Members of the Fine Arts Guild—Acrylic Workshop worked together to create a unique painting that was raffled for Dogs4Vets. Members worked on individual canvas tiles and painted a portion of the painting. The tiles were then put together to match adjoining colors. Upon completion, the tiles were mounted and framed. The Fine Arts Guild appreciates all…
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Clubs & Classes, December 2022
Fine Arts Guild—Three Workshops
The Fine Arts Guild has created three weekly workshops over the last year to help members improve their skills. If you are new to the art world and have taken a basic class, these workshops will help you develop your inner creative side. If you have painted or used colored pencils before, the workshops are…
Clubs & Classes, April 2022
Black and White to Gray with a Little Color
Nils Johnson Back by popular demand, the Fine Arts Guild held an acrylic painting class instructed by Nils Johnson. The class started with black and white color mixing to learn value, which in the art world is essentially how light or dark something is on a scale of white to black (with white being the…
Clubs & Classes, February 2022
Spreading Good Cheer
Jeana Capel-Jones and Nils Johnson During the holiday season, the Fine Arts Guild partnered with Casa Grande’s Art Mobile to bring some cheer to some 200 seniors in the local communities of Eloy and Casa Grande. The Fine Arts Guild collected shoeboxes, toiletries, and art supplies to distribute to seniors who are less fortunate. Thank you…
Features, December 2021
Class Day Versus Project Day
Nancy Friedman With more than 68 members this year and growing, the Fine Arts Guild, which resides in the Creative Arts Center, is being challenged to offer members more than just classes. A creative idea came from members Don and Terry Helmstetter, who love watercolors. So, this summer, on Thursday mornings when attendance is low,…
Clubs & Classes, October 2021
What’s Up at the Fine Arts Guild Studio
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…
Clubs & Classes, September 2021
Beginning Watercolor Class
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.…
Clubs & Classes, September 2021
Palette Knife Acrylic Painting
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…
Clubs & Classes, July 2021
New for the Fine Arts Guild: Watercolor Spotlight Thursdays
Nancy Friedman, Co-Education Director On March 18, the Fine Arts Guild started Watercolor Spotlight Thursdays during which members with watercolor supplies met to paint selected subjects with Don Helmstetter as their mentor. On the first trial day, the room was filled to our 10-person COVID-limited capacity. Those participating the first Thursday were Doreen Beers, Susan Halley, Margie Calhoun,…
Generals, June 2021
Meet Karen Cutrell: Fine Arts Guild’s Artist of the Month
Karen Cutrell I am originally from Ohio and a graduate of OSU in nursing. We moved to the Ranch in 2016, following my second career of selling real estate. Neither career allotted much time to experiment with art. I took up watercolor when we wintered in Palm Creek and looked to continue that endeavor here…