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| THE COLONY NEWS | JANUARY 2023 | 31 To all of our watercolorists, both beginners and seasoned painters, our subject for our Jan. 26 Watercolor Class will be a landscape. I will be using various colors of blues. This painting will be quite dramatic using light blues to very intense darks in a wet on wet, and with a wet on dry technique. You may choose another color if blue is not to your liking. Betty Pilley, our award-winning instructor, will return for another workshop in February. More information on this workshop will be forthcoming in the February Colony News. I also hope to have our local award-winning instructor/demonstrator, Susan Keith, for a workshop later in the year. Susan has performed workshops here in The Colony in the past. Happy New Year everyone. I am looking forward to seeing all of you in our January 2023 watercolor class. A great year of painting is in the planning for all of you. Happy New Year! Watercolor Classes By Sylvia Maxwell, 818-667-1766 Our featured Artist for the Month of January 2023 is Fine Art Photographer Nancy Roux. This is Nancy's second exhibit in our beautiful Clubhouse Lobby. Nancy is from Providence, Rhode Island and moved to Southern California in 1983. She has a Bachelors Degree in Studio Art. She has had a lengthy career as a freelance Designer/Producer. In 2011 she pursued Fine Art Photography full time. Nancy has excelled in "Abstract Nature," textiles, and natural materials such as tree bark, leaves, wood grain, florals, succulents, water and stone. Nancy designs and integrates custom crafted backings of hardwood and copper to complement Special Editions. In 2016, her unique Mantelpieces Work attracted the attention of the Cove Gallery in Laguna Beach, as the gallery's 3D Photographic Artist. Nancy was jury-selected as the Southwest Arts Festival's 2017 Poster Artist. Her imaginative, 360-degree rotating desertscape, "Mole's-eye View," was chosen to be the featured artwork for the festival's 2017 poster and promotional materials, seen at right. She has exhibited her work at numerous prestigious Southern California fine art shows, including Laguna Art-A-Fair, one of three iconic Laguna Beach Festivals. In her seven years with the show, Nancy received three back-to-back Artists Choice awards, served as a juror, and has represented the festival in local radio interviews. In 2015, her work was selected to represent Laguna's Art-A-Fair in a prestigious Orange County Magazine feature. Exhibits include the Fine Arts Festivals 2017, Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, Ca., California Indian Wells Arts Festival, California Balboa Island Art Walk, Newport Beach, Ca., Festival of Arts, San Diego Festival of the Arts, California. 2016 Art under the Umbrellas, La Quinta, Ca., Southwest Arts Festival, Indio, Ca., Calabasas Fine Arts festival, and numerous others dating back to 2011. The number of groups Nancy has exhibited her artwork with is incredibly vast in numbers. She is currently a frequent guest artist at the Kaleidoscope in Mission Viejo and has exhibited at The Colony Craft show for the second time this year. Nancy has updated her website to nancyrouxphoto.com. Thank you, Nancy, for being so generous to show your beautiful artwork in our Clubhouse Lobby. Artist of the Month By Sylvia Maxwell, 818-667-1766