February 2007 Meeting
The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 6, 2007 at our regular meeting place at the Encino Community Center (location/map to the right). The meeting starts at 7:00pm; come early (6:30pm) for social time!
The public is welcome to attend.
Refreshments served. Requested donation for non-members: $6
For more information, please call Dori Marler at (818) 325-8337 or email.
Guest Demonstrator: Joan Foster
Joan Foster is an award-winning watercolorist and collage artist and an inspirational workshop instructor. You can expect an exciting demonstration as Joan shares and inspires you with her use of color and materials. Joan’s exciting technique will captivate you with its use of watercolor, liquid acrylic and watercolor pencils whether it is on paper, canvas or cloth.
Joan says: “I look at a painting and want to control the color, but it won’t sit still. Yet I love the fight – the illusion that I can control the colors and images, giving in to their power, then fighting them again. The painting is screaming – I tone it down. Too bland? Build it back up again. A line that was here is now over there. Shapes that were this, now look like that. I wash it, I scratch it, I scrape it, I tear it, I shred it, I repaint it. Change and tenacity are the heart of my process which works like a pendulum, control and surrender, control and surrender, interspersed with periods of solitary thought, until the sway gets smaller and smaller as the conflict is resolved.”
Joan Foster is a member of Valley Watercolor Society, Collage Artists of America, and Women Painters West.
Visits Joan’s website at www.joanfoster.net for more images.
