Artists share works during Camano show

The Camano Roaming Artists have their annual art show and sale Saturday and Sunday.

The show features oil, pastel and watercolor paintings created by members of the Roaming Artists, who gather during the year to paint island scenes and share their love of art. The artists paint “plen-air” style, setting up their easels outside to capture picturesque scenes on and around Camano Island.

The two-day event is set for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Terry’s Corner fire station hall (corner of Highway 525 and North Camano Drive). The public can meet and talk to the artists, view their work and purchase art.

Admission is free and an original watercolor titled “Seaside Tulips” by Diane Hill will be awarded as a door prize. Hill is a noted art teacher and painter whose paintings are in many private and public Northwest collections. She teaches at Stanwood Senior Center and at her studio on Camano Island.

This year there are 36 local artists participating in the show, including June Thomle, who has been selected as this year’s featured artist. Thomle has taught art for many years including at Eastern Washington University, and belongs to a number of art associations.

Other artists at this year’s show include: Gloria Anderson, Jean Bach, Jeanine Borree, Wendy Campbell, Gene Cyrus, Marilyn Dickerhoff, Sylvia Domoto, Marilyn Donovan, Teleia Geddes and Carolyn Gerrans, Juanita Hagberg, Liz Hamlin, Earl Heitmann, Elaine Iodice, Norman Kearsley, LouAnn Kundson, Melody Knoke, Mary Lewis, Helen Lueken, Jan Magill, Elois McBride, Libby Michailoff and John Miller, Anela Nelson, Lovella Olberding, Bob Paczkowski, Beverly Paulson, Joan Pennewell, Hallie Price, Anne Rohweder, Chuck Ruscha, Sue Uhrich, Barbara Vibbet and Marilyn Werner.

The real deal: Art Boutique in the Everett Public Market host an exhibit of oil paintings by Everett artist Dennis Forsyth through Sept. 28. Forsyth paints in a style known as classical realism that first gained popularity in the mid-19th century with artists such as Courbet, Daumier and Millet.

“Charming Genre” is a show of Forsyth’s paintings, mostly portraits, that showcase his highly refined and precise technique in portraits of real people, mostly of women, and “fantasy” paintings with subjects such as angels.

Forsyth is firmly on the side of realism when it comes to art and he recently won a first place award in an art competition sponsored by American Artist magazine, which is devoted to representational and figurative artists.

“My friends say I was born 100 years too late,” said Forsyth, a Denver native who retired from the Boeing Co. after a 38-year career as a scientific systems engineer analyst.

That was his “left brain” career, the artist said, while painting represents the right brain or creative side of his life.

Forsyth, who says he’s been drawing all of his life, paints four to six hours every day. Mostly he does commission work; this is his first show in 35 years, he said.

Art Boutique is located in the Everett Public Market, 2804 Grand Ave., Everett, and is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 425-501-2448.

Studio tour: The Lummi Island Artists’ Studio Tour will feature 26 artists and craftspeople at 16 locations open for public tours this weekend.

Artists will be showing paintings, pottery, jewelry, note cards, fiber art, stonework, garden and herbal products, furniture, sculpture, glass and more. Tour locations will be marked by balloons.

The tour is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. To get there, take I-5 exit 260 north of Bellingham and go west on Slater Road to Haxton Way. The ferry leaves at 10 past every hour ($3 per car, $1 per person). Information, www.lummi-island.com, 360-758-7121, 360-758-7499.

“Seaside Tulips” by Diane Hill.

“Shades of Summer” by June Thomle.

Portraits in the classical realism style by Dennis Forsyth.

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