Quail Creek Fine Arts Painting Club January 2018

Member meeting Friday January 5, 9am Be sure to bring your work for Show & Tell. Coffee, cocoa and tea provided. Camaraderie is free. Don’t forget to bring your dues check of $25 if you haven’t paid yet. Checks payable to FAPC please. MONITOR CLASS Friday January 19, 9am Contribute just 3 hours of your time a month in a class or Open Studio to help your Club while you work on your own projects. Get trained and get your own set of keys to the resources of the Studio. Send Dusty an email if you are coming: dusty.quailcreek@gmail.com

January Artist of the Month

Mary Ann St. Peters studied fine arts at the Loveland Arts Academy and the Denver Student Artist League. She has studied with Colorado wild life artist Lani Vlaanderen, was a member of the Colorado Coalition of Artists, the Artist’s Association of Northern Colorado. She was a participating member of the Art on Mountain Gallery in Fort Collins and also shared a studio with the Poudre River Association of Artists. Lately Mary Ann concentrated on painting domestic and farm animals. Felines and canines are her favorite subjects and cats Moses and Josephina were her most dependable models. She is looking forward to painting javelinas instead of piggies and ravens instead of robins. Contact her:

stpetermary@gmail.com

Winter Classes are Fun!

Note that there are no oil Come Try It nor Beginning Oil classes.

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Classes Beginning in January Title Day/Date/Time Teacher Details Watercolor/Acrylic Workshop Monday 1/8-2/12 1:00-3:00 Joyce Page 17 Gallery Conversations Friday 1/12-2/2 1:30-3:30 Lila Page 19 Portrait Drawing Monday 1/8-1/29 3:15-5:30 Lila Page 20 Beginning Oil Painting Friday 1/19-2/2 9:00-12:00 Debbie Page 21 Luminous Watercolors Friday 1/19-2/23 1:00-4:00 Jean Page 22 Adventures with Acrylics Thursday 1/25-3/1 9:30-12:30 Susan Page 23

Other Activities Title Day/Date/Times Open Studio TBA Member Meeting Friday 1/5 9:00-11:00

Workshops and Seminars for January Title Day/Date/Times Teacher Details “Come and Try It” Pastels Wednesday 1/3 9:00-12:00 Nanci Page 16 “Come and Try It” Scratchboard Thursday 1/4 9:00-12:00 Ginny Page 16 “Come and Try It” Watercolor Friday 1/5 1:00-4:00 Jean Page 16 “Come and Try It” Oils Thursday 1/11 9:00-12:00 Debbie Page 16 “Come and Try It” Acrylics Thursday 1/18 9:30-12:30 Susan Page 16 Photoshop Elements for Artists Friday 1/12 9:00-5:00 Debbie Page 18 Mat Cutting Monday 1/15 6:00-9:00PM Jean or Debbie Page 10

January 2018

Tips and Tricks: Use your mouse to click on the calendar graphic and it will take you to the club’s official website calendar. The website at www.qcfapc.wordpress.com is a busy artist’s best friend.

Students and teachers alike often bring their results to our Show & Tell during monthly meetings:

Mark your calendar FEBRUARY MEETING Monday 2/5 at 630 PM Yummy desserts, coffee, tea. Wine supplied by Board members. Bring your Show & Tell. Help us honor some of our “over and above” volunteers at the meeting.

Put on Your Calendar:

Jim Asbell and Walk the Walk

IN MEMORY OF JIM ASBELL If you met Jim Asbell, you met someone who was fun loving, not afraid of showing his true colors, (yellow and green for the Oregon Ducks,) a very upbeat man who not only taught us how to live life to the end but how to enjoy every moment. After he was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer he wrote a book “Live Well With Terminal Illness and Other Crappy Diseases.” He wrote a personal blog on social media and articles of his cancer journey for the GV News. He was an artist who was commissioned to paint over 100 fun pictures of other people’s pets. Jim Asbell was our survivor speaker and one of the top fundraisers for the 2017 GV/Sahuarita Relay For Life event at Rancho Sahuarita. Jim arrived wearing a headband of a cork screw going through his head and wore a red cape. He was fighting his disease with humor. The 2018 Quail Creek Relay For Life team will walk in Jim’s Memory at the April 14 Relay event. The Rancho Resort Clubhouse site, at 15900 S Rancho Resort Blvd, Sahuarita, AZ will host the 2018 event starting at 11:00 am with opening ceremonies, the cancer survivor lap, the caregiver lap, and the Relay team lap. The free survivor/caregiver meal provided by Twist n Shout will be served around Noon. From then on someone from each team will be walking a lap in honor or in memory of those who have been touched by cancer until 9:00 pm. We will be celebrating more cancer survivor birthdays with music and special laps such as the umbrella lap that represents melanoma cancer, the decorated bra lap representing breast cancer, etc. At dark the luminaria lap takes place with participants holding a light stick while walking along a path of lighted luminaria bags. Jim’s name and the names of others who have lost their cancer battle or are in their cancer journey will be read out loud. This is a very moving and memorable time for us all to remember our loved ones and be thankful for those who survive cancer. It is a time to reflect on why we work so hard to find a cure for cancer. To donate to Jim Asbell’s fundraising efforts, to join or follow the team, go to www.relayforlife.org/gvsahuaritaaz. Click on Jim Asbell’s name to donate to his fundraising account. To join or follow the team, click on the Quail Creek Fights Back team name. To have a luminaria bag decorated in Jim’s name (suggested donation $5.00 to the American Cancer Society) contact Ginny at vhutcheson@msn.com.

Want to Try a Quick Draw? This is an event for artists of all levels to enjoy the congeniality of painting together. Each person would be given 2 hours to complete a project in any media or combination of media. The participants could pick any subject matter and can plan ahead or even practice ahead of time what they want to paint. Photos or pictures can be used for subjects. Students can redo projects they completed for their classes. Members will be invited to circulate among the participants during the 2-hour period, watching and conversing with the artists. At the end of the 2-hour period a “Show & Tell” will be held for the artists to display and talk about their work. There will be no judging of the completed projects, some people may not complete the project in the allotted time, but the members will still enjoy hearing about their planned work. Judy McCormick will bring this up for discussion at the January meeting and set a date.

Want to paint like this?

Join the Joye Moon watercolor workshop: Date and Time Will meet in the Fine Arts Studio, Sunday, March 4 and Monday, March 5 from 9:00AM to 4:00PM with a break for lunch. Registration and Fees Register in advance with Dusty Friedman at dusty.quailcreek@gmail.com or 541-582-0733. Registra-tion is ongoing for members and begins September 1 for non-members. Space is limited. Fees for members are $110 for two sessions. Non-members $130 for two sessions. No refunds after February 21. Fees are due when registration is confirmed.

Contact Information: QCFAPC Board Members President: Dusty Friedman dusty.quailcreek@gmail.com Co-Vice President: Verne Gibbs vernegibbs@gmail.com Co-Vice President: Carole Washburn carolewashburn@me.com Secretary: Judy McCormick QCFAPCsecretary@gmail.com Treasurer: Amy Giannakakis agiannakakis53@gmail.com

Sunset by Steve Piepmeier