Friday, June 7, 2013

Artist Susie Hoffman, Ironstone Spring Obsession Artist is Hop'n this summer!


Check out the action at Artist Susie Hoffman's Town Hall Arts in Calaveras County's Copperopolis

Check out our website! www.townhallarts.com

Featured artist for the month of June at Galerie Copper is Don Hukari, well known for his award-winning
serigraphs and publisher of Sierra Seasons Magazine. Don does art and commercial design from his home
studio near Sonora. Read more about Don under “Galerie Artists 2013” at www.townhalllarts.com.

Galerie Copper artists include Dorothy Babinsky, Kim Barrington, Diana Boyd, Judie Cain, Patricia
Cherry, Barbara Conley, Kitty Davids, Geneva Davis, Marlene Dotur, George Allen Durkee, Dava
Ellinger, Diana Eppler, Sarah Evans, Jill Figler, Margo Flanagan, Brent Frazer, Dola Garretson, Debbie
Gurich, Gemma Gylling, Renetta Hayes, Susie Hoffman, Don Hukari, Frank Hynes, Marie Jobes, Randy
Klassen, Nancy Macomber, Carolyn Macpherson, Ken McBride, Ruth Morrow, Dana Sue Palemone, Pat
Rohovit, Mary Jean St. Claire, Selma Sattin, Michael Severin, Sunny Sorensen, Dianne Stearns, Ellie
Stone, Irene Taylor, Carolynn Troedson, Glenn Wasson, Staci Williams, Janet Wilmeth, and Terri Wilson.

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Town Hall Arts under the clock
145 Stone St.,Copperopolis Town Square

Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays: 10 am to 5 pm
Fridays and Saturdays 10 am to 6 pm • Sundays 12 to 5 pm
CLOSED Tuesdays

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Classes/Events as of June 10, 2013 Atelier Copper

Sign up for classes with Larry,
larry@townhallarts.com, or phone 785-2050

A deposit is required to hold your place in most classes.

Life Drawing

June 3, 10, 17, 24 • 1 to 4 pm

In The Raw--Serious Life Drawing with Sunny Sorensen

Students will be drawing from a live nude model. No experience needed. Cost for each
month is $40. This covers the model’s fee and limited instruction. To hold your place, the
fee must be paid when you sign up with Larry at Town Hall Arts. Sunny will set up the
model with a series of short poses, ranging from 30 seconds to 15 minutes. These will be
followed by longer poses. The goal of the short poses will be to understand and capture
the movement of the figure using a variety of techniques. The expectation is that you
draw large especially for these poses. This helps you loosen up, draw from your shoulder,
and not get caught up in details.

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Copper Art Club Open Painting
Wednesday, June 12

9:30 am to 12:30 pm
Open painting with optional drawing warm-up. Start off your day with
the “One Drawing a Day” group. For this exercise, you will need a
bamboo pen and some black or brown ink. No instruction; no cost.


Myra Steward, Spring Obsession Artist Exhibit update!

Quick Share! 

One of Ironstone's 2013 Spring Obsession Artists has a show coming up! Thanks for sharing Myra!



Hi Everyone!

I've attached photos of my entry in the Fiber Show-"Focus on Fiber".   It's a wonderful visually stimulating show with many unique pieces!  It's being held at:
Sacramento Fine Arts Center
5330-B Gibbons Drive
Carmichael, CA 95608

Hours: 11AM tp 7 PM Tuesdays
           11AM to 3 PM Wednesday-Saturday

Dates:  June 4- June 22

Reception-  June 8-5:30-8:30PM

The piece I knitted is a ruana, a South American Poncho, and is knitted with silk, wool and acrylic yarns.  I am also working on a series of paintings that will be displayed at the Blue Moon Gallery this summer.

Thank you for your continued support of my artistic journey!


Myra

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Vaughn Pottery "Life Force" comes to Ironstone

"LIFE FORCE Series"
by Vaughn Pottery

#141 310047 "Life Flame" by Vaughn Pottery $600
Standing 26" tall, fired pottery hand carved & decorated.
Undulating design embellished with fossil & native trading beads,  this Vaughn pottery piece is one of our favorite pieces.  Unlike any other piece we have seen to date, this tall vase steps away from the symmetrical forms of most of Vaughn Pottery designs.  Not for the faint of heart, this piece  seems almost alive with inner forces breathing and flowing with life.  
#141 310047 "Life Flame" by Vaughn Pottery $600

Working around the vase,
June Vaughn wove an intricate story of life unfolding
in design and powerful symbolism.  It is a breathtaking piece we classify as a "Must See" to appreciate.

#141 310047 "Life Flame" by Vaughn Pottery $600

The  "flame" lid is hand carved antler,
embellished with jasper... inset in elaborate carved & painted fired ceramic.  
Stop by on your next visit to Calaveras County & Murphys to see this piece. Well worth the trip. It is available for purchase at only $600, so don't wait too long or it will be gone!




Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Concert Poster!


Concert Season Schedule is here!

Ironstone's 2013 Concert Season was announced last night to Ironstone's Wine Club Members here in the Tasting Room at a very special event. Members enjoyed wine and munchies while waiting for the final entertainer's contract to come in! Talk about on the wire ... finally it did and the announcement was made!

Follow the link below directly to the Concert Page where you can see the seating charts, ticket prices and even purchase your tickets...

After a Season kick start, July 6th. with fire works and a family fun day, JOAN JETT and The Blackhearts join us on Saturday, July 20th.,  next up on Friday, August 2nd. is Melissa Etheridge.  Saturday, August 10th comes Big & Rich, Cowboy Troy and our very own Whiskey Dawn coming home for the night from Nashville!

Check out more details here...

http://www.ironstonevineyards.com/index.cfm?method=pages.showPage&pageid=c4af7d05-ed82-734a-7e9d-814c7a164788

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Meet Artist Nina Thomson, Ironstone Spring Obsession Accepted Artist

NINA THOMSONPASTEL LANDSCAPE PAINTING

SALE PENDING   "West Sacramento River View" by Nina Thomson  pastel  9x12  $150.

     It is a challenge to take a one-inch stick of pigment, apply it to paper by moving my arm, and through that process, to capture the changing light and fixed distance -- perhaps a mile or two, perhaps 50 miles.

     I paint scenes within a few miles of my home in Sacramento. The goal is to have others see the particular part of the world as I see it, at a particular moment in time. When it works, it makes me happy all day.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Meet Artist Anne Zils, Ironstone Spring Obsession Accepted Artist


About the Artist


Anne Zils grew up in Texas but, shortly after her 6th. birthday her career Army father moved the family to Honolulu Hawaii.  Anne loved to read and draw from an early age and the abilities took a formal turn after she met and married her husband in 1959. She waited until her two daughters were in school all day then enrolled in art at San Jose State, in San Jose, CA. where she received a BA in Art in 1975, and then in 1979, a "Masters" in counseling and psychology.

After school, she yearned to learn to weld. The opportunity to study welding at Columbia College presented itself when she and Ron and daughter Pam, moved to Twain Harte in the year 2000. It was love at first weld!!

Anne draws incessantly and is inspired by great photography, nature, and, very often, "metal just speaks to me", telling me what to design with it.

About the Art

Anne combines her metals with "Texas Thunder glass chunks, (supposedly created by placing lightning rods in sand where lightening is apt to strike, Probably a Texan myth?) faceted stones and ceramics applied with High Tech Nasa developed adhesives and metal pieces that have been welded and painted onto the surface.

Her metal "masks" are a combination of bullet riddled signs, which she cuts and twists into shape and to which ornamentation is then applied.  Anne also creates three dimensional pieces ranging from 12" to 8 ft tall, of varied subject matter.  Anne jokes that working in a larger scale allows her to see her mistakes more easily.

Her work may be seen and purchased at "All That Matters" in Twain Harte, CA. and at "Perfect Bargains" in Sonora, CA. One of the many charities she supports.  In the summers, her work is often displayed at Tallulah's Restaurant on main street in downtown Sonora, CA. Anne has been hung in Museums and galleries in the bay area, but prefers working locally at this point in time.

Anne does commission work as time allows, and you can reach her at: Annezils@sbcglobal.net