Deborah Douglass Desiree moved to Robson Ranch in June 2020 from Matteson, IL. She was tired of the snow in Illinois and moved here to enjoy the warmer environment. Desiree saw an advertisement for Robson Ranch in a retirement magazine. She liked what she saw and all the activities offered. She visited both PebbleCreek and…
Nancy Friedman Ten Robson Ranchers joined teachers Karen Cutrell and Nancy Friedman in their beginning colored pencil class sponsored by the Fine Arts Guild on Sept. 15. Instruction was provided by a DVD and the use of the Guild’s overhead projector. Karen provided drawings of a basic pumpkin and then demonstrated the techniques used by…
Diana Oleson Mark your calendars for Nov. 13, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Hermosa Ballroom at Robson Ranch. Admission and parking are free. This event is open to the public, so invite your friends and family to join you for a day of fun and shopping. There will be raffles, so check with each…
Nancy Friedman In August, a small number of members still at the Ranch, enjoyed playing with monoprints and/or attending Spotlight on Watercolor Thursdays. On Aug. 23, three club members, with Nancy Friedman as their leader, engraved Styrofoam to make the matrix that was used to make multiple prints. After engraving five to six different Styrofoam…
Deborah Dougless Susan Halley and her husband Dennis have been homeowners at Robson Ranch for nine years. They are self-employed from Parker, Colo. and have expanded their business to Arizona. They found Robson Ranch a wonderful halfway place between Phoenix and Tucson, and knew this would be an ideal place to retire. Susan has always…
Don and Terry Helmstetter The Fine Arts Guild held a beginning watercolor class instructed by Terry and Don Helmstetter. The eight attendees learned some basics and then practiced on a monochromatic painting, learning the effect of tone changes with one color and water mixed in different volumes. They also did a landscape, learning to mix colors.…
Deborah Douglass Paula Lambert retired from hairdressing in July 2007, and moved to Robson Ranch in August 2007, from Swansea, Mass. Paula and her husband spent their vacations visiting many active adult communities all over the country. One winter, they were able to get an inexpensive flight to Phoenix and looked around at the different…
Nancy Friedman and Deborah Dougless Back by popular demand, The Fine Arts Guild held a palette knife acrylic painting class instructed by Nils Johnson. The class practiced the use of the palette knife with different angles and strokes to make a forest of birch or aspen trees. Shades of gray were added to a white paper…
Deborah Dougless After 32 years teaching elementary school, Laurie Laramie retired in June of 2020 and moved to Robson Ranch one week later with her husband, Mike. During her 32 years of teaching, Laurie taught Kindergarten, 1st grade, 3rd grade, and music in both Washington state and California. Since her students used to laugh at…
Nancy Friedman, Co-Education Chairman Butterflies were the topic of the day when Doreen Beers demonstrated how to paint butterflies in watercolor on May 18. Her six participants learned the wet-on-wet and wet-to-dry techniques of watercolor to start their basic butterflies, and then went on to embellish them with a white gel pen and black ink.…