Weekly critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway, Santa Cruz.
*The first Tuesday and third Tuesday will be an open paint day and/or presentation day. These have proved to be enjoyable. Bring your supplies and join us.
* Nancy Howe will be providing a still life for Tuesday’s Crit group for the 1st of September. Please join us at the Art league at 1 PM.
a reminder: Please send your SCWS annual $35 dues to Dale Johnson. Also, if you have a gallery page on this website, please remember to also send a $10 fee to take care of the annual hosting fee with Iversen Design. Also reminder: you must be a member to have a page on the website.
Plein Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time- Shirley’s phone number appears on the membership calendar on this site.)
If you would like to receive the membership newsletter for contact information on Plein Aire and other membership events, please refer to ‘contact page’ and become a member. ($35 yearly)
Welcome new SCWS members: Ted Green and Jeffery Yasenchok
An invitation from Elizabeth Schilling to Santa Cruz Plein Air watercolorists:
Hello, Our organization is hosting a First Friday at the SC Mission to feature Plein Air artists in action Aug. 7 from 5-8. People are invited to capture scenes in the sunset hours, exhibit and sell. We will have a light dinner buffet as a treat for those that RSVP to me. Elizabeth Schilling, Events Coordinator-Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks-831-239-6012-144 School Street,Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Membership News:
The Watercolor Society annual show (November: the Blitzer Gallery http://rblitzergallery.com) will be limited to membership only. The approach is an historical perspective and showcase of membership
The reception for the show will be the First Friday of November. Instead of contributing finger food, please volunteer to contribute to the allotment for refreshments that will be handled by the Blitzer Gallery.
The Blitzer Gallery will hold 20% of sales. Pieces that are not for sale are acceptable and will be included in the exhibit.
Ignacio Alvalos, Dale Johnson, Nancy Howe, Aimée Nelson and Linda Lord will handle the hanging preview for the show:
Lee Taiz will be organizing radio interviews, so please contact Lee if you have any contributions.
If you have any ideas for Critique surrounding development of the show (demos for presentation) please contact Aimée.
*Please commit to entries by Sept 30.
$35 single painting entries with $25 second and third entries or a $100 ten foot space to show a body of work. (The number of paintings will be determined by the width size (see below.)
All pieces need to be framed and ready to hang. *(Please use white matting)
If your framing varies from this, please consult with Linda or Aimée.
* We want this show to reflect our organization and do not want to eliminate any member due to cost of hanging. We want your work represented in this show. If you
anticipate any difficulty in covering hanging fees, please notify Aimée, Linda or Dale.
If cost of framing is also an issue, please ask for assistance through the Crit Group, we can likely come up with a solution.
For the ten foot spaces:
There should be a minimum of four inches between paintings. Large or full sheet paintings (30”x40”) you probably want to hang singly, but if they relate well to one another, stacking of two is possible. Smaller pieces may be stacked in other multiples particularly if they relate to one another. For instance, I have three 13”x13” pieces that I would stack in threes. Or I have a 17”x21” and a 14”x14” painting that relate well and I would stack them in two. Keep in mind that the walls are mostly ten feet high, some are eight, but we do not want the show to look crowded. We are not anticipating needing to use exact measurements, so if your layout goes over or under the estimated 10 ft. space, please do not stress over it.
- Stacking more than three is not advisable unless they are small and are a series. (We want this to look like a professional show.)
- What we need from you is an estimate of your entries: i.e. Please measure width x length.
- As we get closer to the show, you may want to switch out an intended painting. That will be fine as long as it is switched for one that is near in width.
For instance:
I want to hang seven paintings: 2 (20”x28”) stacked, 3 (13”x13””) stacked, 1 (24”x30”) and 1 (40”x30”) or (113” in width space)
or: I want to hang three full sized paintings two 40”x30” and one 30”x40” (122” in width space)
We anticipate hanging the show to the best advantage of both your paintings and the show as a whole. We think the positioning will be best served if the ten foot spaces are not isolated in regards to artist. Part of your ten foot space may appear as you enter, another part in a different section of the gallery.
Here are common dimensions for framed paintings:
*Typical Dimensions listed, may vary with manufacturer |
Or: Standard frame sizes: 8×10,9×12 ,11×14,12×16, 14×18 ’16×20 ,18×24 ,20×24 ,22×28 ,24×30 ,24×36 ,30×40
Here is a sample hanging. If I add the spaces width wise, I am using only 105 inches rather than the 120 available (the actual width size of the paintings + four inch spaces in between each):
Members exhibits:
Linda Curtis has two watercolors in Seasons of Filoli from 9/01 – 10/25. She will also be showing in Open Studios hosted by Sharon Medler.
Coastal Art Alliance: ongoing at The Hindquarter ( Linda Lord, Anne Harding, Lee Taiz, Sammy Fantham, Judy Feinman, Jere Ann Hall, Marilee Gregory, Nancy Howe)
Exhibit Opportunities:
Central Coast Watercolor Society: Aquarius 2016 water media exhibit- Feb 5- March 27 at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. The prosectus is available on the Central Coast website:www.CCWSart.com. juror, Chris Van Winkle. The submission deadline is November15.
Santa Cruz Art League: Beasts on Broadway
Juror: Melissa R. Pickford, Art Gallery Director,Monterey Peninsula College-The Juror will grant $1,000 in Awards
October 24 – November 15, 2015- Juror “Meet & Greet” Sunday,November 1 @ 2pm
Reception: Sunday, November 1, 3-5pm
Deadline for entries-Monday, August 31,2015 (11:59pm)
Digital Entries: An entry is one individual artwork. Each artist may submit up to 5 digital/jpeg entries.
Enter your images online at: www.OnlineJuriedShows.com
*Santa Cruz Watercolor Society at the Blitzer Gallery, November 2015, Membership, please reserve your space by Sept 30, 2015. If you have not received a copy of the entry form, please contact Aimée: waveland@cruzio.com
American Paper Works 2016 Minot State University, Minot ND. For information email: nac@minotstateu.edu or web: www.minotstateuedu/nac (entry form: Americas 2016.)
Classes:
Watercolor classes with Bonni Carver bonnicarver@aol.com-$20 drop-ins $140 for 8 classes-Beginning 8/18/15 Tuesday mornings 9-noon Corralitos Art Center 127 Hames Road and 8/20/15 Thursday mornings 9-noon La Selva Beach Clubhouse,314 Estrella Avenue, LSB e-mail bonnicarver@aol.com 831 763 3603
At the Santa Cruz Art League:
Watercolor – Linda Lord – Thursday This class is full.
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Botanical Art in Watercolor- Intermediate –Maria Cecilia Freeman
This workshop is designed for those who have some acquaintance with botanical art or watercolor painting. Some drawing experience is a plus. We’ll take a practical, traditional approach to drawing and painting a botanical subject – from study to finished work, emphasizing both accuracy and artistic technique. We’ll review a process of observation, drawing, composing, color mixing, and techniques of watercolor brushwork particular to botanical art. You may bring a botanical subject of your choice (live plant material, not a photograph); or you may paint seasonal plant specimens that will be provided, chosen to offer some interesting challenges and beautiful possibilities. You’ll get individual attention as you draw and paint. Level: Intermediate, Offered: October 24 & 25, 2015, 9:00-3:30. Bring a bag lunch. Fee: $160 /$140 Members. Instructor: Maria Cecilia Freeman is a professional artist with 20 years of experience bridging scientific illustration and botanical fine art. Her award-winning drawings and paintings have appeared in solo and juried exhibitions across the U.S. and in Europe.
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Watercolor, Techiques & Fun Jo-Neal Boic
Learn the basics with a seasoned teacher of 40 years. We will review color theory and how it applies to watercolor. You will practice the techniques of wet into wet, washes, glazing, creating hard and soft edges. You will learn the most important tools for watercolor and you will see for yourself that most errors are repairable. At the end you will have 3 or 4 small finished projects to mat and frame. Bring a lunch. Offered: Nov. 14 & 15, Time: 9:00 – 3:30, Fee: $160 / $140 Members. Level: Beginner. Instructor: Jo-Neal Boic:
Exhibits you might not want to miss (Santa Cruz):
Blitzer Gallery Santa Cruz (old Wrigley Building):
Howard Kaneg and Gary Hughes First Friday Reception
August 7, 5-9. Show runs through August 29Cruz artists show their work together.
July 3 – August 29, 2015. This excellent exhibit has been extended
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Exhibits in the Bay Area:
* I spent the day looking at Turners paintings in SF at the DeYoung. It is a great show, every watercolorist should see it, amazing. Give it enough time to get into what he was doing, with each hour of viewing his works gets better and better. Ed Penniman.
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The first West Coast survey of the art of Pierre Bonnard in half a century will open at the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco in early February 2016. “Pierre Bonnard: Painting Arcadia” opens this week at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and will travel to Madrid before coming to San Francisco, its sole American venue.
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Asian Art Museum: 200 Larkin St. San Francisco, 94102 415.581.3500-‘Exquisite Nature’ 20 masterpieces of Chinese painting from 14th-18th centuries through Nov. 1
Woven Luxuries (Indian, Persian and Turkish textiles) through Nov. 1
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Portraits and Other Likenesses from SFMOMA May 08 – September 27, 2015
On view at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Featuring approximately 45 artworks, Portraits and Other Likenesses will demonstrate how artists from the early 20th century to our own time have negotiated a vast array of European, African, and American visual-cultural forms to redefine what it means to make a portrait. On view in the newly renovated galleries at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), Portraits and Other Likenesses will feature paintings, sculptures, photographs, and videos from SFMOMA, many of them recently acquired and on view for the first time as part of the collection. The exhibition situates key historical artworks by Romare Bearden, Sargent Johnson, Seydou Keita, and Wifredo Lam in dialogue with recent works by living artists including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Dawoud Bey, Nick Cave, Mildred Howard, Glenn Ligon, Rodrigo Moya, Chris Ofili, Paula Santiago, Yinka Shonibare, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, Fred Wilson, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, among others. Portraits and Other Likenesses is curated by Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins, guest curator for MoAD and Caitlin Haskell, assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA.
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Monterey Museum of Art–Pacific Street 559 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA 93940 831.372.5477 http://www.montereyart.org
Lasting Impressions
Image: Pedro Joseph de Lemos (1882–1954), Old Pines at Monterey, 1918, woodblock print on paper, collection of the Monterey Museum of Art, gift of Paula and Terry Trotter, Trotter Galleries
April 30 – September 28, 2015 MMA La Mirada
The Monterey Museum of Art presents Lasting Impressions—Pedro de Lemos, the first exhibition that celebrates one of the region’s most important artists who championed diverse styles, methods, and materials during the American Arts and Crafts Movement in California. A renaissance man and ambitious designer at heart, Pedro Joseph de Lemos (1882-1954) was a preeminent printmaker who also excelled at painting, drawing, metal, leather, and cement work. Winning awards for his innovations in printmaking, his proficiency extended from wood engravings and color block prints to lithography and intaglio methods such as drypoint, mezzotints, soft ground etchings and aquatints—the last of which garnered an honorable mention in the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Organized by the Monterey Museum of Art with guest curators Robert W. Edwards, Ph.D., and Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Ph.D. This exhibition includes prints, oil paintings, watercolor, drawings, calligraphy, leather work, pottery, cement work, and ephemera with an interactive educational space. The Museum is proud to provide a forum for such an accomplished artist whose historic and educational legacy has bridged the past with the present.
February 12, 2015 – Ongoing Image: S.C Yuan, The Sea, n.d., oil on board, 22 x 31.75 inches. Gift of Barbara and William Hyland, 1991.277.
Art should have something to say to the viewer, and only then is it honest art, which has permanent value. –S.C. Yuan
Si Chen Yuan (1911-1974) was one of the most celebrated post-war abstract painters in Monterey. He produced a variety of subjects from still lifes and landscapes, to figurative work. Yuan’s style combined post-Impressionist sensibilities with abstract techniques that employed swift brushstrokes, bold lines, and expressive patches of color. Born in Hangzhou, China (formerly Hangchow) near Shanghai, Yuan studied with Chinese artist Xu Beihong, a prestigious modernist who trained him in the French academic style of painting. Travelling to Europe and Mexico, Yuan came to Monterey in the 1950s and pursued painting for twenty-five years. Balancing Chinese aesthetic traditions with European and American ones, Yuan was attracted to Monterey for its natural beauty and rich artistic legacy. He admired artists Armin Hansen and William Ritschel, and their influences can be seen in his work. His oil paintings and watercolors garnered awards and exhibitions in San Francisco, Boston, and New York; and his artistic contributions continue to be recognized.
Iconic Masterpieces of Early California PaintingImage: Francis McComas (1875-1938), Cypress, Monterey, undated, oil on canvas, gift of Jane and Justin Dart, 2009.39
Ongoing MMA La Mirada, Drawing Room Gallery and Foyer Gallery
A new installation of iconic masterpieces from the Museum’s collection is on view at the Monterey Museum of Art—La Mirada featuring paintings by Armin Hansen (1886-1967), William F. Ritschel (1864-1949), E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), Francis McComas (1875-1938), and M. Evelyn McCormick (1962-1948). Visit the galleries to discover old friends in a new light.
A complementary selection of early California landscapes by noted Monterey artists working in the early 20th century is also on view in the 2nd floor galleries at the Monterey Museum of Art—Pacific Street.
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