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Shades of Value
Shades of Value is a new workshop which I have developed to teach drawing with graphite. This workshop is two days and covers 3 major points: Draw, Shade and Details. During this workshop one will learn to draw using the grid system. This is a process used by many of the instructors who have written books. Shading is done with a mechanical pencil and a tortillion. The details are the last thing done during the painting process.
This workshop is divided into 4 sessions. Session 1 covers all of the equipment used while learning Shades of Value. Session 2 involves learning to develop shapes using shading. Session 3 will see your first project-a still life-develop before your very eyes,. You will finish with a painting of an animal in your last session.
For more information on this workshop please contact me at mah@hsvartist.com
Tied up in Friday Harbor
Margaret Hoffman and "The Patient Hunter"
Margaret Hoffman stands next to her painting, "The Patient Hunter". Hoffman's pastel painting was juried into the South Arkansas Arts Center Annual Exhibit in El Dorado, Arkansas. Art broker and gallery owner Alfred J. Walker of Boston, Massachusetts, was the juror of this year's competition. Walker has served as judge for numerous private and public shows such as the Guild of Boston Artists, the Boston Athenaeum, and the nation's oldest art association and gallery, the Copley Society of Boston. Walker has spent over twenty years appraising paintings and art related objects for private collections and institutions.
Paintings from as far away as Michigan, California and New York were accepted into the exhibit. Only 41 of the 320+ paintings entered were accepted to hang in the exhibit which was sponsored by the Smackover State Bank.
Hoffman and her husband, Bill, were present during the awards ceremony Saturday, July 18. The couple was also celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary. Hoffman spent three years as president of Brush Strokes, a Hot Springs Village art club and is Volunteer Coordinator at Good Samaritan-Hot Springs Village Society. She is also state president of Arkansas Volunteer Coordinators Association (AVCA) and president of the West Central Arkansas chapter of AVCA