Weekly Critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway. 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. 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 Air: 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 Air and other membership events, please refer to ‘contact page’ and become a member. ($35 yearly)
Happy 2017 The annual Santa Cruz Watercolor Society potluck, lunch, social , business meeting for 2017 will take place at 229 Fridley, Santa Cruz 11:30 AM on Tuesday, February 28 (Mardi Gras). This will replace that Tuesday’s Critique Group.
Membership News:
Linda Curtis had a Giclee chosen for the lobby of the new Kaiser in Scotts Valley. Kaiser Permanente Scotts Valley Medical Offices 5615 Scotts Valley Dr.
From Nancy Reidell (now living in Oregon): Happy 2017
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday. I hope the new year finds you well. I am excited for the new year as I am already booking art events. The first art event will be at a local Starbucks in February. I will be sending out notices once I have pinned down the dates.
I am applying to other art events in Portland for 2017.
I am also looking into artist-in-residences programs for 2017. They sound intriguing and it would be a great way to travel and spend some time with fellow artists. I will send out an announcement if I am accepted into one.
3rd Painting in New Collection
The painting, Lilies, is the 3rd painting in the Family Floral Bouquets collection. “Lilies” is a depiction of a floral arrangement that was given to me recently by my son for my birthday. It was a pleasant surprise to come home and find the box from flowers.com. The arrangement took a couple of days to open up but when it did, it was stunning!
Lilies is available for sale on my website, Artfinder, and Saatchi Art Online.
Facebook
I am making many changes to my Facebook page. I will be offering artwork for sale directly from there also. Please follow me on Facebook to stay current with my latest art.
Book by SCWS member, Lee Taiz and her husband Lincoln Taiz: Flora Unveiled The Discovery and Denial of Sex in Plants Lincoln Taiz and Lee Taiz Provides a new theory to explain a longstanding problem in the history of botany: why did it take so long to discover sex in plants, and why was it such a contentious topic for another 150 years after the theory was proposed? Covers an extremely broad range, from the Paleolithic to the nineteenth century Represents a broad synthesis of multiple fields and disciplines, including botany, history, anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, literature, history of science, gender studies, comparative religion, and philosophy Richly illustrated and aimed at the general audience, which sets it apart from other books in this field. It’s available for pre-ordering from Amazon, but you can pre-order it directly from the Oxford Press website ( OUP Website ) and get a 30% discount. The promo code to receive the discount is ASPROMP8, which you type in at checkout.
Members Exhibits:
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Show Opportunities:
Dear Artist, A PROSPECTUS is attached, for a Juried Exhibition, which will be on view from February 10 to March 5, at The Coastal Arts League in Half Moon Bay. The CAL Gallery is located in Zaballa Square, at 300 Main Street, Suite 6, in downtown Half Moon Bay, California. This show will feature work that celebrates the American Southwest, from the California Coast, to New Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, and the frontier between the U.S. and Mexico. We are looking for artworks that celebrate the environment, the people, and the creatures who inhabit its various locales. Collectors may submit original works from noted artists of the Southwest, or artifacts of historical value. Lithographs by famed Santa Fe artist, R.C. Gorman will provide context for the diverse southwestern art made by 21st century artists. Juror, Thomas Goodson, is a silversmith, who lived in Arizona for several years, where he developed his interest in the art and culture of the region. He has lived in California since 1996, and has taken many trips to Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico in his search for turquoise, pottery, and baskets. Your application and images of your work are due by January 15. You may submit one or more images, digitally uploaded. Exhibition of historical artifacts will be accepted on a space available basis at no cost. All proceeds will support exhibitions, operations, and educational programming. Letters of acceptance will be emailed by January 22. Exhibiting artists will receive a receipt form, and more details, in the acceptance letter. Exhibitors will be asked to donate $20 for the first entry, payable at delivery. Application Details: • Submissions are open to all visual artists working in all media. Artworks may be two-dimensional or three, and of any material or fiber. Collectors may submit original works by others, as well as, historical artifacts. • Fill out and return by email the Application to Exhibit (included below) • Include digital photographs of your art. For the best image quality, it is suggested that each image be submitted as 300 dpi, JPEG files. • Entries will be accepted exclusively via e-mail to: CalJuriedShow@gmail.com • Identify your name and the titles of your works in the email. • Work must be “gallery-ready” in appearance and finish. 2-D work must be ready to hang, with picture wire. • Work is to be labeled on the back (artist, title, medium, image size, and price). Summary: • Donation: $20 for the first accepted work, and $10 for each additional. • Artwork details: Original two or three-dimensional work, or artifacts of historical value • Location: Coastal Arts League Gallery, Zaballa Square, 300 Main St. Half Moon Bay, CA, in a large ground floor gallery. • Submission: All entries must be submitted through CALJuriedShow@gmail.com Important Dates: • Submissions open: December 15, 2016 • Submissions close: January 15, 2017 at 11:59pm (PST) • Notification of Acceptance: January 22, 2017 • Artwork in-take: February 6, Noon to 5:00pm • Exhibition on view: February 10 to March 5, 2017 (4 weekends) • Reception: February 11, 2017, 2:00-4:00pm • Artwork pick-up: March 6, 2017 Contact information: • For questions about this Exhibition, please contact Jane Lewis, janelewis402@gmail.com or call 619-886-5882
Classes/Workshops:
Bonni Carver will be leading her watercolor classes beginning January 10 at the Corralitos Cultural Center, 127 Hames Road, and January 12 at the La Selva Beach Clubhouse. The times are 10 – 1pm, the fee is $160 for all eight classes or $25 drop-in. La Selva Beach residents are $20. The 8 week syllabus will be posted on her website www.carverart.com. She will be leading a watercolor workshop “FREE AND EASY”at the SCAL February 4 & 5. Contact her at bonnicarver@aol.com for more information.
Linda Curtis is teaching a weekend workshop at Art of Santa Cruz Located in: Capitola Mall Address: Capitola Mall, 1855 41st Ave, Capitola, CA 95010 Phone:(831) 515-73901/28 & 1/29 from 12:00-4:00. It’s beginning watercolor and costs $75.
Santa Cruz Art League:
Realistic Painting in Watercolor – Intermediate and up – Hanya Fojaco -Our goal will be to continue developing your watercolor painting skills and personal expression within a realistic painting context. We will be layering color to arrive at the luminous qualities of the medium. There will be some short lectures, demonstrations and practice, but you will mostly be painting and you will each have the instructor’s individual attention. This will be a safe, supportive, noncompetitive class where we will improve our artistic skills and have fun doing it! Level: Intermediate and up, Offered: January 14 & 15, 2017 ,9am – 3:30pm, Fee: $160/$140 Members, Bring lunch. Materials fee to instructor: $10.00. Instructor: Hanya Fojaco is a watercolor artist with a BFA from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago. She paints her favorite subjects, flowers and succulents with rich transparent color. She has been teaching watercolor and exhibiting for several years. Images of her work are on her web page, www.hanyafojaco.com, Contact Hanya if you have any questions. hanya@hanyafojaco.com Watercolor –
Free and Easy – Bonni Carver Come prepared to be inspired as Bonni open-handedly shares simple, easy to learn principles which appeal to beginners as well as seasoned artists looking for renewed inspiration. Beginning each class with a demonstration and instruction, Bonni leads painters into thinking “out of the box” and approaching their subject in terms of creating rather than copying. Learn how to achieve colorful darks, consider your values, simplify the subject, and edit out distractions. Bonniʼs workshops are upbeat and fun! Bring a lunch. Offered: February 4 & 5. Fee: $160 / $140 members. Instructor: Bonni Carver After receiving her undergraduate degree from the University of Buffalo, Bonni moved from her hometown of Buffalo, New York to San Francisco where she attended classes at the Academy of Art and the Art Institute. Since making the Central Coast her home, her interest in art has been nurtured by local artists and instructors. Studying watercolor in Provence, France during 1996 with Barbara Nechis proved to be the catalyst for a yearlong painting odyssey throughout Western Europe the following year. Bonni is an Open Studio artist.
The Art of Selling Art – Robert Regis Dvorák Selling art, your own or other artist’s is easy when you know how! This workshop will cover: prospecting for clients, developing rapport, planning sales meetings and phone calls, telephone techniques, emotions–how to use them, what not to say or do, closing secrets, what questions to ask, what words to use, portfolios, slides, artist’s statements, presentations, goal setting, pricing the art, art gallery selling, referrals. This is a comprehensive sales program oriented to the individual artist and art representative. Be prepared for a fun-filled day of lively lecture and in-class games. You will learn how to sell art to individual clients, collectors, and corporations. Robert Dvořák, a successful California artist, will demonstrate what works and what doesn’t work so that by the end of the workshop, you can begin selling–and prospering–immediately with confidence and self-assurance. One day: February 11th, 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Cost: $89 A comprehensive handout is included. The book, Selling Art 101 will be available. Important: Remember to bring one artwork, which is framed or mounted and available for sale. Frequently sales take place in this class. Also bring lunch and a clip board. Instructor: Robert Regis Dvorák is the author of the new book, Selling Art 101. He has been teaching The Art of Selling Art to artists, art representatives, and art gallery sales people for 25 years. His paintings and prints and films are part of many individual, corporate, and institutional collections.
Exhibits Around Town:
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Exhibits In Bay Area:
Legion of Honor https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/exhibitions/monet-early-years Monet: The Early Years February 25, 2017 – May 29, 2017 ROSEKRANS COURT, SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES 20B-F Monet: The Early Years will be the first major US exhibition devoted to the initial phase of Claude Monet’s (French, 1840–1926) career. Through approximately sixty paintings, the exhibition demonstrates the radical invention that marked the artist’s development during the formative years of 1858 to 1872. In this period the young painter developed his unique visual language and technique, creating striking works that manifested his interest in painting textures and the interplay of light upon surfaces. This exhibition is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience Monet’s mastery before Impressionism, and includes paintings that are profoundly daring and surprising. Depictions of moments both large and small, with friends and loved ones, in the solitude of forests and fields and in the quiet scenes of everyday, offer new revelations about an artist that many consider to be ubiquitous. With a selection of works gathered from some of the most important international collections – the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and other public and private collections worldwide – Monet: The Early Years authoritatively demonstrates the artist’s early command of many genres, not only the landscapes for which he has become so renowned but also still lifes, portraits and genre scenes. This exhibition follows the Legion of Honor’s strong history of showing highly important moments in French Impressionism. By following Monet before Impressionism, visitors can see the emergence of his style and how he helped shape the movement. Monet: The Early Years will be on view at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco from February 25 through May 29, 2017. This is the first of two exhibitions curated by George Shackelford, Deputy Director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas to examine the full artistic career of Claude Monet. The companion exhibition, Monet: The Late Years, will come to San Francisco in 2019. Esther Bell is the curator of both exhibitions for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Legion of Honor https://legionofhonor.famsf.org/exhibitions/degas-impressionism-and-paris-millinery-trade Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade June 24, 2017 – September 24, 2017 ROSEKRANS COURT, SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES 20B-F Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade is a groundbreaking exhibition featuring 60 Impressionist paintings and pastels, including key works by Degas—many never before exhibited in the United States—as well as those by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and 40 exquisite examples of period hats. Best known for his depictions of Parisian dancers and laundresses, Edgar Degas (French, 1834-1917) was enthralled with another aspect of life in the French capital—high-fashion hats and the women who created them. The artist, invariably well-dressed and behatted himself, “dared to go into ecstasies in front of the milliners’ shops,” Paul Gauguin wrote of his lifelong friend. Degas’ fascination inspired a visually compelling and profoundly modern body of work that documents the lives of what one fashion writer of the day called “the aristocracy of the workwomen of Paris, the most elegant and distinguished.” Yet despite the importance of millinery within Degas’s oeuvre, there has been little discussion of its place in Impressionist iconography. The exhibition will be the first to examine the height of the millinery trade in Paris, from around 1875 to 1914, as reflected in the work of the Impressionists. At this time there were around 1,000 milliners working in what was then considered the fashion capital of the world. This exhibition is organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Saint Louis Art Museum. Presenting Sponsor: John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn and Diane B. Wilsey. Patron’s Circle: Marion Moore Cope. The catalogue is published with the assistance of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Endowment for Publications.
George Lucas Museum plans: Read entire article: http://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2017/01/04/1659540/plot-twists-suspense-mark-george-lucas-plans-museum An avid collector for more than 40 years, Lucas is giving the museum he plans to build some 10,000 paintings and illustrations that include dozens of Norman Rockwells and works from French impressionist Edgar Degas to American contemporary artist Keith Haring. There are illustrations for classic children’s books by Beatrix Potter of “Peter Rabbit” fame and Jean de Brunhoff, who created “Babar.” The museum gets its pick from some 30,000 film-related pieces including storyboards and costumes from “The Wizard of Oz,” ”Casablanca,” and, naturally, “Star Wars.” There’s art from comic books, graphic novels and other popular works that Lucas hopes will attract people who don’t typically visit museums. In October, Lucas unveiled similar but competing designs for Los Angeles and San Francisco sites, turning the project into a public competition. Government leaders in both cities have unanimously approved it. And officials are quick to stress that this time there is no apparent opposition, and construction could begin quickly ahead of a projected 2020 finish date. Later this month, Lucas is convening the museum’s board to decide between two distinct locations. Los Angeles has offered Lucas a 7-acre spot in Exposition Park, a sprawling cultural compound that holds three other museums and the Coliseum, home to the LA Rams Exposition Park also is near eight public high schools and could help expose young people to Lucas’ collection. In San Francisco, his project would virtually have an island unto itself. The city offered Lucas a 4-acre waterfront plot on Treasure Island, a man-made creation in the middle of the bay with cinematic views of the city skyline.
Interesting websites:
The following is a website of a young artist friend, Karin Gafvelin. She combines her two careers of art and sailing: https://scratchboardcomic.wordpress.com/ more about her sailing involvement: http://www.fullcanvas.org/karin/
Here is a video of street art that incorporates surrounding foliage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcDGayhU7MY
A gingerbread creation 500 hours in the making: http://www.thekitchn.com/this-is-the-most-extravagant-gingerbread-house-youve-ever-seen-239006
Members: Please take time to send interesting links.
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