Design Originals is hosting an art show featuring Shenandoah native, and artist, Julie Gowing Hayes.
The show, titled, “Natural Tendencies” will take place the weekend of Nov. 4, 5 at Design Originals in downtown Shenandoah.
Julie and Lori (Funk) Smith were classmates and are good friends. Additionally, Julie’s husband, Ron Hayes, was a next-door neighbor with Smith and her sister, Melinda Kirby, who own Design Original.
“We’re excited that she’s coming,” said Kirby, “She’s very talented.”
An opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 4, followed by an art show from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5. Hayes will also be painting on a work in progress on Saturday.
Hayes said she has been drawing and painting for as long as she can remember. In fact, art class was her favorite class and her senior year, she spent at least half of her day in the art room.
“When I went to Iowa State I majored in fashion design, which allowed me to mix two of my favorite things: art and sewing. After a 20-year hiatus from art while juggling career and family, I received my degree in Studio Art at Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C.,” said Hayes.
In addition to her art business, Hayes is a technical design consultant currently contracted with Hanesbrand, Inc. working in seamless intimate apparel. She is also the co-founder of the Piedmont Outdoor Painting Society.
When it comes to painting, Hayes said she enjoys working mostly in oil and watercolor. As for what she enjoys painting the most, Hayes explained it is landscapes from life.
“I find that photos just do not do justice to the light and color that I can see when I’m on location. I’m also drawn to flowers, fruit and dogs. For me, with the dogs, it’s about the eyes.”
Hayes said she paints in oil for both her plein air and studio work, although she does use watercolor exclusively for studio work.
“Oil is much more forgiving than watercolor, but the approach is almost opposite - with oil I work from dark to light and with watercolor light to dark, which at times can be confusing when switching from one medium to the other.”
Although oil paint is not as easy to travel with as watercolor, it allows more flexibility to adjust a composition in process whereas watercolor doesn’t.
“I also like the textural quality of oil paint.”
While at Design Originals, Hayes will have numerous paintings on display for sale. She will also be doing demonstrations. Part of the proceeds from the sale of art will be donated to the Shenandoah High School Art Department.
Julie and Ron have two children, Jarrod, and Jeff. Julie is the daughter of Jack and Pauline Gowing of Bella Vista, Ark., and formerly of Shenandoah. Ron is the son of Lue (Rex) Hickman of Shenandoah and the late George Hayes of Shenandoah.
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2011年4月18日星期一
Kid Artists Spread Wings and Fly
The artwork and all else in the whole store is for the birds at a charming specialty shop where nearly 20 young art students are exhibiting their portraits of our feathered friends.
Work by 18 kids, two from Palos Verdes and others from throughout L.A. County and the South Bay, hangs at Wild Birds Unlimited in Torrance through the end of April.
Idalis Trejo, 9, of Rancho Palos Verdes, used soft pastels in her portrait of a penguin on an exceedingly small ice floe. He looks quite angry, though penguins are by nature mellow fellows.
Sonia Reza, 16, of Palos Verdes Estates, did her proud peacock in oils, of luscious blues and greens with the majestic bird's characteristic plumage covered with "eyes" giving a mystical touch.
"I teach in private homes, one on one, or in groups. My students range in age from three years to 65," said Bobbi Rich, the Santa Monica painter-instructor who believes the truism that an artist is never too young or too old.
Just follow the lilting songbird sounds to Wild Birds Unlimited, where you might be surprised to find not a single living bird inside. This perhaps accounts for the sour expression of Maggie, the calico cat in residence. The merry music of many feathered species is only recorded.
Owner Bob Shanman, in business there 16 years, stocks everything under the sun to attract, feed and house birds, plus books and videos to help identify myriad species, found from backyards of older urban tract homes to woodland hilltop mansions and beaches or harbors.
Bird fancier and noted artist herself, Rich assigned a springtime project to students to paint birds and Shanman was happy to offer gallery space to display them. She also has two small oil paintings of vivid hummingbirds bordered in gold leaf in the show.
Exhibitors range in age from five to 16, and so their techniques reflect talent, well, still in development, ranging up—with age and practice—to near-professional quality. Little kids worked on 4x4 inch canvases, with larger works by the older artists.
These younger children are essaying to paint with oils on stretched canvas, far more demanding than a box of crayons.
Some works are marked not for sale. A few are $10 and $25, with another listed at $101.50, while a handsomely framed oil painting of quite lifelike Canada geese flying over a family of bears on a wave-lashed island has a $526 price tag.
Other exhibitors are Brianna Bruggerman, Jada D'Oyen, Kaitlynn D'Oyen, Grace Figueroa, Sandra Le, Madeline MacMillan, Kalista Magana, Kennedy Magana, Kaitlln McWilliams, Vanessa Mona, Lily Ruggiero, Alejandro Trejo, Jaime Savitz, Katherine Shanahan, Kindra Soto, Jasmine Torres, Kares Yee and Jade Ashley Hollingsworth.
Work by 18 kids, two from Palos Verdes and others from throughout L.A. County and the South Bay, hangs at Wild Birds Unlimited in Torrance through the end of April.
Idalis Trejo, 9, of Rancho Palos Verdes, used soft pastels in her portrait of a penguin on an exceedingly small ice floe. He looks quite angry, though penguins are by nature mellow fellows.
Sonia Reza, 16, of Palos Verdes Estates, did her proud peacock in oils, of luscious blues and greens with the majestic bird's characteristic plumage covered with "eyes" giving a mystical touch.
"I teach in private homes, one on one, or in groups. My students range in age from three years to 65," said Bobbi Rich, the Santa Monica painter-instructor who believes the truism that an artist is never too young or too old.
Just follow the lilting songbird sounds to Wild Birds Unlimited, where you might be surprised to find not a single living bird inside. This perhaps accounts for the sour expression of Maggie, the calico cat in residence. The merry music of many feathered species is only recorded.
Owner Bob Shanman, in business there 16 years, stocks everything under the sun to attract, feed and house birds, plus books and videos to help identify myriad species, found from backyards of older urban tract homes to woodland hilltop mansions and beaches or harbors.
Bird fancier and noted artist herself, Rich assigned a springtime project to students to paint birds and Shanman was happy to offer gallery space to display them. She also has two small oil paintings of vivid hummingbirds bordered in gold leaf in the show.
Exhibitors range in age from five to 16, and so their techniques reflect talent, well, still in development, ranging up—with age and practice—to near-professional quality. Little kids worked on 4x4 inch canvases, with larger works by the older artists.
These younger children are essaying to paint with oils on stretched canvas, far more demanding than a box of crayons.
Some works are marked not for sale. A few are $10 and $25, with another listed at $101.50, while a handsomely framed oil painting of quite lifelike Canada geese flying over a family of bears on a wave-lashed island has a $526 price tag.
Other exhibitors are Brianna Bruggerman, Jada D'Oyen, Kaitlynn D'Oyen, Grace Figueroa, Sandra Le, Madeline MacMillan, Kalista Magana, Kennedy Magana, Kaitlln McWilliams, Vanessa Mona, Lily Ruggiero, Alejandro Trejo, Jaime Savitz, Katherine Shanahan, Kindra Soto, Jasmine Torres, Kares Yee and Jade Ashley Hollingsworth.
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