Lemont Artists Guild

WELCOME!

We currently are planning Zoom meetings until it is safe to meet in person again via the state mandates and local rules.

UPCOMING PRESENTATION:   

Oil Painting Demonstration-Making use of color and light

presented by Mary Dorrell

Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 7 pm (ends before 9 pm), Via ZOOM

CLICK  THE BELOW LINK TO REGISTER:  

  https://homerlibrary.org/oil-painting-demo

 (Note:  After registering, you will receive a link FROM THE HOMER TOWNSHIP PULBIC LIBRARY to the Zoom meeting at least 15 minutes or more in advance of the program. Don't see the email? Make sure you check your SPAM/JUNK MAIL folder!)  

• On October 13, 2021, in partnership with the Homer Township Public Library, the Lemont Artists Guild presents, via Zoom, Artist Mary Dorrell, who will give an oil painting demonstration making use of color and light.  Are you always wondering what to do with warm and cool colors?   Mary will help you to stop struggling with color schemes and learn to generate harmony that elevates the quality of your paintings.  Mary will review oil painting materials, choice of composition, and the basics of the color wheel, emphasizing color temperature. She will present a small still-life demonstration, stressing the use of cool and warm color.     
• Mary’s education and experience includes The Art House, Chicago, IL and Petrified Forest National Park (both Artist in Residence), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Certificate in Painting), The Art House, (Certificate in Fine Arts), North Central College, Naperville, IL (Master of Arts), National-Louis University, Evanston, IL (Bachelor of Arts), Triton College, River Grove, IL (Associate of Arts), Art Instruction Schools, Minneapolis, MN (Certificate in Art and Certificate in Commercial Art).  She is a member of The Art House, Chicago, Oil Painters of America, and DuPage Art League and has shown in many exhibits over the years.      
• As an artist, Mary is dedicated to challenging herself. She paints and creates daily and is partial to using thick, juicy paint. She works with bright colors and strong contrast. She seeks to make her subjects recognizable but relaxed and suggestive, making the paintings more than a copied image. Of course, there is line, value, shape, and composition, but she has found that after all that, when she focuses on simply painting in the moment, she is most authentic.       
• Threads of adventure travel, as well as friends and family runs through her work to speak to our shared experiences in life and in nature. When you become engaged in an aspect of what she found to be so spectacular about the setting or the experience then she says: ‘"we are in communion." Yet, capturing a feeling is elusive and her ongoing quest remains; to have the paintings communicate the feelings and reflect the moment so that you the viewer have an opportunity to engage and tap into your own responses.  To find out more about Mary, visit her website at www.marydorrell.com.  
   

RECORDING LINK FOR OUR LAST MEETING:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdG20SBax9c

This meeting took place on WED., SEPTEMBER 8, 2021, 7:00 PM VIA ZOOM (ends before 9 pm)

  Lemont Artists Guild and Homer Township Library present:

Art Journal Making

presented by Kristin Peterson

On September 8, 2021, the Homer Township Public Library and the Lemont Artists Guild present Artist Kristin Peterson, who will give a presentation on Art Journal Making.  Kristin is a third generation artist, originally from South Dakota.  She is always exploring and expanding the creative depths of journal making.  She is passionate about vintage collage and mixed media.  Kristin loves color and things that have a love-worn comfortable feeling.  Her journals contain a vibrance mixed with a little funk, and sprinkled with sensibility.   

Kristin Peterson grew up in a creative home and had the privilege of doing anything that was artistic. Painting, clay, sewing.... When she was younger, the thought of being a professional artist had the stigma of a "starving artist" and so she took a "safer" route and has a medical background working in a hospital setting for almost 30 years.   She remained interested in anything creative and fell in love with scrapbooking and card making, which sparked the artsy interest again for her. Once she moved to Minnesota in May of 2000, and was closer to her mom and gramma, she started attending week-long painting classes with the two of them. Her art career has simply grown from there. She continues to try and take one class a year from a skilled artist to push her own knowledge, skill level, and comfort zone. She has used art journaling as a way to hone her artistic skills and to practice using and mixing products to see how things react together before moving to canvas or paper. She has been teaching mostly in-person classes for about 8 years; until this last year when she was pushed to learn the online format and tackle technology. Without this change, she would still be avoiding pulling together online classes, but having this option has been well received and has allowed people that wouldn't otherwise be able to attend an in-person class to have some choices.

 Visit her website at www.alteredstatesstudio.com.

Mark your calendars for the 2nd Wednesdays in 2021-2022, our Programs are announced as we add them.

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Lemont Center for the Arts current exhibit:

Inaugural Lemont High School Lemont Alumni Exhibit

Thru Oct. 30, 2021

Lemont High School Alumni Artists will be featured at the Inaugural Lemont High School Alumni Art Exhibit through Saturday, October 30.
Artists dating back to the Class of 1979 will be featured, including Emmy winner Ed Kulzer, local muralist Rob Moriarty, students currently pursuing college art degrees, and more!   Let's get out there and support the arts by visiting Lemont Center for the Arts! 

Hours: Noon to 4 pm Fri, Sat, and Sundays

Location: 1243 State Street, #101, Lemont, IL

VISIT THEIR WEBSITE AT: https://www.artlemont.org/

Visit and Like their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LemontCenterForTheArts

Please visit our Virtual Member Showings! 

 We have so much talent in our guild, and many mediums and styles.  Thank you to the members who could send your work to be shown, we hope more can participate in future shows.

Visit the Show! Click here!

Visit and Like our Facebook Page at:  https://www.facebook.com/Lemont-Artists-Guild-107474634245261 

Alliance of Fine Art (AFA) 2021 Student Scholarship Competition Exhibit Information:

Visit this link to see the online show and streaming information when the winners are announced:

https://www.allianceoffineart.org/2021-student-scholarship-competition.html

Visit our Interactive Projects Page!!

Also: Check out our Interactive Links page ( https://lemontartistsguild.org/interactive-links) with some web links to interesting sites and articles!