December 2012 update Newsletter: Messages I’ve Missed

Opportunities to Exhibit:

Northwest Watercolor Society invites artists to enter the 73rd Annual International Open Exhibition: April 15 – May 31, 2013. Anticipating $10,000 in awards. Online entries accepted beginning November 1, 2012 at www.NWWS.org.

The most notable juried exhibition sponsored by the NWWS is the Annual National Open Exhibition. Painters in water media including watercolor, acrylic, gouache, and egg tempera are eligible to enter. The exhibition has grown tremendously in size and reputation since it’s inception in 1940, with annual awards totaling more than $10,000. It attracts talented painters from across the United States and Canada. The full color catalog produced to accompany the exhibit showcases the entire range of water-based media being created by contemporary artists each year.

ENTRY DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 4, 2013, 11:59 PM P.S.T.

Juror: Nationally recognized artist, Mark Mehaffey. is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society-Dolphin Fellow, the National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America –master status, Watercolor West, Watercolor USA Honor Society and the Rocky Mountain Water Media Society, among others. Mehaffey has won major awards in juried exhibitions across the country including the Beverly Green Memorial Purchase Award from the National Watercolor Society.

For more information and the prospectus visit the NWWS website at www.NWWS.org.

Member News:

Linda Lord will be offering a six week botanical only class at the Art League.  A mini – portfolio will be created to include 12 paintings of fruit, vegetables, flowers, leaves and root systems. Participants are encouraged to use only arches 140 or 300 lb paper. Levels: All  Offered: 6 Thurs. beginning Jan. 10  Time:1:00- 4:00pm Fee:$145 / $125

Nancy Riedell’s Tulips in New York City won the monthly round for October in the Daniel Smith 11th Annual Art Contest. There were over 500 entries, Nancy’s painting has been entered into the Annual Contest where there will be a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winner. Prizes include a trip to the Daniel Smith store in Seattle WA, a $6,000 tabouret (work space), and $1,000 in cash. All of the winners who have moved into the Annual Contest will receive a $100 gift certificate.The winners will be determined in April 2013.

from Ed Penniman:

I want to share with you that my sister who owns Lenz Arts is putting Winsor Newton on sale today at 50% off. She emailed me “Oh…AND LENZ the amazing art store has 1/2 pans, extra large studio pans, small 5ml tubes, our reg . Large14 ml tubes and 37 ml tubes ALL at 50% off.

I know you are already sold! Need Holbein wc? 50% off too!”

I thought I would share this with the SC Watercolor Society. She also mentioned that now is a good time to buy quality sable brushes they are on deep discount as well.

Ed

Exhibits Around Town:

UCSC:

Natural Discourse: Artists, architects, scientists and poets in the Garden.

An exhibition at the UC Botanical Garden

–January 20, 2013

This is a collaborative project between the UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley and a multi-disciplinary group of artists, writers, architects and researchers who have been invited to spend time in the Garden’s extraordinary collection of plants, engage with the horticulturalists and develop site-specific work.

This exhibition brings together photographers, jazz musicians, and discourse surrounding Hurricane Katrina and life in New Orleans and Cuba.

Bay Area/San Francisco shows you might not want to miss:

Asian Art Museum:

Batik: Spectacular Textiles of Java

November 2, 2012–May 5, 2013 The tools are simple. The technique is complicated. The results are extraordinary. Batik is a famous artistic tradition of the Indonesian island of Java, where the process of creating patterned cloth with hot wax has reached the highest level of complexity. In this exhibition you will see some of the finest batik textiles, whose remarkable diversity draws inspiration from a wide range of cultures and religions.

Legion of Honor:

Artful Animals

November 17, 2012 – April 28, 2013

Since the dawn of time, human beings have been fascinated with the animal world. Depictions of animals are some of the earliest known artistic efforts, dating back to the Paleolithic Era. And this interest has never abated. From sustenance to companionship, animals play a variety of roles in our lives and inspire a range of emotions—fear, love, awe—as well as a host of symbolic associations.

This exhibition draws from the vast resources of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts to produce a compelling portrait of the animal world, represented in a wide array of cultures, artistic styles, and media, from about AD 1500 to the present. Some of the artists included in this exhibition have drawn their subjects from life, depicting the roles they play in our everyday experience, while others have used animals with symbolic intent or have anthropomorphized them to humorous, playful, or even unsettling ends.

This first part of a two-part exhibition focuses on creatures both domestic—like dogs, horses, and rabbits and exotic (elephants, monkeys, and camels). Part two will examine fish, fowl, insects, cats, and rodents. Fun juxtapositions draw attention to both commonalities and contrasts among the broad assortment of creatures. Seen together, these works reveal the breathtaking variety not only in the animal kingdom, but also in humanity’s artistic interpretations of it. 

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