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Let’s Get
Outside!
Creating and Supporting the Visual Arts in Loudoun County, Virginia since 1944
LSC Newsletter Online: www.LoudounSketchClub.com
– Featured Artist –
Elly Friedman en plein aire. Photo by Robbyn Holmes
Crystal Jordan
2015 Plein Air
Painting Places
Schedule Inside!
Ready, Set,
Newsletter
It’s All About the Process
by Gale Waldron
Ask Crystal Jordan where she was living in any
given year and you’ll learn not only where she was,
but what she was doing and what was happening in
the world around her at the time. This is even more
remarkable when you know that Crystal has lived in
34 different places in 54 years!
Born in Warner Robins, Georgia, Crystal drew
from an early age and dreamed of being a fashion
designer.
But her
application
to New
York’s
Fashion
Institute of
Technology
wasn’t
accepted
because she
didn’t know
how to sew.
Deflated,
she was
Kailua Boats, acrylic on canvas, 16” x20”
nudged by
her father into business school at the University of
Tennessee where she studied operations management.
Graduating in 1982 and looking for work in a recession
economy, Crystal enrolled in Officer Training School
and became a budget officer in the Air Force. She
later earned a MS degree in Cost Analysis and
was tasked with preparing the Air Force communications budget for congressional
approval.
She married Air Force Captain John Jordan
in 1991, and the couple was assigned to
Dayton Ohio, where Crystal prepared cost
estimates for refitting the B1 Bomber from
nuclear to conventional weapons.
But art was always in the back of her mind.
The turning point came in 1994 when Crystal and
John had their first child, and Crystal returned to
her artwork. Never in one place very long, the
family’s nomadic lifestyle took them to Alabama,
Virginia, Florida, Nebraska, with Crystal taking
art classes wherever she could.
In Florida, she studied with Elena
Cieuventas, learning portraiture and moving
from oils to acrylics.
In Hawaii, she found Mark N. Brown, an
May/June 2015
artist who introduced her to plein
air painting, something she has
loved ever since. And throughout
her moves to Italy, back to Hawaii
and to England, she has continued
to paint outdoors. “It is the
process of painting that I love, not
necessarily the outcome.”
In Virginia, she discovered the
Loudoun Sketch Club and its outdoor sessions. Crystal keeps a
journal in which she records the
Crystal Jordan, Secretary
weather, her impressions of the
and Show Chair
place and the feelings it evokes – all
of which are reflected in her work. “I make an initial
sketch in the journal as a reference. What is happening around me is an important part of my art.”
Trained by her mentor Mark to work quickly to
capture the light,
Crystal finds her spot
and then works fast to
get her impressions on
canvas. “Finding the
right spot is from experience – searching for
the things I like to
paint. Do I want to
stretch myself today
Ko’olina Daybreak, acrylic on canvas, 18” x 24”
and paint something I’m
not so familiar with, or do I want to be more comfortable and paint a water or garden scene?” She also
uses her camera lens as a view finder to see what the
scene might look like on a canvas.
After painting the scene in her familiar loose style,
she moves on to the next painting. “For me, it’s all
about the process.”
Old Fort Crook, acrylic wall mural, 10’ x 4’
Mary Champion, Membership Chair
PO Box 1683
Leesburg, VA 20177
Loudoun Sketch Club
Stamp
A Letter from the President
Dear Sketch Club Members,
We’ve made it through another cold, dreary
winter, and our plein air painting season is just
around the corner! Thanks to the Winter
Workshop Committee and Zeynep Baki (for
allowing us to use beautiful Hillsborough
Vineyards facilities), we more than endured our
time “off” with incredibly valuable, enriching
workshops given by our own talented members.
These workshops have allowed our members to
share skills, give and gain enrichment, and
maintain old and gain new friendships. I’m
Lori Goll
thrilled that we’ve made the commitment to add
the Winter Workshop Committee as a permanent fixture in our bylaws
so that we can continue this wonderful new tradition.
I want to thank all the folks that worked hard to organize and hang
the LSC spring show at ArtSpace Herndon. Lorrie Herman and several volunteers did a great job of hanging approximately 55 pieces of art.
The show is beautiful, and we’ve received many compliments. We
were a little disappointed with the low participation. Twenty-nine of
our 150+ members entered this show, which showcased our group’s
art to a whole new group of patrons in the Metro DC area. Hopefully
we will have more participation in the upcoming fall show at Aldie Mill,
the annual Hillsborough LSC fall show and the Virginia Land Trust
Show in the Spring of 2016.
By the time this newsletter is out, we will have had our annual
Spring LSC Meeting. I hope that I will have seen many of you there!
And I’m looking forward to seeing you in the beautiful venues that the
Outdoor Sessions Committee have lined up for us in 2015!
Warm regards –Lori Goll, President
Membership Update
Officers
President
Lori Goll
571-251-9659
[email protected]
Vice-President
Patrick Roth
703-250-0641
[email protected]
Secretary
Crystal Jordan
703-729-1046
[email protected]
Treasurer
Steve Huelsman
703-777-8725
Historian
Pam De Peña
703-421-0218
[email protected]
Membership
Mary Champion
[email protected]
E-mail Concierge
Margaret Huddy
703-356-2363
[email protected]
Newsletter
Newsletter Desk/
Compilation and Design
Dana Thompson 540-454-1989
[email protected]
Feature Writers
There are currently 12 people on the wait list to join the Sketch Club.
We are voting on new membership policies at the Spring Meeting; we
may be welcoming new members soon! Currently we have 167 members.
–Mary Champion, Membership Chair and Feature Writer
– Don’t Forget to Pick ‘Em Up –
The LSC Spring Show at ArtSpace in Herndon will be concluding so...
Pick up unsold work: Sunday, May 3, 3 - 5 pm or Monday, May 4, 10 am - noon
Wonderful Workshops
From flowers, pets to seascapes the 2015
Winter-Spring Workshop Season was a true
success.
photos by Zeynep Baki and Patrick Roth
Loudoun
Sketch Club
Volunteers
Gale Waldron
703-771-0127
Mary Champion
[email protected]
also thanks to Patrick Roth,
Lisa Zadravec, Suzanne Lago
Arthur and
Outdoor Sessions
Committee
Mary MacDonnell
Jessica Wilson
Becky Tighe
Lee Kincaid
540-554-8181
301-642-6995
540-668-6447
540-554-2640
Show Committee
Dell Keathley- Painting Flowers
Crystal Jordan
Zeynep Baki
703-729-1046
[email protected]
540-668-7787
Indoor Sessions and
Workshop Committee
Lorrie Herman
703-906-5815
Remington Restivo 703-443-0814
Patrick Roth
703-250-0641
Webmaster
Lori Goll- Seascapes
Simon Bland- Pet Portraits
Margaret Huddy- Painting Light
Dana Thompson 540-454-1989
–––––––––––––––
Would you like to help?
Do you have a suggestion?
Let us know.
Cheri Miller’s painting
Ruby Red was featured on
April’s cover and artist’s
bio page of Sasee Magazine.
Member
News
Bethany Widom is happily
ensconced in her new loft studio at
LoCo Art Studios in Leesburg.
There since February, she’s currently working on a detailed still life that
has a lot of meaning to her – her
mother’s antique treadle sewing
machine that she learned to sew on
and a dress she sewed from a vintage pattern. The studios provide a lively atmosphere to exchange ideas and
just chat with other artists and visitors. Please come by
and say hello, see her new paintings and let Bethany
show you around the artists’ studios. Located at 312 D,
East Market st. in Leesburg, next to the George C.
Marshall house.
Christine Lashley
took part in Paint
North Carolina,
Germantown Gallery:
An invitational paintout
with 25 artists from
around the US to paint
for a week in North
Carolina. Reception,
demos and show were
the weekend of April 10
- 12, 2015. Art will be
up until May 15 where
Christine won an Equal
Award for her painting
Rainy Street.
Plein Air Telluride, Co:
Rainy Street by Christine Lashley,
Christine will be one of
30 Juried Artists at this famous festival nestled in the
heart of the spectacular rockies in Colorado’s Resort
town. July 1-5, 2015.
Salmagundi Annual Members’ Exhibit: Juried exhibit
at the Salmagundi Club NYC April 27 - May 21, 2015.
Elaine Nunnally met another Loudoun Sketch Club
member, Denise Pierce, at the Spring Maid Watermedia
Workshops at the Myrtle
Beach Conference Center in
April. They were excited to
see each other, eventhough
they didn’t know each other
before the event. Elaine
worked with Linda Baker
and Denise worked with
Judy Morris.
In addition, Elaine’s
work was accepted into the
American Watercolor
Elaine Nunnally and Denise Pierce at Spring
Maid Watermedia Workshops in Myrtle Beach Society’s 148th Annual
in front of Elaine’s work during the Friday Night
International Exhibition at
Show.
the Salmagundi Club in
New York City that ran from April 6 through April 25.
Sasee Magazine
cover for April 2015
Roberta Day’s painting
Street Play was accepted
for the 2015 Virginia
Watercolor Society
Exhibition which will be
held in Harrisonburg from May 18 to June 26.
Street Play
by
Roberta Day,
watercolor,
2015©
Ann Noel’s painting of
Color Passages was part of the
“Layers” exhibit at Torpedo
Factory’s Associates Gallery
March 30 -April 29.
Color Passages by Ann Noel, oil
For Sale
Linda Bowman has two
items for sale:
Artograph 500W Prism
Projector, lens and table stand.
Projector model #225-090. The projector as been used
very little and is in excellent condition. Original box and
user manual are missing. The user manual is available for
download on
Artograph’s website. The table
stand may have
never been used
and looks brand
new. $150 or offer.
Custom, 5 fluorescent bulb, solid oak Light Box.
Size: 27"W x 35"L x 5 1/2 H. Plexiglass top. The light
box is solidly built, glued and screwed, and is quite
heavy. There is an personal inscription, made with a
felt marker, on the inside of the cabinet. This could be
sanded off. Extra
long, 7’ wire with
ground. $150 or
offer. Anyone interested may call or
email Linda Bowman
703-777-2718
[email protected]
What To Do, What To Do...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
tors. This highly rendered style of painting
200 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia
eventually led to the creVan Gogh, Manet and Matisse: ation of the French
Academies with a focus
The Art of the Flower
on training artists for the
The VMFA in Richmond has
lucrative porcelain trade
a block-buster exhibit currently
and other luxury goods
on view through June 21st.
patronized by the
Much more expansive than its
French court in Paris. In
namesake, this survey of French
the next room, Eugène
floral still life painting begins in
Delacroix’s A Vase with
the mid-18th Century and culmiFlower declares war
nates in the first decades of the
against such scientific
20th Century. There are 65
precision. This revolupaintings on display demonstrattionary sketch is more about the rendering of the paint
ing the great breadth of the
itself in a “premier coup” manner. Delacroix’s approach to
genre including Franco-Dutch
the genre ushered in a new era of French floral still life
artists, French Academy
painting. In the second half of the exhibition, you see how
painters, the Impressionists and
their contemporaries and ending with Matisse and Redon. the Impressionists evolved into masterful painters by
The exhibit opens with exquisite paintings of dew speckled experimenting with paint handling, space, color and patflowers, insects and birds by such artists as Anne Vallayer- tern on floral still life’s, many of which are on view. This
exhibit is must for plein air painters. But beware, Spring
Coster (painter to Marie Antoinette) and other Dutch
~Suzanne Lago Arthur
trained artists like Gerard van Spaendonck. Many of these Fever is sure to follow.
Left: “A Vase With Flowerss" by Ferdinand Victor Eugéne Delacroix, oil,1833.
artists led dual careers as painters and botanical illustraRight: “Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Porcelain Vase" by Anne Vallayer-Coster, oil, 1776.
Purcellville
Music and Arts Festival
and Juried Art Show
May 16 from 10 am to 7 pm
Fireman’s Field and Bush Tabernacle
250 South Nursery Ave.
Visit their
Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/
Purcellville Music
and Arts Festival
Spring Brings “Feathered Nest” to
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services
PenFed Realty in Hamilton
Feathered Nest – new paintings by Linda Hendrickson
– will be on display at PenFed Realty (Berkshire Hathaway
Home Services) from April 22 – August 30, 2015.
Known for her charming
and whimsical portraits,
Linda has earned many
awards for her paintings of
dogs, cats and other animal
friends.
Please join Linda for
her opening reception on
Thursday, May 14, 5 - 7 pm.
Feathered Nest". Mixed Media on paper.
11 x 11"
River District Arts
3 River Lane, Sperryville, VA 22740
Frederick Kahler: The Art Speaks
May 1 - June 28, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday May 2 from 5-7 pm.
The drawings of
Rappahannock resident
artist Frederick Kahler
will be on exhibit in this
rare hometown show.
Recognized as a selftaught artist, Fred’s drawings have been acquired
by renowned collectors
nationally and internationally, and are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA;
and American Visionar y Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
For more, visit: www.RiverDistrictArts.org/rda-exhibits
Burwell-Morgan Mill’s
Art at the Mill
Spring Show
Continues through Sunday, May 10, 2015
Show Us Your Stuff
From the
Newsletter Desk
Here’s the schedule for Newsletter copy and images:
Deadlines for
submitting info:
Issues for 2015:
July/August
June 10
September/ October
August 10
November/December
October 10
Issues for 2016:
January/February
December 10
March/April
February 10
May/June
April 10
Please send your news and pictures to Dana at
[email protected]
When e-mailing your news: Please put
“LSC News” or other clear and relevant words in
the subject of the e-mail so I don’t delete it thinking
it’s spam from an e-mail address I don’t recognize.
Please include Images!! We’re a visual organization, and our newsletter (and website for that
matter) should reflect that. Images should be color
jpegs, 300dpi, at least 3” wide or larger (no less that
1000 pixels if possible). If the image is your artwork,
please include title, unframed size, medium and date
for each. If the image is a person or event, please
include an appropriate caption and identification.
Contributing Writers Wanted: Helpful Hints;
Upcoming Shows and Exhibits; Classes and
Workshops; Competitions and Deadlines; Great
Websites or Organizations... Anything that would
be of help or interest to our members. Thank you
to the contributers who continue to inform and
inspire. And please know, all members are
encouraged to participate. Keep it coming!
Lost Your Newsletter? Or maybe you’d like
another copy to send to a friend or potential new
member? You can now go to the Sketch Club
website and download any newsletter you need.
Go to www.LoudounSketchClub.com
–Dana Thompson
The Gateway Gallery –––––––––––––––––––––
Bouquets for Mom at the Gateway Gallery
The Gateway Gallery in Round Hill, VA presents a reception
honoring mothers on Sunday, May 3, from 2 pm until 4 pm.
Beaded and embroidered jewelry by Round Hill resident
Robin Wilkinson and watercolors painted by Round Hill resident
Catherine Hillis will be featured, and both artists will be on
hand to discuss their work – and have a little fun as well.
Every mother in attendance will receive fresh cut flower.
We are located on Rt. 7 just west of Round Hill, in the Hill
High Orchard Building, which we share with the Round Hill
Arts Center, the Bogati Bodega wine & tapas tasting room,
and Mom’s Apple Pie. Open daily from 11 - 6 pm. Learn more
at www.thegatewaygallery.com.
Round Hill Arts Center –––––––––––––––––––––
www.RoundHillArtCenter.org • 540-338-5022
Draw & Paint from Life Tuesdays 7 - 9 pm; $10 per person, Age
18 & up; bring your own art supplies. RHAC provides easels –
bring a drawing board and whatever else you need.
May Handy Hour:
Introduction to Calligraphy with Karen Helble
Friday, May 29, 6:30 - 9 pm. $20 plus $10 materials fee, Age 18 & up.
Get started on this artistic form of handwriting -- no experience needed!
Peace Love and Tie Dye with the Immortals
Sunday, June 7, 2 - 4 pm on the Loading Dock. Concert and dyeing
is FREE, $10 charge for t-shirts. An amazing afternoon of rocking
music & tie-dye! Bring your own shirt or buy one...and with a
free concert by rock and roll favorites The Immortals.
Basketry: Make a Utensil Basket with Karen Helble
Saturday, June 14, 9 am - 3 pm, $80 plus $14 materials fee, Age 16 & up.
Join Karen Helble and make a sturdy basket you'll use every day!
Oil Color Workshop with Jessica Wilson
Saturday, June 27, 1:30 - 5 pm. $75 per student, Ages 18 & up.
Please bring canvas or panel and brushes to class.
Jessica will share information and ideas that help other artists in
their work in this informational workshop, using and demonstrating
the paints and mediums produced by nationally known paint company, Gamblin Colors. Free samples and educational literature will
be available to participants.and your own creativity.
Western Loudoun Artists Studio Tour
Join
the conversation
on Facebook!
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And don’t forget to send
Admission: $5 for adults,
$3 for seniors, students free
your July/August 2015 news and images
to the LSC Newsletter. E-mail
[email protected]
by June 10, 2015.
Visit www.clarkehistory.org for more.
Current Gallery Exhibit: Fabric Fantasies II –continues to Sun., May 10
Upcoming Exhibit: Open to everyone to enter – In the Garden
Fri., May 15 to Sun., June 14. Visit www.franklinparkartscenter.org
under “In the Gallery” for more info.
10th Annual
Sundays - Fridays 12 noon - 5 pm
and Saturdays 10 am - 5 pm
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, May 3 • 2 - 5 pm
Franklin Park Arts Center ––––––––––––––––––
Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21
10 am to 5 pm each day
Many of our Loudoun Sketch Club
members will open their studios or
be guest artists during this year’s
Western Loudoun Artists Studio
Tour. Grab a booklet and visit the
studios of over 70 talented artists as
you wind through the scenic countryside and
historic villages of western Loudoun County.
Enjoy paintings, pottery, jewelry, photography,
fiber, sculpture and more!
A Letter from the President
Dear Sketch Club Members,
We’ve made it through another cold, dreary
winter, and our plein air painting season is just
around the corner! Thanks to the Winter
Workshop Committee and Zeynep Baki (for
allowing us to use beautiful Hillsborough
Vineyards facilities), we more than endured our
time “off” with incredibly valuable, enriching
workshops given by our own talented members.
These workshops have allowed our members to
share skills, give and gain enrichment, and
maintain old and gain new friendships. I’m
Lori Goll
thrilled that we’ve made the commitment to add
the Winter Workshop Committee as a permanent fixture in our bylaws
so that we can continue this wonderful new tradition.
I want to thank all the folks that worked hard to organize and hang
the LSC spring show at ArtSpace Herndon. Lorrie Herman and several volunteers did a great job of hanging approximately 55 pieces of art.
The show is beautiful, and we’ve received many compliments. We
were a little disappointed with the low participation. Twenty-nine of
our 150+ members entered this show, which showcased our group’s
art to a whole new group of patrons in the Metro DC area. Hopefully
we will have more participation in the upcoming fall show at Aldie Mill,
the annual Hillsborough LSC fall show and the Virginia Land Trust
Show in the Spring of 2016.
By the time this newsletter is out, we will have had our annual
Spring LSC Meeting. I hope that I will have seen many of you there!
And I’m looking forward to seeing you in the beautiful venues that the
Outdoor Sessions Committee have lined up for us in 2015!
Warm regards –Lori Goll, President
Membership Update
Officers
President
Lori Goll
571-251-9659
[email protected]
Vice-President
Patrick Roth
703-250-0641
[email protected]
Secretary
Crystal Jordan
703-729-1046
[email protected]
Treasurer
Steve Huelsman
703-777-8725
Historian
Pam De Peña
703-421-0218
[email protected]
Membership
Mary Champion
[email protected]
E-mail Concierge
Margaret Huddy
703-356-2363
[email protected]
Newsletter
Newsletter Desk/
Compilation and Design
Dana Thompson 540-454-1989
[email protected]
Feature Writers
There are currently 12 people on the wait list to join the Sketch Club.
We are voting on new membership policies at the Spring Meeting; we
may be welcoming new members soon! Currently we have 167 members.
–Mary Champion, Membership Chair and Feature Writer
– Don’t Forget to Pick ‘Em Up –
The LSC Spring Show at ArtSpace in Herndon will be concluding so...
Pick up unsold work: Sunday, May 3, 3 - 5 pm or Monday, May 4, 10 am - noon
Wonderful Workshops
From flowers, pets to seascapes the 2015
Winter-Spring Workshop Season was a true
success.
photos by Zeynep Baki and Patrick Roth
Loudoun
Sketch Club
Volunteers
Gale Waldron
703-771-0127
Mary Champion
[email protected]
also thanks to Patrick Roth,
Lisa Zadravec, Suzanne Lago
Arthur and
Outdoor Sessions
Committee
Mary MacDonnell
Jessica Wilson
Becky Tighe
Lee Kincaid
540-554-8181
301-642-6995
540-668-6447
540-554-2640
Show Committee
Dell Keathley- Painting Flowers
Crystal Jordan
Zeynep Baki
703-729-1046
[email protected]
540-668-7787
Indoor Sessions and
Workshop Committee
Lorrie Herman
703-906-5815
Remington Restivo 703-443-0814
Patrick Roth
703-250-0641
Webmaster
Lori Goll- Seascapes
Simon Bland- Pet Portraits
Margaret Huddy- Painting Light
Dana Thompson 540-454-1989
–––––––––––––––
Would you like to help?
Do you have a suggestion?
Let us know.
Cheri Miller’s painting
Ruby Red was featured on
April’s cover and artist’s
bio page of Sasee Magazine.
Member
News
Bethany Widom is happily
ensconced in her new loft studio at
LoCo Art Studios in Leesburg.
There since February, she’s currently working on a detailed still life that
has a lot of meaning to her – her
mother’s antique treadle sewing
machine that she learned to sew on
and a dress she sewed from a vintage pattern. The studios provide a lively atmosphere to exchange ideas and
just chat with other artists and visitors. Please come by
and say hello, see her new paintings and let Bethany
show you around the artists’ studios. Located at 312 D,
East Market st. in Leesburg, next to the George C.
Marshall house.
Christine Lashley
took part in Paint
North Carolina,
Germantown Gallery:
An invitational paintout
with 25 artists from
around the US to paint
for a week in North
Carolina. Reception,
demos and show were
the weekend of April 10
- 12, 2015. Art will be
up until May 15 where
Christine won an Equal
Award for her painting
Rainy Street.
Plein Air Telluride, Co:
Rainy Street by Christine Lashley,
Christine will be one of
30 Juried Artists at this famous festival nestled in the
heart of the spectacular rockies in Colorado’s Resort
town. July 1-5, 2015.
Salmagundi Annual Members’ Exhibit: Juried exhibit
at the Salmagundi Club NYC April 27 - May 21, 2015.
Elaine Nunnally met another Loudoun Sketch Club
member, Denise Pierce, at the Spring Maid Watermedia
Workshops at the Myrtle
Beach Conference Center in
April. They were excited to
see each other, eventhough
they didn’t know each other
before the event. Elaine
worked with Linda Baker
and Denise worked with
Judy Morris.
In addition, Elaine’s
work was accepted into the
American Watercolor
Elaine Nunnally and Denise Pierce at Spring
Maid Watermedia Workshops in Myrtle Beach Society’s 148th Annual
in front of Elaine’s work during the Friday Night
International Exhibition at
Show.
the Salmagundi Club in
New York City that ran from April 6 through April 25.
Sasee Magazine
cover for April 2015
Roberta Day’s painting
Street Play was accepted
for the 2015 Virginia
Watercolor Society
Exhibition which will be
held in Harrisonburg from May 18 to June 26.
Street Play
by
Roberta Day,
watercolor,
2015©
Ann Noel’s painting of
Color Passages was part of the
“Layers” exhibit at Torpedo
Factory’s Associates Gallery
March 30 -April 29.
Color Passages by Ann Noel, oil
For Sale
Linda Bowman has two
items for sale:
Artograph 500W Prism
Projector, lens and table stand.
Projector model #225-090. The projector as been used
very little and is in excellent condition. Original box and
user manual are missing. The user manual is available for
download on
Artograph’s website. The table
stand may have
never been used
and looks brand
new. $150 or offer.
Custom, 5 fluorescent bulb, solid oak Light Box.
Size: 27"W x 35"L x 5 1/2 H. Plexiglass top. The light
box is solidly built, glued and screwed, and is quite
heavy. There is an personal inscription, made with a
felt marker, on the inside of the cabinet. This could be
sanded off. Extra
long, 7’ wire with
ground. $150 or
offer. Anyone interested may call or
email Linda Bowman
703-777-2718
[email protected]
View from Sky Meadows
by Mary Championl
Check It Out!
Strapless: John Singer Sargent
and the Fall of Madame X
Artistic Opportunities
New Studios in Round Hill
Working artists
seeking studio space
are invited to contact
the Hill High
Marketplace in Round
Hill. Five studios will
become available in
May, with seven more
coming this summer
in the familiar Hill
Hill High Orchard Building
High Orchard building
on Route 7. This iconic building currently houses the
Round Hill Arts Center, Gateway Gallery, Mom’s Apple Pie
and Bogati Winery. Studios range in size from 150-200
square feet. Artists may view the studios by appointment,
and those interested may request an application at
[email protected]. Artists will be selected by a jury.
Be In The First Annual
$50 5x7 Artworks Event!
Deadline for Submission
Extended to May 1st
The Friends of Leesburg Public
Arts (non-profit) invites artists to participate in this fundraising event The
$50 Friends 5x7 Art Works! Proceeds
from the sale of your donated art will
go to support public arts initiatives in
Leesburg.
For event dates and details you can download PDF at
www.leesburgpublicarts.org/5x7-art-works.html or leave
a voice message at 571-252-3336 with any questions.
Trinity House Café
Call for Art
Trinity House Café in downtown Leesburg is inviting
Loudoun Sketch Club members to submit work for a
“Farm to Table” exhibit to celebrate Loudoun’s local food
movement. We are looking for original framed paintings
or drawings depicting an aspect of local food, farm life, or
agriculture (examples: barns, planting, harvesting, vineyards, orchards, pigs, cows, chickens, vegetables, fruit,
etc.). Loudoun’s local food movement culminates each
year in the Farm to Fork Loudoun initiative. From July 23
to August 2, Trinity House Café will participate in this
highly-anticipated celebration of local farm produce by
showcasing a special menu of locally-sourced foods.
Please submit a photo of your work along with its
dimensions by June 15 to LSC member Jessica Wilson
[email protected] for consideration. Space is limited so we will be hanging salon style to accommodate as
many members as possible. Submission limit is one large
piece per member (16 x 20 max) or two smaller pieces.
Selected artists will be notified by June 29. Juried artwork
will need to be delivered on July 20, from 3 - 5 pm for
hanging. Trinity House Café will take a 20% commission
on artwork sold through the Café. Artists will be expected to sign a sales contract in order to sell their work, however the artwork does not have to be for sale in order to
participate. Artwork hung on display will not be insured
by Trinity House Café.
Show dates: July 22 to September 27
Submission deadline: June 15
Notification: June 29
Drop off artwork: July 20 from 3 - 5 pm
Pick up of unsold artwork: Sept 28 from 3 - 5 pm
Central Virginia
Watercolor Guild
Call for Entries
A call for entries has gone out for
the Central Virginia Watercolor Guild
2015 Annual Show – September 4 September 27, 2015, McGuffey Art
Center 201 Second Street, NW,
Charlottesville, VA 22902 The
Central Virginia Watercolor Guild invites all Virginia
artists to enter its 24th Annual Exhibition. Our juror is
UVA faculty member Julia May who holds a Masters and
Ph.D. in Art History. An author of numerous papers,
essays, and book reviews on various art-related topics, Dr.
May has also served as a judge for art exhibitions in
Indiana and Ohio. The show is open to all resident artists
of Virginia and deadline for submissions is Saturday
June 6, 2015. To access the show Prospectus and
Entry Form, visit the CVWG website at: www.central-virginia-watercolor-guild.org/shows
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Call for Art
Purchase for Permanent Art Collection
AWS seeks to purchase a wide range of original artwork in various media for their corporate office in
Washington D.C. from artists who are either current students, alumni, or faculty of Virginia Commonwealth
University School of the Arts (VCUarts) from all campuses or artists eighteen years and older who live, work, or
who have their studios in the Metropolitan D.C. region.
The entry deadline for DC Metro artists is May
3, 2015 at 12:55 p.m. ET. Notification by email of artwork accepted for purchase consideration will be sent by
May 13, 2015. Further key dates and information will be
supplied to artists with notification of artwork accepted
for purchase consideration.
For much more information and to register, visit:
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/
event?utm_medium=email&oeidk=a07eamhswpr0db5dfc2&llr=
uhpd6pcab&utm_campaign=AMNZart+Call+for+Art&utm_sour
ce=AMNZart+
For questions or additional information, contact
Mercia Hobson, Director of the AMZNart Project, by
email at [email protected].
by Deborah Davis
A book review
by Lis Zadravec
I am not only late to this
party but approaching it
with some trepidation. This
book was published back in
2004 coinciding with a
resurgence of Sargent interest after a world-wide tour
of his work. I remember
that exhibit. I sent my students so prepared that even
my toddler daughter knew
more about Sargent than
most. John Singer Sargent
Madam X by John Singer Sargent -1884 to those like me who make
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Oil on canvas
portraits, is a favorite. There
208.6 x 109.9 cm (82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in.)
in the awed hush of a
gallery, my daughter piped up, Look, Mommy, it’s Madame
X! And parroted some not-so-well-known information in that
preschool-rote manner children have when they say something “everyone knows”. Heads spun around to see the tiny
child speaking from my arms.
Having written a college paper on my favorite artist, my
fear was, there is not a thing you could tell me, ever.
Certainly not from an author who is a script writer! My literary snobbery held as high as Madame Gautreau’s nose, I
cracked this book to be taught a few lessons. 1) Script writers do their homework. In straight forward prose that is not
as high hat as my usual fare, Ms. Davis begins the story of
Amelie Gautreau. And if you are going to tell it, why not
start with her great grandparents! I am immediately struck
by what I don’t know of our Southern and particularly,
Louisiana history and its French roots. But even more so by
what I don’t know at all of French history. Like this historic
preamble, about fifty pages from the end of the book Davis
begins to tie up loose ends and tells us the fate of every single character and side character. Thorough. And in the end,
the writing is not as artless as I had feared. In fact from the
time Mr. Sargent himself is woven into my study of
European history and the American ex-patriots who inhabit
it, this book has become a page turner.
Deftly parsing the fact from the myth and urban legend
of the day, or how the devotees and naysayers have passed
that history down, I realize my college paper was riddled
with twisted information. My information was gathered from
sources tempered with either the disdain of the painting’s
subject or the saintly depiction of the painter. Now I have
before me the full facts from which to draw a new picture of
the artist. As a student at the Corcoran School of Art, I had
once been privy to the amazing collection of male nude
drawings flawlessly rendered by this unmatched artistic
deity. Taken out of their drawers only once a year or so for a
lucky audience. The paper held before my marveling eyes
seemed to beg more of a story than I had ever heard.
Here was a love of beauty crossing gender lines and the
hand to capture it. Sargent’s private life has always been a
mystery. He was a private man
who barely betrayed that side to
himself, let alone the public. But
Ms. Davis has done her homework. What clues may exist, she
has unearthed and here lies a most
complete depiction of the man behind the gift.
Celebrity following and Reality TV of today have nothing
on the society of the past. Human nature being what it is, we
rubberneck the macabre and mock the rising star. It is an
ugliness that dawns in biblical times. Jealousy, cultural values,
even politics bend us and expose our most offensive flaws. All
of this, as well as the culture of the times and an adherence to
a group mentality play important roles in what happens next.
We are shocked, we think ourselves better, yet happily
Kardashian-bash over red carpet events and seek out shocking CSI plot lines. Are we really better than society back then?
Or did Deborah Davis just make it glaringly clear that we are
the same human animals in a different frame. Who suffered
most from these events and mores? I won’t give away the
scoop or what happens to each life involved, for therein lies
the story. We now see Sargent’s skill was his strength as well
as his downfall. We root for Sargent to rally his spirit and
paint again. Somehow we know he will because he has yet to
paint some of our favorites.
Eventually it all evens out and a man once scorned for
his painting is recognized again, even within his lifetime.
But since, he has fallen in and out of fashion with the winds
of changing tastes in genre. Is it the rage to like the realist?
Are we hating traditionalism this year? Culture, values, popularity and perspectives evolve from one era to the next and
so our fickle tastes in art. In spite of these arbitrary
changes, Sargent will always be to some, like me who fell in
love with his elegant style and perfect draftsmanship, the
best in a field the rest of us mortals can only aspire to.
We may know a bit of the ending, heard some of what
happened to his subject, but I assure you, not all. Putting
myth to bed at last, what of poor Amelie, Madame X? I’d
love to tell you but I will leave it to this expert. I am only
here to entice you to read.
Surfing the Web
An interesting blog and one of my favorite artists, Renato
Mucillo: linesandcolors.com/
2014/03/26/renato-muccillo/
Some members of the
LSC Facebook Group had
a lively discussion on
Tonalism; here is another
artist that claims an affinity
for tonalism:
www.JohnMacDonald.com
Studio paintings and plein
air paintings. –Mary Champion Misty Landscape by Renato Mucillo
2015 Plein Air Painting Places
Date
June 16
and 23
Where and Who
Blooming Hill Lavender Farm
Description
Blooming Hill Farm is a tiny “farmlet” that raises over 600
19929 Telegraph Springs Rd.,
Purcellville, VA 20132
Owner: Peter & Cyndie Rinek
lavender plants in almost 50 different varities. Beautifully landscaped on 4 acres by the owner who is a landscape architect
and who also built the colonial home, charming shop and petite
English inspired greenhouse.
Directions
From Leesburg: Rt.7W to Purcellville Exit. Turn left at light on to Berlin Turnpike (Rt. 287). Turn
right at roundabout (Biz. Rt.7). Go through town until you come to Rt. 690S
Lost?
(32nd St.) it becomes Silcott Springs Rd. Turn left then continue until you
Contact:
come to the blinking light, Snickerville Pike. Turn left and another immediate Mary MacDonnell
540-554-8181
left onto Telegraph Springs Rd. – 2nd house on left.
From the South: Rt. 50 W through Middleburg to St. Louis Rd. (Rt. 611)
Continue to blinking lighting, Snickersville Pike. Turn right then an immediate left onto Telegraph
Springs Rd. – 2nd house on left. You can park in the yard or on the road – Very limited parking.
PLEASE CARPOOL IF YOU CAN
June 30
and July 7
Lenhart Farm
14955 Neer Lane,
Purcellville, VA 20132
Lenhart Farm is really a pretty property. The hill above the
house has views of Breaux and Hillsborough Vineyards, the
gap down Rt. 9 and Harpers Ferry Rd. and the Purcellville
reservoir. The stucco farmhouse was built in early 1800s and
added onto after the Civil War. It has many out buildings near
it including smokehouse, springhouse, storage sheds, etc.
There is a large white, wooden bank barn with a stone addition used as a yoga studio with restroom. There are also horses and a small wetland and very nice large pond that reflects
the near by buildings.
Directions
From Leesburg: take Rt. 7 to Rt 9. Pass Hillsborough Vineyard and take
the next left onto Cider Mill Rd. Turn right on Neer Lane. 14955 is on the
left as you go up the hill you can see the large white barn. The property is
very close to Hillsborough Vineyard.
July 14
and 21
Meadow Grove Farm
19931 Ebenezer Church Rd.,
Bluemont,VA 20135
Owner: Matt & Sasha Cohir
Lost?
Contact:
Becky Tighe
540-668-6447
Meadow Grove Farm –We came here in 2012, it has a
long drive that takes you to an 18th century Quaker stone
farmhouse. It has a large front porch over-looking a 10-acre
lake where we painted past lotus lilies. We now hope the lilies
will be in their full glory. Most will be gone next year since they
are taking over. There are also mountain views and maybe
some hay bales.
Directions
Lost?
From Leesburg: Take Rt. 7W to Round Hill, turn right – from gas station turn
Contact:
left onto New Cut Rd. (Rt. 719) which becomes Airmont Rd. After 4 miles, cross Mary MacDonnell
540-554-8181
over Snickersville Pike. Go about 3 miles to second Ebenezer Church Rd.
(church and cemetery) – turn right – Meadow Grove is about ½ mile on left.
From the South: Take Rt. 50 W through Middleburg, just before you come to Upperville and the horse show
grounds take right onto Willsville Rd. (the name will change Millsville Rd. on the curve that bares left). Turn right
on Greengarden Rd. (name will change to Airmont Rd. at Trappe Rd. Go through little town of Bloomfield to
Ebenezer Church Rd. (church and cemetery). Turn left – Meadow Grove is about ½ mile on your left.
We will be having a show of LAND TRUST PROPERTIES next Spring hopefully at Oatlands.
So save your best paintings from this summer and last from Land Trust Properties.
Last year’s farms that are on the Trust:
Past years’ farms that are on the Trust:
East Lynn Farm–Airmont Rd., Bluemont
Windsor Farm–Trappe Rd., Upperville
Dresden Farm–Snickersville Pike, Middleburg
Peace and Plenty–Delaplane Grade Rd., Upperville
Talbot Farm–Clarks Gap Rd., Waterford
Grace Hill (now Legacy Farm)–Ebenezer Church Rd.,
Copeland Farm–Ashbury Church Rd., Purcellville
Bluemont
Silverbrook Farm–Woodgrove Rd., Purcellville near Hillsboro
Tuckahoe–Bloomfield Rd., Bluemont
Woodgrove Meadow–Woodgrove Rd., Round Hill
Weatherlea Farm–Weatherlea Farm Lane, Lovettsville
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Loudoun Sketch Club
More Artistic Opportunities
Roots at 657
Call For Art
Opening in the Fall of this year, Roots at 657 (42301
Spinks Ferry Road, Leesburg, VA
20176) is looking for
artists to be featured in
their business. The
location is in Lucketts
near the polka dot silo.
Tracy, the owner, and her
partners envision a destination location with farm-to-market
produce and café with a chef who has a creative flair.
The place will be a Mennonite-built barn used for a yearround farm market and café. They are hoping to feature an
artist or two each month or two and are looking for individuals with a body of work willing to show/sell in this alternative setting. If artists are interested contact
[email protected]. Visit Rootsat657.com
Oatlands – Call For Art
Oatlands announces a Call to Artists for the Seventeenth
Annual Four Seasons of Oatlands Art Show and Sale. This
annual Art Show takes place in the historic Carriage House
at Oatlands, a National Trust Historic Site.
The show begins with a preview party on June 28 for
artists, patrons and Friends of Oatlands (by invitation).
Participating artists are invited to the event free of charge.
Please visit www.oatlands.org/eventdescriptions/EventDescriptions/163/month--201505/vobid--1899/ to get the
registration forms for your submissions to the summer
show. Please include these forms with your slides or photographs for the jury process along with your $35 fee ($15
for student work). As in the past, 25% of the purchase
price of pieces sold will be retained by Oatlands.
Submissions are due by May 26 at 5 pm. Email Julie
Goforth at [email protected] with any questions.
Geographical regions for this year’s show will include
Oatlands, the Mosby Heritage Area, the Journey Through
Hallowed Ground corridor, Washington, DC, New York
City, New Mexico, Italy, France and the United Kingdom.
All media of artwork will be accepted, including but not
limited to, paintings, photographs, ceramics, textiles and
sculpture, as long as it meets the above criteria. The show
will be juried by representatives of the local art community.
As in years past, we will have a section highlighting student
(under age 18) artwork.
The show will continue through July 31, 2015.
Looking for Volunteer
Instructors, and Input, for the
2016 Winter Workshops
Now that the 2015 Winter Workshops are over it’s time to
think about next year’s workshops. The committee is looking
for volunteers to conduct workshops in 2016. There is a lot of
talent out there and this is your chance to give back to the
club for all those great Tuesday painting opportunities in the
spring, summer, and fall. In addition there is a $200 honorarium offered to worksop instructors.
We are also looking for program input. Is there something that you think would be a good workshop topic? Let us
know. If you have a suggestion as to who would be a good
instructor for that topic, also let us know that too. You don’t
have to limit yourself to proposing only club member instructors. The committee will consider all suggestions.
Contact any Winter Workshop Committee member.
Lorrie Herman [email protected], Remington Restivo
[email protected], or Pat Roth
[email protected].
In The Garden
Franklin Park Arts Center
Call For Art
The art show runs from Fri., May 15 – Fri., June 15, 2015
The Opening Reception is Sunday, May 24 from 3 - 5 pm
The show will be held in the lobby gallery of the Franklin
Park Arts Center which is open every day from 9 am - 5 pm
and on evenings and weekends during performances.
Some Terms and Conditions
For much more information and to download the
Application Agreement, visit:
www.franklinparkartscenter.org/exhibitions/
• There is a $20 nonrefundable entry fee.
• Artists may submit one piece of artwork in any medium (oil,
acrylic, watercolor, photography, pastel, ceramics, sculpture etc.).
• Artwork must be properly framed, matted (if appropriate) and ready to hang with hooks, eyes and sturdy wire
(no saw tooth hangers).
• Artist’s name, title of piece and sales price must be
marked on the back of all artwork.
• No previously entered artwork will be accepted.
• All artwork must be for sale.
• Artist will receive, from the County of Loudoun, a check
for 80% of the money collected for artist’s sold artwork.
• Delivery dates are Mon. to Wed. from 9 am - 5 pm.
After- hours delivery by appt.
• Pick up dates of unsold artwork are Mon., May 11 to
Wed., May 13 from 9 am - 5 pm. After- hours pick up by appt.
For questions, please call Barbara Sample at 540-338-7973
or email [email protected]
Live An Artful Life
Scale – A Juried Art Show – Call for Entries
Exhibit & Sale Runs September 26 – October 11, 2015
Live An Artful Life® Gallery(6474 Main St
The Plains, VA 20198) invites artists residing in Maryland,
Virginia and Washington D.C. to interpret “scale”.With this
show, artists have a unique opportunity to create two paintings in any medium, of two scales - one miniature measuring
8” x 10” (image size) or smaller and one medium size painting at 18” x 24” (image size). Because of the theme and the
gallery, these sizes must be followed.
The theme lends itself to interesting possibilities. A still
life for example, might have one piece of fruit depicted in the
miniature, while a whole bowl is done larger, but it also could
be the other way around. Or a landscape could be done large
and small, or the small painting could be a piece of the other.
What ever you choose, the point is to offer an interesting
viewpoint and variety while keeping within the theme.
ARTIST SCHEDULE:
Submission Deadline: Aug. 31, 2015
Email Notification: Sept. 8, 2015
Delivery to Gallery: Sept. 21, 3 - 5 pm or Sept. 22, 10 am - 12 pm
Shipped Artwork: Must arrive by Sept. 21, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept. 26 – 5 - 7 pm
Exhibit Ends: Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015
Artwork Pick Up/Shipped: Oct. 12, 3 - 5 pm
or Oct. 13, 10 - 12 pm
For rules, fees, award, registration and much more
information, visit www.liveanartfullife.com/show-prospectus-2
Loudoun Sketch Club
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What To Do, What To Do...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
tors. This highly rendered style of painting
200 N. Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia
eventually led to the creVan Gogh, Manet and Matisse: ation of the French
Academies with a focus
The Art of the Flower
on training artists for the
The VMFA in Richmond has
lucrative porcelain trade
a block-buster exhibit currently
and other luxury goods
on view through June 21st.
patronized by the
Much more expansive than its
French court in Paris. In
namesake, this survey of French
the next room, Eugène
floral still life painting begins in
Delacroix’s A Vase with
the mid-18th Century and culmiFlower declares war
nates in the first decades of the
against such scientific
20th Century. There are 65
precision. This revolupaintings on display demonstrattionary sketch is more about the rendering of the paint
ing the great breadth of the
itself in a “premier coup” manner. Delacroix’s approach to
genre including Franco-Dutch
the genre ushered in a new era of French floral still life
artists, French Academy
painting. In the second half of the exhibition, you see how
painters, the Impressionists and
their contemporaries and ending with Matisse and Redon. the Impressionists evolved into masterful painters by
The exhibit opens with exquisite paintings of dew speckled experimenting with paint handling, space, color and patflowers, insects and birds by such artists as Anne Vallayer- tern on floral still life’s, many of which are on view. This
exhibit is must for plein air painters. But beware, Spring
Coster (painter to Marie Antoinette) and other Dutch
~Suzanne Lago Arthur
trained artists like Gerard van Spaendonck. Many of these Fever is sure to follow.
Left: “A Vase With Flowerss" by Ferdinand Victor Eugéne Delacroix, oil,1833.
artists led dual careers as painters and botanical illustraRight: “Bouquet of Flowers in a Blue Porcelain Vase" by Anne Vallayer-Coster, oil, 1776.
Purcellville
Music and Arts Festival
and Juried Art Show
May 16 from 10 am to 7 pm
Fireman’s Field and Bush Tabernacle
250 South Nursery Ave.
Visit their
Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/
Purcellville Music
and Arts Festival
Spring Brings “Feathered Nest” to
Berkshire Hathaway Home Services
PenFed Realty in Hamilton
Feathered Nest – new paintings by Linda Hendrickson
– will be on display at PenFed Realty (Berkshire Hathaway
Home Services) from April 22 – August 30, 2015.
Known for her charming
and whimsical portraits,
Linda has earned many
awards for her paintings of
dogs, cats and other animal
friends.
Please join Linda for
her opening reception on
Thursday, May 14, 5 - 7 pm.
Feathered Nest". Mixed Media on paper.
11 x 11"
River District Arts
3 River Lane, Sperryville, VA 22740
Frederick Kahler: The Art Speaks
May 1 - June 28, 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday May 2 from 5-7 pm.
The drawings of
Rappahannock resident
artist Frederick Kahler
will be on exhibit in this
rare hometown show.
Recognized as a selftaught artist, Fred’s drawings have been acquired
by renowned collectors
nationally and internationally, and are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA;
and American Visionar y Art Museum, Baltimore, MD.
For more, visit: www.RiverDistrictArts.org/rda-exhibits
Burwell-Morgan Mill’s
Art at the Mill
Spring Show
Continues through Sunday, May 10, 2015
Show Us Your Stuff
From the
Newsletter Desk
Here’s the schedule for Newsletter copy and images:
Deadlines for
submitting info:
Issues for 2015:
July/August
June 10
September/ October
August 10
November/December
October 10
Issues for 2016:
January/February
December 10
March/April
February 10
May/June
April 10
Please send your news and pictures to Dana at
[email protected]
When e-mailing your news: Please put
“LSC News” or other clear and relevant words in
the subject of the e-mail so I don’t delete it thinking
it’s spam from an e-mail address I don’t recognize.
Please include Images!! We’re a visual organization, and our newsletter (and website for that
matter) should reflect that. Images should be color
jpegs, 300dpi, at least 3” wide or larger (no less that
1000 pixels if possible). If the image is your artwork,
please include title, unframed size, medium and date
for each. If the image is a person or event, please
include an appropriate caption and identification.
Contributing Writers Wanted: Helpful Hints;
Upcoming Shows and Exhibits; Classes and
Workshops; Competitions and Deadlines; Great
Websites or Organizations... Anything that would
be of help or interest to our members. Thank you
to the contributers who continue to inform and
inspire. And please know, all members are
encouraged to participate. Keep it coming!
Lost Your Newsletter? Or maybe you’d like
another copy to send to a friend or potential new
member? You can now go to the Sketch Club
website and download any newsletter you need.
Go to www.LoudounSketchClub.com
–Dana Thompson
The Gateway Gallery –––––––––––––––––––––
Bouquets for Mom at the Gateway Gallery
The Gateway Gallery in Round Hill, VA presents a reception
honoring mothers on Sunday, May 3, from 2 pm until 4 pm.
Beaded and embroidered jewelry by Round Hill resident
Robin Wilkinson and watercolors painted by Round Hill resident
Catherine Hillis will be featured, and both artists will be on
hand to discuss their work – and have a little fun as well.
Every mother in attendance will receive fresh cut flower.
We are located on Rt. 7 just west of Round Hill, in the Hill
High Orchard Building, which we share with the Round Hill
Arts Center, the Bogati Bodega wine & tapas tasting room,
and Mom’s Apple Pie. Open daily from 11 - 6 pm. Learn more
at www.thegatewaygallery.com.
Round Hill Arts Center –––––––––––––––––––––
www.RoundHillArtCenter.org • 540-338-5022
Draw & Paint from Life Tuesdays 7 - 9 pm; $10 per person, Age
18 & up; bring your own art supplies. RHAC provides easels –
bring a drawing board and whatever else you need.
May Handy Hour:
Introduction to Calligraphy with Karen Helble
Friday, May 29, 6:30 - 9 pm. $20 plus $10 materials fee, Age 18 & up.
Get started on this artistic form of handwriting -- no experience needed!
Peace Love and Tie Dye with the Immortals
Sunday, June 7, 2 - 4 pm on the Loading Dock. Concert and dyeing
is FREE, $10 charge for t-shirts. An amazing afternoon of rocking
music & tie-dye! Bring your own shirt or buy one...and with a
free concert by rock and roll favorites The Immortals.
Basketry: Make a Utensil Basket with Karen Helble
Saturday, June 14, 9 am - 3 pm, $80 plus $14 materials fee, Age 16 & up.
Join Karen Helble and make a sturdy basket you'll use every day!
Oil Color Workshop with Jessica Wilson
Saturday, June 27, 1:30 - 5 pm. $75 per student, Ages 18 & up.
Please bring canvas or panel and brushes to class.
Jessica will share information and ideas that help other artists in
their work in this informational workshop, using and demonstrating
the paints and mediums produced by nationally known paint company, Gamblin Colors. Free samples and educational literature will
be available to participants.and your own creativity.
Western Loudoun Artists Studio Tour
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the conversation
on Facebook!
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And don’t forget to send
Admission: $5 for adults,
$3 for seniors, students free
your July/August 2015 news and images
to the LSC Newsletter. E-mail
[email protected]
by June 10, 2015.
Visit www.clarkehistory.org for more.
Current Gallery Exhibit: Fabric Fantasies II –continues to Sun., May 10
Upcoming Exhibit: Open to everyone to enter – In the Garden
Fri., May 15 to Sun., June 14. Visit www.franklinparkartscenter.org
under “In the Gallery” for more info.
10th Annual
Sundays - Fridays 12 noon - 5 pm
and Saturdays 10 am - 5 pm
Artist’s Reception: Sunday, May 3 • 2 - 5 pm
Franklin Park Arts Center ––––––––––––––––––
Saturday, June 20 and Sunday, June 21
10 am to 5 pm each day
Many of our Loudoun Sketch Club
members will open their studios or
be guest artists during this year’s
Western Loudoun Artists Studio
Tour. Grab a booklet and visit the
studios of over 70 talented artists as
you wind through the scenic countryside and
historic villages of western Loudoun County.
Enjoy paintings, pottery, jewelry, photography,
fiber, sculpture and more!
View from Sky Meadows
by Mary Championl
Check It Out!
Strapless: John Singer Sargent
and the Fall of Madame X
Artistic Opportunities
New Studios in Round Hill
Working artists
seeking studio space
are invited to contact
the Hill High
Marketplace in Round
Hill. Five studios will
become available in
May, with seven more
coming this summer
in the familiar Hill
Hill High Orchard Building
High Orchard building
on Route 7. This iconic building currently houses the
Round Hill Arts Center, Gateway Gallery, Mom’s Apple Pie
and Bogati Winery. Studios range in size from 150-200
square feet. Artists may view the studios by appointment,
and those interested may request an application at
[email protected]. Artists will be selected by a jury.
Be In The First Annual
$50 5x7 Artworks Event!
Deadline for Submission
Extended to May 1st
The Friends of Leesburg Public
Arts (non-profit) invites artists to participate in this fundraising event The
$50 Friends 5x7 Art Works! Proceeds
from the sale of your donated art will
go to support public arts initiatives in
Leesburg.
For event dates and details you can download PDF at
www.leesburgpublicarts.org/5x7-art-works.html or leave
a voice message at 571-252-3336 with any questions.
Trinity House Café
Call for Art
Trinity House Café in downtown Leesburg is inviting
Loudoun Sketch Club members to submit work for a
“Farm to Table” exhibit to celebrate Loudoun’s local food
movement. We are looking for original framed paintings
or drawings depicting an aspect of local food, farm life, or
agriculture (examples: barns, planting, harvesting, vineyards, orchards, pigs, cows, chickens, vegetables, fruit,
etc.). Loudoun’s local food movement culminates each
year in the Farm to Fork Loudoun initiative. From July 23
to August 2, Trinity House Café will participate in this
highly-anticipated celebration of local farm produce by
showcasing a special menu of locally-sourced foods.
Please submit a photo of your work along with its
dimensions by June 15 to LSC member Jessica Wilson
[email protected] for consideration. Space is limited so we will be hanging salon style to accommodate as
many members as possible. Submission limit is one large
piece per member (16 x 20 max) or two smaller pieces.
Selected artists will be notified by June 29. Juried artwork
will need to be delivered on July 20, from 3 - 5 pm for
hanging. Trinity House Café will take a 20% commission
on artwork sold through the Café. Artists will be expected to sign a sales contract in order to sell their work, however the artwork does not have to be for sale in order to
participate. Artwork hung on display will not be insured
by Trinity House Café.
Show dates: July 22 to September 27
Submission deadline: June 15
Notification: June 29
Drop off artwork: July 20 from 3 - 5 pm
Pick up of unsold artwork: Sept 28 from 3 - 5 pm
Central Virginia
Watercolor Guild
Call for Entries
A call for entries has gone out for
the Central Virginia Watercolor Guild
2015 Annual Show – September 4 September 27, 2015, McGuffey Art
Center 201 Second Street, NW,
Charlottesville, VA 22902 The
Central Virginia Watercolor Guild invites all Virginia
artists to enter its 24th Annual Exhibition. Our juror is
UVA faculty member Julia May who holds a Masters and
Ph.D. in Art History. An author of numerous papers,
essays, and book reviews on various art-related topics, Dr.
May has also served as a judge for art exhibitions in
Indiana and Ohio. The show is open to all resident artists
of Virginia and deadline for submissions is Saturday
June 6, 2015. To access the show Prospectus and
Entry Form, visit the CVWG website at: www.central-virginia-watercolor-guild.org/shows
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Call for Art
Purchase for Permanent Art Collection
AWS seeks to purchase a wide range of original artwork in various media for their corporate office in
Washington D.C. from artists who are either current students, alumni, or faculty of Virginia Commonwealth
University School of the Arts (VCUarts) from all campuses or artists eighteen years and older who live, work, or
who have their studios in the Metropolitan D.C. region.
The entry deadline for DC Metro artists is May
3, 2015 at 12:55 p.m. ET. Notification by email of artwork accepted for purchase consideration will be sent by
May 13, 2015. Further key dates and information will be
supplied to artists with notification of artwork accepted
for purchase consideration.
For much more information and to register, visit:
http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/
event?utm_medium=email&oeidk=a07eamhswpr0db5dfc2&llr=
uhpd6pcab&utm_campaign=AMNZart+Call+for+Art&utm_sour
ce=AMNZart+
For questions or additional information, contact
Mercia Hobson, Director of the AMZNart Project, by
email at [email protected].
by Deborah Davis
A book review
by Lis Zadravec
I am not only late to this
party but approaching it
with some trepidation. This
book was published back in
2004 coinciding with a
resurgence of Sargent interest after a world-wide tour
of his work. I remember
that exhibit. I sent my students so prepared that even
my toddler daughter knew
more about Sargent than
most. John Singer Sargent
Madam X by John Singer Sargent -1884 to those like me who make
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Oil on canvas
portraits, is a favorite. There
208.6 x 109.9 cm (82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in.)
in the awed hush of a
gallery, my daughter piped up, Look, Mommy, it’s Madame
X! And parroted some not-so-well-known information in that
preschool-rote manner children have when they say something “everyone knows”. Heads spun around to see the tiny
child speaking from my arms.
Having written a college paper on my favorite artist, my
fear was, there is not a thing you could tell me, ever.
Certainly not from an author who is a script writer! My literary snobbery held as high as Madame Gautreau’s nose, I
cracked this book to be taught a few lessons. 1) Script writers do their homework. In straight forward prose that is not
as high hat as my usual fare, Ms. Davis begins the story of
Amelie Gautreau. And if you are going to tell it, why not
start with her great grandparents! I am immediately struck
by what I don’t know of our Southern and particularly,
Louisiana history and its French roots. But even more so by
what I don’t know at all of French history. Like this historic
preamble, about fifty pages from the end of the book Davis
begins to tie up loose ends and tells us the fate of every single character and side character. Thorough. And in the end,
the writing is not as artless as I had feared. In fact from the
time Mr. Sargent himself is woven into my study of
European history and the American ex-patriots who inhabit
it, this book has become a page turner.
Deftly parsing the fact from the myth and urban legend
of the day, or how the devotees and naysayers have passed
that history down, I realize my college paper was riddled
with twisted information. My information was gathered from
sources tempered with either the disdain of the painting’s
subject or the saintly depiction of the painter. Now I have
before me the full facts from which to draw a new picture of
the artist. As a student at the Corcoran School of Art, I had
once been privy to the amazing collection of male nude
drawings flawlessly rendered by this unmatched artistic
deity. Taken out of their drawers only once a year or so for a
lucky audience. The paper held before my marveling eyes
seemed to beg more of a story than I had ever heard.
Here was a love of beauty crossing gender lines and the
hand to capture it. Sargent’s private life has always been a
mystery. He was a private man
who barely betrayed that side to
himself, let alone the public. But
Ms. Davis has done her homework. What clues may exist, she
has unearthed and here lies a most
complete depiction of the man behind the gift.
Celebrity following and Reality TV of today have nothing
on the society of the past. Human nature being what it is, we
rubberneck the macabre and mock the rising star. It is an
ugliness that dawns in biblical times. Jealousy, cultural values,
even politics bend us and expose our most offensive flaws. All
of this, as well as the culture of the times and an adherence to
a group mentality play important roles in what happens next.
We are shocked, we think ourselves better, yet happily
Kardashian-bash over red carpet events and seek out shocking CSI plot lines. Are we really better than society back then?
Or did Deborah Davis just make it glaringly clear that we are
the same human animals in a different frame. Who suffered
most from these events and mores? I won’t give away the
scoop or what happens to each life involved, for therein lies
the story. We now see Sargent’s skill was his strength as well
as his downfall. We root for Sargent to rally his spirit and
paint again. Somehow we know he will because he has yet to
paint some of our favorites.
Eventually it all evens out and a man once scorned for
his painting is recognized again, even within his lifetime.
But since, he has fallen in and out of fashion with the winds
of changing tastes in genre. Is it the rage to like the realist?
Are we hating traditionalism this year? Culture, values, popularity and perspectives evolve from one era to the next and
so our fickle tastes in art. In spite of these arbitrary
changes, Sargent will always be to some, like me who fell in
love with his elegant style and perfect draftsmanship, the
best in a field the rest of us mortals can only aspire to.
We may know a bit of the ending, heard some of what
happened to his subject, but I assure you, not all. Putting
myth to bed at last, what of poor Amelie, Madame X? I’d
love to tell you but I will leave it to this expert. I am only
here to entice you to read.
Surfing the Web
An interesting blog and one of my favorite artists, Renato
Mucillo: linesandcolors.com/
2014/03/26/renato-muccillo/
Some members of the
LSC Facebook Group had
a lively discussion on
Tonalism; here is another
artist that claims an affinity
for tonalism:
www.JohnMacDonald.com
Studio paintings and plein
air paintings. –Mary Champion Misty Landscape by Renato Mucillo
Dagmar Wilson
Loudoun Preservationist and Artist
Capturing the Disappearing Landscape
Dagmar Wilson is remembered as a towering figure in the
American peace and social justice movement who, among other
things, founded the Women’s Strike for Peace. At the height of
the Cold War, she led a coalition of women to meet their Russian
counterparts over concerns about the nuclear
arms race. The women
activists were later credited
with influencing the leadership of both countries to
agree on a limited test
ban treaty. She passed
away January 9, 2011 just
shy of her 95th birthday.
As the Sketch Club celebrates its 70th anniversary, it’s appropriate to
celebrate Dagmar Wilson,
Loudoun resident, artist,
preservationist, club
member, and club
President 1975-76. A
graduate of London’s
Slade School of Art and
Hamilton Water Tower, watercolor
already an accomplished
illustrator of children’s books, Dagmar and her husband
Christopher moved to Mount Gilead in 1971. Mt. Gilead was
already a weekend home for painters Alfred and June
McAdams and Margaret and Ed Marks. Over time it came to
be known as an artists’ colony. A few years later when they
were joined by painter Robert Sivard and his wife Ruth the
artists organized tours of their studios.
Dagmar’s Loudoun art sought to capture the beauty of the
countryside and it’s architectural history before it was lost.
The Washington Post quoted her saying “I’ve concentrated all
my efforts on Loudoun landscape because it is so beautiful. I
like the agricultural country,
but it’s getting more and more
scarce and getting further
away.” This love of the countryside led to her becoming a
founding member of the
Preservation Society of
Dagmar at her easel
Loudoun County.
She worked in oil, watercolor, and pencil. “I have found inspiration in such artists as Hopper, Scheeler and David Inshaw. I
try to ferret out the abstract designs to be found in architectural structures and in sunlight and shadows. I like to reveal the
subtle differences in qualities of light: between summer and winter, indoor and outdoor, direct and reflected. But my pictures also portray aspects of
man’s work and his impact—not always
beautiful—on the environment.”
Dagmar’s works are recognizable for
their crisp depictions of farm architecture
and the surrounding countryside and
domestic farm interiors. Quoted in the
Loudoun Times Mirror, Loudoun painter
Antionia Walker stated that her work is
both “rigorous and beautiful…realistic and
abstract.” Similarly quoted, Gale Waldron
looking at her detail noted that “You can
Back Stairs Red Shoes,
watercolor
look, look, and look and still you don’t see
it all.” Margaret Marks, who studied under Hans Hoffman, was
“struck by the simplicity and accuracy of her work.”
She painted daily, if she could, and was active well into her
eighties. That said, she said “I think most of my favorite paintings as still in my head, waiting to be painted. And they have a
lot to do with structural things.” This is probably a good place
to end. Our club’s membership’s favorite paintings are still in
our heads, out there, waiting to be painted, on Tuesdays.
–Patrick Roth
2015 Plein Air Painting Places
Date
May 5
and 12
Pointers
4
Loudoun Sketch Club
Trappe Hill Farm
20561 Trappe Rd.,
Upperville, VA 20184
Owners: Bruce and
Eddie Smart
Description
Trappe Hill Farm We went to this farm in 2012 and
members have wanted to return when the cherry trees are in
bloom. Hopefully we are in luck this year with the late spring.
Besides the cherry trees which line the driveway this is a large
thoroughbred horse farm with a Normandy-style house, stone
outer buildings, large horseshoe-shaped barn and several
ponds.
LAND TRUST PROPERTY.
Lost?
Directions
Contact:
From Leesburg: Rt.7 W to Round Hill, turn right to gas station – turn left
Mary MacDonnell
onto New Cut Rd (Rt.719) which becomes Airmont Rd. After 4 miles cross
540-554-8181
over Snickersville Pike – continue on thru Bloomfield to Trappe Rd. – turn right
– continue to sharp left in road - have arrived at 20561 on right.
From South: Take Rt.50 W through Upperville. Turn right onto Trappe Rd. on west side of town
Continue on Trappe to 20561 on left.
May 19
and 26
Chilton Farm
23156 St. Louis Rd.,
Middleburg, VA 20117
Owners: Mark & Jana Leepson
Chilton Farm is a 66-acre farm with stone house (c.1929).
Original owners were of the Belmont Races family. Woodlands,
open fields, old barn, and picturesque views along Rt. 611.
Horses graze in a pasture next to enclosed horse training facility which is off limits.
Lost?
Contact:
Jessica Wilson
301-642-6995
Directions
From Leesburg: Take Rt. 15S to Rt. 50. Keep right onto 50. Follow Rt. 50
through Middleburg, continue 3.8 miles to St. Louis Rd. Turn right onto (Rt. 611) and continue .3
miles until you see sign on right for Chilton Farm. Turn right into driveway. Ignore first driveway on
immediate right. Stay straight until you come to circular driveway in front of house where you can
park.
Picture
Instruction in all this terminology is beyond the scope of an
LSC Newsletter article, but we can point the brave and willing
to several sources to help you gain understanding. You may
need to augment the software that came with your computer.
It is almost impossible for an artist to promote
An industry favorite is Photoshop – and you can do everything you
need with Photoshop Elements. It is so widely used that there are
their work, enter shows, or print business cards and other
great tutorials on the web: www.photoshopessentials.com/essentials
promotional materials without some basic understanding of
image size, file size, and resolution when it comes to pictures has explanations with illustrations for terms like image quality,
resolution, and resizing.
of their work.
A free alternative is GIMP, www.gimp.com. The website for
The prospectus for a juried show may ask for something like
“longest side at 1000 pixels” and specify “resolution at 300 dpi, this image manipulation program also offers tutorials to get
with maximum file size 3 MB.” You use the “resize” function you started. If all you teach yourself is how to crop, straightthat’s on your computer and often find that you can get one or en and resize images to certain specs, you will be rewarded
with the knowledge that you can properly prepare your wonthe other, but not both, especially if you are starting with a
low resolution image file and you need to make it both larger derful paintings for any use.
and higher resolution. This action may require what is called You will never have to pass on an opportunity because you
“resampling” essentially adding pixels to the image file so that don’t have the right image files to send in!
–Mary Champion
it does not appear blurry or pixilated when enlarged.
Where and Who
June 2
and 9
Spring House Farm
Spring House Farm has an interesting old house that has
21504 Greengarden Rd.,
Upperville, VA 20184
been added onto over the years in stucco, stone, log and clapboard
with porches along the back. Nice old barns and spring house.
Views from the back field of the mountains and a very large neighbor’s pond.
Owners: Michael & Allyson Alto
LAND TRUST PROPERTY.
Lost?
Contact:
Mary MacDonnell
540-554-8181
Directions
From Leesburg: Rt.7W to Round Hill, turn right to gas station – turn left onto
New Cut Rd. (Rt.719) which becomes Airmont Rd. – cross over Snickersville Pike – continue through tiny town of
Bloomfield past Trappe Rd. (Airmont Rd. now becomes Greengarden Rd.) – continue on about 2 miles second
drive on left past Newstead Farm.
From the South: Rt.50 W through Middleburg to just before you come to Upperville and horse show grounds –
turn right on Willisville Rd..(the name will change to Millsville at curve) - turn right onto Greengarden Rd.- third driveway on right.
Loudoun Sketch Club
1
Let’s Get
Outside!
Creating and Supporting the Visual Arts in Loudoun County, Virginia since 1944
LSC Newsletter Online: www.LoudounSketchClub.com
– Featured Artist –
Elly Friedman en plein aire. Photo by Robbyn Holmes
Crystal Jordan
2015 Plein Air
Painting Places
Schedule Inside!
Ready, Set,
Newsletter
It’s All About the Process
by Gale Waldron
Ask Crystal Jordan where she was living in any
given year and you’ll learn not only where she was,
but what she was doing and what was happening in
the world around her at the time. This is even more
remarkable when you know that Crystal has lived in
34 different places in 54 years!
Born in Warner Robins, Georgia, Crystal drew
from an early age and dreamed of being a fashion
designer.
But her
application
to New
York’s
Fashion
Institute of
Technology
wasn’t
accepted
because she
didn’t know
how to sew.
Deflated,
she was
Kailua Boats, acrylic on canvas, 16” x20”
nudged by
her father into business school at the University of
Tennessee where she studied operations management.
Graduating in 1982 and looking for work in a recession
economy, Crystal enrolled in Officer Training School
and became a budget officer in the Air Force. She
later earned a MS degree in Cost Analysis and
was tasked with preparing the Air Force communications budget for congressional
approval.
She married Air Force Captain John Jordan
in 1991, and the couple was assigned to
Dayton Ohio, where Crystal prepared cost
estimates for refitting the B1 Bomber from
nuclear to conventional weapons.
But art was always in the back of her mind.
The turning point came in 1994 when Crystal and
John had their first child, and Crystal returned to
her artwork. Never in one place very long, the
family’s nomadic lifestyle took them to Alabama,
Virginia, Florida, Nebraska, with Crystal taking
art classes wherever she could.
In Florida, she studied with Elena
Cieuventas, learning portraiture and moving
from oils to acrylics.
In Hawaii, she found Mark N. Brown, an
May/June 2015
artist who introduced her to plein
air painting, something she has
loved ever since. And throughout
her moves to Italy, back to Hawaii
and to England, she has continued
to paint outdoors. “It is the
process of painting that I love, not
necessarily the outcome.”
In Virginia, she discovered the
Loudoun Sketch Club and its outdoor sessions. Crystal keeps a
journal in which she records the
Crystal Jordan, Secretary
weather, her impressions of the
and Show Chair
place and the feelings it evokes – all
of which are reflected in her work. “I make an initial
sketch in the journal as a reference. What is happening around me is an important part of my art.”
Trained by her mentor Mark to work quickly to
capture the light,
Crystal finds her spot
and then works fast to
get her impressions on
canvas. “Finding the
right spot is from experience – searching for
the things I like to
paint. Do I want to
stretch myself today
Ko’olina Daybreak, acrylic on canvas, 18” x 24”
and paint something I’m
not so familiar with, or do I want to be more comfortable and paint a water or garden scene?” She also
uses her camera lens as a view finder to see what the
scene might look like on a canvas.
After painting the scene in her familiar loose style,
she moves on to the next painting. “For me, it’s all
about the process.”
Old Fort Crook, acrylic wall mural, 10’ x 4’
Mary Champion, Membership Chair
PO Box 1683
Leesburg, VA 20177
Loudoun Sketch Club
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