Betty
Klasel Oil Painting WorkshopThe
Brazosport Art League announces a OIL PAINTING FLORALS AND LANDSCAPES WORKSHOP
with instructor Betty Klasel
Betty Klasel will hold a floral and landscape oil painting workshop at the Brazosport Art League Studio at the Center June 18, 19, and 20, 2008. This will be an intense workshop working with oil paint as the painting medium and will include demonstrations, color theory, shape, value, and temperature. You will need to bring your own photographs and/or references. You may bring your lunch if you desire. Coffee and tea will be provided, cold drink vending machines are on premises.
Cost of workshop is $175. Registration and payment deadline is Friday, June 10, 2008.
For information, registration, and/or supply list, call Betty at 979 548-3627.
Tuesday mornings 9 to
12 Oil and Acrylic Painting Classes in the
Studio. Dolores Reynolds 233-7246
DOLORES REYNOLDS
Dolores , like most artists, has always enjoyed painting and drawing. She recalls designing clothes for her sister’s paper dolls as among her first art endeavors. Dolores has tried many different creative pathways over the years. She has worked in ceramics, stained glass, decorative painting among others in addition to working in oils, pastels, and watercolor. For Dolores oils and pastels are her true loves and although like most artists, she enjoys trying new mediums, these are the two to which she always returns.
She began her fine art training in l976 taking lessons with well known local art teacher, Julia Crainer. Dolores credits Mrs. Crainer with giving her the strong foundation and confidence to continue her art studies. Dolores studied oil painting for five years with the late Dick Turner and considers him to be the greatest teacher she has ever had the pleasure and good fortune to work with. She has also studied with a number of nationally known artists including Daniel Greene, William H. Earle, Albert Handell and Bob Rohm among others.
Dolores began teaching at her home studio in the mid l980's and has continued to teach weekly classes and yearly workshops since that time. Dolores states that being able to pass along to others the artistic knowledge she has acquired has become one of the great joys in life. She now teaches weekly classes and workshops in both oils and pastels at the Brazosport Art League Studio located in the Brazosport Center For the Arts and Sciences.
DOLORES REYNOLDS
Dolores , like most artists, has always enjoyed painting and drawing. She recalls designing clothes for her sister’s paper dolls as among her first art endeavors. Dolores has tried many different creative pathways over the years. She has worked in ceramics, stained glass, decorative painting among others in addition to working in oils, pastels, and watercolor. For Dolores oils and pastels are her true loves and although like most artists, she enjoys trying new mediums, these are the two to which she always returns.
She began her fine art training in l976 taking lessons with well known local art teacher, Julia Crainer. Dolores credits Mrs. Crainer with giving her the strong foundation and confidence to continue her art studies. Dolores studied oil painting for five years with the late Dick Turner and considers him to be the greatest teacher she has ever had the pleasure and good fortune to work with. She has also studied with a number of nationally known artists including Daniel Greene, William H. Earle, Albert Handell and Bob Rohm among others.
Dolores began teaching at her home studio in the mid l980's and has continued to teach weekly classes and yearly workshops since that time. Dolores states that being able to pass along to others the artistic knowledge she has acquired has become one of the great joys in life. She now teaches weekly classes and workshops in both oils and pastels at the Brazosport Art League Studio located in the Brazosport Center For the Arts and Sciences.
Sherry Hall Shelton's
ongoing painting class is on Thursdays
from 9 a.m. to noon. Currently the class is working on
portraits in oils (with one student working in watercolor/private
lessons) but all mediums and subjects are covered. The next demo
will be in clay (sculpting the head) on Thursday, February 1.A complete list of
supplies will be given, at that time, to anyone wishing to work in
this medium later in the month. Please feel free to visit the
class and see if this suits your desire to join and create that special
painting you've always wanted that expresses your talent.
Pre-printed handouts
will be given out to all new students. Taking notes is strongly
suggested.
Classes are $15 per
class, payable by the month. A complete supply list is
available. For more information please call Sherry at
979-265-2690 or email her at: sheltonstudio
at usawide.net (replace
at with @ to use. This format used to thwart Email Harvesting
Schemes)
Biography:
Sherry Hall Shelton, artist
1157 Ash Street
Clute, Texas 77531
979-265-2690
sheltonstudio@usawide.net
Native Texan, born in Houston, Sherry drew and painted from the time she was child. Taking for granted her abilities, she discovered that not every one of her age and generation enjoyed the pursuit of expression of self through art. In high school it was discovered that she had imagination and the talent for being able to express herself with visual creation better than the spoken word. It was during that time that the public recognized her work.
After graduation, most of her time was put into marriage and the rearing of her children. When the two boys were settled into school routines, she went back to painting full time. In the mid-seventies she began to gain recognition for the many awards her work earned. She was able to fill a resume’ with impressive credits.
Sherry had moved south to Brazoria County as a child and as a young adult, established a reputation as an accomplished portrait artist. It was during the late seventies that she had the opportunity to study with many well-known artists. Later, two study trips to Europe culminated in the delivery of a commissioned painting to clients in Switzerland and led to the invitation to travel, visit and study there for two more years. Her many travels across the United States, Canada and Europe have been recorded on canvas, paper and on film.
In the autumn of 1994 Sherry moved to East Texas for a month-long vacation to visit family, study and paint the piney woods. She decided to move to Longview and make it her home. In 2004, after 12 years and the death of her husband, she decided it was time to move back home to Brazoria County.
Always cheerful, Sherry’s attitude toward her art is, “I enjoy painting all subjects and in all mediums. When someone asks why I paint the particular subjects that I choose, I reply, ‘Why not?’ I am constantly asked which medium is my favorite. My answer is always the same, ‘The medium I am currently working in. If I had to choose only one subject, one medium, it would have to be portraits in oil. Each one is the human subject, but each one has a different personality, different ‘feel’. I start all of my paintings with an abstract design and develop to the impressionistic stage and eventually to realism. I work on all elements of the composition simultaneously and the painting could be called finished at any stage. It is my goal to make all paintings as strong in design and art theory as possible and I work to make every portrait/painting a good painting as well as a good likeness of the sitter/subject matter. I try to make each and every painting speak to the viewer and make the strongest statement possible with the chosen subject and medium.”
Starting over in her painting career since moving to East Texas, she has worked hard to make her art visible to the public. Entering many competitions, she has achieved a level of notoriety she says she didn’t think would come so soon. The ultimate competition, for me, is always the next painting. I compete with myself. Setting at least three new goals with each successive painting, it must be better in design, value and temperature (color) above all else. Those reasons change once again if the painting is a commissioned one. The client is my partner and I must be flexible and use the input of information given to me by that person. After the completion and delivery of a portrait, it is relaxing and a renewal process for me to do large, abstract pieces to loosen up. Murals and/or theater sets have been the prescription I have usually used.
She did not find time to get involved with theater
arts, either on stage or behind the scenes, after moving to Longview
and she missed that venue.
Since moving back to the Brazosport area in 2006,
she has gradually gotten involved, once more, with Center Stages.
The first project was the floor for The Odd Couple and floor for The
Elizabethan Madrigal Feast. She has enjoyed returning to this
venue.
In 1997 Sherry received a grant from the Texas Commission of the Arts to paint an outdoor mural in Marshall, Texas for the Harrison County Boys and Girls Club facility. The summer of 2000 saw yet another commission for a mural at a business in Longview. Her work can be seen at:
Deb’s Downtown Café...............103 W. Tyler.......(mural)...............Longview, Tx.
One Horse Gallery......................207 W. Commerce............Gladewater, Tx.
Image Gallery at ArkLaTex Color Labs......325 S High Street....Longview, Tx.
Murals in the homes of:
Mr.
and Mrs. Davis Whitehurst.....Longview
Dr.
and Mrs. Mark Hamer.............Longview
Dr. and Mrs. David L.
Brown....Longview
Sherry’s paintings are in private collections in the state of Washington, New Mexico, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Georgia, Florida, New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, Canada an Switzerland. She has numerous paintings in corporate collections, including Dow Chemical Company, Phillips Petroleum and in businesses all along the Texas and Louisiana coast line.
Sherry accepts commissions, teaches classes in her studio and conducts workshops in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.