Blossoms, Bucks, & Beautiful Artwork is one of seven baskets that will be auctioned at the PebbleCreek Art Club Fall Show and Sale.
Buy Raffle Tickets for Art Show Baskets Online or In Person!
Seven delightful baskets worth at least $500 each will be raffled during the 2025 PebbleCreek Fine Art Show, including this cake, adorned with $250 in cash and 18 mini original framed artworks by PebbleCreek artists. The Blossoms, Bucks, & Beautiful Artwork basket, worth $1,400, also includes “Garden Beauties,” colored pencil drawings by Donna Mund-Gustafson, and a gift certificate for a 8 x 10 inch colored pencil portrait of your pet.
The show will be held in the Tuscany Falls Ballroom on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 2 to 6 p.m., featuring work by more than 50 resident artists. While we hope you will attend the show in person, you don’t have to be at the show to enter the raffle. Beginning Oct. 1, you can purchase tickets—$20 for 40—online at pcartclubshows.com or in person at the show. You can view each basket and its contents online.
One of these prize baskets could be yours but, like the lottery, you need to buy a ticket to win. Go to pcartclubshows.com on Oct. 1 to join the raffle.
Save the Date! Fine Art Show and Sale Is November 8
Emily Grotta
PebbleCreek’s talented artists worked hard this summer on the paintings, drawings, and sculptures they plan to exhibit at this year’s Art Show in the Tuscany Ballroom on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 2 to 6 p.m.
The show, one of PebbleCreek’s most popular events, provides residents and guests an opportunity to see and purchase original artwork from their neighbors and friends. Many PebbleCreekers find the show an excellent opportunity to purchase a piece of art for their homes, with the added benefit of getting to know the artist.
We thank our generous sponsors (see below) who have made the Fine Art Show one of the most highly anticipated community events. If you see or patronize these sponsors, please thank them for their support.
The event includes music by the Happy Hour band and a complimentary glass of wine for each attendee. In addition, the club is raffling seven baskets—each worth at least $500!—the proceeds of which cover all the additional overhead costs of the show.
PebbleCreek artists paint in oil, acrylics, watercolors, and mixed media and draw in pastels, colored pencil, and charcoal or graphite, all of which will be on display. Artists range from beginners to professional, and everyone can submit a work that meets the criteria of this year’s special challenge, “Around the World.”
Admission is free, but reservations are required to control attendance and thus make the viewing of the works more enjoyable for all. Watch your emails and the Post for information on how to reserve your spot on Oct. 1.
This year’s sponsors are:
Platinum
Dr. Wheeler—Canyon Trails Family Dental and Market Street Dental Studio
Gold
Desert Sage Landscaping
Arete Financial
The Burkhardt Team@Realty One Group
SW Golf Carts
Silver
Rapid Roofing
Pino’s Contracting
Free Spirit Vacations
Roanoke Rental
Osborne Jewelers
Catitude Arts—Bonnie Lewis
Bronze
Carnation Spring Cleaning Services
B. Factor Insurance
Glendale Sports Massage, Integrated Therapy
Argent Solar Electric Inc.
Donors
AquaZona Kinetico of Phoenix (Jen Pratt)
Bonnie Lewis pet portrait
Rio Harris
George and Maggie Philippon
Bacchus Wine and Debauchery
Total Wine & More
Patrons
The Pruett Family
The Gustafson Family
Pencil, Paper, and 30 Minutes: All PC Artists Need to Sketch Away
Emily Grotta
Once again, members of the PebbleCreek (PC) Art Club spent 30 minutes every day in the month of June putting pencil or pen to paper as part of the 30-30 sketch group. Notebooks from several sketchers will be on display in the Creative Arts Center during the month of September.
This was the fourth year for the sketching group, which Betty Jean Kennedy began in 2022 as a way for artists to get into the habit of drawing every day, and thus improving their skills. Before picking up a paintbrush or putting paint on canvas, artists know the key to a successful painting is sketching it first to make certain the composition is successful.
Daily sketching is key to improving skills while unleashing creativity. As Arshile Gorky, who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism, wrote: “Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.”
The artists’ sketches vary widely in subject: pencil sharpeners, flowers on the table, blankets thrown over chairs, and more. Most are done in pencil or ink, but some use watercolors, pastels, or colored pencils as well. Animals, scenes from summer travels, railroad cars, and many other subjects captured the artists’ attention.
The beauty of sketching is that it’s a very portable art form. A small sketchbook and pencils are easily carried, and it didn’t matter whether the artists were in PebbleCreek or crossing the globe. For more information about the PebbleCreek Art Club, please visit PCArtClub.com.