Winter Art Classes
Tracy Nelson
The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is a nonprofit organization that provides a wide range of classes to build or enhance the skills of artists at all levels of experience. All classes are located in the Topaz Room at the Arts & Crafts Center adjacent to MountainView Country Club. Membership in the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is only $25 per year and includes many benefits and activities. Guild members also enjoy a discount on class fees. Visit the Topaz Room display case to see art from our featured members and teachers.
Visit the Guild’s website at www.saddlebrookefinearts.org for convenient online registration and payment.
Beginning Pastel, by Delys Nast. Sunday, Nov. 17, from 1 to 4 p.m. Pastel gives a beautiful, soft texture to any canvas/paper with a myriad of colors available through blending and creative techniques. From artists like Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec and even Picasso, this medium has enjoyed a long history. In this class we will explore some of the options and techniques in pastel used for creating landscapes, portraits, and abstracts. If you previously took the Art Sampler class, this will take the exploration of using pastels in art further and give you more detail and experience with pastels. Materials will be provided.
Drawing with Colored Pencil, by Laurie Brussel. Tuesdays, Nov. 26 through Dec. 17, from 9 a.m. to noon. Colored pencil is a very impressive, sensitive medium. When used properly, the colors become luminescent. This four-week class teaches you how to use this medium to get the most valued results. Lessons in color theory and composition are also included to help you understand the total color drawing.
Textured Painting Using Stencil, by Theresa Poalucci. Saturday, Dec. 7, from 9 a.m. to noon. This is a mixed media class that uses acrylic paint, alcohol ink, modeling paste, and stencils to make a beautiful, one-one-a-kind original painting you will be proud to hang in your house. These are skills you can use over and over again. All supplies are included except canvas fee, and students can pick their color palette. No drawing skill is needed.
SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild Artist Display at Long Realty
Jenni Long
Long Realty Golder Ranch has forged a partnership with the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild to promote the talented artists of SaddleBrooke. The current display features the art of Delys Nast, Theresa Poalucci, and Becky Easton.
Delys Nast
As a child of an artistic mother and granddaughter of a sculptor, Delys Nast grew up with pastels in one hand and brushes in the other with the freedom to explore any creative outlet she could imagine, including a career in graphic design. Not afraid to get her fingers muddy with clay or dyed brown from mahogany wood stain, her passion for nature in an expression of creativity has evolved into many diverse skills across several types of media. From painting, woodworking, jewelry, lapidary … this list goes on and on and keeps growing.
Delys is a member of the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild, Jewelry and Lapidary, Fiber Arts, and Woodcarving. Delys sells at both the Arts and Craft Fair and Fine Arts Show and Sale, plus she does commissioned art pieces in oil, watercolor, and pastel.
Theresa Poalucci
Theresa has discovered a certain joy living in the high desert. The sunlight, the color, the unusual plant life, and the diversity of the wildlife, for her, taps into the fundamental aspects of the human experience and the intrinsic connection we all have with the natural world, regardless of the language we speak.
At the same time, Theresa is fascinated with the future and what the possibilities are in our ever-changing technological world. After all, few would disagree that science has transformed the world, not only by advancing human knowledge, but by improving the quality of the way we live.
Her digital art process starts by creating the perfect picture to tell nature’s story. The computer screen becomes her canvas as she combines a landscape photo with some plant life and then adds in a bird or a coyote or maybe a rabbit. The resulting composition is an original artwork, brought together to create an expressive point in time.
Becky Easton
Four generations of Becky’s family have lived in Arizona. As a youth, she was a competitive horse rider and trail rider. Thus, the western genre was a natural choice for her artwork.
She loves capturing on canvas the lifestyle of ranchers and cowboys, native animals, tools of the past, and the diverse landscape and flora of the Southwest.
Easton has studied under the tutelage of professional artists in Tucson, Scottsdale, and Tubac to develop a traditional style of painting with oils.
You can view the work of these fine artists at Long Realty Golder Ranch located in the Bashas’ Shopping Center. There will be an artist reception on Dec. 2 from 3 to 5 p.m. The public is invited to attend and meet the artists. Refreshments will be served.