Versatile, award-winning, artist Marlene Gremillion of Hot Springs Village, presented a two-day watercolor workshop at the Fairfield Bay Conference and Visitor Center in Fairfield Bay to 16 members of the North Central Arkansas Artist League June 20 and 21. Participants learned techniques to paint large, realistic flowers on full size sheets of 300-lb. Arches paper, as well as learned how to use camera, printers, and computer for references and enlargement of original drawings.
Participants came from Fairfield Bay, Clinton, Edgemont, Jacksonville, Shirley, Quitman, and Greers Ferry. Attending were (photo, standing from left) Gay Ryan, Kathleen Hadley, Lea Berry, Jan Cobb, Connie Hood, Dianne Traylor, Diana Foote, Bonnie Hookman, Joan Bland, Jeanne Homuth, Judy Shumann, Joyce Hartmann; (front row, from left) Charlotte Rierson, Sue Pico, Karen Brownson, Sandra Marson, and instructor Marlene Gremillion. They are holding partially completed works, midway through the workshop. Look for them to be completed, framed and hanging in local exhibits soon.