  I say "nearly" because I do have to live them for a few days to see if they tell me they need tweaking!

Full sheet Fabriano 200 lb paper

9 x 12" Arches 140 lb paper

Fall Watercolor Class to begin!

We're still enjoying the lazy days of summer, but soon fall will be here and some of you may be filling in your calendar already.  I will offer the six classes, the "Fun" damentals of Watercolor, beginning Monday's, September 16 through October 21.  Sign ups begin NOW!!!!

  

Jerie Artz – Artzart

“Fun” – damentals of Watercolor

At Basketworks  

The Art of Life Café 

        1020-C Sagamore Parkway West

West lafayette, IN  

www.jerieartz-artzart.blogspot.com www. jerieartz.com http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog/sugarbaker  artzjerie@gmail.com questions? Call Jerie 838-839

6 Week Session

      Monday afternoons 2-4pm

or

    Monday evenings 6 -8pm

                            September 16, 23, 30,  October 7, 14, 21

$150 for six classes

Recommended Supply List Attached

Come and enjoy the experience of watercolors! Positive, directed teaching,

weekly handouts, demos and your own original creations!

Sept. 16:  Week 1 – Watercolor Basics

·        Create your own Color Wheel; Painting – Leaves

Sept. 23: Week 2 – Color Family Tree

·        Enchanted Forest/Negative Space; Painting– Primary Colors

Sept. 30:  Week 3 – Color Family Tree

·        Enchanted Forest/Negative Space Painting

·        Primary/Compliment Colors

Oct. 7: Week 4 – Color Family Tree

·        Enchanted Forest/Negative Space Painting

·        Primary/Compliment and Analogous Colors

Oct. 14: Week 5 – Florals or Still Life Painting

·        Based on what has been learned in class.

Oct. 21 Week 6 – Tissue Paper Texture Watercolor

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Registration

Reserve your place by mailing this form to Jerie Artz, 3635 Goodall Court,

West Lafayette, Indiana 47906; tel. (765)838-8359

  $75 due at registration, $75 due at the first class. Make checks payable to Jerie Artz

Name _____________________________ e-mail___________________

Address____________________________  phone ___________________

Monday Afternoon Class ___________ or  Evening Class ___________

Either time would work for me! _______________

To assure your place in class, please register by August 31.   In order to accommodate busy schedules, I’m offering the afternoon or evening option.  There is a required minimum of 8 registered students per class.  In the event of only one class there will be the option to take the class offered or your check will be returned.

Sunflower Heaven!

Wray, a friend of Mom's at her residence, Friendship House, has an amazing community garden plot with huge sunflowers.  I've been admiring them for days, taken photos twice and this morning decided to set up in front of the garden to sketch and begin a painting sunflowers. Mom joined me to watch.  Here is my inspiration, and here are my beginning efforts.  More to come!

Getting Ready for Exhibits

This week I've been getting my paintings and my mom's paintings ready for a couple of upcoming exhibits.  The painting is the fun part, the matting and framing are the work part!  The wild flower painting was begun at the Celery Bog paint out with the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society and finished in my studio.  As I was sketching and painting, bees were buzzing EVERYWHERE!  It was a virtual feast - so the painting named itself - "Plenty to Buzz About!"

"Something to Buzz About!"

Another Paint Out????

Yes, I go for months with no paint outs and then participate in two within three days!  Today the Art Cenacle group met at Martha Riley's and painted on the banks of the Tippecanoe River.  What a beautiful day - hot, but in the shade, bearable.  I painted this long narrow triptique and started another one of coral bells.  I'll probably finish the triptique with pen work.

Celery Bog Plein Air Paint Out

Why don't I do this more often? Schedule my own paint outs?  I'm just glad that the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society organized this event on Saturday at the Celery Bog Nature Center in West Lafayette.  It was a beautiful morning with many places to set up and capture the moment.  These two scenes were painted from a deck at the end of a nature trail overlooking the bog.  The woods are FULL of poison ivy, and even though I made an effort to stay on the trail, I do think I'm incubating a couple of patches....

This nature center is only about 1 mile from my house - I need to make this paint escape again. I also started a painting of the wild flowers that I'm still touching up.

Celery Bog Paint Out Today!

Why I don't go by myself to paint plein air - I don't know, but today the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society organized a paint out at the West Lafayette Celery Bog nature center.  It's always a dream to be outdoors painting.  There were 10 of us that enjoyed painting, sharing lunch and then sharing our work.  Awesome day!  Here are photos of what I started today.  I need to add some finishing touches.

Sharing Art with Kids

 It's summer - time for kid's activities at church.  It's been a great week giving 20 elementary age young people a chance to use "real" artist watercolor and watercolor paper for the first time.  They caught the idea that they were painting with water with a little paint.  It was wet on wet with a pinch of salt and voila - the wonder of creating.  We also created giant "fandango" self portrait puppets - what fun!

Marvelous Morning Glories

Instead of painting, I've been working on the organizational end of the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society.  What a wonderful group of artists to be getting involved with here in Lafayette!

The president of the WVWS encouraged all of us to bring something to the meeting tonight and decided it was high time to sit down and paint and get out of my "organizational mode!"  I've been drinking in the beauty of my morning glory photos and decided it was time to paint a few.  Here are my first efforts - one on Yupo, the other on Strathmore 140 lb paper.  It's always a challenge to capture the delicacy of morning glory pets.

Here is the photo I was inspired by - taken in Laguna Beach, California in 2007.

Teaching Again!

It's been a great experience teaching watercolor painting to several senior citizens at Friendship House where my mom lives. The most "senior" member of class is learning watercolors for the first time at 90 years of age!  She is still an avid quilter!  They've been real good sports as I've put them through their paces to learn the color wheel.  These past two classes we've taken a break from the color wheel to paint a flower - a giant hibiscus, hopefully using what they learned from the color wheel.  This is just a glimpse.  I'll post pictures of their finished pieces in a couple of weeks.  We meet every other week for watercolor classes and the off week for pastel classes with a marvelous teacher from the area.

Painting for "Visions of Community"

In recent weeks my time has been spent gardening and working with the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society planning for the future.  So that has not left much time to paint.  There is a community art event happening right now for which I painted a couple of 8 x 10 watercolors.  The Art Museum of Greater Lafayette is sponsoring a fund raiser - local artists pay $5 for an 8 x 10 frame and donate their work to the Art Museum for an upcoming auction.  These are my

two little paintings.  

Classes to Begin

It's time to begin teaching watercolor classes again.  Seeing students experience the joy of watercolors is something I've missed since I closed up my teaching studio over a year ago anticipating our move to West Lafayette, Indiana.  There have been opportunities in recent weeks to demo and provide students with a watercolor experience which has led me to find studio space outside my home where I could schedule some classes.  Class information can be found here on the blog. We'll start by creating a color wheel, then do some experimental painting of leaves to see how the paper, paint, and water interact.  Join us!  Spread the word!

  

Jerie Artz – Artzart

“Fun” – damentals of Watercolor

At Basketworks  

The Art of Life Café 

        1020-C Sagamore Parkway West

West lafayette, IN  

www.jerieartz-artzart.blogspot.com www. jerieartz.com http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-blog/sugarbaker

6 Week Session

Monday afternoons 2-4pm

or

Monday evenings 6 -8pm

May 20, 27, June 3, 10, 17, 24

 $150 for six classes

Recommended Supply List Attached

Come and enjoy the experience of watercolors! Positive, directed teaching,

weekly handouts, demos and your own original creations!

May 20:  Week 1 – Watercolor Basics

·        Create your own Color Wheel; Painting – Leaves

May 27: Week 2 – Color Family Tree

·        Enchanted Forest/Negative Space; Painting– Primary Colors

June 3: Week 3 – Color Family Tree

·        Enchanted Forest/Negative Space Painting

·        Primary/Compliment Colors

June 10 Week 4 – Color Family Tree

·        Enchanted Forest/Negative Space Painting

·        Primary/Compliment and Analogous Colors

June 17 Week 5 – Florals or Still Life Painting

·        Based on what has been learned in class.

June 24 Week 6 – Tissue Paper Texture Watercolor

_________________________________________

Registration

Reserve your place by mailing this form to Jerie Artz, 3635 Goodall Court,

West Lafayette, Indiana 47906; tel. (765)838-8359

  $75 due at registration, $75 due at the first class. Make checks payable to Jerie Artz

Name _____________________________ e-mail___________________

Address____________________________  phone ___________________

Monday Afternoon Class ___________ or  Evening Class ___________

Either time would work for me! _______________

To assure your place in class, please register by May 10.   In order to accommodate busy schedules, I’m offering the afternoon or evening option.  There is a required minimum of 8 registered students per class.  In the event of only one class there will be the option to take the class offered or your check will be returned.