Published in The Beverly Review, March 3, 2015

by Daiva Skuodyte
 

RAA hosts painting demonstration

The Ridge Art Association (RAA) will host Patricia Bock on Sunday, March 8, at 1 p.m. Bock will show her watercolor painting process.

Bock is a member of the LaGrange Art League, Transparent Watercolor Society of America and the McCord House Gallery.

Attend the painting session as a guest, for $3 per person, if just to learn about the RAA and meet some interesting people who do appreciate great art. Membership is $30 for a season.

Warm fellowship and a relaxed atmosphere prevailed at the Feb. 8 meeting when a member of the Oil Painters of America, award-winning artist and art instructor Beth Leahy, painted a still life of grapes. She walked her audience through the entire process of her creative style. Like all other guest artists painting for the RAA by invitation, Leahy will donate her finished still life to the RAA. Members of the RAA will have the privilege to win her art piece in a lottery drawing during the closing session of the RAA season in May.(...)

Ridge Art Association sets event

by DAIVA SKUODYTE

The Beverly Review


Marge Coughlin

MariKay Peter Witlock


Ridge Art Association (RAA) President Rosalie Thorson (left) discusses painting techniques with Marge Coughlin, the presenter at the RAA’s November 2014 meeting. 

 photo by DAIVA SKUODYTE 

RAA joins art walk; to host demonstration

by DAIVA SKUODYTE
The Beverly Review

• John Howard

 Painter John Howard demonstrated at the Ridge Art Association’s opening session on Oct. 11,2014

Photo by DAIVA SKUODYTE

Watercolors thrill RAA audience

by DAIVA SKUODYTE

The Beverly Review 

• Tom Francesconi

Ridge Art Association to hold event

 

by DAIVA SKUODYTE

The Beverly Review

• George C. Clark 

  

  Photo by Mrs. Clark

  • Watercolor Demonstration at the Ridge Art Association
  • Drawings and News
  • Traveler's Sketchbook Art by George C. Clark
    
    

    Tuesday, March 4, 2014

    Ridge Art Association will welcome painter and sketching expert George C. Clark to demonstrate landscape painting in watercolor on Sunday, March 9, from 1 to 4 p.m., in the west room of the Ridge Park field house, 9625 S. Longwood Drive.
    
    
    
    

    

    Mineral Point Log Cabin, 16 x 12 inch watercolor and colored pencil by George C. Clark

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

John Howard

Published by Southwest Suburban News-Herald, Friday, February 7, 2014.

 

Painter Will Showcase Watercolor Techniques

Ridge Art Association will host highly acclaimed painter John Howard. who will demonstrate his watercolor painting techniques from 1:00 - 4:00 P.M. Sunday, Feb.9 at the West Room of the Ridge Park Field House, 9625 S. Longwood Drive,Chicago.  Howard teaches continuing education classes in watercolor, mural, and portrait painting at the Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills and several other organizations. Several of his paintings depicting local historical sights are on public display at the Oak View Center, in the permanent collection of the Oak Lawn Park District. His murals decorate several buildings, including O'Hare Hilton.

by DAIVA SKUODYTE

Leonardo da Vinci about Art

• "Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." ~ Leonardo da Vinci 

• "Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

• "Learn diligence before speedy execution." ~ Leonardo da Vinci

From the Painter's Keys