Art Club of Oak Run

Seascape
2024-08-27 09:30 - 11:30 UTC | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Casual Tuesday, 8/27, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Break out the sun screen! We’ll be attempting to duplicate a seascape from a Winsor Newton project. Join us for the fun!

—BRING– Paper and your normal medium.

August Monthly Meeting
2024-08-21 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday 6/19, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Light refreshments will be provided.

PRESENTATION– All About Acrylics by Bridget Handley. Bridget will provide a general idea of what goes into painting with acrylics, including pouring paint.

— Show and Tell — Please bring in and display (A) any artwork you have completed or (B) any art that has received an award since our last Monthly Meeting. You’ll do a brief introduction and your artwork will be displayed for viewing.

Mixed Florals
2024-08-14 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Casual Wednesday, 8/14, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

The photo we’ll use is a bit rough but the colors are cheery. Daniel Smith created this to introduce their floral color paint package. Of course, we’ll use our own media and colors to duplicate it as best we can. Join us and have fun!

— BRING– Paper and your normal medium.

Negative Painting
2024-08-07 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Casual Wednesday, 8/7, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

We are so pleased to have Mary Romary, a new member, demonstrating her technique for negative painting. The effects are great and you’ll learn a very useful skill.

— BRING– Paper and your normal medium.

Lavender Fields
2024-07-31 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Casual Wednesday, 7/31, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Lavender fields forever! While this project is for watercolor, you could easily duplicate it with any medium. This is a project from Strathmore Paper.

Balloons
2024-07-23 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Casual Tuesday, 7/23, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Let’s see who can get the most creative with balloons. These are just crying out for iridescent colors or highlights of some kind. This is a project from Winsor Newton.

— BRING — Paper and your normal medium.

July Monthly Meeting
2024-07-17 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday, 7/17, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Light refreshments are provided.

PRESENTATION: Tools and Trades. (1) Tools: Bring your favorites art tools and tell us why you love them. (2) Trades: Also bring any art supplies you don’t need anymore and that you’d like to sell or trade. We’ll have our version of an ACOR swap meet!

— Show and Tell — Please bring in your challenge results, plus bring in and display (A) any artwork you have completed or (B) any art that has received an award since our previous Monthly Meeting. You’ll do a brief introduction and your artwork will be displayed for viewing.

Poppies
2024-07-10 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Casual Wednesday, 7/10, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Poppies are the subject matter for this casual art day. Join us while we paint/draw poppies. This is yet another project from Strathmore Paper. Chris Rossavik will host.

— BRING– Paper and your normal medium.

Island Club CLOSED
2024-07-03 08:00 - 17:00 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday, 7/3)

The Bunco group is having an all-day barbeque at the Island Club and asked us to give up our morning, which we agreed to do. Therefore, our ACOR Wednesday morning for this week (7/3) is cancelled. See you next week!

Santorini Cityscape
2024-07-02 09:30 - 11:30
(Casual Tuesday, 7/2, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

If you’re up for a bit of challenge, join us while we attempt to duplicate this photo of Santorini. While the instructions are for watercolor, you can use whatever medium you like. This is yet another project from Strathmore Paper.

— BRING — Paper and your favorite medium.

June Monthly Meeting
2024-06-19 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday, 6/19, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Light refreshments will be provided.

Presentation: Paint-Around. We’re going to have fun with a multi-media Paint-Around. Our painters (Julie Jamieson, Dori Sullivan, Don Adams, Judi Snow, and Linda Glick) will have made a pencil drawing of what they want to paint and will have 10 minutes to work on their painting. Then the paintings are shifted to another painter for 10 minutes. Around we’ll go until it’s back to the original person, who will have a final 10 minutes to complete the painting.

— Show and Tell — Please bring in your challenge results, plus bring in and display (A) any artwork you have completed or (B) any art that has received an award since our previous Monthly Meeting. You’ll do a brief introduction and your artwork will be displayed for viewing.

Sunflowers
2024-06-12 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Casual Wednesday, 6/12, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Join us and paint/draw one or more sunflowers. This is another project from the Strathmore Paper workshops. Regardless of your medium, we’ll have fun trying to duplicate it.

— BRING — Paper and your normal medium.

CLASS: "Like Bob Ross" Seascape
2024-06-04 09:00 - 12:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesday 6/4, 9:00a-12:30p, Island Club)

Dan Willcox is a certified Bob Ross instructor. This “High Tide” painting is wet-on-wet with oil. The painting techniques you learn can later be transferred to acrylic and even watercolor. You will complete a 12×16 painting during the class. All supplies are included at $65/member or $80/non-member of ACOR.

— NOTE THE TIME — This class is longer than usual, starting at 9am and going until 12:30pm!— SUPPLY LIST– ALL SUPPLIES INCLUDED…bring nothing.

Color Challenge
2024-06-01 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(The challenge runs May 16th to June 19th)

All members are challenged to create at least 4 paintings or drawings with brilliant color, in the style of Izumi Kugahara. You can view her fascinating use of color on her Instagram page.

Tropical Botanicals #4
2024-05-28 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesday, 5/28, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Join us and paint a Bird of Paradise. This is another tropical botanical from the Strathmore Paper workshop using the Graded Wash, Variegated Wash, Wet-on-Dry, and Wet-on-Wet techniques.. or however you want to duplicate it.

— BRING — Paper and your normal medium.

Tropical Botanicals #3
2024-05-22 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday, 5/22, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Pretty plumerias are the tropical focus for this casual Tuesday and will demonstrate some tips and tricks in using gouache (or whatever you use) to create backgrounds, enhancing the visual impact of our floral illustrations. This is another Strathmore Paper workshop.

— BRING– Paper and your normal medium.

May Monthly Meeting
2024-05-15 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday 5/15, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Light refreshments will be provided.

Presentation – Color Relativity. Follow C.J. Westrick down the rabbit hole of colors. We will discuss the conflicting way artists are describing and choosing colors, the confusion of color names, and why limited palettes are so popular.

— Show and Tell — Please bring in your challenge results, plus bring in and display (A) any artwork you have completed or (B) any art that has received an award since our last Monthly Meeting. You’ll do a brief introduction and your artwork will be displayed for viewing.

Tropical Botanicals #2
2024-05-14 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesday, 5/14, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

This casual Tuesday in May we’ll be painting a different tropical leaf from the Strathmore Paper workshop.

—SUPPLY LIST– Paper and your normal medium.

Tropical Botanicals #1
2024-05-07 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesday, 5/7, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

The snowbirds have flown the coop! We’ll have casual Tuesdays in May with tropical botanicals from the Strathmore Paper workshop. This first one will be painting monsteras.

— SUPPLY LIST– Paper and your normal medium.

Doing Art Outside
2024-05-01 09:30 - 11:30
(Wednesday, 5/1, 9:30-11:30am, behind the Oak Room)

Pack up your art supplies and let’s paint (or draw) outside while the weather is good. Take the sidewalk around the right side of the Oak Room to a large covered area with lots of chairs and tables we can use. The view shows the large pond, trees, flowers, or golfers, depending on which way you look. If you want, stay for lunch in the Oak Room Restaurant.

— BRING — Bring something to drink and any needed art supplies, including water to clean brushes. Bathrooms are available.

CLASS: Guided Acrylics
2024-05-01 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(CANCELLED)

Connie Ferreira will guide you with suggestions, support, and advice on your individual acrylic painting.

CANCELLED — We didn’t meet her minimum number of students.

CLASS: Acrylic Pour #2
2024-04-23 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
CLASS #2 at Island Club, 4/23, 9:30-11:30am

Bridget Hanley will bring our dried pours to the Island Club and teach us embellish our two 8×10 pours with acrylic paint.

— COST — The total cost for both classes is $65. — SUPPLY LIST — ALL SUPPLIES INCLUDED…bring nothing.

ACOR Monthly Meeting
2024-04-17 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday 4/17, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Light refreshments will be provided.

Presentation – Creating Art with Pencils, by Sharon Becker, Linda Budenas, and Chris Rossavik. Learn how these members are creating beautiful art with their pencils. Sharon Becker uses colored pencils, Linda Budenas uses colored graphite, and Chris Rossavik uses oil pencils. We’ve seen the results but now we will learn more about their supplies, techniques, and processes when creating.

— Show and Tell — Please bring in and display (A) any artwork you have completed or (B) any art that has received an award since our last Monthly Meeting. You’ll do a brief introduction and your artwork will be displayed for viewing.

CLASS: Acrylic Pour #1
2024-04-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Rainbow Springs Art Gallery, 20804 W Pennsylvania Avenue, Dunnellon, Florida
(Tuesday 4/16, in Dunnellon at Rainbow Springs Art Gallery)

Bridget Hanley will be teaching us how to create two 8×10 paintings by pouring and embellishing with acrylic paint.

— CLASS #1 in Dunnellon (4/16, 9am-noon) — Since the paintings cannot be moved for several days after being poured, this first class will be in Dunnellon. We’ll meet at 9am at the Island Club so we can carpool to Dunnellon for the 9:30am class (Rainbow Springs Art Gallery, 20804 W Pennsylvania Avenue, Dunnellon).

COST — The total cost for the classes is $65. — SUPPLY LIST — ALL SUPPLIES INCLUDED…bring nothing.

CLASS: "Like Bob Ross" Forest
2024-04-09 09:00 - 12:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesday, 3/9, 9a-12:30p, Island Club)

Dan Willcox is a certified Bob Ross instructor. painting has an acrylic base with oil highlights. The painting techniques you learn can later be transferred to acrylic and even watercolor. You will complete a 12×16 painting during the class. $65/class.

— TIME CHANGE — This class is longer than usual, starting at 9am and going until 12:30pm!

— NOTE — Non-member Oak Run residents may sign up for $80, based on space available.

— SUPPLY LIST– ALL SUPPLIES INCLUDED…bring nothing.

Painting Textured Rocks
2024-04-03 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday, 4/3, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Let’s learn together! This will be a short lesson from Winsor-Newton’s website. Although they use a little granulating watercolor, it will be fun to try to duplicate their rocks using whatever medium you prefer.

SUPPLY LIST– Paper and your normal medium, plus some granulating paint, if you have it.

Class: "Like Bob Ross" Landscape
2024-04-02 09:00 - 12:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesday 4/2, 9:00a-12:30p, Island Club)

Dan Willcox is a certified Bob Ross instructor. This painting is wet-on-wet with oil. The painting techniques you learn can later be transferred to acrylic and even watercolor. You will complete a 12×16 painting during the class. $65/class.

— TIME CHANGE — This class is longer than usual, starting at 9am and going until 12:30pm!

— NOTE — Non-member Oak Run residents may sign up for $80, based on space available.

— SUPPLY LIST– ALL SUPPLIES INCLUDED…bring nothing.

CLASS: Drawing Basics #4
2024-03-26 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesdays, 3/5-26, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Kim Shields is teaching drawing, with an emphasis on the basics and the use of values in creating your artwork. Last class.

March Monthly Meeting
2024-03-20 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Wednesday 1/17, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Light refreshments will be provided.

Presentation – “Techniques of the Masters” will be presented by Kim Shields. He will present various works of art by the Masters and share some of their secrets of how they created them, including breaking them down to show some of what makes them successful paintings. Learn a deeper understanding of creating art as well as techniques that may be useful in your personal artwork.

Show and Tell – Please bring in and display (A) any artwork you have completed or (B) any art that has received an award since our last Monthly Meeting. You’ll do a brief introduction and your artwork will be displayed for viewing.

CLASS: Drawing Basics #3
2024-03-19 09:30 - 11:30 | OAK RUN’S ISLAND CLUB
(Tuesday, 3/5-26, 9:30-11:30am, Island Club)

Kim Shields is teaching drawing, with an emphasis on the basics and the use of values in creating your artwork. Class 3 of 4.
