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hours a day painting. I also do
a lot of looking [for ideas to
finish a piece].
“Harriet’s been doing this
for a long time, and she’s total-
ly suited to encouraging peo-
ple. She’ll be instructive if you
want that. She provides an art
venue where people can expe-
rience their artistic selves.
”
Anne Olender, a Royal Oak
resident active with Temple
Emanu-El in Oak Park, start-
ed with the class in 2016 and
attends once a week.
“This is a lovely place to
start painting,
” she said. “You
can get as much or as little
instruction as you want, and
it’s a lovely group of people.
The artwork that’s produced is
wildly different, and you can
learn by looking at what other
people are doing.
”
Olender paints realistic
images — gardens, children,
dogs. She will go on trips,
take pictures and reproduce
what is shown in the pictures.
Although she has been draw-
ing, the painting started with
this class.
Olender and friends go to
Charach exhibits, but this will
be the first time her work is
appearing.
“It feels great to be one
of the people displaying,
”
Olender said. “I looked for
paintings I had that were done
and took them over to the
gallery. I’m looking forward to
seeing them on the wall.
”
Beth Dzodin-Fuchs, a resi-
dent of Lathrup Village and a
member of the Congregation
for Humanistic Judaism of
Metro Detroit in Farmington
Hills, submitted 15 paintings
to be shown for her first
exhibit. She works with acrylic
paints, and some of her work
is political, such as three paint-
ings involving the Statue of
Liberty.
A retired theater teacher, she
began attending classes regu-
larly more than a year ago.
“Painting brings so much
enjoyment and creativity,
”
Dzodin-Fuchs said. “I love
color. When I’m looking at the
canvas and seeing bright colors
and the emerging of an image
and/or a feeling or an idea, I
become enamored of what I’m
looking at. It’s exciting when
I’m looking at something and
say to myself, ‘Did I do that?
Did that come out of me?'”
Artwork by
James Britt
“USING PAINT TO BRING
THINGS TO LIFE ON CANVAS
IS A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE.”
— JAMES BRITT
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