The third Wednesday of every month from September through November and February through May, the association features a demonstration by a well known artist.
October Demonstration: Pastel with Shelly Eager
Please join us Wednesday, October 18, 7:00 pm, for a pastel demonstration with Shelly Eager.
The ordinary… This applies not to Shelly Eager's work, but to her subject. She strives to find the beauty in everyday scenes, everyday actions, everyday items. It is through the ordinary that she expresses the unusual. She is not drawn to scenes that everyone sees as beautiful and eye catching. She wants her viewers to see that, if you look closely at all things, therein lie the colors, expressions and movements that are beautiful, even extraordinary.
She prefer to crop in close or view her subject from a different angle, offering a unique point of view. She studies the colors she sees and exaggerates them to express the excitement she feels from them. Through her choice of subject and colors she attempts to elicit memories in the viewer. She wants them to say “I remember this from my childhood” “those colors really make me feel the scene, the object, the emotion”.
She wants her viewer and her art to connect, to feel camaraderie, to feel intimate. We all have our memories, and surprisingly they are quite similar... they just have different details. She wants her viewers to complete her paintings with their own details. This is her ultimate goal.
See more about Shelly at http://shellyeagerpastels.com/
The ordinary… This applies not to Shelly Eager's work, but to her subject. She strives to find the beauty in everyday scenes, everyday actions, everyday items. It is through the ordinary that she expresses the unusual. She is not drawn to scenes that everyone sees as beautiful and eye catching. She wants her viewers to see that, if you look closely at all things, therein lie the colors, expressions and movements that are beautiful, even extraordinary.
She prefer to crop in close or view her subject from a different angle, offering a unique point of view. She studies the colors she sees and exaggerates them to express the excitement she feels from them. Through her choice of subject and colors she attempts to elicit memories in the viewer. She wants them to say “I remember this from my childhood” “those colors really make me feel the scene, the object, the emotion”.
She wants her viewer and her art to connect, to feel camaraderie, to feel intimate. We all have our memories, and surprisingly they are quite similar... they just have different details. She wants her viewers to complete her paintings with their own details. This is her ultimate goal.
See more about Shelly at http://shellyeagerpastels.com/
