Our speaker this month will be Kelly Sullivan.

Kelly Sullivan is an arts crusader. Born and raised in Clinton Township, New Jersey, Sullivan knew she would be an artist when she was five years old, the year her grandmother surrounded her with paint and repeated simple but encouraging words: “Don’t be shy with the paint,” a refrain that stuck.

In her early years Sullivan focused on musical portraiture, painting those that inspired her, including Bruce Springsteen, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Pete Seeger, Jimmy Rogers and more. Her musical works graced the walls of BB Kings Blues Club in New York for years, and showed in the Ambassador Gallery in Soho alongside that of Jerry Garcia and Ron Wood.

Sullivan began producing multi-artist/discipline shows in the 1980’s that evolved into hands-on experiential events featuring working studios set up to introduce inner-city kids to the power of art. Forced to worked under the constraints of a tight budget to provide a “painting experience” for guests over a week-long festival, Sullivan invented a collaborative way of painting she called FingerSmears®. Incorporating hundreds of painters, FingerSmears® use only one canvas, and no brushes.

Sullivan shares her humorous and moving stories from a lifetime of art crusading from classrooms, to trade shows, to remote villages around the world. Her renditions of tribulation and triumph have audiences rethinking their limits and striving for more joy and peace in a key note presentation that addresses our societal need for creativity, compassion and connectedness.

Kelly’s current focus is on painting in national parks, public lands, and remote towns around the US. Her fine art, collaborative art, and public speaking can be found at KellySullivan.Live

Her website is www.kellysullivanfineart.com

Date/Time:
January 3, 2019
7:30 pm

Location:
James-Lorah Memorial Home
132 N Main St.
Doylestown, PA 18901

Organizer:
Doylestown Art League
info@doylestownartleague.com

Classes are designed to enhance your enjoyment of and confidence in the painting experience. An artist’s approach to understanding values, effectively combining and using pigments, and refining brushwork will be emphasized. There will be “hands on” demos. These classes will afford both the novice and more experienced painter a fresh perspective on these important skills.

Please contact Marilyn for a supply list at 215-297-5182 or wmsmarilyn@hotmail.com.

Cost: $75

Class Dates :
Tuesdays, 9:30 – 12:30
1/8, 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12

Location:
New Britain Baptist Church
22 East Butler Ave.
New Britain, PA 18901

Louisa, is a graduate of Moore College of Art and Design. She has been teaching Watercolor for many years, and will offer you individual instruction on drawing, perspective, color, values and observation. All to help you be a better painter while following your own unique style.

Cost: $75

Class Dates :
Wednesdays, 9:30 – 12:30
1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30, 2/6, 2/13

Location:
New Britain Baptist Church
22 East Butler Ave.
New Britain, PA 18901

Betty Minnucci and M Sperling are offering a series of classes in Oil Painting for eight Fridays beginning January 11, 2019. Betty specializes in palette knife technique, while M uses brushes.

As subject matter you may bring in a reference photograph to work from, or you may use a still life setup that we will create for each class.

Bring what paints you have, your brushes and palette knives, a tear-away palette, paper towels and odorless turpentine. Gessoed boards are fine. We will discuss additional supplies at the first class. Please bring plastic covers or newspaper to protect tables. All levels are welcome.

Come and have fun!

Cost: $90

Class Dates :
Fridays, 10:00 – 1:00
1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1

Location:
New Britain Baptist Church
22 East Butler Ave.
New Britain, PA 18901

Our speaker this month is John Schmidtberger. John is a painter, gallerist and cartoonist from Upper Black Eddy, PA. He paints from direct observation, without the use of photographs and with little or no retouching. He describes his work as “Poetic Realism.” His paintings are known for their strong sense of light, decisive brushwork, and vivid palette. Some major influences are: Fairfield Porter, Edward Hopper, Matisse, Alice Neel and Marsden Hartley.

John grew up in Hackettstown, NJ and attended Phillips Exeter Academy on a scholarship. At the University of Pennsylvania, he studied painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking with Neil Welliver (1929-2005), Robert Engman (1927-2018), Hitoshi Nakazato (1936-2010) earning a BFA in 1984 and an MFA in 1987.

John’s paintings have been exhibited at the James A. Michener Museum, Doylestown, PA; the Prince Street Gallery, NY; Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NY; Elan Fine Arts, Rockland, ME; Littlefield Gallery, Winter Harbor, ME; Camden Falls Gallery, Camden, ME; The Quiet Life Gallery, Lambertville, NJ and many others. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times and has appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine (cover) and Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine.

Date/Time:
February 7, 2019
7:30 pm

Location:
James-Lorah Memorial Home
132 N Main St.
Doylestown, PA 18901

Organizer:
Doylestown Art League
info@doylestownartleague.com