Launching a Newsletter
Welcome to the first edition of Art News from the Barbara Garrett Studio. It is always exciting to discover many of the new ways that the Internet can serve artists and advance the art community. This is just one of them. It is available through the Fine Art Studio Online or FASO.
Camino Real 8
It is also exciting to share with you some of the activities of the Camino Real 8 the group of artists I treasure and share this adventure we call art with. Camino Real 8 (or CR8 as they may be called) hurried to beat bad weather this winter by scheduling several plein air events this fall. They traveled to the Gilman Tunnels in the Jemez Mountains and several of the group captured the sheer cliff faces and atmospheric light that filtered through the river canyon. This trip was followed by a couple of voyages to the shimmering yellow aspens above Santa Fe, New Mexico.
They also held one of their best shows ever at the Los Lunas Museum of Heritage & Arts. Fantastic art in an outstanding facility. You couldn't beat it.
Friends of the Sevilleta
I also took the opportunity that the Friends of the Sevilleta offered during their fall event day and hiked the Nature Tour shooting as many photos as possible for later studio work. And the studio work has been rewarding as I seek to capture the colors of the Chihuahuan Desert. The beauty of the desert really comes alive for me as I lay down the colors that I sought to so carefully see in the field.
