Jeff Wilson The Pottery/Sculpture Club members gathered recently to learn from our reigning master of hyper-realism, Gordon Cooper. Gordon has been wowing club members for the past couple of years with his incredibly detailed and meticulously painted bird and fish sculptures. By the end of this one-day class, all participants were able to complete a…
Jeff Wilson The PebbleCreek Pottery/Sculpture Club featured artist for April is Nan Osterholt. Nan moved to PC from Sacramento, California in April 2019. She and husband Steve have settled right in, enjoying PC clubs and the many activities offered throughout the community. They also consider the move here a bonus, since their son’s family lives…
Jeff Wilson Ross Hart, our resident sculpture instructor, taught two successful classes in November. The first was his popular Human and Animal Head class, and the second was a new class called Small Houses. This class focused on making little houses perfect for seasonal decorating. Both classes were well attended and open to people of…
Jeff Wilson The Pottery/Sculpture Club is grateful to Cheryl Tiffany for sharing her talent and teaching skills this past summer. She taught a total of six extremely successful acrylic pour painting classes. Cheryl said, “As promised, we made a mess, unleashed our inner children, and discovered that we did indeed have the ability to create…
Jeff Wilson The September handmade pottery class not only made some incredibly beautiful sculptural, functional, and decorative objects, but they also had fun! The focus of the class is to provide a supportive environment in which to learn the tools and techniques necessary to make any handmade pottery project. Beginners in the class usually make…
Jeff Wilson Acrylic pour painting, also called fluid art, is a wonderful medium for even the most artistically challenged among us. It’s a very forgiving technique. Even the “fails” can be saved—just add more paint! With acrylic pour painting, control is limited, resulting in completely unique results each time. Under the direction of the talented…
Jeff Wilson The Pottery/Sculpture Club featured artist for September is Kim Corbel. She loves to spend her free time transforming everyday flowers into unique, personalized arrangements. Kim discovered her passion for flowers while working for a small-town florist in Maryland at the age of 17. Starting with Hallmark cards as her responsibility, she was quickly…
Jeff Wilson The Pottery/Sculpture Club was honored to present a rock painting demonstration by Carolin Post. She shared her techniques, tools and materials as she explained her working methods for producing spectacular works of art. Carolin explained that her rock art started as a true inspiration and, as such, she does not sell her work,…
Jeff Wilson The Pottery/Sculpture Club featured artist for March is Karen Bush. Karen has lived in PebbleCreek since 2011 and enjoys participating in several of the activities available to residents including golf, pickleball, ShowTime, cooking and volunteering with children. She is also a very talented artist having earned a degree in fine arts from the…
Intro to Floral Design, a Pottery/Sculpture Club sponsored class, was the first class to fill up in September! This new class, taught by Kim Corbel, proved to be very popular, with a number of floral techniques and projects completed over the four class sessions. Kim, a full-time teacher by day, is inspirational and full of…