Garage Door Mural

Great mural by new member James Chase. He is an instructor at NH Institute of Art and submitted a proposal for this garage door on Old Granite Street. You can check out more of his work at his website: http://neverfading.com/

Anthony Williams also submitted more of his paintings and photos for this blog.

This is his version of surrealism. The painting is very large, about 4' x 4'.

The project for the city on the utility boxes has been completed. It was sponsored by Brady Sullivan companies and they get to advertise on the box.  Anthony painted Weston Tower on one side of the box at the corner of Amherst and Pine Streets.

These daffodils are on the reverse side of the seagulls painting.

 

Repairs of the mural are finished and look great. The two Debbies were happy to work on it.

Our next meeting is this week, Wed. October 26th. For details or if you would like to join us, contact our treasurer, Linda Feinberg.

Mural Repairs

Repairs have been completed on the garage door murals on Litchfield Lane. Unfortunately the substrate keeps peeling. This is the second time our group has repaired these murals.

Our artists at work, Anthony Williams, Deb Funk and Deb Curtin.

Great job, guys! Now we need to find some indoor murals to do for the winter months. :)

Inside Mural - Finished

With thanks to Shirley Perry for the photos. Our artists finished the mural in the O'Malley headquarters. Left to right: Anthony Williams, Deb Funk, Shirley Perry, Stephanie Byrd.

Inside Mural - South Willow Street

This is a mural in process by our talented artists for the campaign office of Martin O'Malley on South Willow Street. Friends of Art Manchester does not endorse any political candidates, but we are always happy to paint.  Thank you to Shirley Perry for the photos.  Final photos will be posted when all the murals are finished. Murals by artists: Anthony Williams, Deb Funk, Shirley Perry, Stephanie Byrd.

Webster House - Project Completed

Thank you to all the artists who participated in this project for Webster House: Tina Gagnon, Deb Funk, Anthony Williams, Judy Gelinas, Stephanie Byrd, Linda Feinberg

Webster House Project (continued)

Thank you to Tina Gagnon and Deb Funk for this beautiful 4’ x 5’ acrylic painting. The painting has been delivered to Webster House and they are very happy to have it.

Webster House will be having a reception for us when all the paintings are up. We are still waiting for the completion of the last painting.  Two other smaller paintings that we had in storage were also donated to them, from our former president, Colleen O’Connor.

We have purchased an E-Z up tent, complete with sides, sandbags and lights. If you are a member of our organization and would like to borrow it, please contact our treasurer.

We do not have any April meetings scheduled, but if you would like to get together, just to chat, to draw or paint, just contact us.

Please remember that all paid-up members are entitled to promote their exhibits, classes and current paintings on this blog. We would love to hear from you.

Project Ideas for Spring and Summer

Our winter project is gradually getting done. Paintings by Linda Feinberg and Deb Funk have been delivered to Webster House. Linda’s painting is up on the wall of the conference room.

Carolina Davison is working on getting the building that the city owns (former Latin America Center at 521 Maple Street) turned into an art center. We hope she succeeds! She has already had a fundraiser and an open house. Lots of people are interested in this project.

Several ideas were suggested for spring and summer projects, including a sketch crawl (bring your camera or sketchpad, meet somewhere, then head out, do your thing, and come back to show everybody what you accomplished afterwards). This would be both a social and art event.

Several of our artists are interested in painting more utility boxes and will be taking photos to discuss which ones with the city. 

Tables will be available at Veterans Park during their concerts.  We might take a table one evening and sell some items as a fundraiser for our group.  Linda suggested we could buy notecards (Strathmore has some) and paint them to sell. Items to sell need to be fairly low prices as these are free concerts and people who attend are not bringing much money with them.

Another project from Webster House – finish up the 4’ x 8’ mural in their basement. We have some volunteers already and I’m looking forward to seeing the finished mural. Our next meeting is May 20, 2015.

Webster House Winter Project

Artwork by Christina Burke-Gagnon (Tina Gagnon)

The proposals/sketches/photos are coming in for our winter project. We will be discussing these at our annual meeting on Jan. 21st (see the Jan. 2nd posting on this blog for more information).  We will be choosing four designs for the 4' x 5' panels at Webster House and possibly some alternatives in case our top four picks are not acceptable for some reason or other.  Please take a few minutes to look at all the photos and come to the meeting with your suggestions and comments.

Four beautiful designs by Deb Funk (above)

Two sketches (above) by Eileen Belanger. I can imagine them in color easily having seen Eileen's paintings in the past.

Sketch by Anthony Williams (our top muralist!). Looks like he's really thinking.....

Urban scenes from Manchester, NH, bridge and river studies by our blogger, Linda Feinberg. That's the Merrimack River flowing through our interesting city.

And finally, some suggestions by Lou Catano, director of Webster House. We could make a variation of any of these. I don't know who the original artist is so we wouldn't be able to copy without permission (copyright issues), but we can certainly do something similar.

These are the submissions that came in by the deadline. If there are a few more ideas, they will be added to this post if possible, or shown at the meeting.  Hope everyone has a creative and artistic weekend.

To view the pictures in full, just click on them.

Families in Transition-Men's Residence

Our paintings are finally up at the men's residence of Families in Transition.  While they were unable to host a reception for our artists, they gave me a tour and I took some photos.  Each painting has a beautiful label with the artist's name and the title of the painting.  The paintings on the left in the photo above are by Judy Gelinas. The one on the right is by Deb Funk.

The top painting is by Carolina Chauvette and the bottom one by Stephanie Bogalis Byrd.  I think their designer did a good job with arranging the paintings in the common areas.

Painting above is by Paul Davidson.

The designer put some paintings in the entry hallway. The one above is by Anthony Williams and the one below by Debbie Curtin.

All photos by Linda H. Feinberg.

If you missed it, the Hippo had a nice writeup about our laundromat mural at 720 Union Street in their August 7-13 edition on page 21 (The link on left will bring you to the digital edition. If you type Laundromat in the search box, it will give you a link to page 21. You can click on the article to enlarge it and read it.) Thank you, Kelly Sennott.

Mural Finished!

Thank you to everyone who participated. Great job! This was a first time painting outdoors and on brick for many of us.

Photos above by Linda H. Feinberg

Our artists are continuing to paint outdoors. Many of them are working with the Eagle Eyes group painting a boat house on the west side.

Photos above by John Mitchell.