Phil Thomas

Field Studies

One of the values of painting from life is learning to observe more closely. When you get to the point in your painting career that you find you are actually learning from yourself it's a huge breakthru. What I mean by that is that you realize that it's your efforts that are the best teachers. Each time you go out to paint you learn something new either about painting or about yourself. Some how you file this new knowledge back in your memory to be used when you need it next. It's surprising how often something will jog your memory and you find it useful to have already gone down that path.

This is what we do when we go out to do field studies. A field study doesn't actually have to be any more than just that. It's a way of capturing what you see so you can use it again later maybe for a larger studio work. Plein air painters have found this act of doing field studies valuable because it takes the pressure off of doing a completed work. It's surprising how that label affords such freedom of expression and many times you end up with paintings that are completely sellable just as they are. Many collectors really enjoy collecting field studies and often times end up buying the companion studio work as well.

Today, if you have time, take a look at the field studies of Marc Hanson. http://www.marchansonart.com/ . Get inspired and if you want to go out and paint, call me and we'll go. I'll be in Pine Mountain this Wednesday and Thursday. I'd love to paint with someone and do some field studies.

Hope you have a great plein air day, Phyllis

News Correspondents Named

Two new News Correspondents have been named to the PAG staff. They are Leslie Hoops Wallace from Middle Georgia, and BJ Wright from North West Georgia. Leslie and BJ will be adding in news about our PAG members, posting event opportunities, workshops, festival and other topics of interest along with Phyllis Franklin from West Central Georgia.

Feel free to contact Leslie, BJ or Phyllis to add your news or if you would like to become a News Correspondent staff member, just send in an email to pleinairga@yahoo.com

Middle Georgia News - Leslie Hoops Wallace - unicornsquest@hotmail.com
North West Georgia News - BJ Wright - beejw@charter.net
West Central Georgia - Phyllis Franklin - phyllisfranklin@hotmail.com

General correspondence - pleinairga@yahoo.com

21st Annual National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition

Annual National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
November 2007

For more information please contact Jamie Fritter

Jamie E. Fritter

Program Assistant

Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville/Douglas County

8652 Campbellton Street
Douglasville, Georgia 30134

770-949-ARTS (2787)

770-949-5788 (fax)

Sandra Babb Exhibits

Sandra Babb Exhibit
The Colonnade
Ringgold, Georgia
July 30th - August 27

Artist Estate Sale - Obie Waldhauer

The "William (Obie) Waldhauer Estate Sale" will be held on Saturday and Sunday, July 28-29 at 407 Wilson Drive in Centerville, Georgia. If you would like to buy before that date, contact Dona Schaeffer at Martin Rubber Stamp 478-923-0753. Obie was a Ceramics Engineer and a Master Potter. There will be a large variety of household items in the sale, but items specific to ceramic artists include:

Large Kiln - needs repair

Potter’s Wheel

Industrial Ceramic Slabber

Pigments and Oxides for glazes

Flint

K Spar

NA Spar

Dolomite

400 Lbs of Silica

Ball Clay

Margaret Agner Exhibits - Landscapes: Eastern Townships, Quebec

Exhibit

Athens Clarke-County Library - Upstairs
2025 Baxter St.
Athens, Georgia

Landscapes: Eastern Townships, Quebec

PAG member Margaret Agner has 14 plein air paintings of the Eastern township of Quebec on exhibit at the Athens Clarke-County library during July and August, 2007. Click on the title link above to learn more about Margaret and her work.