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Art Club event awards painting Best in Show
Lin Boucher’s ‘Fallen Feather’ captures top honor
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IF YOU GO
What: SCW Art Club member orientation
When: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Monday, March 9
Where: Kuentz Art Club, 14401 N. R.H. Johnson Blvd., Sun City West
More Information: Email swac2019@gmail.com
Kuentz Art Club 14401 N. R.H. Johnson Blvd. Sun City West, AZ
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Lin Boucher’s pastel painting “Fallen Feather” was awarded Best In Show at the 2020 Sun City West Art Club Show.
Ms. Boucher is a member of the club and has won many awards in the past. She likes to use her own photos or found objects in her work and then applies creative imagination.
The impetus for this painting was a large raven feather that she found while hiking in Flagstaff. She arranged her still life using the feather and her photo of an Anasazi olla, taken with permission at the Adobe Gallery in Santa Fe. She imagined them placed on a woven red rug, creatively draped. Although the still life is realistic, there is also the faint impression of a “spirit” raven hovering in the left background, with his beak open as if cawing. Unlike oil or watercolor, this painting is rendered in soft pastels, little sticks of color that look like chalk.
The artist draws with the sticks on rough or sanded paper which holds the tiny particles in place. Colors are blended with the finger for a smooth and beautiful effect.
The Sun West Art Club’s monthly meetings are 1-3 p.m. the second Monday of month October through May in the R.H. Johnson Social Hall, 19803 N. R.H. Johnson Blvd.
