Tips For Painting Beautiful Wildflowers

Karen will share her tips for painting beautiful wildflowers through a demonstration and sharing some of her paintings.

Information about the Artist:

Karen Margulis is a full time artist and art educator. She lives in Atlanta Georgia with her husband Michael. Karen received her BA in Education from the University of Florida. She currently teaches painting workshops around the world.

Karen is a contemporary landscape painter. She works in most painting media but has achieved recognition for her pastel paintings. She has exhibited her award winning work around the world and has been reviewed by Pastel Journal for her wildflower paintings. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and a Masters Circle recipient of the International Association of Pastel Societies. She was recently a faculty member at the prestigious IAPS Convention.

Karen has a passion for travel and painting while on location. She enjoys the opportunity to share her techniques and approach to making art in her workshops. She is known for her ability to make art simple, accessible to all and fun.

Karen is also an avid Daily Painter and blogger. She paints everyday and shares her work, art tips and inspiration in her daily posts on her blog ‘Painting My World’.

Karen is delighted to be able to be a pastel instructor. She is excited to share her love of art and help students experience the joy of painting. As Degas said “Art is not what you see. It’s what you make others see”.

Karen looks forward to helping others share their own artistic vision.

Here are several of Karen’s paintings:

NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom.  A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on April 15. 

Update Your Game with Graphite

Laurie will present her path to creativity, the phases of creative development and the benefits of sketching, including a few graphite exercises.

Laurie Szilvagyi is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas and is a member of the International Guild of Realism and Signature Member of the Tennessee Watercolor Society. Laurie’s work includes drawing, composition, watercolor and oil painting. Her watercolors have been recognized in national and international watercolor exhibits where she has received numerous awards including the Grumbacher Gold Medallion. She currently studies oil painting under the mentorship of Anthony Waichulis of ANI Academy.  Most recently, Laurie’s ” Gentleman Jack” painting has been juried into the International Guild of Realism’s upcoming Spring Exhibition. For more details see our Member Highlights page.

Laurie was the President of the Tellico Art Guild for two years where she shared her STRETCH philosophy through Learning Labs and a variety of workshops. Over the past twelve years, Laurie has been teaching drawing, oil painting and watercolor workshops in Tennessee since retiring from a fifteen-year business career. Laurie’s teaching style is fun and expressive with written exercises and a formal presentation. Laurie demonstrates the same professionalism in her art workshops as she did as a Certified Management Consultant leading large system change projects for a major utility in Michigan.

Website: Laurie’s artwork is held in private collections and can be viewed on her Webpage: szilvagyiart.com, Facebook and Instagram.

NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom.  A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on March 18.  

Telling the story of Native People with pigment

David Fadden is an artist from Onchiota, New York. He is a member of the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Tribe, one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy.  Dave is known for his semi-abstract portraiture of Native Americans  using a mosaic technique. 

Dave also operates The Six Nations Museum in Onchiota, New York founded by his grandfather, Ray Fadden in 1954.  Its design reflects the architecture of a traditional Haudenosaunee (Six Iroquois Nations Confederacy) bark house.  The museum has over 3,000 artifacts with an emphasis on the Six Nations tribes.  

This Youtube video featuring Dave’s father John Fadden provides an overview of why his father, Ray Fadden focused his life to sharing the history of the Iroquois Nation: https://youtu.be/r1gVVB8Ocyg

NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom.  A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on January 21. 

Watercolors – “Loose & Impressionistic”

After studying art through High School, Doug went on to college where he applied his passion for art & architecture culminating in graduation in 1971 in Architectural Technology.  For the next 30 years he enjoyed a successful business career in the Hamilton, Ontario area until early retirement in 2002.  Throughout his business career he studied with several well-known Canadian and American watercolourists, which laid the groundwork for his second and current career as a watercolour artist and instructor.

Doug’s painting approach is uniquely ‘loose and impressionistic’ and he was influenced early on by the colour and compositions of John Singer Sargent and the design philosophy of Edgar Whitney. Today he follows a Whitney-like instructional style for his workshops with proven results.  His daily demonstrations, lessons and critiques utilize the Design Elements and the Principles of Design, all of which form the basis for his workshops.Doug is an elected member of the prestigious – Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC) and he is Past-President of the Central Ontario Art Association (COAA).  His enthusiasm for the watercolour medium along with his pragmatic and light-hearted approach, all lead to a stress-free and enjoyable experience.

Website: www.arrowsinthequiver.com 

NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom.  A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on October 15.  

During Doug’s presentation, he will refer to the following images:

Here is the watercolor that Doug painted during his demonstration