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    • Painting With Gouache
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    • Richard Placek
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2021 Art Festival One of Our Most Successful Ever!!

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     The 2021 Rainbow Springs Art Festival on March 20 produced daylong sales and plenty of exposure for the nearly 40 artists who exhibited outside the Rainbow Springs Art Gallery, not to mention the 35 members with work on display inside, as well as the art students from Dunnellon High School, who showed 75 pieces.
     "It was one of our best and most attended events," said Bridget Hanley, president of Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon and festival director. "All of our artists had fabulous sales," she said.
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Above Left, visitors check out the scene outside the gallery. Above Right, visitors appreciate the work inside the gallery.
    
Below, Left, Dunnellon High School art teacher Katherine Bobeck (left), with her student Valerie Barrazza discussed students' work with visitors. Below, Center, Dunnellon High School art students Valerie Barrazza (left) and Jayla Schwirtz helped visitors understand the projects that art students exhibited. Below, Right, visitors check out Dunnellon High School students' work.

                                                                                                              All photos, except bottom right, by Michael Bouldin. Bottom right by Margo Wilson
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Member Bonnie Eads Rides Into Winner's Circle

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     Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon member Bonnie Eads’ fiberglass steed, “Critters,” has gone to rest up for a couple months until June 5, when he's raffled for charity.
     He just wrapped up a month exhibition at the Circle Square Cultural Center’s lobby at On Top of the World.

     Eads is one of 15 artists who was accepted by Marion Cultural Alliance to paint a horse for one of the Alliance’s major fundraisers, Horse Fever 20/20.
     Eads learned on Dec. 15 that her proposal for a painted horse was selected by a jury of regional art professionals. Then she furiously dove into painting her pony, who had to be finished by Feb. 1.
     Her white-based horse is covered with the fauna and flora of the Sunshine State.
     “I was trying to honor the animals of Florida,” Eads said. “I think I used every reference photo I had ever taken.”
     There’s an alligator and apple snake, a black bear and cubs. There’s a Florida mouse, a fox, a ghost crab, and a gopher tortoise. Don’t forget the raccoon, the Southern leopard frog, and the Florida panther.
     There are other animals and 50-plus plants, birds, and butterflies.
     Once Bonnie finished her horse, she varnished it. It then was picked up by a company with a 16-horse tractor trailer and taken to Liles Collision in Ocala, where it and the other finalists received clear-coat spray finishes, similar to those of cars.
     Other horses in the herd have sponsors.
     Eads, who also had a successful entry in MCA’s last horse fundraising effort in 2011, said she has a “melancholy kind of feeling” upon completing Critters. But she recommended other artists compete the next time MCA has a herd to paint.
     “It’s great fun and satisfying,” she said.



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Critters' eye is a loggerhead sea turtle hatchling.
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Critters' hoof has a gopher on it.
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Critters, at right, is joined by, from left, Sunny Daze and Home, Sweet Home at the Marion Cultural Alliance, where they were on display during February.
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  • What's New?
  • Home
  • Join an April Class!
    • Pencil Drawing, April 13
    • Pencil Drawing, April 20
    • Pencil Drawing, April 27
    • The Basics of Calligraphy
    • Plein Air by the Lake (Off Campus)
    • Flow Art Class
    • Painting With Gouache
    • Basket Weaving, April 28 -- A Basket of Many Uses
  • Join a May Class
    • Beyond the Basics of Watercolor -- Advanced Beginner and Intermediate
    • Pencil Drawing Class, May 6, 2021
    • Pencil Drawing Class, May 13, 2021
    • Pecil Drawing Class, May 20, 2021
    • Pencil Drawing Class, May 27, 2021
    • Painting a Landscape With Gouache
    • Flow Art Class
    • Basket Weaving -- A Patriotic Basket
    • The Basics of Calligraphy
    • Watercolor and Found-Collage
  • Become a Member
  • Art Scholarship
  • Meet Our Board
  • Artists A-J
    • Michael Bouldin
    • Joseph Caban
    • Sandra Copenhaver
    • Susan Jane Donohoe
    • Bonnie Eads
    • Ronee Giannetta
    • Bridget Hanley
    • Barrie Harding
    • Susan Davis Jones
    • Donna Josephson
  • Artists K-P
    • Tom Kinney
    • Meredith McCartan
    • Margaret (Peg) Midgley
    • Gayle Miller
    • Lois Moore
    • Bob Nerney
    • Marie Nerney
    • Jan Obrebski
    • Kay Placek
    • Richard Placek
    • Marily-Anne Pletcher
    • Sue Primeau
  • Artists Q-Z
    • Linda Reitz
    • John Romaine
    • Sally Saxton
    • Nan Toma
    • Leslie White
    • Margo Wilson
  • Store
    • Basketry
    • Calligraphy
    • Ceramics, Glass Art, Pottery, Stained Glass
    • Drawings: Pen and Ink, Pencil, Colored Pencil
    • Fabric Art, Quilts, Scarves, Wearable Art
    • Jewelry: Gemstones, Glass, Leather, Silver
    • Painting: Watercolor, Acrylic, Oil
    • Photography
    • Wood, Copper Art, Sculpture
    • Writing