12A • June 30, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com
Art takes to the streets
Outdoor creation the focus of Plein Air & More
For EO Media Group
Strictly translated, the term
“en plein air” refers to the tra-
dition of artists painting out-
doors, where they can observe
and incorporate how the air,
shadows and light affect their
subject.
The Cannon Beach Gallery
Group takes a less stringent
approach to the term during
its annual Plein Air & More
arts festival, which applies the
concept of publicly crafting
artwork outdoors to a number
of mediums, creating a more
robust, varied experience.
The ninth annual festival
will take place Friday through
Sunday, June 23 through 25,
in Cannon Beach. During that
time, more than 30 artists —
mostly from the Pacific North-
more interesting,” she said.
Not only can visitors see
artists working in various paint
mediums characteristic of tra-
ditional “en plein air,” such as
oil, pastels and watercolors,
but also different art forms
altogether, including metal-
working, printmaking, wood-
working, stone carving, bronze
sculpture, jewelry making, and
fused or blown glass.
Dave and Boni Deal, art-
ists who live outside Camas,
Wash., and show their work
at the White Bird Gallery,
will mimic the plein air style
during their raku firing on the
beach.
The Deals, who have col-
laborated in clay for more than
30 years, bring to their pottery
a focus on the natural environ-
ment through the plants, geol-
ogy and wildlife reflected in
of artwork much of the public
would not be familiar with,”
said Jim Kingwell, of Cannon
Beach’s Icefire Glassworks.
“Generally, getting this many
galleries to cooperate is an
unusual event in towns. It’s so
much a character of this town.
Each gallery has a distinct dif-
ference, and you see a joint
cooperative effort instead of a
competitive effort.”
By Katherine Lacaze
The ‘& More’
The Cannon Beach festi-
val is special because it’s “the
only plein air festival in the
entire country that has the ‘&
More’ part to it,” according
to marketing director Bonnie
Gilchrist.
“By adding the ‘and more’
component, we were able to
invite more artists to partic-
ipate and make the festival
R.J. MARX
Artist Pamela Claflin paints
at Plein Air Friday, in front
of Bronze Coast Gallery.
west — will create art on loca-
tion throughout town.
“The gallery group invent-
ed this (festival) as a chance
to engage people with a type
the themes and materials they
use. In that way, they create
art that’s influenced by the sur-
rounding environment, Boni
Deal said.
Her husband, Dave, started
learning raku, a type of Japa-
nese ceramic-making, during
a summer class in Cannon
Beach in the early 1970s. On
their two-person team, he’s the
potter, while Boni Deal uses
her illustrating and painting
skills to do surface work.
On Saturday, Dave Deal
will set up his kiln on the
beach near Whale Park, where
spectators can watch the
drawn-out, low-fire process
that evening. The raku style in-
volves pulling artwork out of a
kiln while it’s still red-hot and
then transferring it to a con-
tainer filled with combustible
materials for post-firing reduc-
tion — a step of the process
that is “fiery and exciting and
dramatic,” Boni Deal said. The
smoke that surrounds the art
while it cools in the reduction
barrel gives the clay a unique
appearance: crackly and sooty
with metallic accents, almost
“ancient-looking,” Boni Deal
said.
“It’s really slow, so you
have to be patient,” she added.
The raku firing, which
has been part of the festival
for three years, will include
s’mores and live music by the
Rogue Blue Grass Band.
The Deals will work on wet
clay Sunday, and Boni Deal
will demonstrate how they do
surfaces while incorporating
coastal vegetation and themes.
“We’re trying to be like
we’re ‘plein air’ artists,” she
said.
Sandcastles: All you need is ‘a shovel and two buckets’
Sand from Page 1A
becomes a place where visi-
tors of all ages can build sand
sculptures, cheer on teams of
children and teens, and par-
ticipate in a parade, live mu-
sic and a 5-kilometer fun run.
digging up sand when I was
1½ years old,” Lond said.
“Since, I think I’ve gotten
better. How much better I
suppose is questionable.”
Family affair
Standing watch
Kyler Vetter served as
the guard to fend off those
inclined to turn sandcastles
into a sand mound. He will
be helped by his father, City
Councilor George Vetter.
“I’ve been advocating for
this for years,” George Vetter
said. “Why let others destroy
what took so long to build?”
This year, the two pre-
sided over 30 plots — a 20
plot decrease from last year.
Nelson said she contributes
the decline to Pacific North-
west schools getting out later
due to an unusual number of
snow days taken this winter,
making the Sandcastle Con-
test compete with graduation
ticated. Throughout the day
children and adults crowded
around his corner of the plot,
where he would simultane-
ously build his sculpture and
explain his techniques as he
did it.
Sometimes he would take
a break from building to show
how builders make designs in
the sand with thick kneads and
drinking straws.
“We’ll always try to teach
someone,” Lond said. “(Sand-
castle building) is clean, inno-
cent fun. It’s a cheap thrill.”
Moonstone
Sandcastle
Club has competed in Cannon
Beach for many years, Lond’s
mother Kate Zublim said, and
so far has won every place at
some point except for first.
This year, the team’s design
“Sea Circus” did not place in
the top four. The team Form
Finders took first for their cre-
ation “Reverse Safari.”
“We’re just happy to be
here,” Zublim said.
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Sandcastle sculptor David Lond was just one of the dozens
of participants.
ceremonies.
While this year’s contest
was a little calmer than some
previous years, team building
enthusiasm was anything but
diminished.
For Master Class com-
petitor David Lond, nothing
was going keep him from
building — even the accident
which gave him a concussion
and stitches a week prior.
“I got sideswiped while
on my bike,” Lond said. “I
was going to do this unless
my doctors said I couldn’t.”
His enthusiasm for sand-
castle building started when
he was young.
“I found a photo of me
Decades later, sandcastle
building has become a fam-
ily affair. The team he is on,
Moonstone, is named after
the beach he and his sister fre-
quent in California. The team
spans from members as old as
82 to as young as 11.
Years of playing on the
beach helped Lond hone his
skills that enable him to make
a giant sand octopus.
“What’s most important in
sandcastle building: a shov-
el and two buckets. One for
water, one for sand,” he said.
“Everything else is just toys.”
While the team still treats
sandcastle building as more
casual, family fun, the tech-
niques and skills they collec-
tively contribute are sophis-
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