Arts & Culture Magazine - March/April 2008 - (Page 64) Teller & Baughman Sherren Baughman and Douglas H. Teller and the Teller & Baughman Art Studio When watercolor painter Sherren Baughman (Baugh is pronounced like ‘cough’) first saw Douglas H. Teller’s watercolor paintings, she felt they were the best she had ever seen, so she tracked him down. They became friends and formed the Teller & Baughman Art Studio and teaching facility, in which students are in the class all day, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “We don’t teach classes like they do in other places,” Douglas says. “It really is a tutorial. Everyone works individually.” Of Douglas Teller, Sherren says, “He is so good at critiquing other people’s work. He lets people paint in their style and he develops their style.” Before retiring to Florida 14 years ago, Douglas was a full professor in George Washington University’s fine arts department, where he taught design, composition, printmaking and watercolor painting. Florida was a new landscape for him—which is not insignificant, because landscape is his favorite subject to paint. “I enjoy it immensely. I love old Florida and the old marinas, the derelict boats and sheds and all that kind of stuff,” he says. The opening of the Art Studio about a year ago has given Douglas the freedom to do larger paintings, because it is four times as spacious as his former studio. Sherren calls herself a realist painter, of calm scenes with dark colors and shadows, many based on photos she’s taken while traveling. After a retail buying career, she returned to her teenage love of art in the late 1980s, taking classes, traveling the world, and becoming president of the Boca Grande Art Alliance for many years. She is currently president of the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society and serves on the board of the Boca Grande Art Alliance. She likes to point out the benefits of creating art, especially for older people: “If you exercise your body, you develop the muscles, but you also need to develop the mind, and you have to find what works for you; and I think art works for a lot of people.” Creating art, she says, is as challenging as doing puzzles or learning a language. Plus, she adds, it supplies people with a social interaction that they may not have had. “I don’t think there are any bad dancers or bad artists. Eventually it gets better if you get some critiques and direction. That’s what I did and I’m so enthused about other artists.” tellerbaughman@aol.com ONLINE ART 64 : : arts and culture magazine www.artsandculturemag.com http://www.artsandculturemag.com
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