Two new Happenings for 2012 - Drawing 2012

drawings by Picasso, Matisse, Da vinci and Michelangelo

We certainly start off 2012 with a kick!

We have the Book Discussion on January 22 and the Deadline for the members Show submission on January 15. Now we are also going to take part in Sketchcrawl, a worldwide event on January 21. Then there is the WCAGA Drawing Marathon for 2012 deadline on January 30.

Barb Regh is putting together the Drawing Marathon Program for 2012 and needs to know if you are interested. It is a year long project that takes place at different locations and dates. You can be a hosting studio, where artists come over to your studio and draw. You can be a participant by being a marathon drawer. You can also be both a host and drawer.

Marilynn Brandenburger organized a the SketchCrawl #34 at the Atlanta Botanical Garden on January 21. You can come whenever you want to after the Garden opens at 9 am. The Artists meet at noon for a snack at the Metrofresh Cafe.

Drawing forms the foundation of art, whether you like to scribble on a napkin or make realistic emulations, or abstract marks on paper with pencil, charcoal, and pastel, please join us for the Drawing Marathon and the Sketchcrawl.

Contact details are available on the Calendar Page. Members also received email letters with more information. Please check out the mailchimp emails from WCAGA

Regards
Corlia

Lets get to know our Members - Mary Frances

Mary Frances is an artist and a poet. Her life in creativity took over after she left the corporate world. She studied under professors from Georgia Perimeter College and Georgia State University. Mary Frances uses a variety of materials in her work, pencil, ink, ebony, charcoal, watercolor and oil. Her work can be describe as soft, whimsical, and dreamy. Her work is explorations, reflections, and adventures in different artistic mediums and genres. Mary Frances has this great poem available on her website. It is called "Mature Art Student." I copied the poem here because it deals with everything the maturing woman faces everyday and it reminded me of the Martha Wilson Exhibition "I have become my own worst Fear." Please visit Mary Frances' Website for more information and artwork and contact details.

                                                                                        

Mature Art Student

  Remembering beach-bright days,

short shorts, and roller skating,

I decide to paint 

my silhouette.

Quickly, I multiply mirrors,

strip, then look.

 What has happened to me?

I see where the latest 

forty pounds resides.

My ribcage has pillows!

 If I hang from the door frame,

will my waist return?

Yes, sides smooth as sand.

Silly girl, you can’t draw

with your hands overhead.

 And then there’s my butt—

depression descends.

My once round bottom

splits into two squares.

 Forget the mirrors.

I throw on a fat-man’s T-shirt.

 I’ll draw my feet instead.

                                      -Mary Frances-

Kind Regards Corlia