We are seeking volunteers for the Third Annual Dighton Arts Festival on October 28th.

Please send an e-mail to [email protected] if you are interested in helping making the 2007 festival a successful event.

Watch this space for details on volunteer opportunities.

The Dighton Arts Festival Planning Committee will meet on Tuesday, September 4 from 7-8:30 p.m. at Carl Stonstrom's house at 1216 Williams Street.

The tones and colors of things in the distance cannot be the same tones and colors as
those same things in the foreground. Aerial Perspective is an effect that we get by lightening the tone and diminishing the color of things that are farther away from your point of view.

To help you recognize how different the tones and colors of foreground things and distant things are . . . look at a place of a subject in the foreground, which means the up-and-down plane of a barn or a tree, and actually paint a spot of that tone in the foreground of your canvas. Now, look at something in the distance that is also up and down, such as a mountain, and paint a spot of that tone in the upper part of the canvas.

These two tones will act as the control for all the colors from far to near and improve the appearance of aerial perspective.

Some of us hate to even think about perspective, but when you are painting outdoors, it is so much easier if you have this reference. We all will be thinking about painting outdoors now that the good weather is coming. Hope this tip helps with your Aerial Perspective.

Dighton Art Association member Dr. Heidi Douglass has started an
exciting non-profit, environmental magazine (The Organic Mom) and is
seeking submissions of art, photography, poetry, and essays for its
second issue. The deadline for submissions is June 15th. Details can
be found at www.theorganicmom.org.

Great chance to get your work published ... and help out a fellow
Dighton Art Association member!

You might find copies of the first issue at Araujo's in Dighton, Ida's
in Berkley, Baker Books in North Dartmouth and Riverside Art in
Somerset Somerset.

Posted May 25, 2007

Volunteers of America - Massachusetts has recently moved its Family Center for Counseling and Education to One Taunton Green. They are in need of some artwork for their reception areas, offices, and conference rooms. They are a non-profit on a limited budget and are hoping to "borrow" some art work and maybe help with an artist's exposure. They have contacted the Arts Collaborative of Taunton and the Taunton Art Association as well.

If interested, please contact

George B. Mathieson, Director of Development
Volunteers of America Massachusetts
441 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
phone: 617.522.8086, ext. 118
fax: 617-524-8537
[email protected]

www.voamass.org

Posted May 25, 2007