Taking a Small Winter Break November and December 2023

After a year and a half of art fun, the Arts Cafe is taking a session break for Nov. and December. we will see you after the Holidays with some new opps for art!

Do continue to write your memorial essays using the theme or motif of wildflowers! Also, sketch your wildflowers or paint them for possible inclusion in the small memorial book!!

See previous article for that! Keep creating!!

A lot of arts in Stroud....

Here local author and researcher Marilyn A. Hudson is pictured with her latest book, Sooner Saucers: Vol.2!

Painting, sketching, creating  - 

MEMORIAL FUNDRAISING PROJECT WILL FEATURE WILDFLOWERS AND ART

 LOVED ONES AND WILDFLOWERS: 

AN ANTHOLOGY

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:   An anthology of memories, essays, poems, quotes, art, on the theme of memorializing someone who has died using the motif of wildflowers. To be titled. LOVED ONES AND WILDFLOWERS: AN ANTHOLOGY

The Greek word for “anthology” actually refers to flowers and so it is fitting indeed to use the symbols, beauty, and visuals of LOVED ONES AND WILDFLOWERS: AN ANTHOLOGY to express the respect, honor, love, and courage left to use in the wake of someone’s passing through this life into the eternal beyond.  People influence, touch, teach, instill courage, share love, give hope, and improve their world as they pass life their life

“Once in a golden hour / I cast to earth a seed / Up there came a flower…”

 – Lord Tennyson

LOVED ONES AND WILDFLOWERS: AN ANTHOLOGY / Stroud, Oklahoma: The Arts café, 2023. A collection of poems, essays, memories, and other creative projects that honor people lost during the Covid Pandemic and during that time. Funds raised through donations and sales of the finished product will benefit the arts programs of The Arts Café of Stroud, Oklahoma. Their mission is to make the world beautiful one artistic project at a time. 

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NEW BEGINNINGS FOR ARTS CAFE - APRIL 6, 2023

 

All KINDS OF ART - - June 2-3, 2023

 

ANNOUNCEMENT: APRIL WILL CLOSE OUT THE ARTS CAFE IN STROUD

 After over a year of classes, learning, fun and friendship the cafe will close its twice weekly sessions.

APRIL will be the end. The last Wed. and Thurs. will close out the ARTS CAFE in STROUD.

A thank you to Stroud First United Methodist Church for providing us space for this community program. The goal was to make the world beautiful one project at a time. We learned, we demonstrated, and we created so many memories as well as art works.

We held an art show last summer. We worked with children, teens, mature, and senior adults.

Some really wonderful people contributed their time, their talents, and their love of art to making these sessions happen. A BIG THANK YOU!!!!

Remember - April will be the last sessions for THE ARTS CAFE!

Jan 2023 Launches New Sessions!

 Register now! Use the form on the webpage or email as noted in the image. 

A MASTER SUPPLY LIST

 THE ARTS CAFE operates as a bring-your-own-supplies program. We provide this list as a master list - a dream list - as it were of all the wonderful supplies.  Many times there will be a need for more of one item than another. Start small, simple, and build as interest and opportunity allows. 

BASIC BEGINNING ART SUPPLIES

RECOMMENDED FOR EACH ART METHOD – A GENERAL IDEA OF THE TYPE OF MATERIALS USED

Drawing

Black and White Drawing

1. 3 or 4 quality ‘soft graphite’ drawing pencils: the 2B, 4B, and 6B.  

2. A regular #2(HB) pencil (buy in packages and they cost less)

3. A sketchbook (with good thick covers for support); but others will work

4. Several erases: a pink pearl, a vinyl eraser, and a kneaded eraser

5. High quality drawing paper of at least 11″ by 14″ but  8” by 10” works too

6. Vine charcoal

7. Compressed charcoal (black)

8. A blending stump or two

Color Drawing

1. Higher quality colored pencils if possible. The cost more but the results are nicer.  If price becomes an issue, buy a pack that contains less colors.  Be aware there can be wide variety of quality among companies selling ‘color pencils’ for art work. Some aim for the grade school market and are less quality.

2. Colored drawing paper.  Nice ones to try first are gray tones and the black.

3. Chalk pastels

4. Oil Pastels

5. Blending stumps

Watercolor Painting

1. A pan of watercolor cakes (the highest High Quality available) or a set of watercolor tubes-primary colors. Add some basic colors such as Paynes Gray (dark gray), Indigo blue, and Burnt Umber (brown)

2. A variety of nylon or sable brushes

3. An 11” by 14” or larger pad of paper designed and marked as suitable for “Watercolors”

4. A palette: can be a plastic mixing tray, a suitable tray, plate, or other item to  your taste

Acrylic Paint

1. A set of paints in primary colors (tubes) plus extra White, Gray and Burnt Umber

2. A variety of Nylon brushes

3. A palette: can be a plastic mixing tray, a suitable tray, plate or other item fitting your style

4. Assortment of stretched canvas or canvas board (larger boards can be better to begin; boards are  usually less expensive than the stretched canvas)

5. Floor or table top easel

Oil Painting

1. A set of oil paints in basic primary colors (tubes) plus additional Titanium White, Paynes Gray, blue, green, and Burnt Umber

2. Small bottle of linseed oil and then add paint thinner and cleaner

3. Several small glass bottles or jars (recycle kitchen jars)

4. A collection of several sizes of Bristle brushes and sable brushes

5. A disposable palette pad or paper plates to use to hold paints and serve as palette

6. Odorless mineral spirits

7. Several rags (old t-shirts and cotton cloth items work well)

8. Assortment of stretched canvas or canvas boards 

TIP: Clean brushes with Dawn liquid dish soap or common household hair conditioner. These do an able job of cleaning and conditioning most brushes and are much cheaper than retail ‘art’ products having the same ingredients.

“THE ARTS CAFE “ at  EDUC. BLDG, STROUD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, STROUD, OK

“MAKING THEWORLD BEAUTIFUL ONE PROJECT AT A TIME”