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The next meeting will be located in the tiny town of Ridgefield, Washington at

This location hosted the first meeting

of the Northwest Oil Painters Guild in 2002. Twelve oil painters were invited to

the meeting and ten showed up for an informal gathering. The first “official”

meeting was held in the same location on August 26, 2002. The (N)OPG started

functioning with the same ten members who attended the prior month.

The “Challenge” meeting will start promptly at 6:00 PM with the General

Meeting starting at 7 PM.

We are going to review and critique the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge photograph. 

It is actually a somewhat difficult challenge for most of us.  I have spent less

time on much larger paintings than I have this one, and I am still not happy with

it, completely.  It really tests an artists ability to take a scene that may be

somewhat unappealing and turn it into a decent painting.  That, of course, is the

purpose of our challenge program, to become better artists through adversity. 

People who choose to paint something else are missing the point.

Members are encouraged to bring your current paintings in progress or complete

for our “Show and Tell” segment which may be extended at this meeting.