Demonstrator
Corner
Look Who’s Coming!
Our demonstrator for the Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7:30
pm meeting of WHAL is Alan Morris who is a watercolor artist,
a sculptor and sometimes paints in oils.
His demonstration will be a watercolor “The Outer Banks” and show how to
do the one minute sky, reflections in wet sand, simple figures, and
incorporating wet and dry techniques.
Alan Morris has enjoyed painting since childhood and is a
self-taught painter. As he often says,
art is 90% disciplined hard work and ten percent talent. His paintings might best be descried as
abstract/realism. His usual practice is
to portray just enough realism to be convincing and then to resolve the
painting in abstract shapes and textures.
Alan is not a colorist, so he utilizes contrasting values, line and
texture as the predominate design features of
his watercolors.
Alan is a self described minimalist. One of he more difficult tasks for the
painter is knowing when to quit painting.
He believes the painting is done when the story is told. While his watercolors are apparently very
loosely done, design is a big part of his paintings.
Reveled in the human face and figure is the story of who
the person is. In order to be
convincing, the artist needs to identify that story and record it. It is never enough to be accurate. Alan’s work successfully captures the story
of a person.
Alan is a juried
member of the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society.
His studio and gallery are in Sewickley, PA where he teaches watercolor
to all skill levels. Alan will also
conduct group watercolor workshops at the groups designated location. Alan is a
juried member of the Pittsburgh Watercolor Society. His studio and gallery are in Sewickley, PA where he teaches
watercolor to all skill levels. Alan
will also conduct group watercolor workshops at the groups designated location.
Alan
Morris is currently showing work at The Washington Street Gallery, Lewisburgh,
WV, 304-647-4561 and The Sewickley Gallery, Sewickley, PA, 412-741-5858.
You may
visit Alan’s website at http://www.thewatercolorsofalanmorris.com/
and be sure to follow the links to his other websites at http://missionarywc.blogspot.com/
Sewickley
Cafe Exhibition
The Sewickley Café has recently been an exceptionally good
venue for Zoe Shutka. They are
currently featuring work by student under the private instruction of Zoe. The students range in age from 3 years old
to adults. Dates for the showing are
from January 6 to February 28th so there is still time to not only appreciate
the fine work but also the fine food.
Also, the
Sewickley Café was host to a recent one woman show by D. Zoe Shutka in which
she sold nine pieces. Doug Brown, Betty
Phillips and her husband and a number of other WHAL members attended.
Carol Volz Begley PSA received an honorable mention for a
pastel sunset at the Juried 71st Annual Artists Exhibition at the Butler
Institute of Fine Art. The exhibit ran from Jan. 13 to Feb 3 2008.
Carol
also received a juror's award for a pastel landscape at the Hoyt
Institute of Fine Art Mid Atlantic Juried Exhibit that ended mid December 2007.
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