Next meeting is Wednesday July 11, 2012 7:00 p.m.

Clovis Veteran’s Memorial Building, 804 4th Street, Clovis CA

Inside this issue:

President’s Message 2

We Need You 2

Web Site News 2

Pick of the Month 3

Pitfalls of Using Celebrities

in your art 3

Officers & Committees 4

Membership Application 4

Clovis Art Guild

OFFICERS Presidents Pro

Tem

Gail Daley

Gene Butler

Vice President

Toni Magyar

Secretary

Barbara Hamel

Treasurer

Alice Sutton

July

2012 The Oldest and Best art Association in the Valley

ETHEL JAMFREY WILL BE DEMON-

STRATING IN CLAY THIS MONTH

NEXT EXCHANGE FOR OUR STOREFRONT GALLERY

WILL BE MONDAY JULY 2, 2012 @ 5:00 P.M.

An award winning sculptor in bronze and clay,

Ethel Jamfrey pursues her fascination with horses

and their movement through her artistic creations.

While she has pieces in private collections across

the country and has shown her bronzes in Albu-

querque, New Mexico, San Francisco, Palm

Springs and locally, she is still developing her style

and expression in sculpture and returning this year

to hand built forms in clay…and bronze.

Her early work in sculpture had its rudimentary

beginnings in the long summers of hot afternoons on the farm when she whittled poplar suckers

into horses and crafted “paper Mache” into a model of her Paint horse. By the time she went to

high school she was painting in oils with discarded brushes and left over paints that someone

had given her. Her great fortune came to her in the wonderful teacher she had in Art at

Madera High School, Heinz Kusel. His passion for art and life was boundless and he conveyed

it to his students. He recommended her for the Bank of America Award in Art which she re-

ceived as a senior in 1961. As a student at Fresno State she was again fortunate to have had

Adolf Odorfer as her Ceramics teacher. Odorfer was from the “old school” of learning which

demanded that students understand the medium of clay and how to make it work for you within

the bounds of its physical and chemical properties. Under his strict supervision and guidance

her “sculptural mind” was formed. It is a way of looking at 3 dimensions that reduces it to its

simplest form. It takes the essence of a subject instead of interpreting it literally… to show

movement, interesting composition and form with an awareness of positive and negative

shapes…showing characteristics of the subject without “copying what God has already done

better”.

Graduating from California State University Fresno with a Major in Art and Minor in Life Scienc-

es, she became an Art and Biology teacher for 38 years.

Along the way, between teaching and “life”, Ethel found time to continue sculpting in clay, and

learn the craft of working wax and casting bronze…as well as breeding, raising, training and

showing Arabian horses, and photography, and spontaneous gesture drawings of horses on

clothing, logo’s for horse entities, etc.

Her emphasis currently is on clay forms in high relief on a plaque which allows for a pictorial

quality as well as actual three dimensional images. These pieces will be fired. Experimentation

with surface enrichment in glaze (fired) and acrylics as well as use of different clays is also part

of these adventures. Subject matter is also in an exploratory state. She plans to continue her

work in bronze as well using Plastilina (clay with linseed oil mix) as an original form medium.

Page 2 Clovis Art Guild

President’s

Message In each issue of the newsletter, we try and provide at least one informa-tional or instructive article. This month Dennis Lewis graciously agreed to allow us to re-print the information sheet used in his last demonstration. I know that Clovis Art Guild has many members with years of valuable experience. I would like to encourage all of you to consider submitting articles on art related subjects. The articles should be around 200 to 300 words, alt-hough if they run longer we can split them up into separate articles for each month the way we did the cop-

yright myths.

I hope you have already started painting for the Veteran’s show, or at least have an idea of what you intend to create. We should have the prospectus ready for distribution in August. Last year’s show really showed our patriotism and how much we value our Veteran’s contri-bution to our defense, and I know

this year will be the same.

Gene Butler & Gail Daley

THANK YOU BARBARA

Thank you Barbara Hamel

for being willing to step in-

to the Secretarial position.

NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS! Since I had been sending you the newsletter using an e-mail ad-dress from my personal website, and that will be down for the next few weeks, I have created a new e-mail for the group: Clo-visArtGuild@att.net. This is case sensitive, so if you send an e-mail please use the caps key where shown. Also, Please add this e-mail to your address book, so that your newsletter isn't routed to your spam folder.

Thanks, Gail.

MADERA AG ART SHOW

The entry deadline for the Madera Ag Art

Show is August 1, 2012. Entry forms can be

found on line at www.maderaarts.org. The

show will run from October 4, 2012 to Novem-

ber 17, 2012, at the Circle Gallery in Madera.

For more information, phone 559-661-7005.

Our Art Hop Trolley’s first

stop is At the Art By Hand

Water Tower Gallery & Gift

Shop 2444 Fresno Street,

where you can park and

ride! Cost is $1.00 (pay

only once!) The short line stops every 15 minutes, stays

around downtown and there is music. The extended line

goes out to the Tower District with storytelling.

NOW YOU CAN PARK &

R IDE TO ART HOP!

Pick of the Month is the Guild’s way of supporting our members ef-forts. We need at least 7 paintings to award 3 places, so please participate! We’d like to see what you’ve been working on! Don’t forget to bring your art

to the meeting! We would love to see your work. Classwork is acceptable too.

P ICK OF THE MONTH

Page 3 July 2012

7 KEY TIPS TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN PAINTING

BY DENNIS LEWIS

1. Values and good design are your most important tools in holding a painting to-gether.

2. Think about large shapes when designing. Block in large masses or shapes in your subjects which you can easily see when you squint. Squinting eliminates the details and shows you the big areas of similar values.

3. Drawing quick thumbnails and or painting value studies will help you develop a concept for a strong painting.

4. Crop and balance your shapes for a better design that supports your intentions.

5. Balance and establishing good proportions is a key to a good design. Have more dark than light or more light than dark. Play active areas against passives areas.

6. You can unify several elements into one larger shape by softening the edges be-tween them or painting them in similar values so the edges seem to disappear.

7. Use harder edges to separate shapes. This will help you retain the flow of your design.

1st Place Barbara Hamel 2nd Place David Dalgety This could be you

OFFICERS & COMMITTEES

PRESIDENT PRO TEM GAIL DALEY 960-2428

PRESIDENT PRO TEM GENE BUTLER 275-4304

VICE PRESIDENT TONI MAGYAR 299-0690

SECRETARY BARBARA HAMEL 289-0984

TREASURER ALICE SUTTON 787-2386

PROGRAM CHAIR JULIANNE SMITH 323-8496

PUBLICITY GLYNMARY BATEMAN

MEMBERSHIP ALICE SUTTON 787-2386

PICK OF THE MONTH JACKIE MCCOY/MARY ANN FERSTL 787-2451

NEWSLETTER GAIL DALEY 960-2428

REFRESHMENT JEANNE NAITO 255-2146

BARGAIN TABLE SHIRLEY LINDGREN 255-0826

GREETER JOHN ROBERTS 322-6186

SUNSHINE HILDA VANDERGRIFF 322-6557

CO-CHAIR SHARON GARCIA 294-9626

STUDENT PROGRAM GENE BUTLER 275-4304

STOREFRONT ART GALLERY GAIL DALEY 960-2428

WEB SITE MANAGER MA LY

M e m b e r s h i p a p p l i c a t i o n

If you wish to submit an item for the newsletter, please do so by the 25th of the month. Items should be sent to Gail Daley at:

ClovisArtGuild@att.net Or mailed to:

5688 E Sussex Way Fresno, CA 93727

BOARD MEETINGS ARE THE 2ND

WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH BEFORE

THE GENERAL MEETING, AT 5:30 P.M. IN

THE VETERAN’S MEMORIAL BUILDING,

804 4TH STREET, CLOVIS CA. MEMBERS

ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.

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