Sharon King at Birt's Bistro

Vanguard Artist, Sharon King, will have her artwork displayed at Birt's Bistro 16752 N Greasewood Street, Surprise, AZ. This display will go through November 4th, 2013.

A reception will be held in her honor, which includes appetizers and music on September 26th, 2013 from 5-7:00 PM.

 

Let's join Sharon to celebrate her art for his event!

Problems with Slideshow on iPad

Has anyone tried to run their blog slideshows on an iPad? One of our members can run it on her laptop but it doesn't work on the iPad. Any suggestions would be appreciated...thanks, Susan

Vanguard Artists Challenge - Abstract to Realistic and Realistic to Abstract

Thanks to  Aileen for this successful and fun challenge. I say fun, but I found it so difficult that I aborted my effort three-quarters of the way through the painting! Even the chairwoman, Aileen, confessed to finding it difficult to step outside of the box and do something she normally didn't paint. However, all who participated must have found a way because all of these were just super. The consensus was that using the format for each artist to describe their process for their challenge painting was appreciated by all.

I think we agree that these challenges are both fun and inspiring. Great job you all did!

New Member Application Form

If you are interested in sponsoring a new member for Vanguard Artists, please click on the link on the sidebar for this. If you have trouble opening it (mainly MAC users), please e-mail me susanroper@cox.net and I will send it to you.

Lord of Life Lutheran Church Vanguard Exhibit

Kristi Herring sent these photos of the recent hanging of the new Lord of Life exhibit by Vanguard artists Liz Mullen, Sharon King and Anne Breza. She is the Vanguard photographer and it is special that she brought her camera along while she and a friend visited the exhibit.

 My apologies to Sharon King and Liz Mullen since their two paintings were not included since Blogger would not let me rotate them and they were laying on their sides! After three different programs let me down, I will just invite you to go to the church and see these lovely paintings in person! ...Your blog administrator.

September Challenge

It has been brought to my attention that there is confusion regarding the September Challenge. I asked Aileen to clarify for us, and this is what she said:

The Challenge is one painting per artist.  If an artist paints in a realistic form they are to push them selves and have the majority of the painting on the abstract side with a hint of realistic.  If a painter works more in a abstract form they are to have the majority realistic with a hint of  abstract in their painting.  

There are many different ways to handle this challenge

If people will google abstract to realism or realism to abstract they will see many examples.

What this means to me, personally, is that I have an almost-finished painting for the challenge that is wrong! Oh well, at least I am painting!

Video Test

This is a test to see if I can make this wonderful video, compliments of Judy Lawson, available on the blog.

Please click here.