EAA Sketchers March 2024 Reveal
Sunday, March 24, 2024 on Zoom
"Art Scramble . . ."
The EAA Sketchers March 2024 challenge was an art scramble.
Joan Milligan, program director, randomly picked an art style and
subject for each of us, for example, impressionism/weather,
surrealism/ drapery. Nine members enjoyed sharing their unique
creations.
Char Dayton -
Surrealism/drapery. Char had fun creating reality in an absurd
way. She drew a sheet uniquely draped to create a dream-like
image. It’s as if something is holding the corners of the
sheet so that the blue lake overflows like a waterfall into the
landscape below.
Bernie Russ - Mosaic/lamp,
candle or light. Bernie used a painting from years ago as her
inspirational guide to direct the lines for the mosaic and created
this beautiful landscape.
Cheri Gardiner -
Renaissance/stiff life. Dutch renaissance painters in the
16th-17th century did still life paintings with dark backgrounds,
often of food or game. Vanitas, an art form that began during
this period, symbolizes imagery of transient items and futility of
life and pleasure, especially the ones with skulls. Cheri’s
still life titled "Breakfast Pleasures" contains no skulls, but does
reflect current day transient items, a cell phone and earphones.
Cynthia Beacham -
Abstract/tools & utensils. Although Cynthia was unable to
participate in the zoom, she did share her creation….an acrylic
abstract of tools or could it be her kitchen utensil drawer?
Joan Milligan -
Contemporary-Modern/Space. Her piece titled "Celestial
Visitor" was created using very colorful acrylic paints. It is
energetic and shows a sense of movement and thrust against the dark
background of outer space.
Rozenia Cunningham - Composite
Art/Holiday. Composite art style combines different images and
styles to create visual and intellectual dynamics. Rozenia’s
composite collage titled "Juneteenth, A Walk to Remember", honors
the ending of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth marks
the day in 1865 when federal troops freed the last enslaved people
in Texas, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
She combined pen and ink with watercolor.
Sandra Johnson -
Fauvism/Religious. Sandy was unable to attend the Zoom, but
she wrote this for us. "The style of the Fauves (wild beasts)
modern artists emphasized painterly qualities and strong color.
Early 20th century, 1905-1910, included artist, Henri Matisse, Andre
Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck. They experimented with heightened
unnatural colors and wild painterly brushstrokes. They paved
the way for abstraction and expressionism that followed." Her
artwork is titled, "Luke 8:33". Joan, being familiar with that
passage, recited it for us.
Susan Herrle -
Expressionism/History. In the Expressionism art style, artists
seek to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective
emotions and responses that objects/events arouse within a person.
A famous artwork from this period, "The Scream" by Edvard Munch,
"caught my attention." "The feeling it evoked in me is the
same feeling I have when I see the happenings on our Southern
border…i.e., history in the making." Sue called her colored
pencil sketch, "Open Border". There’s a little Van Gogh, "The
Starry Night" expressed in the sky.
Suzette Cohen -
Impressionism/Weather. Suzette ‘craves wildflowers’ and loves
to paint them using acrylics. She painted the sky,
representing weather, in an impressionistic style.