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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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drawing. Everything is mov-
able. Rearranging things is one
of Treat’s passions.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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pieces. Now it’s black. Black
strokes make the stripe on her
hat. Another masterful swipe
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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.
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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.
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