Mar 2025: Flamingo Trio – DEDICATED ARTISTS of southwest florida inc

March Program
Saturday, March 8, 2025
Meeting at Cape Coral Art League (click for map)

Watercolor
FLAMINGO TRIO
with Judith MacLaren
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SCHOLARSHIP 2025
…encourage a promising high school senior you know to apply for the DASF Annual Scholarship …Applications due April 15th

EASTER EGG EXCHANGE
…get a free Wood Egg provided by DASF to
Paint & Exchange @ the April meeting – Easter is April 20, 2025

Nature’s Beauty…

The focus of this program is the beautiful flamingo which gets their name from the Spanish flamenco, a dance and guitar style hot as fire. These extraordinary pink birds with a touch of feminine flair are the perfect muse for an artist! Flocks of thousands were found in the wild prior to 1920 by which time their numbers were decimated as feathers were collected for women’s hats and they were hunted for their meat.

The flamingo, often depicted artfully balancing on one leg in the water, is a natural work of art. A flamingo may be painted alone, or in a group called a flamboyance.

Using a straw to blow paint and masking fluid to act as a resist, Judy will help you create a painting that is easier than it looks. With Judy as your guide, you will impress everyone with the completed painting!

Grow your club – Invite a Guest!

SUPPLY FEES:

Instruction Packet/Palette $7.00
…Please try to bring correct currency so we don’t have to make a lot of change

SURFACE:

If you use a painter’s choice surface you will need a 11×14 area to accommodate the pattern.
11×14 140# Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper …FREE to members painting the program
A standard sized 16×20 frame with mat will fit your finished painting making this a beautiful statement work of art

SURFACE PREPARATION:

None

BRUSHES:

1-inch Angle or Flat
Liner
Shaved Handle Brush (see photo), used to apply liquid mask (best) or toothpick (will work)
Others, Any Size you are comfortable using

PALETTE:

NOTE: teacher will supply the palette
Fuchsia
Green, 2-3 Greens
Ultramarine Blue
Yellow, any
Masking Fluid

SUPPLIES:

Tracing Paper
Transfer Paper, only WAX-FREE (Judy will have some available at $1 per sheet)
Masking Tape, …off-white Artist’s Tape best, avoid blue Painter’s tape as it distorts your color perception affecting the outcome of your painting in a negative way
Cardboard, …(12×16 approximately) – tape Watercolor Paper to Cardboard
Red Pen
Straw, …drinking straw is used to direct and ‘blow’ water in direction you desire

March PHOTO Gallery
Magnificent! Magnificent is the one word to describe this amazing March program with very high attendance and so very many guests. The air was filled with excitement and DASF welcomed 4-new members! Many members picked up unfinished wooden eggs to paint one for the Easter Egg Exchange in April. That is always a fun activity to see the wonderful eggs that show up in the DASF Easter Basket.