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4A – Daily News – Thursday, August 19, 2010 Pastimes Red Bluff Art Associ- ation members will dis- play their works at the Kelly-Griggs House Summer Social 12:30- 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 29. Featured will be art in a variety of media, including oil, pastel, color pencil, watercolor and mixed media, and covering a wide range of subjects. Prints and cards will be available for pur- chase. Other events of the afternoon will be an exhibit by the Tehama County Photo Club, wine tasting, olive oil sam- pling, music groups and a children’s jump house. Admission is $5 and includes ice cream and a tour of the museum. The 1880 Victorian is at 311 Washington St. on the corner of Ash Street, which will be closed off to traffic. A number of booths will feature local products, crafts and food. Of all sales, 15 percent will benefit the Kelly- Greggs renovation pro- Arts & entertainment Art Association to display at social Random shapes During summer time there are a lot of things growing and blooming. Some vegetation is very dense, much dif- ferent from the starkness of leaf- less branches sil- houetted against a winter sky. How does one portray the tree leaves of summer? We’re familiar with trees and what shape their leaves are, yet we don’t need to paint each and every leaf. Random shapes are useful for that purpose. A Dana Eker Courtesy photo Collage Workshop Instructor Anne Kinkade discussing a mixed media piece with artist Roland Lint.This recent one-day workshop is just one of the many activities of RBAA. jects. RBAA has participat- ed in this event from its inception, when it was known as an ice cream social. The name is changed this year to encompass a lot more features and activities. Ex-con troupe comes to North State The original musical drama Off The Hook, set in a California prison and featuring a 15-member cast of formerly incarcerated people, will play in Redding Saturday, Aug. 28 at the Bohemian Art Loft, 3304B Bechelli Lane, at 7:30 p.m. The show examines the ever-pre- sent threat of violence and racial segregation in prison. Separation from family, the danger of becom- ing too close to others and, finally, the triumph of the human spirit come to life. The play was written by Debo- rah Tobola, artistic director of the Poetic Justice Project, who worked in Arts in Corrections before retir- ing from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Bill McLaughlin, a professional actor and director with more than 30 years' experience in stage and film, is directing the play. All per- formances will be followed by talk- backs with the audiences. The Poetic Justice Project has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cali- fornia State Arts Council and the LEF Foundation to take the play on a tour of prison towns beginning with a performance in Bakersfield Aug. 13. Off The Hook stars Alaska native film actor Pius Savage, who plays shaman poet Sparrow Hawk. Savage’s films include Spirit of the Courtesy photo Pictured, from left, are Nik Johnson as Razor and Cooper Wise as John Boy. Wind — later renamed Attla — White Fang, Black Feather, Out of the Wilderness and Edge of the World. Tickets are $20, available at brownpapertickets.com. Laxson events The following performances will take place in September at Laxson Auditorium on the CSU Chico campus: • Asia, Classic Rock, Wednesday, Sept.1, at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets: $35 Premium, $30 Adult, $28 Senior, $20 Stu- dent /Child. • Last Comic Standing, NBC's Live Tour, Wednesday, Sept. 8, at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets: $35 Premium, $30 Adult, $28 Senior, $23 Student /Child. • Ozomatli: Funk, Hip-Hop, and World, Chico World Music Festival, Friday, Sept.17 at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets: $37 Premium, $32 Adult, $30 Senior, $25 Stu- dent /Child. • Celtic Fiddle Festival, Fiddle Music at its Finest!, Wednesday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets: $25 Premium, $20 Adult, $18 Senior, $16 Student/Child. • Naomi Judd, How to Have a Break- through, Not a Breakdown, Thursday, Sept. *RAIDERS TICKETS FOR SALE* Red Bluff Jr. Spartans Football Fundraiser End Zone Tickets 3rd level $ 1st & 2nd 40.00 level $ , 45 Tickets must be ordered 30 days in advance. Contact Jenn Moniz with Red Bluff Jr. Spartans: (530) 524-0110 or jennrbyf@yahoo.com P.O. Box 8027, Red Bluff, CA 96080 2390 Athens Ave. Redding CA 96001 530 244 1400 www.avantitravel.com *NO CHARGE FOR OUR CRUISE AND TOUR BOOKINGS Why Use a Travel Agent? *EXPERTISE *SAVINGS * PEACE OF MIND * BEST PRICING Wedding registry and destination weddings Remember without a Travel Agent you are on your own cst# 2007495-40 random shape can not be classified as square, round, oval, rectangle. It is the shapeless space between the leaves. Looking at a mature tree we first see a green overall mass of leaves. Then we notice individual leaves here and there. In between these leaves are random shapes of color that fill in the bulk of tree foliage. Random shapes can be the shaded undersides of leaves, sun reflecting off of a bit of leaf, or the sky peaking through. Simple observation of your subject is required to notice the random fill-in shapes. Easy enough to do, just give yourself some time to study your subject. Random shapes can be used for fallen brown leaves lying on the ground. Think of brush strokes that are splashes of color with no known shapes being defined. Just focus on col- ors, highlights and shad- ows. It is a very loose style of painting that you might have noticed in the work of impressionistic painters. Splashes of random color are also used for flowers in a field or in bouquets. Hit the sunlit side with a lighter color or define a petal edge with a dark shadow color. Why does this work? The mind knows what things look like and has it on file to draw from when needed. If we define every Beginner’s Easel leaf or petal it gives repeti- tious, boring information to the mind. A few known elements establish the theme of the painting then the use of random shapes allows the mind to interpret the painting for itself. Now the mind is more involved with the painting and entertained by it. Remember viewing the folded black ink blots and being asked, "What do you see?" We all will see something different as each interprets from their own experiences in life. Defining leaves or petal closest to the viewer brings them into to the foreground and helps create the illusion of depth on a flat surface. To further help with the feeling of depth in watercolor, the lightest color goes on wet first, dab in a few comple- mentary colors to add life. After it dries, define a few leaves with hard edges of shadowy areas, softening outward with soft edges. If using acrylics or oils, lay down the dark colors in the general over-all shape of the foliage then add the mid-toned leaves, followed by the lighter colored leaves. Leave the dark base to show through as random shapes. Instead of defining every leaf on a tree, give your foliage splashes of color and allow your mind to wander into the painting and explore the possibilities of random shapes. Dana Eker is a watercolorist living in Red Bluff. She is a member of the Red Bluff Art Gallery. E- mail Dana at danaeker@hotmail.com. You may view her work at redbluffartgallery.com/dana _eker.htm or danaeker.com. Write to Dana Eker, P.O. Box 9194, Red Bluff, CA 96080. Concert rescheduled The Jonny Lang performance scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 9 has been rescheduled for Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. in Laxson Auditorium. All tickets to the September concert will be hon- ored on the February date. For more information, call the University Box Office at 898-6333. Within an hour 23, at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets: $35 Pre- mium, $30 Adult, $28 Senior, $20 Stu- dent/Child. • Mulan Jr., Disney from Blue Room Jr., Wednesday, Sept.29, at 7:30 p.m. Advance tickets: $12 Adult, $10 Senior, $8 Stu- dent/Child For tickets, visit www.chicoperfor- mances.com or call 898-6333. Art lecture Jack Rowe will present a program on Shapes and Values in painting at 7 p.m. Monday at the North Valley Art League House Gallery, 48 Quartz Hill Road in Red- ding. Rowe has been accepted in more than 100 National Shows with many awards including this year’s NVAL Best of Show and the ’09 National Watercolor Society’s Purchase Award. For more information, call 474-3800 or 243 1023 or visit www.nval.org.