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The PREZ SEZ:Hello all you fabulously talented people, and welcome back to another year with the Kingwood Art Society.  We have a beautiful new meeting place, thanks to the generosity of the folks with Homewood Suites.  If you happen to see someone on staff before or after a meeting, please take a moment to thank them for working with us. 

Being around creative people is a wonderful bonus for an artist, so try to make all the meetings.  Maybe we can also get our painting groups going again.  I love getting ideas from other artists.I've had a great year, artwise.  I took a chance and entered three national competitions.   I was accepted into two exhibitions and made the finals in another.  This just proves that you must keep on keeping on.  It's a real boost to your desire to create art when someone else validates artwork that you have done.  Why not take a chance and submit slides for your self? 

I've been submitting to THE ARTIST'S MAGAZINE for years, and this is the first time I've had any success. I've had many artworks that went nowhere in competitions, also. If you have a piece that hasn't been awarded, don't think that it is a bad piece of art.  It could easily win something on another day and with another judge.  We all know how subjective art is. 

Anyhow, our first show will be coming up in November, so get painting, sculpting, drawing, mixing those media, or whatever turns you on.  That's a good thing.

Linda C.

Linda Dumas submitted two slides for the International Society of Experimental Artists national juried show to be in Michigan from June 30 - July 30 of this year.  Her SUPERMODEL was accepted!!! Big Congratulations to her for this accomplishment.

Linda Dumas has also been elected to full membership in the Society of Layerists in Multi-Media.She was required to submit two essays, 10 slides, and a description of her working process to a three-member jury. Before her submission and acceptance, she was considered an associate member.

UPDATE: Linda has had great success over the summer. Here's a list of her accomplishments!

Exhibition:  International Society of Experimental Artists : Devos Museum, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI from June 30 - July 31, Supermodel, mixed media collage. 

Exhibition: Society of Layerists in Multi-Media, Lexington, KY, October 12 - November 17, 13 locations.  Another Time, Another Place, Mixed-Media Collage 

Finalist in the category of Experimental Art for The Artist's Magazine 2006 Competition. Another Time, Another Place, Mixed-Media Collage.

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Vanita Doyle is the featured artist with "Colors Galore" at Mason's on Main Street for the Month of September.

Gallery hours: Monday through Saturday, 10:30am - 5:30pm
Sunday, 12 noon - 5:00pm
Gallery phone number: 281-528-0474
Gallery address:
270 Midway, Old Spring
(1 block south of Main Street where the Gallery waslast year)

Be sure to check out the map of all our meetings places.

Sept. Board Meeting
September 11, 10:00 am
Judy Richard's home
2010 Nagalus
Crosby, TX, 77532
281-324-2616

Sept. General Meeting
September 18, 7:00 pm
Homewood Suites
23300 Highway 59 N
Kingwood, TX 77339
281-358-5566

Oct. Board Meeting
October 9, 10:00 am
Linda Dumas' home
2810 Valley Way
Kingwood, TX 77339

Oct. General Meeting
October 16, 7:00 pm
Homewood Suites
23300 Highway 59 N
Kingwood, TX 77339
281-358-5566

Fine Art Festival
October 21 & 22
Town Center Park
Kingwood
Saturday: 10am - 6pm
Sunday: 10am - 5pm

LSAG Convention
May 19/20
at Delago
Conroe, TX

Renew your membership for the coming year now!

Dues are $40 for 1 full year, running September through May.

Send dues to:
Matthew Dunnachie
P.O. Box 6681
Kingwood, TX 77325

Robert Genn writes a fantastic online art letter twice a week, addressing a multitude of issues. Subscription is free. Just go to the web site and follow directions.

Kingwood Art Society -Board Meeting
June 19, 2006

The Board met during the summer at the home of Linda Hamilton.President , Linda Dumas called the meeting to order.

The Board prepared the Calendar for the upcoming 2006-07 year.

Corrections and updates were made to the Yearbook.

A revision was proposed to the KAS By-Laws, and changes will be made in our Yearbook for next year.

Under the section entitled ARTICLE 1V: Dues (page 18-19 in the 05-06 Yearbook)

The following changes will be made:
Annual dues for each Regular Membership shall be $40.00 for one full year.
The fiscal year will run from September through May.
The school student (grades K- 12) membership dues will be $10.00.

Respectfully Submitted:
Sheila Bridges, secretary

Good online art prices may be found at http://www.misterart.com (This is also a Texas Art site. If you pay for the VIP membership, you will save a good deal on items.) You will have to pay shipping, of course, but sometimes we simply can't leave home and make it downtown. Texas Art Supply is online at http://www.texasart.com.

Look up art terms at http://www.artlex.com

The wonderful array of products of the Golden Company may be found at http://www.goldenpaints.com. If you are having trouble ordering certain colors for the Golden Paints, particularly the iridescents, try ordering them from http://www.artcity.com. They are pretty quick with a mail order. Michael's usually has Golden fluid acrylics and iridescents, but only in small bottles and colors are usually missing. Texas Art has all the colors, but not all the iridescents.

The web site for the fabulous Mary Todd Beam is http://www.marytoddbeam.com. Mary's great book is Celebrate Your Creative Self. I think it is still available at Northlight Books at P.O. Box 9276, Central Islip, NY 11722-9276 phone 386-447-6359 or go to nlbc@mbsmm.com. Another excellent and useful book to get your creativity going is Arteffects by Jean Drysdale Green. Very good ideas may be found in Creative Collage Techniques by Nita Leland and Virginia Lee Williams.

Gerald Brommer has many good books out there, several on collage. His Watercolor and Collage Workshop is available through http://www.amazon.com for about $12.95. Mr. Brommer also showed me that if you want to make a dark painting or artwork "pop" put it inside a black mat! When you begin a two-dimensional artwork, draw a real or imaginary tic tac toe on your board or canvas. Put your center of interest/focal point, where the lines cross.

If you are running out of names for your art works, try a music or mythology dictionary. On the music side, you could title things something like Symphony in Blue and Gold, Barnyard Concerto, Sarabande in Red, or Ducklings in Chorus. I did a series of pots using titles such as Zeus' Pot, Hebe's Bowl, or Goblet of Ares. A wonderful, beautiful magazine is international Artist. You may write to International Artist Magazine, P.O. Box 469068, Escondido, CA 92046.

Good frames and framing supplies may be found at United MFRS Supplies, Inc. 80 Gordon Drive, Syosset, NY 11791. Phone is 800-645-7260. Web address is www.unitedmfrs.com If you call for catalogs, ask specifically for framing one. They also have super good prices on matboard and foamcore if purchased in 25 sheet lots. You do have to have a tax number, which you should have anyway if you sell your art...

The TUBE WRINGER is available from Texas Art for $9.74—get every last drop of paint out of those tubes!

The TWIRLER ($9.50 and SUPER SOFTSTRAND wire are from United Manufacturers. I use size 4 (25 lbs.). The spool is $21.40 and contains 825ft. The twirler first punches a hole in your wood frame for the metal eye, then inserts inside the eye to screw it in. I'm not sure if those prices are still the same.

United also has a French gallery system that is wonderful. You mount a track near your ceiling, hang rods with hooks off it, and you can change your paintings at will. I have one in my hallway.

Best heavy-body gesso is Utrecht. Gives tons of texture!

If you have to carry some paintings by the wire, take the cardboard tube from a pants hanger, slit it, and slip it over the wire. Cushions your hand wonderfully.

Price your paintings by the square inch. Takes all the guesswork out.