This is my Japan

Sometimes going forward in life takes us back to our past. I've been revisiting how my studies of the Japanese culture, art and language areinfluencing my life today, here in Taos, NM.

I realized long ago that NewMexico (Taos) is my Japan, with its adobe mud houses and rural feeling.Japan in my own backyard!I know my love for red began with a pot of red camphor paint that I woulddip my chop into and stamp my sumi-e paintings. I know also that thewonderful luminosity of the mounted paintings on mulberry paper have ledme to experience another "luminosity" with encaustics.

Come and celebrate life and joy at "the taos gallery",

July 3, 5 - 7, 103Paseo del Pueblo Norte, Taos, NM 87571, 575-758-3911. http://www.thetaosgallery/

http://www.redcrowstudio.com/

Mark Asmus

One-man show

the Stables Gallery (of the Taos Center for the Arts)

to benefit the Taos Land Trust.

Buy a painting, get a 40% tax deduction.

July 3rd, 4th and 5th

Friday, Saturday and Sunday

10 AM to 5PM

Reception Sunday 3 PM to 5PM

In addition to Asmus' Landscapes, Allegories and Still Lifes, he will show for the first time his Police Blotter paintings and his Tinker Toy paintings.

Prices range from $180 to $1200

sizes from 5" x 7" to 24" x 30".

For more info contact

575-758-7171

email: markasmus@yahoo.com.
www.markasmus.com

PLEIN AIR PAINTING IN JULY WITH
MICHELLE CHRISMAN
IN TAOS…

Saturday, July 18 &
Sunday, July 19th, 2009
9am to 4 pm

Taos Historic Museum Members: $150
Non-Members: $175

Two full days of painting “en plein aire”
in beautiful Taos, New Mexico. Enjoy painting two historic settings: the E.L. Blumenschein Home & Garden and the
Taos Don Fernando Morada under
Taos Mountain.

TO REGISTER: Call Taos Historic Museums: 575-758-0505
or Email: programs@taoshistoricmuseums.org. http://www.taoshistoricmuseums.org/
Feel free to email Michelle with any questions about the workshop, as well as discounted lodging ideas. Email: mpchrisman@earthlink.net. For those interested, I will be arranging a Saturday night dinner at a fun local restaurant. Let me know if you’d like to attend!

Modeling Sessions July 1-

All sessions are open to all local and visiting Artists.

7/4/09 Saturday 10:00 - 1:00
TSOPA PORTRAIT GROUP and friends will not be meeting this 4 of July. Se you next week. Nancy at 613-5340 for more info.

Thursday 6:30-9:30

The LIFE DRAWING GROUP is searching for our new home. Check back for an update. I have some good leads

Fridays

Alla Prima Fridays Call The Nichols Gallery for information on who the Alla Prima group will be painting and where they are meeting 758-2475.

Sundays
1-4

Melissa Moe runs a long pose with model. All mediums are welcome: Sculpting, Drawing, or Painting. . Call Melissa. for more information 776-8637 and to be sure the group is meeting. The group meets in Arroyo Seco.

Mondays

SHORT POSE PAINTING SESSION as the weather has changed and folks want to be outside painting the session is cancelled until further notice. Contact Michelle Chrisman at 613-0443 or mpchrisman@earthlink.net for more info and to be put on her mailing list.

Tuesdays 10:30 to 1:30

Life drawing Session. Call Frana at 770-9467 for more info.

Wednesdays
10-1 Melissa Moe runs a long pose session with model. All mediums are welcome: Sculpting, Drawing, or Painting. Call her for more information 776-8637 The group meets in Arroyo Seco.

mixed media workshop

This weekend

Friday and Saturday

June 20-21i

in Joan Fullerton's studio

....materials are provided.

The fee is $225.

For more information 575-758.7002

PLEIN AIR OIL PAINTING

WORKSHOPS
TAOS NEW MEXICO
Come paint in Beautiful Taos New Mexico and capture a
“MOMENT in TIME on CANVAS”
JUNE 24, 25, 26, 2009 and SEPTEMBER 16, 17, 18, 2009
6 Hrs per day of instruction
You may use your own oil painting materials or materials can be provided for
you for a small fee. Workshop fee is $300.00 per workshop.
ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME
Instructor, Barbara Bartels
Charter member of
Society of Master Impressionists International

contact bbartels@taosnet.com for more info.

New space Soon

The drawing group is checking out some new leads as to where our new home will be. We have a few great leads. I am also taking this opportunity to have a break. If all goes well we will be meeting again on soon at our new location. Thank you for your continued commitment to the figure drawing group. Check back here for an update.

YOUTH PAINTING CLASSES & WORKSHOPS @ SECO PEARL

Youth Introduction to Painting

Sundays June 14th - July 5th

11:00am -12:30pm

Ages 12 and up

$75 for series, $25 materials fee

This class will focus on basic skills and principles of painting including composition, color mixing, form, light, perspective, and space. Students will explore in both acrylics and oil. Students must pre-register, no drop-ins.

Youth Landscape Painting Workshop

Saturday June 20th

12:00- 3:00pm

Ages 12 and up

$25- 50 sliding scale

This class will teach students to use color and light as a tool to paint the landscapes of Arroyo Seco in acrylics.

Materials included.

About the Instructor

Morgaine Witriol grew up in New York and studied art at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In both communities she worked with youth as a mentor and teacher for painting. She moved to Arroyo Seco in the Summer of 2008.

Location and Registration

Classes and workshops will be held at Seco Pearl Community Events Space in Arroyo Seco. Please call or email to register before the start date of the class.

Seco Pearl

590 Hondo Seco Road

575.776.1225

secopearl@gmail.com

and more Summer of Love

June 5th: "Summer of Love Opening Reception"

New Works by all Gallery Artists fitting the "Summer of Love" theme

5:00-7:00 pm Call 575-758-3911 for more info

Call to artists

Anyone who wants to paint a body for the Hippie Homecoming.

Paint provided, prizes for top painted bodies, and no fees to enter.

June 21 from 10 am to 4 pm.

We're also looking for volunteers who want to help out with the event, live bodies to paint, and sponsors who want to donate money to sponsor a painted body.

http://taoshippiehomecoming.synthasite.com/sponsor-a-painted-body.php