Art lovers of all ages may view the Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit February 5-17 at the Depot Civic and Cultural Center located at 600 E. Depot in Brownwood. Show hours are Monday-Friday from 9:00 am – 6:00 pm, Saturday from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm and Sunday from 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm.
Artwork that did not make the Stars of Texas Art Exhibit will be featured in the Salon des Refuses at the Brownwood Art Association Art Center, located at 215 Fisk Street during the above hours.
Demonstrations will also take place each day during exhibit hours from a variety of artists. There is no charge to enter the exhibit or attend the demonstrations.
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Monday’s Artists:
1. Jeremy Serna is a self-taught Brownwood artist who is the owner of Painting with Friends studio at 308 N. Fisk, where he gives private and group lessons and hosts painting parties. He has been painting for 30 years and specializes in drawing, watercolor, airbrushing, and acrylics. His watercolor painting of an old truck, “Timeless Series #2,” was accepted in this year’s Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit. Anyone interested in lessons or parties may contact Jeremy at 325-356-0008.
Jeremy will be demonstrating the manipulation of acrylics, which encompasses such techniques as spattering and splashing, in order to move the paint around the canvas to create interesting and sometimes surprising artistic results.
2. Billy Edwards: I’m 35 and I grew up in East Texas. I’ve only been here in Brownwood a year and I really like it here. I come from a really artistically talented family. From musicians to painters. I was always surrounded by art however it wasn’t until my early 20’s that I really became interested in becoming an artist myself and that spark didn’t come from a family member but instead from an old homeless man. He used to sit at a table and draw on anything he could get his hands on and sell it to people for money to eat. I used to sit at the table and watch him for hours. I was so fascinated. We ended up becoming friends and eventually he started pushing drawings towards me and having me help him and I’ve been addicted ever since.
The old man eventually moved on but the spark he left behind has never died. What started out as tracing and coloring cartoon characters has eventually led to painting wall murals and so much more.
My style of art tends to lean more towards realism. I really get into the tiny details and trying to make something look as realistic as possible. Portraits are my specialty and what I primarily focus on these days. I’ve dabbled in most all the common medias as in painting in acrylics and oils, airbrush work, pastels, charcoals, inks, etc. and while I’m fairly decent in all these medias, its graphite and color pencils that I’ve come to master and excel in the most. I’ve recently gotten into airbrushing however, and hope to become as good with an airbrush as I’ve manage to get with a pen or pencil. With time and practice I know I can get there.
3. Thomas Pettengill: From looking at some of my earliest school Report Cards I guess I’ve always had an interest in art. My Kindergarten teacher said I would sit and draw all day if they let me. Formally I didn’t follow art through my education. I became interested in Photography about 20 years ago while working as a Fisheries Biologist for the State of Utah. It wasn’t until after I moved to Brownwood late in 2005 that I started to take Photography serious. I have taken a few online photography classes but I am mostly self-taught.
Since I could walk I’ve wanted to be outside. I’ve probably spent more time out in wild places than indoors. I enjoyed being out way before sunrise and staying out well after dark. I’ve seen a lot of beautiful sights in nature and wanted to learn to capture that beauty with my photographs. My main focus in photography is nature and landscape photography. All my days in the outdoors has given me a great appreciation for light and how it impacts a scene. This has helped me in evaluating a subject to photograph and with my post processing of images.
My demonstration at the 2017 Stars of Texas Juried Art Exhibit will be using Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and a Luminosity add-on program to edit photographs. Post processing of my photographs was probably the most difficult thing I’ve had to figure out since going digital. The hardest part was mentally deciding how much to edit my photographs. I wanted to share the beauty of the landscapes and nature that I was seeing and to make my photographs show off that beauty without drastically altering them. To do that I had to become a better photographer so I could get the images I needed to begin with but once I had them how did I use software on the computer to show off the beauty of the outdoors. I’m going to take some jpeg and raw images and show how to bring them to life on the computer.
ARTISTS DEMONSTRATION SCHEDULE FEBRUARY 2017
• Monday 6
1. Jeremy Serna: Manipulating Acrylics And Color
2. Billy Edwards: Air Brush
3. Thomas Pettengill: Photography
• Tuesday 7
1. Paula Vaughn: Pastel By Paula
2. Jacque Rider: Paper Mache
3. Kathryn Jones: Hands And Feet On Art (clay)
• Wednesday 8
1. Susan Stepp: Zentangle
2. Claudette West Womack: Pastel Painting
3. Lark Terry: Soap Making
• Thursday 9
1. Paige Shelton: Pottery
2. Betsy Johnson: Fun With Sharpies
3. Ginger Test: Watercolors
• Friday 10
1. Paige Shelton: Pottery
2. Ken McFarlane: Verdaccio In Oils (Monochromatic Underpainting)
3. Kenneth Dees: Portraits In Acrylic
• Monday 13
1. Sandra McSwain: Pastel Sketching (Portraits)
2. Julie Mize: Cyanotypes (Photographic Printing Process)
3. Tom Orsak: Plain Air Painting With Acrylics
• Tuesday 14
1. Ted And Martha Shelton: Texas Wild Flowers
2. Kerry Boutell: WatercolorBatik
3. Robert Stacks: WoodAndPaperArt
• Wednesday 15
1. Jeanette Long: Paper Mache
2. Suzanne Starr: Caligraphy
3. Christopher Gaston: GeometricArt
• Thursday 16
1. Tony Brown: 3-D Techniques In Acrylic
2. Frank Griffin: Wood Carving
3. R.J. Barnett: Watercolors