Rosemary zwiegbaum biography
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THIS WEEK
ART SHOW: The Beverly Hills Art Group will have its yearly art show from 9 a.m. to p.m., Saturday at the Beverly Hills Community Building, 1 Civic Circle. All media will be represented and ribbons awarded. The judge will be Rosemary Zweigbaum, who has won awards in Vermont, Connecticut, Virginia and exhibits at galleries and museum shows all over Florida. The group is having its monthly meeting at the Central Ridge Library at 1 p.m. Monday in the Community Room. The guest artist will be Yolanda Mayhall, who will demonstrate the ancient art of sumi-e painting.
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'Best of the Season' exhibit at Webber Center till Dec. 8
OCALA - Rosemary Zweigbaum calls Crystal River home. Leona Asta lives in The Villages. Zweigbaum has painted for as long as she can remember. Asta entered her first art show at Asta's name is the first on the list of artists with artwork in the new Webber Center Gallery exhibit "Best of the Season." Zweigbaum's is the last.
While all these things highlight differences, they share the same philosophy when it comes to art: let it create itself.
Asta, 68, has two pieces in the show. She uses a technique of scratching and scraping many layers of acrylic paint. "Fiebre Tropical," which means "tropical fever" in Spanish, is a painting of houses lining a street in Brazil. There are deep reds and browns and streaks of bright orange, yellow and sea foam. The houses take shape in a very unconventional way - with a ravioli cutter and credit card edges.
"I love that it's unpredictable and experimental," said Asta about the layering
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Love of color inspires artist
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From the time she was a child in Middletown, Conn., Rosemary Zweigbaum has been fascinated with painting in pastels and water colors.
"It's the vibrancy of the colors that attracts me to pastels. I love watercolors, too, but you can achieve such beautiful affects with pastels," she said.
"I love to create beautiful pictures. It is a very gratifying experience to be able to create a picture to the standard that I feel I want to achieve," Zweigbaum said.
Some of Zweigbaum's favorite subjects include pelicans and herons, which makes living near the Gulf of Mexico in Crystal River beneficial to her work. She also enjoys painting landscapes, stilllifes, trees, mountains and flowers.
Through the years, Zweigbaum, 69, has shared her love of pastels and watercolors with thousands of others, from art students to people who have purchased her work.
She has taught art programs for elementary school students for 17 years as well as ot