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3C THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2015 JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Marga Stanley sketches “Freyja” at Vintage Hardware. Draw: ‘Inevitably, their personality comes out in their paintings’ “Inevitably, their personality comes out in their paintings.” As she draws a green and yel- low table with its legs strangely bent and partially covered with a bright tablecloth, Taylor says she is happy to play with her pencils. Continued from Page 1C She holds the graphite pencil sideways in her hand, moving it up and down on her paper, cre- ating the edge of the creature’s helmet, employing an eraser now and then to refresh a line. She says she is not very fast and it takes her a long time to ¿QLVKDSURMHFW A curiosity is that she choos- es to make the image on paper ODUJHU WKDQ WKH REMHFW VKH LV drawing. “My style isn’t very repre- sentational,” Stanley says. “I like to interpret what I see in my own way.” Jeff Donnelly Using a water-soluble gray felt-tip pen, Jeff Donnelly is sketching another artist — Anna Lee Larimore. “She’s a great painter,” he says as he looks beyond dress- ers to her standing at an easel. Donnelly has been sketching for 44 years and with this group for several years. He says at the end of each session, the artists show their work and have a little dis- cussion, where members might offer constructive criticism. “It’s a good group of folks — very kind,” he says. Penny Treat Composition is everything to Penny Treat. Her sketchbook is about twice the size of everyone else’s. She sees her composition as a whole, with small, large and medium elements balancing each other. She says she consid- ers herself an athlete and it is im- portant to keep up a daily prac- tice to preserve muscle memory. “If you stop drawing, you are not as sharp as you were before.” In her drawing, a lamp ap- pears to the left of a headless mannequin, but in the store, there is no lamp in that position. What’s going on? Treat explains she is inter- ested in strong composition, the ZD\WKLQJVÀRZIURPRQHDUHD to another. She points out that the lamp she depicts is within the range of view, only far off to the right of the mannequin, not on the left. FREE PUBLISHED THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH January 2015 JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian A sessions worth of art sits on the pavement outside of Vintage Hardware. Anna Lee Larimore A carousel horse caught her eye. “It was beautiful and dra- matic,” Anna Lee Larimore says. Using oil paint on a very small canvas, she shrinks her image while studying a life-size carousel horse. She says she usually sketches, but wants to up her game her game a little bit, painting with oils. JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Penny Treat creates a still-life scene at Vintage Hardware by combining different elements from around the room. Her years as an interior de- VLJQHU VHHP WR LQÀXHQFH KHU drawing. Everything is mov- able. Rearranging things is one of Treat’s passions. ³<RXMXVWNLQGRIKRQH\RXU FUDIW²OLNHD¿VKHUPDQ¿QGLQJ a hot spot. He might be trolling for salmon and he may get a surprise tuna. Something un- expected comes along. That’s what sets artists apart. That’s the X factor.” ess in the Chronicling the Joy of Busin n Columbia-Pacific Regio Phyllis Taylor She recently found her wa- tercolor pencils, so that is what Phyllis Taylor brings to Vintage Hardware. Taylor, who moved here a year ago is a retired graphic de- signer and illustrator from Indi- ana University. She is cellist and says draw- ing is like practicing the cello, experimenting with different techniques. striverbusinessjournal crbizjournal.com • facebook.com/coa Volume 10 • Issue 1 stry spo allenges Inside: Indu copes with ch Shellfish farm an conditions oce nging s optimistic despite cha tlight: Taylor remain JOSHUA BESSEX — The Daily Astorian Robert Paulmenn holds up his watercolor painting of a Canadian Mountie during a group showing at Vintage Hardware. The Mountie appeared on a poster in the store. 6KHHQMR\VGUDZLQJZLWKWKLV group because she gets to know others in the art community, she says. “When we are in a group, it is interesting to see what oth- ers focus on. ‘Where was that?’ someone will ask. We all learn from each other. PacifIc in the pot biz page 10 NEWS Seaside Muffler and Off-Road 21 revs up its reputation page The Sadie out of South Bend, Wash. page 24 Noel Thomas His right hand is cupped, holding a piece of chalk and an eraser. With his left, he makes a smudge of white toward the top of the slate-gray paper resting on his knee. A couple of quick swipes — again with white — and some hair emerges. 7KH KDQGV MXJJOH WKH SDVWHO pieces. Now it’s black. Black strokes make the stripe on her hat. Another masterful swipe GH¿QHV WKH VKLUW$ ZLGH ZKLWH mark suggests the easel. This is how Noel Thom- as works. Small smudges and swipes, a little blending here and a portrait of an artist appears. This is magic. This is art. Available at a newsstand near you NEWS County makes a splash BOAT OF THE MONTH Rosalie Altena Another recent arrival to the North Coast, Rosalie Alte- na stares intently at the shapely red dress on a mannequin. She chose the dress, she says be- cause of the color and the fact that she loves vintage clothing. “I like the line and the form and the challenge of getting the con- trast of the softness of the velvet and the hard lines of the cabinet behind it,” she says. But for this red dress, Altena uses a bright blue China mark- er, softening the lines with an eraser. She is a painter who sees that work as coming from the inside and symbolic, while drawing she feels is more separate — a study of form. crbizjou rn a l.com
