Chelita Freeman chosen as May Artist of the Month

From City of Newnan Press Release

The Newnan-Coweta Art Association (NCAA) has selected Chelita Freeman as its featured “Artist of the Month” for May.  Freeman’s art will be featured in the entry way of Newnan City Hall (25LaGrange Street) throughout the month.

Born in West Virginia and raised in Birmingham, Ala., Freeman moved to Georgia in 1964. She married Walter C. Freeman Jr. and had three children. Chelita started oil painting in the late 1960s. She is a certified teacher of Tole & Decorative Painting, and Wet on Wet Landscape Techniques. She loves teaching and currently offers classes at her home studio in Franklin and at the Harriet Alexander Art Center in Newnan.

Chelita teaches Tole & Decorative Painting using oils. In her classes, she instructs how to paint flowers, fruits, and vegetables; Background Techniques such as stain, seal, pickling; Graduated Backgrounds from dark to light; Leaves in full detail; Basic Brush Strokes with both the round and flat brush; Double-Loading techniques and Dry Brush Blending; and Proper Paint Consistency.

In her Wet on Wet Landscape Techniques classes, she instructs students how to use painting in oils on canvas (also known as quick landscaping in oils) to see things much differently. Colors will look bright and more vivid than before. Students learn how to paint mountains, trees, water, skies, meadows, rocks, logs, barns, fences, oceans, waves, sunsets, and sunrises.

Freeman is a member of NCAA. NCAA’s general meetings are held the third Monday of each month (from August -through May) at the Harriet Alexander Art Center on Hospital Road at 7 p.m. An art demonstration is presented each month. Visitors and new members are always welcome.