Art Club of Belleview

January-February 2011 Newsletter

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Art Club Of Belleview Newsletter

Our art club was established to have fun, and to promote art in the Belleview area. Our membership is $12 per year. If you would like to meet new friends, chat with other artists or promote your art, come see us. Our meetings take place the first Friday of each month at 4 p.m at the Belleview Library. We are open to new ideas and enjoy meeting new people. You'll love our friendly atmosphere, we are looking forward to seeing you.

Businesses exhibiting work from the Art Club of Belleview:Independent Bank
10990 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Community Bank
10131 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Belleview Chamber of Commerce
5301 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Cal's Place
11007 SE 66 Ter.
Belleview

State Representative Kurt Kelly Office
5612 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Blue Water Colon Care and Therapeutic Massage
5251 SE 113th St.
Belleview

Voice of South Marion
5516 SE 113th St.
Belleview

Community Links
9977 SE 58 Ave.
Belleview

B.D Beans Cafe
5148 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Humane Society of Marion County
701 NW 14th Rd.
Ocala

Mary Fox Tax & Acounting
5608 SE 113th St.
Belleview

The Cornerstone Team
KellerWilliams Realty
Spruce Creek South

Goin' Postal Belleview
11787 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Solar Trek
202 SE 33 Rd. Ave., Unit C
Ocala

Liberty Tax Service
5518 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview

Goin' Postal
3535 SE Maricamp Rd., Suite 505
Cedar Shores Plaza, Ocala

Don Notthingham & Assoc.
11415 SE 62 Ave
Belleview

Ocala Affordable Airconditioners, Inc
11797 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Edward Jones
5900 SE Abshier Blvd.
Belleview
Capt'n Jack's Boat Brokerage
12401 S US Hwy 441
Belleview

Famous Artists Quote

"Colour and I are one. I am a painter." - Paul Klee, 1914.

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary" - Pablo Picasso

"Creativity is . . . seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God." - Michele Shea

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Art Club Of Belleview April 2011 at City Hall in Belleview. The Art club of Belleview, with cooperation with Belleview City Hall , is organizing an international art exhibition "Colorful world around us" for children and students 6-18 years old. The art works will be divided into three categories: 6-9; 10-14; and 15-18 years.Art Club Of Belleview
Drop off days are March 20, 21,19,20,24, at the Chamber of Commerce in Belleview
Please note that we are accepting one picture of each participant. Each piece should be sign and have tag with name, age, school ( or phone number when particip...ant can be reached) Each art work should be unframed and signed on the back with full name and age , address and phone number .Winners will be announced April 10, 2011

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Famous Artist Biography:

born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón - Coyoacán, Mexico - 6th of July, 1907 / Died 13th of July, 1954

Frida Kahlo is one of Mexico's most famous artists. Well known for her self portraits emphasizing her inner struggles, Kahlo managed to gain fame with both her artwork and her public persona before her death in 1954.

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 as Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderon in Coyoacan, Mexico to Guillermo Kahlo and Henriette Kaufmann. Her father was of German descent, having changed his name from Wilhelm to the Spanish equivalent, Guillermo, upon his arrival to Mexico in 1891. Frida later acknowledged her German heritage during World War II by spelling her name as Frieda, the German equivalent to Frida.
Having two older older sister and one younger, Frida grew up in a home filled with feminism, despite the unhappy marriage between her parents. At the age of six, Frida contracted polio. Although she recovered from the disease, it left her right leg obviously thinner than her left. Later in life Frida would wear long skirts to cover the deformity.
Frida Kahlo attended local schools and, at the age of 15, was enrolled in Preparatoria, a primary school. During this time and throughout her childhood, Kahlo witnessed the Mexican Revolution evolve around her. It was so close, in fact, that she remembered the gunfire and revolutionaries hopping into her yard to take cover. She also witnessed extraordinary violence, much of which stayed with her throughout her life.
On September 17, 1925, Kahlo was involved in a serious bus accident and suffered several injuries including a broken collarbone, broken spinal column, broken rigs, a broken pelvis, and eleven fractures in her right leg. A metal handrail also impaled her, damaging her reproductive capabilities. Although she fully recovered her ability to move and function, Kahlo was plagued by pain for much of her life.
Although she originally wanted to study medicine, the accident left Kahlo with a new desire to study art. While in recovery, Kahlo began painting full time in order to focus her attention away from her pain. She began painting self portraits due to the solitary state of her recovery and constant immobilization. Her paintings began reflecting more than her outside appearance and she wanted them to represent her inner conflicts as much as they represented her outer body.
As an artist, Kahlo admired and respected local muralist Diego Rivera and solicited advice on art. They fell in love as a result of their correspondence and married in 1929 to the disapproval of Kahlo's mother. They were nicknamed "the Elephant and the Dove" due Rivera's large size in comparison to Kahlo's petite figure.
Although Frida Kahlo is well known as a famous artist, she and her husband were also notorious for their troubled marriage and extramarital affairs. Kahlo had affairs with both men and women and, although Rivera was tolerant of her affairs within her same sex, he was jealous of her relations with other men. Rivera, for his part, had an affair with Kahlo's younger sister, Cristina. Kahlo and Rivera divorced in 1940 but remarried later that same year. Their second marriage was no less tumultuous than the first.
Kahlo and Rivera travelled to the United States for exhibitions of her work in Detroit, New York, and later in Paris. The couple eventually returned to Mexico to settle down and continue painting.
It was during this time that Kahlo and her husband housed Leon Trotsky and his wife as they fled from Stalin's regime in the Soviet Union. It became known after some time that Kahlo had an affair with Trotsky and the man and his wife eventually moved out.
Frida Kahlo died from a pulmanry embolism on July 13, 1954, having spent the last year battling various illnesses and physical problems (including the amputation of her right leg). During her life Kahlo painted 143 paintings, including fifty-five self portraits. Her works are well known for their symbolic realism and her ability to incorporate traditional Mexican styles into her work.

Art Club of Belleview's Artist Member of the Month

Bill Marder

In the 1950s Bill Marder, was among the first to utilize photography as a method of photographing the advertiser’s merchandise for producing catalogs, controlling the photography and printing processes from beginning to the end. In 1970 he moved to Hollywood Florida to help manage Dukane Press, part of International Silver Company. with one of the worlds largest in house photography and printing facilities that included the earliest scanners and computers.

During the 1970s Bill Marder entered in the collecting field of photography, authoring numerous books and articles on the history of photography. Most of these were illustrated with his own photography. His largest book, Anthony, The Man, The Company, The Cameras, 365 pages, and over 1000 illustrations were co-authored with his wife Estelle. The forward was by the noted historian and photographer Beaumont Newhall. This book was acclaimed in numerous reviews for its superb documentation, research and photographs on the history of photography. Marder’s book The History and Technique of a New Diffusion Process, utilized an instant paper negative process, (before Polaroid) which Bill Marder pioneered along with taking photographs using the large wood cameras 8x10 to 20x24 from his collection. Bill Marder has traveled throughout the United States, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. Canada, France and England lecturing on the history of photography. In 1984 Marder’s historic collection of cameras and his new Anthony book were on display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

In the 1990s with the entrance of the first digital camera, Bill Marder was one of the first to own, learn and develop techniques for use with his Mac computer.

In 2006 Bill Marder was the only photographer with 3 other women Artists selected from a number of entries from Florida to exhibit their work at the 2006 Biennial at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida. At the present time in the year 2009, he now uses 2- Panasonic 10 mega-pixel digital camera for his photographs along with his primary software, Painter 7 and Adobe Photoshop CS 2. He prints on 2 converted 6 color Epson 1280 printers, one for B&W and one for Color utilizing special archival carbon pigment inks. With his newly developed archival 'Photographic Art Pigment Process', Bill Marder is able to create original photographs on canvas or other art papers in Color or Black and White that outlast previous processes of photography. He has defined his work as a new advance in the many processes of Photography. Marder will be experimenting in 2008 and 2009 with newer creative techniques.

Marder’s works have been and are now in galleries in Belleview, Ocala and Gainesville and Tampa, Florida, as well as Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York City and Port Jefferson, New York, Williamstown, Mass as well as in a number of private collections.

Marder has received numerous awards and acclaims for his technique and mastery of digital photography and large archival canvas works. His new 237 page, documented book, Indians In The Americas, The Untold Story has recently been published with excellent reviews for its extensive (780) endnotes detailing the struggles of the American Indians. It is filled with over 1000 photos and illustrations including many of his American Indian photos.

Bill's email is: sacrcir@aol.com and website: http://www.billmarder.com

Exploring interesting techniques in art:

Lithograph
The design is drawn or painted on the polished, or grained, flat surface of a stone, usually Bavarian limestone, with a greasy crayon or ink. The design is chemically fixed on the stone with a weak solution of acid and gum Arabic. In printing, the stone is flooded with water which is absorbed everywhere except where repelled by the greasy ink. Oil-based printer's ink is then rolled on the stone, which is repelled in turn by the water-soaked areas and accepted only by the drawn design. A piece of paper is laid on the stone and it is run through the press with light pressure, the final print showing neither a raised nor embossed quality but lying entirely on the surface of the paper. The design may be divided among several stones, properly registered, to produce, through multiple printings, a lithograph in more than one color. A transfer lithograph (French, autographie) employs the same technique, but the design is drawn on special transfer paper and is later mechanically transferred to the stone. A zincograph is the same technique, but employing a zinc plate rather than a stone.

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Art Club of Belleview Presents

THE BELLEVIEW ART FESTIVAL

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2010

9 AM – 3 PM

LAKE LILLIAN PARK

Local artists will be showing their work around Lake Lillian. Entertainment of all kinds will be provided all through the day. There will be food vendors as well. Come out and enjoy the day!

This is FREE to all artists displaying their art. Craft booths will be charged $5,

Food Vendors will be charged $25. The booth space will be 12 x 12. We will not provide tables, chairs, or tents. That will be your responsibility.

If you want more than one 12 x 12 space, the cost will be only $5 for another space.

For information, or an application, please call Daniela Banatova at 245-4728.

Applications must be in by Friday, November 5, 2010.

Here are just some of the activities that will happen throughout the day

Artist Booths – art will be judged and awards given

Craft Booths

Live music

Dance

Food

Fashion

Jewelry

Face Painting

Funniest Dog Dress Up Show – all profits will go to the Marion County Humane Society

JOIN US ON NOVEMBER 13, 2010 FOR

A FUN FILLED DAY OF ART IN THE PARK!

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Belleview Art Festival Application
Saturday, November 13, 2010
9 AM – 3 PM
Lake Lillian Park, Belleview, FL 34420

Name or Business Name______________________________________
Address ___________________________________________________
City, State, Zip ______________________________________________
Phone ________________________ Cell_________________________
Email: _____________________________________________________

Your booth space will be 12 x 12. We will not provide tables, chairs, or tents. That will be your responsibility. If you want more than one 12 x 12 space, that will cost anyone only $5 for another space.

____ Artist Booth – Free (for one booth space) Type of art ____________________________

____ Craft Booth – $5.00 Type of craft __________________________

____ Food Vendor $20.00 Type of Food __________________________
____ Additional Booth Space $5.00 Need Electricity ____________

TOTAL AMOUNT DUE _____________ (Please make check payable to “Art Club of Belleview”)

I agree to indemnify the Art Club of Belleview or anyone connected with the show and exhibit and hold them harmless against all actions, claims, liabilities, losses, costs, and expenses which, in any way may arise in connection with or resulting from Belleview Art Festival, including claims for bodily injury or death of persons, and for loss of or damage to property, whether the same is due to negligent act of omission of this organization, their agents, employees, or otherwise.

Signature: ___________________________________ Date: _____________________

Set up for the Belleview Art Festival will be the morning of the festival. You can bring your vehicle
to your space to unload your items, but all cars must be out of the Festival booth area by 8:30 am.
Please mail this application and money to:
Art Club of Belleview
C/o Daniela Banatova
11782 SE 99 Terrace
Belleview, FL 34420

Application must be in by Friday, November 5. You will be able to find out where your booth will be on Saturday when you come to set up your booth. Someone will be at the large pavilion with the booth layout and will be able to direct you to your booth space.

Please make a copy of this application for your records before sending it to Daniela.

April 2010

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Famous Artist of the Month: Sybil Andrews

Sybil Andrews biography

Sybil Andrews’ work has met with wide critical acclaim and ever increasing popularity. Her colour linocuts were featured extensively in the 2008 Fine Arts, Boston / Metropolitan, New York British Prints From the Machine Age - Rhythms of Modern Life 1914–1939 exhibition, and her work is held in major collections around the world.

Sybil Andrews’s interest in art began whilst working as an oxyacetylene airline welder in the First World War. During this time she took John Hassall’s* art correspondent course which introduced her to a number of different artistic media.

After the War she returned to her birthplace, Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk. Here she met Cyril Power who would influence her work, and with whom she would share a workshop for much of her early working life. They would also later collaborate on commissions from The London Passenger Transport Board, jointly signed with the pseudonym ‘Andrew Power’.

Wishing to pursue her interests in art Andrews enrolled at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art, London. But it was not until she became school secretary and attended Claude Flight’s linocut classes at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art that Andrews really found her métier, and she quickly became another acolyte of Flight’s enthusiasm for the colour linocut.

Whilst Andrews’ works evidence this assimilation of Flight’s formal language, they often depart from a depiction of the kinds of subjects – the dynamism of the modern world, its concern with speed and with technological advances – that Flight encouraged. Instead, Andrews more often sought to capture the rhythms and living movements of the human figure. She explored various sporting activities to this end, including football, horseback riding and motorcycle racing, as also activities associated with men’s physical work.

During the Second World War Andrews worked in a shipyard where she met her husband, and soon after (1947) the couple emigrated to the remote logging town of Campbell River on Vancouver Island, Canada. Here she achieved a large following which lasted well into the 1950’s. In the ‘60’s she fell into obscurity, but was rediscovered in the 1970’s. She died in 1992 leaving a body of work totalling almost 80 linocuts.

Please Copy and Paste the Following Link to See the Some of Our Members Painting A Mural For the Shepard's Lighthouse In Belleview:

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Art Club of Belleview Artist of the Month

James Dentici

James is from Long Island, New York, where he was a supervisor for the New York Telephone Company for many years. After moving to Florida in 1995, he became interested in photography, which became one of his hobbies, along with fishing.

James and his friends are always ready to look for some unusual photo opportunities to shoot, whether it be day or night, they're always ready with their cameras. Some of James' photographs have been displayed in local businesses in and around Belleview, Florida.

You can contact James at 352-821-3767 or email him at dancinggator1@yahoo.com

Famous Artist Quotes:

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque

What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo

There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky

Exploring New Techniques In Art:

http://graffitila.com/technique-and-aesthetics

Click on the above hotlink to learn a little about 'street art'. Graffiti is not just defined as writing or drawing on a train car, wall or some other type of object...Graffiti has grown into an expression of counter-culture. Some very creative energy and skill is in this mostly urban brand of art. There is a lot more than meets the eye!

Membership application

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Art Club of Belleview
www.artclubbelleview.zoomshare.com
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
Membership Type: Individual Family

Name: Phone: (................................................................ )

Cell:(............................................................................)

Address:.............................................................................................................................................

City: State: .................................................................................................................

Zip: .....................................................................................

E-mail: ...............................................................................

Artistic Interests:

The Art Club of Belleview is a non-profit organization with a dedicated purpose of promoting the arts. By signing this application, you and your family agree to abide by all club rules and to hold the Art Club of Belleview faultless, legally or otherwise, for damages suffered by you or your art while participating in any Art Club of Belleview meeting or event. The Art Club of Belleview reserves the right to terminate any membership, for any reason, at any time upon a fifty-one percent, (51%), majority vote of the board of directors. By signing this form, you agree not to sue the Art Club of Belleview, any member or any officer thereof, for any reason. The Art Club of Belleview board of directors and membership shall not be held liable for financial obligations or debts incurred by any member. Dues are $12.00 per year for individual or family memberships. Completed applications along with checks, payable to The Art Club of Belleview, should be mailed to:
The Art Club of Belleview
c/o James G. Dentici, Treasurer
17171 S.E. 165th Avenue Weirsdale,
FL 32195
Please call James or Carol at 352.821.3767 for membership information.

Signature:

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Businesses exhibiting work from the Art Club of Belleview:
Independent Bank-10990 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Community Bank-10131 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Belleview Chamber of Commerce -5301 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Cal's Place-11007 SE 66 Ter. Belleview
State Representative Kurt Kellyâ€™s Office -5612 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Blue Water Colon Care and Therapeutic Massage-5251 SE 113th St. Belleview
Voice of South Marion-5516 SE 113th St. Belleview
Community Links-9977 SE 58 Ave. Belleview
B.D Beans Cafe -5148 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Humane Society of Marion County-701 NW 14th Rd. Ocala
Mary Fox Tax & Accounting-5608 SE 113th St.Belleview
The Cornerstone Team
KellerWilliams Realty
Spruce Creek South
Goin' Postal Belleview-11787 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Solar Trek-202 SE 33 Rd. Ave., Unit C Ocala
Liberty Tax Service-5518 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Goin' Postal-3535 SE Maricamp Rd., Suite 505 Cedar Shores Plaza, Ocala
Don Notthingham & Assoc.-11415 SE 62 Ave. Belleview
Ocala Affordable Airconditioners, Inc-11797 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Edward Jones-5900 SE Abshier Blvd, Belleview, FL

Thank you for helping Belleview's artistic community grow!

A message from the mayor of Belleview,
Florida-Tammy Moore:
participate and enjoy art. This grant was supplemented by in-kind services by City staff as well as donations for prizes from our individual Commissioners and other local citizens. The childrenâ€™s artwork was displayed on the walls of the Commission Chamber for all to see and enjoy. The children were recognized in a Commission meeting and also at a special reception held in the Commission Chambers. This has been a great project, and one that the City Commission has been proud to participate in.
The City Commission received a $500.00 grant from the Marion County Art Council that was to be used to encourage children of the area to
Mayor
Tammy Moore

Art Club of Belleview is preparing Colorful world around us, international student exhibition in December.

Goings On!

We will host a reception at Libery Tax September 18th. More information will be available soon.
September 25 is day of reception in Belleview Chamber of Commerce. Come to have fun with us. 5-7:30 pm

During the Nine-Mile Pond festivities at Lake Lillian in Belleview October 3th, 2009 There will also be a fashion show taking place at 1 p.m.
sponsored by Chamber of Commerce, Art Club of Belleview, All About Art and Soul Essentials of Ocala.
Walking Art Gallery: Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Walking art Gallery at Nine Mile Pond. This will start at noon. We are inviting all artist from Marion County or farther to attend this event. Our goal is to show the public the art community here in Belleview) The artists will walk around Lake Lilian. Each artist should bring one of his/her works. The sign-up fee is a symbolic $.50 ( fifty cents). Money will be used through the Chamber of Commerce to promote the children's art show in December 2009 and for prizes.All children age 3-18 are welcome to join our fun event for free. Children age 3- 15 must be accompanied by one parent.Please get sign up sheet at Chamber of Commerce of print it our from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/ and send it to Chamber of Commerce no later than 28 of September. $50 will be payable during the event.You name will be read.

Humane Society of Marion County, Belleview Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Funniest dress up dog contest which will take place during 9 mile pond event in Belleview October 3, 2009 at 10 A.M Let your imaginary to flow with out border in dressing your dog for this event.......Registration fee is $5 per dog. Check should be made to Human society. Registration form could be obtain in Chamber of Commerce in Belleview, in Human So

ciety or it could be downloaded from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/Registration with the fee, please, sent to Humane Society ( P.O.BOX 1542, Ocala Fl 34478-1542) attn Dog contests no later than Septenber 28

Prizes are :1.place 40 pounds of dog food2.place 30 pounds of dog food3.place 10 pounds of dog food3 honorable mentions dog goodies and toys.All proceeds from this event is going to benefit Humane Society.Please, do come to have fun with us.

October 23rd, the Art Club of Belleview will be sponsoring an Art Tour-stay tuned for more information.
http://www.artclubbelleview.zoomshare.com/re.com/

Art Club of Belleview has a member's exhibition in the Belleview City Hall and the Belleview Chamber of Commerce. Please come out and take a look!
We are also pleased to announce that Art Club of Belleview has art works on exhibit with our international friends and members from Poland, Holland, Czech Republic and Germany!

Our Featured Artist Member of the Month

Kazuko de Bie

Kazuko was born in Japan, and came to the United States as an exchange nurse. After raising a child, she began to create oil paintings. Kaziko specializes among other things in landscapes, cityscapes, and still-lifes. She works mainly in oil, and occasionally in water as medium. Kazuko has won many awards. Her cityscapes of Waukesha, Wisconsin are a permanent collection at the Waukesha Court House and City Hall. For these works she was awarded the key of the city. Currently two of her works, 'Chamber of Commerce' and 'Brickcity, Center of Art' are on display at the Planning Management building in Ocala. Her style of painting is mostly in impressionism, and sometimes in realism. You can contact Kazuko at: edmond@mfi.net

Featured Master Artist of the Month:

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most innovative and controversial artists of the early twentieth century. The son of an engraver, he studied at the State School of Applied Arts in Vienna. In the 1880s and 1890s he produced murals for public buildings -- including Vienna's Burgtheater and new Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum) -- in the prevailing classical-realist style. Klimt's style grew increasingly experimental, however, and his murals for Vienna University, commissioned by the State in 1894, were roundly attacked by critics for their fantastical imagery and their bold, decorative style. Partly in response to this reaction, in 1897 Klimt helped form the Secession, a group of artists dedicated to challenging the conservative Academy of Fine Arts. Influenced by European avant-garde movements represented in the annual Secession exhibitions, Klimt's mature style combined richly decorative surface patterning with complex symbolism and allegory, often with overtly erotic content. After 1900 he concentrated on portraits and landscapes, although he also produced two of his greatest murals during this period -- The Beethoven Frieze, exhibited at the Secession in 1902, and decorations for the Palais Stoclet in Brussels (1904-1911). Klimt spent most of his summers on the Attersee, near Salzburg, where he drew inspiration for many of his landscapes, and where he painted some of his best-known works, including The Kiss of 1907-8.

Famous Artist Quotes:

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. Vincent van Gogh

Everyone wants to understand art. Why donâ€™t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.Pablo Picasso Quotes

"Colour and I are one. I am a painter." - Paul Klee, 1914.

"The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves." - Willem de Kooning, 1968

Exploring New Art Techniques

Naked Raku or Slip Resist Rakuis a relatively new technique which has risen out of the traditional Eastern and Western Raku Movements. As with traditional Raku, Naked Raku works are fired quickly in a rush of excitement, smoke, and frantic activity.Naked Raku works are constructed using traditional methods of hand building, wheel throwing or a combination of these techniques. The types of clay used will vary among artists; however, all clays used must be able to withstand the tremendous stresses of rapidly changing temperatures during the final firing. Once constructed, works are allowed to dry completely. They are then burnished or polished using an agate or other hard, smooth object. This process is very tedious and time consuming, often taking several hours to complete one piece. The finished works are not covered with glazes or surface preparations of any kind. The fine surface and beautiful shine is merely polished clay. The quality of the surface is directly proportional to the time the artist spends in burnishing. Upon completion of the burnishing stage the works are bisque fired to help strengthen them for the final firing process.Bisqued works are covered with a thin coating of liquid clay called slip. Once this layer is dry a thin layer of sacrificial glaze is then applied to the slip. These two layers dry and shrink at different rates and begin to produce a crackled surface. The work is then fired in a propane fueled Raku kiln to temperatures approaching 1800Ëš F. The glowing hot works are quickly removed from the kiln and placed into metal cans containing newspaper and sawdust. The cans are then sealed allowing heavy black smoke to penetrate the works and seep through the cracks in the slip/glaze layer. When the works are cool the sacrificial slip and glaze layers are gently peeled away leaving the â€œNakedâ€ clay surface with a randomly beautiful smoked design.Naked Raku works are one of a kind pieces of fine art. They are not intended for food or as containers for liquids. As with all works of fine art, Naked Raku pieces should be handled with care and protected from direct sunlight.

Florida landscape painter Jackie Schindehette and Equine artist Sharon Crute have partnered to help in the revitalization of historic downtown Ocala. Voilart! Art Gallery and Working Studio opens September 1, at 108 East Ft. King Street, just one block south of the Central Square. The public is invited to A Ribbon Cutting Opening Reception scheduled for Friday, September 4 from 5PM-8PM.
The gallery offers the finest in artistic excellence from these two accomplished artists. Sharon Crute’s dynamic paintings are a colorful and bold interpretation of the horse racing industry. Jackie Schindehette’s oil paintings give the viewer a glimpse of old Florida with sweeping vistas and moss draped oaks.
Voilart! Art Gallery is not only a gallery where people can see art at its best but is also a working studio offering the unique opportunity for the public to watch as these two artists actually create paintings from conception to the last brush stroke. Schindehette points out that "Sharon and I will be painting in the studio/gallery and invite people to stop by, sit a while, learn a little more about art and share our passion."
"The gallery will showcase our own paintings, but we are also on a mission to actively support all cultural events within the community, educate the public about the arts and provide a powerful presence in the downtown art scene", says co-owner Sharon Crute.
Crute and Schindehette have already begun to work for the arts community. The gallery will be headquarters for all painters participating in the World Wide Plein Air Event to be held September 12 in downtown Ocala from 7 AM - 5 PM. Maps of downtown charting the location of each artist will be handed out so the public can find and watch each artist working.
Original paintings by Crute and Schindehette will be available at Voilart! Art Gallery as well as giclee reproductions and gift items created from works by these two nationally recognized artists.
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Walking art gallery registration

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Artist name......................................................

Address.......................................................

e-mail............................................................

Phone..................................................................

What is your favorite medium?.............................................................................

What you would do to make art community better?.......................................................

Please send this registration form to Belleview Chamber of Commerce -5301 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview 34420, attn Walking art gallery

Walking Art Gallery: Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Walking art Gallery at Nine Mile Pond October 3,2009. This will start at noon. We are inviting all artist from Marion County or farther to attend this event. Our goal is to show the public the art community here in Belleview. The artists will walk around Lake Lilian. Each artist should bring one of his/her works. The sign-up fee is a symbolic $.50 ( fifty cents). Money will be used through the Chamber of Commerce to promote the children's art show in December 2009 and for prizes.All children age 3-18 are welcome to join our fun event for free. Children age 3- 15 must be accompanied by one parent.Please get sign up sheet at Chamber of Commerce of print it our from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/ and send it to Chamber of Commerce(5301 SE Abshier Blvd, Belleview, Fl 34420) no later than 22 of September. $0.50 will be payable during the event.You name will be read. The best 3 art works will be recognized in both categories (Children and Adult)

Registration form Dog show

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Dog contest:

Dogs name....................................................................

Owners name............................................................

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Question: what is your dog favorite
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When your dog makes you laught?.......................................................................................................

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Please send this registration form with check made up to Humane society to this address:
Human Society of Marion County attn Dog show
P.O. Box 1542, Ocala Fl 34478-1542
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Humane Society of Marion County, Belleview Chamber of Commerce and Art Club of Belleview are organizing Funniest dress up dog contest which will take place during 9 mile pond event in Belleview October 3, 2009 at 10 A.M Let your imaginary to flow with out border in dressing your dog for this event.......Registration fee is $5 per dog. Check should be made to Human society. Registration form could be obtain in Chamber of Commerce in Belleview, in Human Society or it could be downloaded from http://www.artclubbelleview.blogspot.com/Registration with the fee, please, sent to Humane Society ( P.O.BOX 1542, Ocala Fl 34478-1542) attn Dog contests
Prizes are :
1.place 40 pounds of dog food
2.place 30 pounds of dog food
3.place 10 pounds of dog food
3 honorable mentions dog goodies and toys
All proceeds from this event is going to benefit Humane Society
Please do come to have fun with us.

June

2009-06-09T03:48:00.000-07:00

Art Club will be holding a reception at the Belleview Chamber of Commerce from 5-7 p.m. On June 26th for our artists. Please come and support our local artists with your presence. Refreshments and door prizes will be available.

A special thank you to the following:
The Chamber of Commerce, T.J. Trophies of Ocala, Smith Lake Village Homeowners Association, Don Nottingham and Edward Jones in Belleview for their generous donations to our Children's Exhibition! The award ceremony was on May 19 during City Commissioners meeting.

Our Featured Artist of the Month:
Carol DenticiCarol is originally from Long Island, New York. For the past 25 years she has worked in stained glass. Since she was about four years old, Carol has been working with watercolor painting and graphite drawings, and now is trying her hand at colored pencil and acrylics.Her hobbies are painting gourds, creating cement/stained glass stepping stones, taking care of her garden and her animals, which include two Rat Terriers, a mini Dachshund, a full size Appaloosa horse and a miniature Appaloosa horse. Animals are one of the themes that often pop up in her watercolor paintings, like race horses and jungle animals.
Carol has been a great asset to our club since it's first meeting!

Exploring New Techniques:

Image Transfer
Ever wanted to print or copy a favourite picture onto another piece or paper or card? This simple process makes it easy:
Take the image you want to transfer and get a Canon colour photocopy made; you may need to reverse the image for it to transfer the right way It has to be a Canon photocopy because of the type of ink they use.
Take the photocopy, place it face down on the paper you wish to transfer it to and rub the back of the photocopy with a sponge soaked in a little acetone. Make sure you don't move the photocopy or the target paper while you do this.
The image will transfer from the photocopy to your paper.
Warning. Acetone is not a very nice material to breath so make sure you do this in a well-ventilated area or preferably outside. We braved the elements and did out transfers out doors. You can get acetone from hardware stores. Read the warning labels.

Famous Artist Quotes:
Cy Twombly A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
Giorgio Morandi A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness
Diego Rivera ::: I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Rousseau, Henri,

Henri Julien Félix Rousseau

known as Le Douanier Rousseau (1844-1910). French painter, the most celebrated of naÃ¯ve artists.
His nickname refers to the job he held with the Paris Customs Office (1871-93), although he never actually rose to the rank of `Douanier' (Customs Officer). Before this he had served in the army, and he later claimed to have seen service in Mexico, but this story seems to be a product of his imagination. He took up painting as a hobby and accepted early retirement in 1893 so he could devote himself to art.
His character was extraordinarily ingenuous and he suffered much ridicule (although he sometimes interpreted sarcastic remarks literally and took them as praise) as well as enduring great poverty. However, his faith in his own abilities never wavered. He tried to paint in the academic manner of such traditionalist artists as Bouguereau and GÃ©rÃ´me, but it was the innocence and charm of his work that won him the admiration of the avant-garde: in 1908 Picasso gave a banquet, half serious half burlesque, in his honor. Rousseau is now best known for his jungle scenes, the first of which is Surprised! (Tropical Storm with a Tiger) (National Gallery, London, 1891) and the last The Dream (MOMA, New York, 1910). These two paintings are works of great imaginative power, in which he showed his extraordinary ability to retain the utter freshness of his vision even when working on a large scale and with loving attention to detail. He claimed such scenes were inspired by his experiences in Mexico, but in fact his sources were illustrated books and visits to the zoo and botanical gardens in Paris. His other work ranges from the jaunty humor of The Football Players (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1908) to the mesmeric, eerie beauty of The Sleeping Gypsy (MOMA, 1897). Rousseau was buried in a pauper's grave, but his greatness began to be widely acknowledged soon after his death.

Focus On:
All About Art-Unique Gift Shop and Gallery-5162 Southeast Abshier Blvd.

(Hwy. 441) Belleview, Florida-352 307-9774
Donna D'Amato-owner/proprietor
ACB: Donna, how long has All About Art been in business?
Donna: Since 2000.

ACB: What kind of place is All About Art?
Donna: We are a co-op of local artists, New Age classes/teachers and a shop that sells stones, clothing, and works of art.
ACB: What is your criteria for artists to be able to sell or exhibit their work here?
Donna: We have a panel of three who look at the sale-ability of a particular piece. However, if you can't fit in to the gallery, we have 'StarvingArtstâ€ shows where you can bring your items to sell.
We really try to take in all aspects of art, greeting cards, clothing and pottery. We want to display all levels and styles of original artwork.
ACB: Can you tell us a little bit about what future events you will be involved in?
Donna: We are planning a children's pottery classes and in the spirit of Independence Day, we will be having a 'Made in America' 10% off discount sale on all items in our shop throughout the month of July. Also, Joy Scroggie will host classes on Organic Gardening, we are also planning a Parapsychology event on the 31st and June 18th, we will be hosting a special fashion show at the Villages.

Exhibition around the Globe

:This time we are going to see Palzzo delle Esposizioni in Rome

Bulgari. From History to Eternity. 125 Years of Italian Jewellery
Curated by Amanda Triossi22 May 2009 - 13 September 2009
Palazzo delle Esposizioni presents a landmark show devoted to the jewellery of Bulgari which marks the 125th anniversary of the opening of the first store in Rome in 1884. It is an event that is extremely significant for Italian decorative arts, in particular, for the history of jewellery, inasmuch as it makes it possible to survey the evolution of European jewellery through the production of one of the leading jewellers in the world.By bringing together nearly five hundred objects created between 1884 and 2009, the exhibition intends to illustrate the origin and success of an absolutely distinctive style and, at the same time, celebrate the extraordinary technical and creative quality of the famous Roman maison.Articulated in chronological and thematic sections in the eight monumental galleries of the piano nobile, the exhibition begins with a display of silver artefact's manufactured by the founder of the firm, Sotirio Bulgari, a Greek silversmith who settled in Rome in 1881. The following section is dedicated to the splendid diamond-set jewels in Art Déco style, which clearly illustrate the success the maison had achieved in the field of jewellery by the 1930s when the second generation of Bulgari, Giorgio and Costantino, succeeded Sotirio in running the firm. The exhibition continues with the most representative examples of the 1940s and 1950s, which were still stylistically influenced by the Parisian jewellery in vogue at the time, and then leads the visitor to the creative turning point of the 1960s. The jewellery here, marked by compact, rounded shapes and an abundant use of coloured gemstones in surprising and unusual combinations, reveals the beginning of a distinctive new style that coincides with the arrival of the third generation of Bulgari, that of Gianni, Nicola and Paolo. The extremely eclectic and original creations of the 1970s, ranging from jewellery evocative of the Indian tradition to that inspired by Pop Art, then develop into the innovative and daring designs of the 1980s and 1990s. The central rotunda of Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the visitor's final destination, is entirely dedicated to the most precious and exclusive creations of the new millennium which testify the continuing success of Bulgari, now under the guidance of Francesco Trapani of the fourth generation. Here, a diamond necklace of incomparable beauty and overwhelming economic value represents the most spectacular conclusion possible.The exhibition devotes special attention to some of the most significant themes of the Bulgari style such as: coins mounted in jewellery, serpent motifs, the so-called Tubogas and the BVLGARI logo used as a decorative element. An entire section is dedicated to the Dolce Vita and the company's close ties with the film industry of the 1950s and 1960s. For the first time ever, visitors will be able to admire the spectacular jewels worn by such great film stars as Ingrid Bergman, Gina Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Anna Magnani, as well as other celebrities, along with photographs and film clips. An entire room will be reserved for the extraordinary Bulgari collection belonging to Elizabeth Taylor: enormous emeralds and sapphires in magnificent diamond surrounds characterize the celebrated jewels of her love story with Richard Burton.Approximately two hundred and fifty items in the exhibition are part of the Bulgari Vintage Collection (a retrospective collection not for sale) while the jewels that come from private collections are on display here for the first time.This extraordinary exhibition is complemented by a richly illustrated catalogue of 376 pages, which is available in Italian, English and French.

Introducing Art Services for Artist

Art Business Centre

Welcome to the Internet business with art…We offer works of visual art, folk and in sit art ranging from Slovak to foreign artists, sale of antiques and a wide portfolio of services for our customers (visitors, purchasers) and visual art artists.The business is done by direct sale - merchandise, not by an auctions and conception wise is arranged as a large art salon.Upon a long-time organization and management experience in the area of art, culture and an amount of important foreign contacts and also active marketing, our company promotes artists and their works within countries of EU, Asia, Japan, USA and Canada.

Basic information about the Internet trade of Art Business Centre, ltd company:The Internet trade of Art Business Centre, ltd company is realized by form of sale, not by form of auction.The Internet trade of Art Business Centre, ltd company is conceptually organized as a visual salon of different areas of visual art, in sit and folk art. Apart from these areas the independent sections are antiques and services to customers/purchasers and services to artists.To participate this way of trade can every professional creative artist, author of work, in sit or folk artist, also any natural person or corporate body who is just owner of a work of art, regardless of EU state they come from or work in. To participate this trade can sellers come from other states too.The seller is responsible for the level of work, also for its technical value and property rights to it.The Art Business Centre, Ltd company by this way offers complex range of various artistic areas and their creative sections in one Internet portal to every fan of art.Information, services and offers provided in the Internet domain of Art Business Centre, Ltd company will be progressively extended and filled up according to necessities, interests and offers of creative public, culture institutions and the persons interested in art.

for more info http://www.artbusinesscentre.com/index.php?page=uvod

Art Club welcomes new members:

Noreen Floden, Janice Floote,William Marder,Peggy Newsome,Sylvia Richardson,Clay Waldron, Sidney Wechter

Our internationals members: Katarzyna Bednarska, Poland; Aleksander Kednarski Poland

to read more about our artists http://www.artclubbelleview.zoomshare.co/

Businesses exhibitiong art in our area:

Independent Bank 10990 S US Hwy 441 Belleview
Community Bank10131 S US Hwy 441Belleview
Belleview Chamber of Commerce 5301 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Cal's Place11007 SE 66 Ter. Belleview
Blue Water Colon Care and Therapeutic Massage5251 SE 113th St.Belleview
Voice of South Marion5516 SE 113th St.Belleview
Community Links9977 SE 58 Ave. Belleview
B.D Beans Cafe 5148 SE Abshier Blvd. Belleview
Humane Society of Marion County 701 NW 14th Rd.Ocala
Mary Fox Tax & Acounting5608 SE 113th St. Belleview
The Cornerstone Team KellerWilliams RealtySpruce Creek South
Goin' Postal Belleview11787 S US Hwy 441Belleview Solar Trek202 SE 33 Rd. Ave., Unit C Ocala

Belleview City Hall 5343 SE Abshier Blvd Belleview

New businesses:

Liberty Tax Service 5518 SE Abshire Blvd ,BelleviewDon Notthingham &associates 11415 SE 62 Ave, Belleview

Goin' Postal 3535 Se Maricam Road suite#500 Cedar Shores Plaza,OcalaAffortable Conditioners Inc.11797 HWY 441 Belleview ( Almeida Plaza)

In June we changed art in most of the businesses, please, do come to see new exhibitions

Polish women artists living in USA

by Ewa Maria Hunca
Our Art Club of Belleview unites a group of people who represent various fields of fine arts and work with various media - we are painters, graphic artists, photographers and makers of variety of such objects as for instance cards and papier mache artifacts. Our chairman Danela creates unique abstract pictures using bobbing lace technique. We are professionals and amateurs. As is typical for Florida, we have come here from all over the United States. Thus, we represent a substantial amount of experience we can share with each other. But our variety is even larger: some of us represent various ethnic backgrounds like Czech, German, Dutch, Japanese, Polish. We can give first hand information about our old homelands and I find this very appealing.So when Danela asked me to write something about Polish art, I felt very happy and excited.Though, of course, it did not seem an easy task.What to choose? What do you know about Poland?Perhaps you recollect Nicolaus Copernicus and his heliocentric system? When you come to Poland you will be able to visit his beautifully gothic native town of Torun or Cracow , where his Alma Mater, the Jagiellonian University, was founded in 14th century. Or perhaps you saw the film 'Quo Vadis', (about Christians in the ancient Rome of Nero), based on the book written by the Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz?Well, to let you know about some famous Poles - some ofthem being especially tied to the history of America.Frederich Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Pola Negri, Maria Curie Sklodowska, Kazimer Pulaski, Karol Wojtyla..... But it is much more difficult to find Polish artists being so generally known. Probably only art historians will know who Henryk Rodakowski was - a famous portraitist and a winner of the Paris Salon 1st Class Medal in 1852, and it was just this once that the 1st Class Medal was won by a foreigner (Rodakowski was nominated for this award by Eugene Delacroix himself). Well, perhaps when you visited the Appleton Museum in Ocala you happened to notice an oil by Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, a representative of the so called Munich School (many Poles studied art either in Paris or in Munich, Dresden and Vienna). Or maybe if you visit South Dakota you will be willing to see there the gigantic mountain sculpture of the Indian Warrior Crazy Horse. In 1939 the Dakota Indian Chief wrote to a Polish sculptor Korczak-Ziolkowski (1908 - 1982), living then in the USA) :" My fellow Chiefs and I would like the White Man to know that the Red Man has also great heroes." and he asked Ziolkowski to curve a sculpture of Crazy Horse in the mountain and the Pole worked on this sculpture for 40 years without any payment and his family is continuing the project.Or maybe when you enter New York galleries you will spot a sculpture by Magdalena Abakanowicz, a contemporary Polish artist who is very famous and asked to exhibit in the most prominent galleries all over the world.But there are really many contemporary Polish artists living in the United States and selling their art with a great success.

I have chosen 3 women artists to whom I have a more personal attitude and they will be the main subject of this essay. The 3 artists are:Joanna Zjawinska in San Francisco - who attracted me years ago when I saw her works for the first time in Poland;Anna Socha VanMatre in Cincinnati http://www.annavanmatre.com/home.html - a daughter of my mother,s school girlfriend;Maja Godlewska in Charlotte, a friend of my friend, both of them teachers at the University in North Carolina. Joanna Zjawinska graduated from the Warsaw School of Architecture in 1972 and then in 1978 from the Warsaw Fine Arts Academy. She moved to San Francisco in 1979 with her husband and started a very successful artistic career there.I have prepared the attachment no 2 so that you can see some of her works but you may also go to Google to see more.I suppose that Zjawinska's works can be an excellent topic for a discussion - How can one sell successfully and to paint more and more - does quantity of work influence its quality ? Of course it can be either way! But is it not a bit disturbing to paint so much and to sell one's works in every possible way so that one painting can be sold as an original, as a print, and as a copy on canvas with paint added to it at the same time? And again, of course nowadays our contact with art is so very often through reproduction - a music record (not in a concert hall), TV (not theatre), an album book (not a piece of art itself). Does it have any implications? If so which? And if you sell so well, do you intend to woo your buyers more and more or the opposite - you tend to be more independent in your art? What I like in Zjawinska's art is mainly her sense of theater and literature (maybe not so many people agree with me - not everybody likes a story in a painting), her ability to create a world of her own but with many literary and artistic references and digressions; hers is the world full of reminiscences of the French Belle Epoque or the world one may perhaps name the Great Gatsby's world. It is also the world of modern fashion and high society magazines, not without a hint of satire. But take a look and decide for yourself.Anna Socha VanMatre is a well known personality in Cincinnati - and she exhibits a lot in New York (right now in the NYC Gallery at49 ) . Critics say that her art is influenced by music - maybe because her husband is a well known musician; he a jazz saxophonist Rick VanMatre.Anna grew up in Cracow and graduated from the Cracow Fine Arts Academy. Her works are usually of enormous sizes, painted on floor. But look for yourself And the last - but not the least - artist to be introduced now - is Maja (Maria) Godlewska , a professor of painting in the University of North Carolina in Charlotte. She was born and educated in the Polish city of Wroclaw and later on studied art in Dublin, Ireland and then lived for a couple of years in West Africa.She is a well known artist in Charlotte (and not only) you can see some of her art http://www.lassitergallery.com/Godlewska/maja0506.htm - critics see in it recollections of nature: trees, clouds, water but often not without a human body.

Question of this month is what Henri Rousseau nick name?

Send answer to artquestion@hotmail.com no later than July 25 and you can winn art work from one of our members. Winner wil be announced in our September e-news letter.

e-mail editor Eileen Slattery

April

2009-04-29T04:31:00.000-07:00

May marks our first offical year as an art club. We hope we can continue to grow and to share our time and talent with the community. We want to thank everyone for their support!

ALL ART CLUB PHOTOGRAPHERS ARE EXHIBITING THEIR WORKS AT BELLEVIEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

Photos are from reception April 24. We had a lot of fun. Exhibition will be on display till Jun 20.2009

In April ACB with close cooperation with City Commissioner Christine Dobkowski, organized a student art exhibition titled: "CELEBRATING SPRING WITH ART". The exhibition could be seen at the City Hall in Belleview until May 6.

1Category 6-9 years

1 place Robert Ledwith Stanton
2 place Hannah Slattery
3 place Aura Blackurn Stanton
Honorable mentions: Natasha Dobkowski, Daniel Martinez Stanton;Christion Homes Stanton

Category 10-14 years

1. place Corine Poetro Howard
2. place Tomesa Turner Ft. King
3. place Maria Hyde Howard

honorable mentions: Daniel Redheffer,Onja Berry Howard,Meagham Acevedo Lake Weir, Hope Slattery, Anne Lugo, Teishley River Ft. King

Category 15-18 years

1. place Breanne Shenk Bellview high
2. place Leah Lassenna Belleview high
3 .place Antony Beylotte Belleview high

Honorable mentions :

Miguel Cardona Belleview high,Anne Klusendart Belleview high,Danielle Post, Tyler White Belleview high, Savanah Benson

City Commisioner award will be announced next week.

Show judge, Viola Motyl internationally known artist from Switzerland with 40 years of experience in art education. Currently you can see Viola's art on exhibition at Slovak Embassy in Washington D.C.

Article form Star Banner
Artists paint seats so riding center can have saddles

By Joe VanHoose
Staff writer
Published: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 6:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, April 24, 2009 at 3:34 p.m.
Theresa Grimes didn’t know what kind of interest she could generate when she took off with an idea to host an art auction to benefit a local therapeutic riding center.

She was especially interested to see who would want to turn chairs from places to sit into pieces of art.

Then the phone started ringing. She had 25 chairs accounted for the first day.

Now she has about 50 chairs, each of them painted with a theme unique to the area, ready to auction off at the Paddock Mall on Saturday.

“We must have 50 artists from all over the county that have worked on these,” she said, standing in her home looking over two full rooms and a garage full of chairs. “My husband was joking with me, saying this is the last ‘chairity’ fundraiser we can do.”

Each chair will go up for silent auction, with all the proceeds going to the Stirrups ’n Strides Therapeutic Riding Center. A good turnout could mean enough money to buy a new tractor and more supplies for the growing operation in Citra. Organizers are hoping to raise about $5,000.

“This will buy a lot of equipment to take care of our facility,” said Grimes, the organization’s fundraising coordinator. “It takes a lot to take care of our 10 horses and 50 riders.”

Stirrups ’n Strides provides therapeutic horseback riding and driving to disabled children and adults from Marion and Alachua counties. According to its Web site, studies have shown that therapeutic riding provides benefits such as psychological bonding, lifting of the spirit, increased attention span and improved balance, posture and flexibility.

Area artists from groups like the Belleview Art Club and Ocala Decorative Art Group stepped up to paint several chairs. Chairs that belonged to old dining room and nook sets now show off scenes like the gazebo on the downtown Ocala square, horses racing and jumping over bushes, scuba divers swimming with manatees and even a set of dairy cows with a plastic udder hanging below.

Local artist Angie Rosier painted three chairs for the auction, including one that sports a Sherman fox squirrel on the front and a longleaf pine on the back. The combination for her was more than just a natural pairing.

“One of the natural habitats for the fox squirrel is the longleaf pine, and I have both around my house,” she said. “But I wanted to paint them because they’re both becoming endangered.

“It’s an homage to what used to be Florida, the Florida I saw in the ’70s.”

Another chair, painted as a collective effort from The Media Group 3 in Ocala, shows an alligator opening its mouth between a collection of oranges and blues. Below, “2008 National Champions” is painted to commemorate the University of F

Florida’s NCAA football championship. “We were thinking of themes that might be a good seller, and this was it,” said John Tripodi, a graphic designer at the firm who happens to be an Ohio State fan. “But we needed a way to get around any copyright issues, so we painted the gator. It worked out real nice.

Chair done by Carol Dentici
Fund raising

Our members: Nelly Ordija, Grace Kathman, Carol Dentici, Kazuko de Bie, Christe Slocum, Ewa Hunca Baker and Daniela Banatova have participated in charitable event .We painted chairs which are going to auctioned May 2 at Paddock Mall in Ocala. Profit from thic auction is going benefit organization Stirrups n' Strides, Theraupetic Riding

We want to welcome our newest Art Club of Belleview member:

Ilka Boogaard
"As a webdesigner I owned a 'point and shoot' camera and had a lot of opportunities to take snapshots. However my camera lacked the ability to take truly outstanding photos. Then I recently received a Canon Digital Rebel as a Christmas present and rediscoverd how much fun photography can be.

As a global citizen (born in the Netherlands and resided in Costa Rica and the United States) I have lived in different cultures and surroundings and I hope to use that in my photography. My favorite subjects are travel, nature and street photography. You can see more of my photography at http://ilkajb.jalbum.net/Photo_Albums, or visit my website portfolio at http://art-spark.com/.

Featured Artist of the Month:
Nelly Ordija

"I was born in France but emigrated to the U.S. as a small child. I grew up mainly in Chicago but have lived in Colorado, California,

Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, and now Florida. I think I'm a gypsy at heart.

My jobs have been many but my life's work is art. During my travels in my youth I painted murals. More recently I've done paintings which are political in nature and very symbolic like the painting, THE REVENGE OF THE TAINO. I asked the question - What if lung cancer is the cosmic consequence of the genocide of the Native American? My next question- Who were the first? Much of my work requires extensive research.

I have also done design and decorative painting on jewelry, cut-up t-shirts, wooden boxes, pottery, murals, and recycled pieces like shirts, purses and furniture. My t-shirts are currently on sale at Soul Essentials near downtown Ocala.

I believe there are infinite posibilities for art and design in our lives. It is all around us. We just need to open our eyes and hearts. I can be reached at nellyordija@yahoo.com, http://nellyordija.zoomshare.com."

Famous artist quote :

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. Salvadore Dali

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Diane Arbus

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind. Frank Lloyd Wright

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keefe

Studying a new technique:
A Brief History of Tiedy

Or what is tiedye, anyway?
The word tie-dye encompasses a wide variety of dye processes. I've defined it as any dye process in which a pattern (no matter how crude) is produced by a resist from folding, twisting or tying material in any way you can think of. Some type of tiedye process was probably used shortly after the first fabrics and dyes were invented. I'm sure it didn't take very long for someone to discover that twisting or scrunching material before it was dunked in the berry juice produced a pattern, and from there it was a short step to adding some string or vines or something.

Prehistory
Since fabric is perishable we don't have direct evidence of the earliest dye arts. Archaeologists have found a variety of stamps that may have been used for printing fabric 5,000 years ago in Mesopotamia and India. Some of the stamps are rocker shaped, some are cylinders, and some are flat with a handle on the back, indicating a variety of uses. I would bet that if they could block print, they had already tiedyed. Actual resist-dyed mummy cloths have been found from 1000 BC in Egypt. We think that dyeing techniques traveled along trade routes from India to Egypt.

The Orient
There is also a rich tradition of tie-dye "shibori" in Japan where dye techniques were introduced from China around 400 BC. Shibori is still practiced in Japan and the United States. About 400 AD, Indian traders introduced dying techniques to Java where the art of Batik was developed. Plangi, tiedye, and a sewn version "tri-tik" also flourished in Indonesia.

Africa
Tie-dye has been practiced extensively in Africa, especially in Nigeria. I have also personally heard that there is now a tradition of tie-dye on the West Coast of Africa that uses synthetic dyes and patterns similar to ours -- if anyone has any more information about this please let me know.

The Americas

In the Americas, Pre-Columbian Peru stands out for its tradition of fabric art in which tie-dyes play a central role.

The So-called Modern World

Many types of tiedye are still used today for clothing, backgrounds for screen printing, sheets, tapestries, tees, and table covers. Often whole garments are dyed, but many items are also made from material that has been previously dyed. Our particular type of tie-dyeing was not possible until the invention of fiber reactive dyes in 1956. Until then, dyes had to be applied hot or with strong chemicals. Procion, the principle fiber reactive dye, can be applied cold and can be dripped on, which allows more than one color to be applied without reprocessing. Procion dye is also extremely colorfast. I personally started tiedying in 1978 when I went to work for "The Tiedye Company" on a community in Tennessee called "The Farm". The Tiedye Company had just been started by Charlotte Gabriel, who should get credit for developing many of our basic techniques, and in particular for inventing the star pattern.

Source http://www.tie-dyes.com\

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PURCHASE THE ART DONE BY OUR MEMBER, PLEASE VISIT http://yelenatiedye.blogspot.com/

DYING TECHNIQUES

SATURATION
Different levels of dye saturation in the cloth can often produce significantly different effects. The less you saturate your tied sheet, generally, the more white area you'll end up with. Sometimes this is a problem. Other times, it's what creates the coolest part of the pattern. I've found that often with pleated patterns, a slightly lower level of saturation is good. It creates a more defined set of parallel lines in the pattern. In spirals, I like a high level of saturation. Mostly these are things you'll have to try and decide for yourself...but try to consider it while you're dying.

LAYERING
I never have the patience, but a method that can create really complex patterns is to do 2 dying sessions on the same sheet. It's important to have a plan in this case because you might well ruin a good tie-dye by dumping more dye on it in a conflicting pattern. You might choose to do a spiral of blue and white on your first session...then diamond pattern over the top of that. I'm not particularly experienced with this, but it's on my list of things to try.

COLOR COMBINING
The art of color combining is probably one of the most important...and most personal aspects of tie-dying. There's just some colors that don't look good next to each other. Others are perfect. If you're doing a double dying session, you'll want to carefully consider which colors to use first so the colors of the second session will dye appropriately over the first ones. Adding yellow on top of black is pretty much going to be....black. But you can get cool effects by layering with good color combinations.

USING BLACK
Black is a really good tool in tie-dying. It can be used to highlight subtleties of the folding pattern that wouldn't come out very strongly otherwise. For example, I like to highlight the edges of pleats with black to strengthen the appearance of the parallel lines.

BLEACHING
I haven't tried it, but I've heard it works well to use bleach instead of dye for a piece of cloth that's already tie-dyed, or which starts as a color other than white. Do it just like you'd do with dye, but use bleach to create a pattern in white. Be careful that you don't use too strong a mixture or you'll eat holes in the material. I'd try starting with 25% bleach 75% water. I'm sure it depends on the fabric and the type of dye that's on it. When using bleach you're only going to leave it on for a fairly short period of time, rather than overnight. Just watch the areas you've bleached, and when they're as white as you want them, rinse it out.

Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Birth Year : 1859
Death Year : 1923
Country : France, Switzerland

Steinlen was born in Switzerland, where he studied art at Lausanne and later became active as a textile designer in Mulhause. In 1882 he arrived in Paris where he worked as an illustrator for the journals Mirliton, Assiette au Beurre, Chat Noir, and Gil Blas, for which he produced over four hundred lithographs. As an artist he was not merely a commercial success but showed great sensitivity toward his subject matter. Besides illustrating advertisements for a variety of products, Steinlen was famous for his posters of cabaret and music hall performers. Perhaps the most noteworthy of these is one done for the French singer Yvette Guilbert's performances at the cabaret Les Ambassadeurs, executed in 1894. Guilbert preferred Steinlen's posters to another famous version, done by Toulouse-Lautrec, in which the artist distorted her features and figure, making her appear thin and bony to the point of freakishness. The two artists are often compared, although Steinlen's poster art, drawn with the same bold simplicity as Lautrec's, is marked by an air of sweetness and a quieter mood. However, his later work for the journals, like that of Lautrec, became increasingly satirical and critical of society. Steinlen, too, often drew genre scenes of the working class, capturing day

-to-day life in Paris with a simple, endearing style. He was very found of animals, especially cats, and often included them in his posters. Steinlen's cats proved so popular, in fact, that they became a trademark of his work.

Exhibition around the Globe :
This time we are going to see
ALBERTINA IN VIENNA THE AGE OF REMBRANDT
4 March 2009 - 21 June 2009
The exhibition The Age of Rembrandt assembles 150 works by some 70 artists from the Albertina Museum’s 17th century Netherlandish holdings, including Hendrick Goltzius, Rembrandt van Rijn, Aert van der Neer, Aelbert Cuyp, and Adriaen van Ostade. The unique selection is completed by so

me 40 oil paintings from various other collections and museums. Rembrandt, in his technical and thematic versatility, presents himself as an outstanding crystallisation point.

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Belleview Welcomes Two New Galleries!
Belleview is a very fast growing art community. In the last two months we have gained two more galleries.
Please visit the new showroom of Mr. and Mrs. Blindmaster, located at 6547 SE 110th Street (C25) in Belleview. Mr. and Mrs. Blindmaster specializes in custom window treatments such as plantation shutters, pleated shades, faux wood blinds, verticals, and more. We also showcase the art work of some very talented local artists. We are dedicated to promoting art and culture in southern Marion County by providing a venue for artists to show and sell their paintings and other works. We will be holding monthly art exhibits at our showroom, as well as participating in local art tours. Please visit our beautiful showroom and help support the arts in our community! Mr. and Mrs. Blindmaster can be reached at 352-245-0341.

Gallery East in the Almeida Plaza, South of Belleview ;11761 SE Hwy 441 ;is opening in begining of May.

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ART TOUR IN BELLEVIEW

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Come to joins us for fun day
Art tour in Belleview
February 27,2009 5-7:30 PM

presented by Art Club of Belleview and Belleview South Marion Chamber of Commerce.

FREE REFRESHMENT, PRIZES AND LOT OF FUN

Visit the three locations listed below and have fun and meet local artists . Support your local merchants, and may be win a door prize. Some are really great!!
You do not have to be present to win one of the door prizes. You can tour the businesses in any order you want. Obtain registration form at the first business you tour. Carry the form to each business listed below. Make sure you get the form stamped at each location. Bring the form back to Chamber of Commerce by 7:30 PM at the night of Art Tour, to be registered to win one of the prizes furnished by participating businesses and Art Club members.

BELLEVIEW SOUTH MARION CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
5301 SE ABSHIER BLVD
LANDMARK REAL ESTATE
10250 SE HWY 441 SUITE #101
HOSPICE THRIFT STORE
10325 US HWY 441

OUR GUEST ARTIST EXHIBITING IN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS

Sylvia F. Richardson
Sylvia Fran Richardson graduated from Eastern Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism. After teaching for a number of years she went back to school to study the subject she is most passionate about: ART. Every summer she continues her learning quest by attending classes at Savannah College of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Penland School of Crafts, Odyssey Center for the Arts, Peter’s Valley and Arrowmont. Ms. Richardson has been teaching at Belleview High School since the school opened in 1994. She was a grant writer for seven years prior to coming to BHS. About teaching, she says, “How many people can honestly say they look forward to going to work every day? Probably not many.” “My philosophy of teaching is pretty simple. I love my job, and it’s easy for kids to see that. The thought of opening up a kiln load of my students’ work or starting a new project is very exciting to me. I believe my excitement and passion spills over into my students’ work. I love seeing the glow that emanates from a student who has created something they’re proud of. The kids who take my class are here because they want to be, not because they need the credit. That makes for a different kind of classroom atmosphere.” Ms. Richardson’s favorite medium is clay. Her pieces often feature horses. “The horses you see in my work are inspired by my Kentucky heritage which has been nurtured by living in Marion County since 1989.” Lately she has been making Spirit Houses which can be used as bird houses or night lights. Her goal as a potter is to connect with the user. “I hope my pottery will give you what the machine can not, an intimacy often lacking in our hectic world. Machines can make pots faster, cheaper, and more perfectly than I, but the hand made pot adds a human dimension to the user’s everyday life. Each time you use one of my pots, I hope you’ll feel an instant connection with its maker,” she explains.Another medium she enjoys is batik. Batik is an ancient Indonesian art form using hot wax and fabric dyes on cloth. Her batiks often depict ladies enjoying themselves. “For me painting is a means of expressing life’s joys, and I believe art serves as a medium to help us to make peace with our lives by emphasizing the brighter aspects of our existence.”

OUR FEATURED ARTISTS:

Ronald Slauson
A native of Florida, I studied photography in High School at Miami Beach and worked as assistant to a professional photographer during after school and weekend hours.I maintained an active interest in photography while in the military but later set it aside to pursue a career and raise four children.My interest in photography surfaced again in 2003 while working on training and promotional documentation assignments and other company project
My interest in photography surfaced again in 2003 while working on training and promotional documentation assignments and other company projects. Retiring from an engineering position in January, 2007, I purchased a Nikon digital SLR camera along with several lenses, software and basic studio gear as a retirement present to myself.I started pursuing photography as a hobby, occasionally doing photo assignments for my former employer, until I moved back to Florida. Recently, several friends encouraged me to join the Belleview Art Club and start displaying some of my art photos.

In Hospis Thrift store you can see art work done by Carol Dentici, James Dentici, Eileen Slattery, Elizabeth Slattery, Daniel Gajda, Daniela Banatova, Nelly Ordija, Grace Kathman, Kazuko de Bie.

Land Mark Real Estate will be featuring art done by Glenda Damm , Carol Dentici and Milly Sheffer.

February

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Featured Artist of the Month:
Ronald Slauson
A native of Florida, I studied photography in High School at Miami Beach and worked as assistant to a professional photographer during after school and weekend hours.
I maintained an active interest in photography while in the military but later set it aside to pursue a career and raise four children.
My interest in photography surfaced again in 2003 while working on training and promotional documentation assignments and other company project

My interest in photography surfaced again in 2003 while working on training and promotional documentation assignments and other company projects. Retiring from an engineering position in January, 2007, I purchased a Nikon digital SLR camera along with several lenses, software and basic studio gear as a retirement present to myself.
I started pursuing photography as a hobby, occasionally doing photo assignments for my former employer, until I moved back to Florida. Recently, several friends encouraged me to join the Belleview Art Club and start displaying some of my art photos.

Curently Ron is exhibiting at Community Bank in Belleview. Come to see his wonderful photos .

During January 2009, you could see art exhibition of ACB members at Gallery East, Ocala. Famous Artist Quotes
(Which is your favorite?)
"There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Art quote by Pablo Picasso
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."- Art quote by Paul CÃ©zanne
One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.- Art quote by Auguste Renoir

CELEBRATING SPRING WITH ART
THE ART CLUB OF BELLEVIEW IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH THE CITY OF BELLEVIEW (with special thanks to City Commissioner Christine Dobkowski,) IS ORGANIZING A CHILDRENS ART EXHIBITION " CELEBRATING SPRING WITH ART. THE ART WORKS WILL BE DIVIDED INTO THREE CATEGORIES 6-9,10-14 AND 15-18 YEARS.
EACH CATEGORY WILL RECEIVE PRIZES. EACH ITEM OF ART WORK SHOULD BE UNFRAMED AND SIGNED WITH FULL NAME , AGE AND NAME OF SCHOOL OF EACH YOUNG ARTIST .
ART WORKS WILL BE EXHIBITED IN BELLEVIEW CITY HALL DURING APRIL 2009.
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Exploring New Techniques
Combining two seemingly different materials (chunky clay and refined terra sigillata) make an interesting combination on this plate by Anne FlÃ¸che.

Inspired by Terra Sigillata: A New Twist on an Ancient Surface Technique
by Anne Floche When I think of terra sigillata, ( literally translated as "sealed earth." Ultrarefined clay slip, made by deflocculating a clay in water so the heavy particles settle, leaving the finer particles in suspension to be decanted as terra sigillata. Can give a soft sheen when applied to bone-dry wares and, if polished or burnished while still damp, may give a high gloss. All ancient Greek red-black pottery and Roman red wares were finished with this technique, without the use of glaze) I think of the soft, satin surfaces of low-fired earthenware, like Greek red and black ware that still has that great surface sheen. But Anne FlÃ¸che has taken terra sigillata in a different direction. She's allowed herself to use it in a way that goes against tradition, but is true to her own inspiration and way of working. This is a classic example of taking a tried-and-true technique and making it personal. Whether you're using terra sigillata in a traditional manner or pushing it to try something new, FlÃ¸che provides a great tutorial (and a recipe) for making this versatile material.â€”Sherman Hall, Ceramic Arts Daily Terra sigillata is a very old and very simple material used by the Greeks and Romans. They used it to create burnished red-and-black wares fired at low temperatures: 1650Â°-1830Â°F (900Â°-1000Â°C). I fire higher, to 1100Â°C (2010Â°F), because I find that my works are too fragile otherwise. There is a balance to maintain, however, because many colors become dull and dense if the firing temperature is too high. I apply the terra sigillata to bone-dry clay with a brush. Broad brushes are particularly useful.To my basic recipe, I add coloring oxides or stains, as one would with an ordinary slip.I realize that I construct my slips in so many ways (even adding sand sometimes) that some might say that it is not really terra sigillata anymore. I suppose this might be true, but it is a very simple way of working, and I have not had many technical problems. I also do not leave my clay to settle, as is typical with terra sigillata, to obtain the finest grains. Many of the materials I use are so fine that this is not necessary. Only when I use a raw, local clay or a stoneware clay with grog do I leave it to settle and separate into layers. Fundamentally, the china clay can be replaced by any other clay: local clays, stoneware clays, etc. Each clay has its own nuances.Some clays I use on their own, rather than using them in the recipe; however, nonplastic clays may peel. If this happens, I add more ball clay. Peeling may also occur if the terra sigillata is applied too thick. My clay body is very coarse, so the terra sigillata sticks well to the surface. A very fine clay might pose problems. If the clay body is too fine, more grog can be added.

Art Club of BelleviewMonthly Focus on the Masters
Georgia O'Keeffe
When I was still a little girl, I used to think that since I couldn't do what I wanted toâ€¦ at least I could paint as I wanted to, and say what I wanted to when I painted." Georgia O'Keeffe.
Georgia O'Keeffe is known for her brilliantly colored paintings with confident shapes and simple patterns. She painted a great many floral paintings which were large pieces with the flower exaggerated and enlarged to completely fill the canvas, then stylized to their most essential forms. She is also known for her Southwest paintings which include adobe buildings, desert mountain panoramas or floating cow skulls against rich blue skies. The emphasis on the simplest aspects of the shapes created a surrealistic dynamic that is captivating.
O'Keeffe was born on November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. She knew from a young age that she would be an artist when she grew up. She studied first at the Art Institute of Chicago. After stopping her education due to a bout of typhoid, she resumed study in 1907 at the Art Student League in New York. She was following a family tradition of educated women- an idea not prevalent at that time. Even as she excelled in her studies it was believed that she would end up teaching art rather than making it.
Georgia moved for a time with her family to Virginia, but in 1914, when a teaching job opened in Amarillo, Texas, she took it. After two years she went to New York's Columbia Teacher's College, and took a job at Columbia College in South Carolina.
Georgia O'Keeffe's friend Anita Pollitzer was taken by O'Keeffe's works and took some samples to show Alfred Steiglitz at the 291 Gallery in New York. Some sources say that she did so without O'Keeffe's permission. Steiglitz was a respected Gallery curator and artist himself, and O'Keeffe respected his opinion, but even though he loved them it took some negotiations with O'Keeffe to convince her to let him exhibit her work.
O'Keeffe returned to Texas and worked at the West Texas Normal College while painting the scenes she loved, and hiking the Palo Duro Canyon. An illness caused her to quit her job- or perhaps it was her radical political views clashing with her colleagues. In any case, she returned to New York at Alfred Steiglitz's urging. After several years of cohabitation, Steiglitz divorced his wife and they married when she was 23 and he was 54. O'Keeffe was not enthusiastic, however.
Their many trips to the Steiglitz family home in the Adirondacks were the inspiration for many paintings. They spent several years living in a New York City hotel, and her view there also served as inspiration. It was in New York that she painted her first large flower paintings.
Beck Strand was a friend who invited O'Keeffe on a trip to Taos, New Mexico at a time when the artist was craving new scenery to paint. Steiglitz didn't like travel and firmly stayed in New York except for occasional uncomfortable forays elsewhere with O'Keeffe. She spent all her summers in Taos from then on, and when Steiglitz died in 1946, she moved there permanently.
She purchased a hacienda at Ghost Ranch,New Mexico and it became her lair for much of the remainder of her life. Her eyesight began to fail in the early seventies and by 1972 she could no longer see well enough to paint. A young man named Juan Hamilton, a potter, came to do odd jobs for O'Keeffe and ultimately became her closest companion in her later years. Many felt he was using her for his own ends, but O'Keeffe liked him and he stayed. She even did a bit of pottery herself while knowing him.
At the very end of her life she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was there that she died in 1986 at the age of 98. She was cremated the next day and Juan Hamilton scattered her ashes from Pedernal Mountain as she had requestest.

Please help support our art club. We are not only endeavoring to have a place to network with each other but we are also interested in reaching out to the community. For that we need funding. If you would like to have a hand in building up our efforts, we are offering to send you a small work of original art by members of the Art Club of Belleview for each $10.00 donation.For details,please, visit our web site or contact Daniela at standanielab@netzero.com .

If you are curious about where we have some of our artwork exhibiting, here is a list of some
businesses exhibiting art in our area :
INDEPENDENT BANK 10990 S HWY 441 BELLEVIEW, COMMUNITY BANK 10131 S. US HWY 441 BELLEVIEW,BELLEVIEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 5301 SE ABSHIER BLVD, BELLEVIEW, CAL'S PLACE 11007 SE 66 TERR, BELLEVIEW, STATE REPRESENATIVE KURT KELLY OFFICE 5612 SE ABSHIER BLVD, BELLEVIEW, MASAGE THERAPIST NORMA BARKER 5251 SE 113THE STR. BELLEVIEW, VOICE OF SOUTH MARION,South Hwy. 301 BELLEVIEW, COMMUNITY LINKS,INC. 9977 SE 58 AVE, BELLEVIEW,B.D BEANS CAFE 5148 SE ABSHIER BLVD, BELLEVIEW, HUMANE SOCIETY OF MARION COUNTY 701 NW 14 TH RD., OCALA, MARY FOX TAX & ACCONTING, INC. 5608 SE 113 str BELLEVIEW,
The Cornerstone Team Keller Williams Realty Spruce Creek South, SOLAR TREC,INC 202 S.W 33 Ave, Unit C, Ocala ,

OUR ART FUN DAY

this time we painted on the glass.

January

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January 2009
Our Art club was established to have fun and to promote art in the Belleview area. Our membership is $12.00 per year. If you want to meet new friends, chat with other artists and promote your art, come see us.

Our meetings are at 4 p.m. on the first Friday of every month at the iste of Belleview new library. We are open to new ideas and we love to meet new people. You'll love our friendly atmosphere. We're looking forward to seeing you.
Next meeting January 2, 2009
Demo Carol Dentici on stepping stonesThe Art Club of Belleview would like to extend our warmest wishes to all our members and supporters at this time. We look forward to an even better year ahead. Happy New Year!

We would like to invite you for reception at Gallery East ( Six gun plaza) January 12, 2009 ; 5-7:30 PMDecember was a very special month for our art club. Instead of having our regular meeting, we elected to go to the Golden Corral restaraunt and have a get together. A great time was had by all as we took advantage of the delicious buffet and good conversation. The Art Club of Belleview also presented Daniela Banatova, our club president, with an artist's survival kit! Every thing an artist may need when that special 'need' to create takes hold! Thanks Daniela AND all our members for doing an outstanding job this year.One of the projects we had this month was putting together a children's art exhibit in our city hall. Here are a few pictures of the Grand Prize winner and other participants:

We also celebrated as our featured artist of the month:
Milly Sheffer
Milly works primarily in watercolor, sometimes augmented with gouache, ink or graphite. She prefers to work quickly and spontaneously, allowing the process to be apparent in the finished work.

Milly holds a degree in fine arts from Wheaton College, and studied at Syracuse University and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her paintings have been exhibited in numerous national juried shows and she has had solo exhibitions of her paintings of the elderly, and of refugees from around the world. Other exhibitions have included paintings of Buffalo monuments and gardens, and paintings from her travel in Italy.

Mrs. Sheffer has taught watercolor, portraiture, and drawing to students of all ages. She also accepts commissions for portraits.

She is currently working on a series of paintings based on travel in Jordan, Syria and Turkey, as well a recent trip to Mexico.
We hope you had a chance to stop by the Chamber of Commerce building and see the beautiful watercolor paintings by Mily Sheffer

We had some of our club artists exhibit their photos and other art works at the Spruce Creek Community Center.

Famous Artist's Quote of the Month

"A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing."William Dobell

Art Club of Belleview
Monthly Focus on the Masters
M.C. Escher

M. C. Escher, otherwise known as Maurits Cornelis Escher, carried many titles during his career as an artist. Often he was, and still is, referred to as a Specialist in Optical Art, Master of Symmetry, Dutch Engraver, Dutch Graphic Artist, Dutch Illustrator and Dutch Mathematician. All these titles hold true to the diversity of this man's style. His passions, or addictions as he so often called them, focused on tessellation (inter linking figurative work) and regular plane division.
Escher, born to a civil engineer June 17, 1898, was encouraged by his family at a young age to pursue an education in Architectural Arts. His lack of interest and poor grades led him in a different direction with his artistic talents. It was not until he reached age twenty-one that he discovered his true calling: Graphic Art. From then on, his success story writes itself. He taught himself in the areas of math and science through the study of technical papers in order to achieve his artistic goals. This caught the attention of many scientists and mathematicians, alike. It is often wondered if he was truly an artist or a mathematician by his own right. His particular artistic style is said to be what has bridged the gap between art and math and art and science.
Upon finishing Art school, Escher traveled Spain, France and Italy to vacation and gather inspiration for his work. Throughout his studies, he became more fascinated with structures than in regular portraits or landscapes. His early works suggests differently, as he placed his focus on particular places and people. He worked primarily in engraved woodcuts so he could repeat patterns quicker and easier. During his career, he never felt completely comfortable with calling himself an artist or an artisan. He felt such titles would limit his potential and cause too many barriers between his interests and the art world.
You will find many teachers and professors teaching his methods in the classrooms today. In order to keep the student's imagination alive and interest growing during the learning process, his mathematics and scientific principles are incorporated in many curriculums. Students will continue to debate as to if he is an artist, scientist or mathematician.
Escher's diversity strikes a chord in enthusiasts of all sorts because, while he remains faithful to his style, his pieces do not scream with cultural nuances. He is also an artist who does not follow fads or gimmicks. These facts support the reasons why his work remains so popular and admired by such a broad audience. His ability to turn something real into something unreal, like with piece entitled "Waterfall" holds the attention of critics, educators and admirers. He took a realistic structure and manipulated it into something unreal with seemingly no effort to the average onlooker. At first glance, there is nothing unusual about this structure. Upon taking a second look, you will see elements and events happening under "impossible" circumstances.
M. C. Escher died March 27, 1972 with a huge arsenal of artistic achievements by his name:
- Completed 448 lithographs, wood cuts and wood engravings
- Over 2000 drawings and sketches
- Over twenty periodicals articles, books and booklets were published about him or by him between the years 1921 and 1990
- Over sixty six publications are still available to purchase today
His accomplishments inspire many and provoke many to study his work further. Many Graphic Artists are in the process of completing three-dimensional study models mirroring several of his wood cut prints

Escher's work also inspires many tessellation contests and related works all across the globe. The impact this man has on the art world seems to live on and may never die.
Exploring New Techniques
At first glance, the idea that someone, much less a short article, can teach the intricacies of painting something as abstract as abstract art, may seem absurd. However, before judging this article, remember that art, although a form of individualistic expression, often still follows a loose set of boundaries or guidelines. For instance, while we cannot be taught to write like Hemingway, we can learn basic language syntax and study his work. In the same vein, while abstract art cannot be taught in the traditional sense, there are some basic boundaries of the craft which can be learned. Combined with your own imagination and some practice, these basic boundaries will help produce individualistic artistic pieces. So, with that little disclaimer out of the way, here are some tips on how to paint abstract art: Foundation TechniquesIntensify colours based on the intensity of moodsImagine that each colour on the pallette is a mood, in your hand you hold a set of moods or expressions of self. Keeping this in mind, the intensity of the colour you use for a particular section of the piece may be used to represent the intensity of your mood towards that section. If the subject matter excites you for instance, you may choose to use an intense colour or colour blend, which helps symbolise your feelings towards that subject. The brighter the colour, the more intense the emotion; the darker the colour, the more subdued. Change colours to suit moods/feelingIn addition to simply allowing the colours you use to mirror your internal emotions, you may choose to change the colour of the subject completely in order to strengthen a particular connotation. Using both intensity and hue to convey your internal thoughts helps create a multifaceted expression of self, while colour intensity may symbolise the intensity of a feeling, colour itself will refine that feeling into a more concrete illustration. While the ideas of colour symbolism are beyond the scope of this article, for abstract art simply focus on how a particular colour makes you feel. For instance, a guitar lover may choose to paint guitars in a bright hue of pink, while a poor student may represent his resentment by painting report cards in a dull grey colour. Simply look at a certain colour and focus on how it makes you feel, what emotions it expresses about your inner self. There is no right or wrong answer, it is merely subjective. Alter the shape of objectsAltering the shape of a subject is a powerful way to further place your intrinsic feelings and thoughts into a visual form. While changing the colour and hue of a subject is extremely overt in terms of conveying emotion, altering the shape of an object can be as subtle or pronounced as you wish it to be. Indeed, the most masterful use of subject shape reforming comes from subtle adjustments that are mostly subconscious. However, if you do wish to make a pronounced effect, you can choose to wildly exaggerate anything in your composition. In order to choose a suitable shape for your subject reforming, simply look inside yourself and find a geometric shape that conveys something about your subject matter. For instance, a circle often denotes a relaxed feeling of holistic well-being, while a square may imply determination or stubbornness. Despite this these conventions, you, the artist, ultimately decides how you wish to symbolise a subject in your work.
An excerpt from an article writtenby
Dustin Hsiao

Businesses exhibiting art in our area
INDEPENDENT BANK 10990 S HWY 441 BELLEVIEW, COMMUNITY BANK 10131 S. US HWY 441 BELLEVIEW,BELLEVIEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 5301 SE ABSHIER BLVD, BELLEVIEW, CAL'S PLACE 11007 SE 66 TERR, BELLEVIEW, STATE REPRESENATIVE KURT KELLY OFFICE 5612 SE ABSHIER BLVD, BELLEVIEW, MASAGE THERAPIST NORMA BARKER 5251 SE 113THE STR. BELLEVIEW, VOICE OF SOUTH MARION,BELLEVIEW, COMMUNITY LINKS,INC. 9977 SE 58 AVE, BELLEVIEW,B.D BEANS CAFE 5148 SE ABSHIER BLVD, BELLEVIEW, HUMANE SOCIETY OF MARION COUNTY 701 NW 14 TH RD., OCALA,
MARY FOX TAX & ACCONTING, INC. 5608 SE 113 TH STR. BELLEVIEW,The Cornerstone Team KellerWilliams realtySpruce Creek South
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