Monday, September 13, 2021

Featured Artist- Anne Gordon Fritz

 

 

Anne Gordon Fritz, Artist

Anne has been painting since she was a child having been enrolled in a watercolor class at age four. she studied classic art history, interior design and architecture in a small private college in California.  Anne has used skills learned in those classes and further art classes in Chicago where she earned a BGS Degree in Studio Art in 1976.

 

In 2001, Anne ventured into painting on silk with Sennelier silk dyes. She loved painting with this medium for 20 years and was quite successful at it. Currently she paints with watercolors, and acrylics.  Anne enjoys using Gesso to create abstract images within realistic scenes. She also uses Cyanotype on watercolor paper.  Anne often uses watercolors over the Cyanotypes to enhance a design.  

 

Anne says “I enjoy painting our New Mexico native plants and skies, but also waterscapes.  My paintings have been exhibited in local, state, and national exhibitions.”     

 

       


                            

Artist Memberships
Buford Artists Group, Buford GA, 2004-2012;

Kudzu Art Zone, Norcross GA, 2004-2012;

Silk Painters International, 2001-2016;

Silk Painters Guild for Fine Artists 2001- 2016; 

New Mexico Silk Painters Guild, 2012-Present; 

St. Mark's Sacred Arts Guild, 2013-Present;

Rio Grande Artists Association, 2016-Present; 

New Mexico Watercolor Society, 2020-Present



"Wolf Creek" - Northern New Mexico

"Gorgonian Sea Fan"

"93 Miles to Mount Taylor"

 Currently 8 of Anne’s watercolors are in St. Mark's first Art Exhibition in 1 1/2 years.  Please come to this show from 9-2, Monday through Thursdays, and Sundays from 9-12.  The members’ paintings are shown until December 3, 2021. 431 Richmond NE, Albuquerque, NM.  Masks and social distancing are required in the church buildings.  20% of sales support St. Mark's art projects and art programs, including ongoing shows of local artists.   

Be sure and visit the east side of the building to see the gorgeous new Cosmos mosaic designed by tile artists Manuel Hernandez and Lisa Domenici and executed with the help of the parishioners.

 


 

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Featured Artist - Pat Catlett

 I don't often purchase artwork.  Mostly because, although I love other artist's work, those works often inspire me to paint more of my own things.  However, I do have a number of paintings by Pat Catlett.  Pat writes and teaches others to write icons at ongoing workshops at St. Mark's after a career in graphic design.  But in addition to the very careful and prayerful work of iconography, look at the wonderfully loose and colorful paintings she creates as well.  These paintings, along with those of other talented artists, are part of a show that opened last week at St. Mark's Sacred Arts Gallery.  If you are in the area, please drop by and look at them in person, and maybe, like me, you will be inspired to purchase something to support the ongoing arts projects and programs at St. Mark's. 

"Cloudburst"

"Dancing Rain"

"After the Rain"

"Pedernal Summer Morning"

Gallery open during office hours Monday through Thursday from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to noon.  Please wear a mask while in the building.  Our Montessori school children are not old enough to be vaccinated.  Check upcoming blog posts for more featured artists.

New Show Opens


 If you have been following my work, you might want to visit the Sacred Arts Gallery at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 431 Richmond NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico.   Due to to Covid restrictions, there are limited hours and you will be required to wear a mask when you enter the church buildings.  For the next several posts, I will feature some of the artists whose works are hanging along with mine.


Friday, January 22, 2021

The Light-A Portrait of Amanda Gorman

 Hi.  I have been busy playing with portraits and clearly not finding the time to blog, but thought I would take a moment to post a few photos of what I have been working on.


The first step is always the drawing, but I forgot to take a photo of that.  In the second step, I lay out some of the shadows which establishes the structure of the face.  Then I added the highlights in the pupils so that I would be able to get her expression correctly. Can anyone guess who this is?  Not a lot of clues at this point....But maybe you can guess from the title of this post?





Blocking in the hair helps but the lips are making things much easier to identify.








A little more work on the eyes and more shadowing help bring a very glamorous poet laureate to life.  This painting is based on a photo of Amanda taken for an article on Afro hair styles, so she is highly styled and made up.  But a beautiful woman is gorgeous no matter what she wears if her spirit is lovely!

Monday, September 21, 2020

Monday, October 21, 2019

I Never Met a Costume I Didn't Love




Except of course when little ones are dressed as these creatures and ring your doorbell on All Hallow's Eve!  All my life, I have loved costumes in any shape or form, comfortable or not!  So every year at Halloween, I am anxious to don one.  My husband?  Well... not so much!  However, in our off the grid neighborhood with only about twenty families, we celebrate all together.  This year we are hosting the party at our house, and I have gone a bit overboard with planning and playing.  One of the things I decided to do was make prizes for costumes.  I found lots of wonderful ideas on Pinterest and bought some of those skeleton garlands at the Dollar Store and little plastic trophies at Hobby Lobby.  Here are the results:

"BEST LITERARY CHARACTER"
 
"BEST COUPLE COSTUMES"
 
"BEST MOVIE CHARACTER COSTUME"
 
 
"MOST COMFORTABLE COSTUME"
THERE IS ALWAYS SOMEONE WHO CANNOT BE BOTHERED!
 
"BEST CHILDREN'S COSTUME"
"MOST FRIGHTFUL COSTUME"
                    

               IS YOUR COSTUME READY?

Tuesday, September 3, 2019

Missing in Action!

Checking in with myself, I was shocked to see that I had not posted anything for months, eight of them to be exact.  Any regular reader has long since given up!  

Life has a way of speeding by while you are busy.  What have I been up to in the last eight months?  Well, continuing to mentor a group of watercolor artists, painting a lot of works myself, teaching Sunday School, enjoying the grandchildren on visits to their states, spending time on the river, rafting with my husband and family, doing some landscaping at our house, spending time with my fabulous group of friends, finally working again on my Hogwarts Castle, and of course planning and volunteering at Harry Potter camp and Vacation Bible School.  You would think I had no time to write on my blog...

I have been writing some with a group of friends, and also my daughter signed me up to write a series of short stories at StoryWorks to be put into a book for my family. Some of those may appear here, but not promising anything.  

Today, I would like to promote an event that my daughter Brittany is helping organize.




join us for a day of learning and discovery

See the different kinds of beehives

learn why pollinators are crucial to our food chain

See how pollinators can positively affect climate change

discover how you can support pollinators in our area

Saturday, September 28, 2019

10 am to 4 pm

FREE!

More information here 

I have donated the painting below to their raffle:

  "To Bee or Not to Be"