Golden Paint Demonstration + New Contest

Tesia Blackburn showing examples of Golden Paint's line of modern pigments.

Last month’s meeting with Golden Paint’s rep Tesia Blackburn was packed with info. Tesia’s website is blackburnfineart.com if you’d like to visit her blog, learn about her classes, etc.

In addition, at the meeting we tried something new: an art contest. First place went to Yvonne Brown’s mattboard etching, second went to Keiko Stong’s patterned landscape, and third went to Cheryl Crews’ landscape painting. Guest artist’s choice went to new member Egmont Van Dyck. Thank you to everyone for the overwhelming participation! We’ll work out the kinks so things can proceed more smoothly next time. The running tally of points won for each place indicates Yvonne Brown in the lead as EBAG’s Guild Artist of the Year, to be awarded in December 2009.

EBAG Well Represented at 2009 Creekside Arts Festival

The town of Clayton held its 6th Annual Creekside Arts Festival the weekend of March 6th. The Festival was a 2 1/2 day celebration of the arts and cultural events. Activities included live painting demonstrations, cultural presentations, poetry readings, music, art sales and much more. Sponsored by the Clayton Community Library Foundation in cooperation with the City of Clayton, it was a well organized and impressive effort.

In addition to the above activities, the Festival hosted a juried art contest. The theme was “Cultural Legacies…Reflections of our Past”. Thirteen artists entered the contest and submitted 38 pieces of art. Among the entrants were EBAG members Brian Condran, Carol Jurasin, and Mark Pemberton. The entries represented the diversity of artists in EBAG with Brian submitting two oak cabinets, Carol entered three watercolor paintings, and Mark, three photographs.

Awards for the juried competition were handed out in a special presentation Friday evening. One of the big winners was EBAG member Brian Condran who took home 5 awards. For his work “Master Watching” he won Best Technique and 2nd Place Non-Photography. His “Heritage Oak Cabinet” won the Judges Choice award, Best Theme and 1st Place Non-Photography.

In the Photography category, Mark Pemberton took 2nd and 3rd Place ribbons for his works “Reflections on Lincoln” and “Ghosts of Bodie”. First place in the Photography category went to Tom O’Connor for his visually impressive photograph of petroglyphs in Canyon de Chelly, NM.