Our demonstrator for March was Jack Haran. Jack painted a watercolor street scene.
The meeting was held in the Guild Hall, First Congregational Church (middle side door), Sanborn Street, Reading, Wednesday March 12th, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
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Jack Haran will stress the composition of the piece he demonstrates in watercolor, which will probably be a landscape from a photograph. He will show a preliminary value sketch of the subject, emphasizing the large shapes making up the composition, and will then try to replicate the composition in a painting.
Jack has a diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts from Northeastern. He also studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and with Tony Van Hasselt and Judi Wagner; Zygmond Jankowski; John Kilroy; and Alvaro Castagnet. During the past 15 years Jack has exhibited in a number of solo, group, and juried shows, locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally, and has won many awards. He is affiliated with the New England Watercolor Society, the North River Arts Society, Duxbury Art Association, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, the American Watercolor Society, and Cape Cod Art Association. His works are in collections at Georgetown University in Italy as well as at the Cultural Museum in Uruguay.
Jack states that for him, "Art is a constant educational process....The discovery of the interaction of colors, the beauty of a line, the satisfaction of a fine graphic composition, the feeling of deep space on a two-dimensional surface, none of which existed a few minutes ago, is thrilling."