YAA Spotlight Show features the Oil and Acrylic Class and Watercolorist Carol Summers « Yaa Spotlight

YAA Spotlight Show features the Oil and Acrylic Class and Watercolorist Carol Summers

The spotlight show for Feb. 23, 2013 through March 8, 2013 will be featuring the Oil and Acrylic class of Yaquina Art Association artists as well as the art of Carol Summers. The show will be held at the Yaquina Art Association Gallery located at 789 NW Beach Drive at the Nye Beach Turnaround in Newport, Oregon. The gallery will be open from 11 am to 4 pm daily and the show will feature art from many of the class members.

Oil and Acrylic Class

Beginners to Advanced artists are invited to attend the Oil and Acrylic class that is held on Tuesday mornings from 9-11 am in the upstairs classroom of the Visual Art Center. Artists are encouraged to do their own thing, bring their own supplies and help will be given if any is wanted. The class facilitator is Patti Johnson with the help of Lila Passerelli. There are approximately 10 students that show up regularly and visitors are welcome.

Comments from class members include the following, “Painting is a part of my being, I have always had a facination with painting.” She has been influenced by wonderful people and artsists including Bill Runyan, class facilitator Patti Johnson, her mother and an elderly lady named Hazel. Another class member said that she began painting as a child since both parents were artists. She is painting a mural for her church and she says painting is “satisfying” with portraits being her favorite. One of the class members loved art from high school age on, especially abstracts but she never had time to pursue it until she came to the coast and ever since, it has been her love. She says, “Painting takes you to another world.”

Other classes taught through the Yaquina Art Association are watercolors on Mondays from 9-11 am, China Painting and clay work in the afternoons on Tuesdays, Colored Pencil classes on Wednesday mornings from 9-11 am and Pastels on Thursday mornings from 10-12 noon. Anyone is invited to attend the classes or to visit the gallery.

Carol Summers

Summers began painting with watercolor in 2005 taking classes from Susan Weathers in Florence, Oregon. She also attends the watercolor class at the Visual Arts Center at Nye Beach, Newport, Oregon.She is a member of the Emerald Empire Art Association in Springfield, Oregon.

Some of Carol Summers awards include transparent watercolor “Curvique” has been juried in to the Fall Show of the Watercolor Society of Oregon, Celebrate the Arts in Florence, Oregon, in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, and in the Yaquina Arts annual Arts Call in Newport, Oregon, in 2009 and 2010. Her abstract “Ouch” received Honorable Mention and her “Bonita” received a Merit Award at Celebrate the Arts in 2012 and her watercolor, Vogue 1913 received the People’s Choice award in 2010.

Carol is a founding member of the Yachats Arts Guild and presently her art can also be seen at Ona restaurant, at Toad Hall, and at Touchstone Gallery in Yachats; and at Gallery 34, Pharmacy Express, and Upscale Resale in Waldport, Oregon. Online Summers’ art can be seen at www.yachatsartsguild.com and on the Yachats Arts Guild Facebook page.