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Kelly Hargis
Bill Garrison
Tuition for either workshop
$275. per student for 3 days
$75. deposit
Full payment due 2 weeks
prior to workshop date.
Meals: $7.00 each
first morning meal free
see Lodging Page
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Kelly Hargis (Oil)
April 8, 9, and 10, 2011
Ray "Kelly" Hargis is a product of far west Texas and New Mexico where his
family was in the ranching business. He began drawing pictures of animals at an
early age and was fortunate to have a grade school classmate who liked to draw.
This was during World War 11 so Kelly and his friend had a lot of fun creating
military scenes as well as cowboy and indian images.
Following high school he attended Texas Tech University where he earned a degree
in Agriculture. He married and relocated to Arkansas along with most of his
family. Kelly went to work for the Arkansas Farm Bureau and retired after 40
years.
About 35 years ago he began painting and found oil to be his favorite medium.
Kelly took painting, at then, Little Rock
University and also studied painting at the Arkansas Art Center and participated
in several workshops there.
He has found that hard work pays off.
Several years ago he began teaching oil painting for the Life Quest program in
Little Rock. He also has several students, who come weekly to his home studio
for oil painting lessons.
Kelly has had several one man slows and won numerous awards. He was asked to
donate a painting for a national fund raising event in Chicago, Illinois several
yeas ago. His painting, a western landscape, was the top seller of the event.
His paintings are available at his home studio, at special events and shows in
the Little Rock area. He regularly participates in the Art Walk program on Main
Street in North Little Rock. He can be contacted by phone or internet.
Studio:501-225-1947
Cell: 501-416-2104
Email: khargis1010@att.net
Kelly's
paintings can be viewed at this website
http://kellyhargis.lrarts.com
(click on the above website, click on
artists, and look for Kelly Hargis for 8 paintings)
Bill Garrison (Oil)
October 27, 28, and 29, 2011
Living amidst the beautiful landscapes of Arkansas, Bill Garrison finds
inspiration for his paintings literally in his own back yard. The majority of
Bill's paintings include water. He does not have to travel far to search out a
clear water creek, waterfall, pond or lake, that will become his next painting.
Bill and his wife Gloria were selected as the first Artists-In-Residence at
Buffalo National River in 1996 and 1998 at Glacier National Park.
Bill's work has received many awards in local as well as in international
competitions. He has consistently placed in the top 100 category for landscapes
in the Art Renewal Center's International Salon Competition.Awards include "Best
of Show" in the 2003-2004 Fine Arts of Arkansas competition and Exhibit at the
Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock, Ar. "Best in Oil" in Artists of
Northwest Arkansas 2006 competition.
Bill learned the basics of oil painting in his high school years from a
professional artist in Texarkana. After a career in a non-related field he
furthered his studies in painting with workshops from artists whose work
inspires him, most notably, Richard Schmid. He says, "I consider Richard Schmid
to be the best living artist of our time".
Bill says painting plein air {outdoors on location) is the best teacher of all.
Bill says this forces him to paint more quickly and intuitively because of the
constantly changing light. When painting in the studio he likes to work from
studies he has done on location. Bill says if he paints using photographs as a
reference, it is his goal to make it look like it was painted on location.
Simplification of the subject and selective emphasis of certain elements of the
painting are essential. "Having painted in many locations, I find that painting
the Arkansas landscape is the most fulfilling of all."
View Bill's work at his website:
http://pages.suddenlink.net/billandgloria/index.htm |
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