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- FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS Sunday, Jun* 7, IMS
Artist
weathers
rapids and
storms for
her artwork
By Sheri Toomey
Lifestyle Editor
On a five-day rafting trip in Utah,
artist Glenda Dunham packed the
essentials-a pocket-sized palette
and paints.
Fbr 30 minutes at different inter
vals throughout the trip, she paint
ed miniatures of the wilderness
around her.
Dunham has been painting for
20 years and every summer she
goes on location to paint. She
started off painting with oils and
then acrylics but finally switched
to watercolor because of its
portable properties.
Dunham paints everything from
Harleys and lace to flowers and
rainbow trout.
“If I want to learn about some
thing, I’ll paint it and paint it until I
know its properties,” said Dunham.
Fbr more than a month she painted
only lace and came to know its
flowing elegance.
Since Dunham concentrates on
certain subjects for a period of
time she generally paints a series
instead of one piece of artwork on
a subject. Art is a window of
exploration for her and she takes
every path, seen and unseen, into
it.
She has painted elk in Estes
Park, Colo., and worked through
blinding sun, rain, hail and wind
in an old Colorado mining town.
Wild turkeys could be her next
subject since she spotted one out
on the road in Big Canoe.
“I like unusual subject matter.
That’s what I look for,” said
Dunham.
. Dunham considers her subject
from every angle and continues
exploring various ways of painting
them. She works in her studio four
to five hours daily. She said she
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Artist Glenda Dunham’s work will be on display at the
Sawnee Center throughout June.
naturally works through some
problems at night and often leaps
into painting instead of going
through the same type of process
again.
“Once you know your materials,
then you can explore with it,” she
said.
In her book, “The Great
Watercolor Frameup,” Dunham
explains how the frame and mat
ting can contribute or detract from
artwork.
“You want the frame to keep your
eye inside the frame instead of
wandering,” said Dunham, who
paints most of her own frames.
Dunham has studied with nation
ally known artists Bill Condit and
Tony Couch.
“They’re very knowledgeable
teachers,” she said. “As artists, we
never know it all. Taking a work
shop is like recharging our batter
ies.”
When asked what traits make a
good artist, Dunham said patience,
endurance and the ability to experi-
ladder for the bean vine to prosper.
Together, the corn and the bean
give shade to the squash.”
When Doug looks across this
rolling country he views it as
Georgia’s little Napa Valley or
Sonoma region.
“I guess where there’s gold
there’s grapevines,” said Doug
referring to the Dahlonega and
California gold rushes and the rich
wine country in Georgia and
California.
“While California is certainly the
major winegrape production center
in this country and the most cele
brated by consumers, it is interest
ing to note that the eastern U.S.
was the birthplace of this domestic
industry,” said Doug.
The University of Georgia
Extension Service reports the farm
gate value of grapes grown in Georgia
at $3 million.
“European grapes are produced
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She has been president of the
Georgia Watercolor Society for the
past year and is a member of the
Sawnee Art Association.
Dunham has lived in the county
for eight years and is originally
from the Midlands of South
Carolina.
She has lived in the west but
came back to the south because she
missed the area’s wonderful racon
teurs.
Dunham is the artist of the month
for the Sawnee Art Association.
Her work will be displayed
throughout June at the Sawnee
Center.
“The Sawnee Art Association is
a nonprofit agency,” said Dunham
adding it’s wonderful to have this
organization in our community.
She encourages anyone who has an
interest in the arts, even if they’re
aren’t an artist, to join the association
and support the arts.
For more information, call (770)
889-4977.
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for growing muscadines, a tradi
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jams, sauces and wine. Georgia is
the largest producer of the musca
dine grape with about 1,100
acres.”
Sharon said, “Three Sisters
Vineyards is an important passion
for our family. North Georgia is a
beautiful place to live and work.
We believe that local residents and
visitors to our region will enjoy the
atmosphere and layout of the farm.
Vineyards are like beautiful parks
that people seem to really enjoy
experiencing.”
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I recently had the opportunity to
participate in a long-forgotten ritu
al called a vacation.
It’s been a long time since I’ve
packed my bags, hopped in the car
and went someplace simply for the
sake of going.
My destination was Memphis -
birthplace of the Blues, resting
place of the King.
I knew very little about the city
before making the eight-hour drive
through such wonders as northern
Alabama.
I knew even less about the city 20
minutes south of Memphis.
There’s not a lot to the town of
Tunica, Miss. It’s basically flat;
basically boring.
Except for these giant palaces of
lights, sounds and gaudiness
known as casinos.
Several years ago, the Mississippi
powers-that-be decided to change
the law and build these money
making machines all around the
state.
Now, I’ve seen James Bond win
ning his money playing Baccarat
in every movie and my parents
claim Las Vegas is the promised
land.
I had never been in a real casino
and was really not that anxious to
start putting my hard earned pen
nies on a table in front of a card
shark wearing a tuxedo.
But then it happened.
The Sheraton Hotel and Casino is
at the far end of a three casino
mini-mall.
It has slots, a poker room, $25
Black Jack tables and a sign out
front that said living legend Tom
Jones would be in concert the
week after I left.
It also had $3 craps.
Since I had gone to Memphis
with the intention of going to the
casinos, I figured $3 a roll would
be within my budget.
I also really wanted to yell and
jump up and down like everyone
Doublebill at Lanierland Music Park
Georgia native and popular
music artist Doug Stone headlines
the next concert at Lanierland
Music Park along with Ricky Van
Shelton.
Shelton was voted Top Christian
Country Artist by the TNN/Music
City News Country for the last
three years for his platinum album,
“Don’t Overlook the Salvation.”
Shelton’s new album is “making
plans,” the first he’s released in
two years.
Stone also has two platinum
albums, “Doug Stone,” and “I
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else was doing and thought it was
pretty silly to be walking around a
casino without playing any games.
So I bought S2O worth of chips
(I’m not exactly a high roller) and
placed three white, $1 chips on the
table. Some gambling “experts”
say trading dollars for chips is the
first step in separating you from
your money. They’re probably
right.
I’ve never shot craps before and
wasn’t too familiar with the roles.
Didn’t have a clue would be more
correct.
Next thing I knew, my three
white chips were gone, three more
were on the table and I had the
dice in hand.
“Just throw them,” instructed my
father. He had figured out that try
ing to explain COME bets and 100
times odds to me was a waste of
time, so he kept it simple.
I rolled. I rolled again. After the
third roll, the gentlemen with big
ger bank rolls than mine came to
the conclusion I was a craps genius
and starting throwing large sums of
money onto the table.
That concerned me because I
didn’t want to make a mistake and
force these men to purchase more
chips. Unfortunately, I didn’t know
what a mistake was so I kept
rolling.
I made five or six more rolls,
watched the bank-roll gentlemen
cheer, watched the dealer put
chips in front of me, and ran for
my life.
I spent a week in the casinos and
never did learn the roles of craps.
What I did learn is that casinos,
despite their checkered past and
poor reputation within the holier
than-though community, are a
great place to forget about life for a
while and have fun.
Not once did deadlines or
spelling or arrests cross my mind
and the only “news” I saw the
entire time was box scores for the
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pop music artist, Doug Stone.
Left photo: Country music artist
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I also learned that casinos are an
inexpensive way to take a vacation.
If you are willing to put your
money on the table, the casino is
willing to keep you there. That
means free drinks, food, shows<
hotel rooms and
especially for the high-rollers.
My limited funds entitled me to a
couple of beverages and a friendly
smile on the way out.
A word of warning. Cheap buf
fets also draw in the Blue Hairs.
Every casino is stocked with an
$8 all-you-can-put-in-your-mouth
buffet.
Blue Hairs is the technical term
for people from Michigan between
80 and 163 years old who travel in
herds by bus and threaten to beat
you up if you sit at their nickel slot
machine.
The Blue Hairs feel the same
away about buffets as they do
about their nickel slots. I learned to
stay out of their way.
After three days of learning, I had
mastered the casinos, got over my
initial misgivings and had a great
time.
Sure, there was the time I
dropped $lO in five minutes of
work at the Black Jack tables and
the evil slot machine in the Gold
Strike Casino that stole my roll of
quarters and failed to give me the
BMW it was guarding.
But with free drinks, free food,
lights, sounds and Elvis just 20
minutes up the road, who cared.
Isn’t that what vacation is all
about?
Thought It Was You.”
A self-proclaimed Frank Zappa
fan, Stone has been working on
some songs that have a faster
tempo than the ballads he is better
known for like, “Too Busy Being
In Love” and “Why Didn’t I Think
of That.”
“I’m not the straight and narrow
country way-I’m a little bent,” said
Stone.
Shelton and Stone will perform
Saturday, June 13, at 7 p.m. at
Lanierland. Tickets range from
$22-25, not including credit card
orders by phone.
For a look at Lanierland’s con
cert season line-up, write:
Lanierland Music Park, 6115 Jot-
Em Down Road, Cumming, Ga.,
30041 or call (770) 887-7464.