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.
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)
Membership News:
The first and 3rd. Tuesday open paint days have been successful. For questions on matting for the bin , examples will be brought to Crit on those days.
I am also posting photographs on SCWS Facebook page under Santa Cruz Watercolor Society.
Congratulations to those SCWS artists presently exhibiting in the Annual California Land and Sea Exhibit at the Santa Cruz Art League. It is a beautiful exhibit.
Members Exhibits:
Coastal Art Alliance: ongoing at The Hindquarter ( Linda Lord, Anne Harding, Lee Taiz, Sammy Fantham, Judy Feinman, Jere Ann Hall, Marilee Gregory, Nancy Howe)
Nancy Howe and Alison Parham will be showing at the Bonny Doon Art Show July 30 and 31st 11am-5pm
Show Opportunities:
A reminder: Our annual show at the Robert Blitzer Gallery is fast approaching:
Robert Blitzer Gallery running for the month of August. The reception will be the First Friday, Aug. 5. (SCWS name tags will be available for the opening reception.)
Please send entry fees for the 2016 SCWS Annual Show to Dale. The fees will be similar to last year’s show: $100 for approximately a ten foot space or $35 for single paintings. Ten foot spaces may accomodate stacking of paintings. Calculate the size of the paintings with a 4″ space between each horizontal measurement. We encourage your entries to be for sale and do not require that they be recent works. Please commit to entries by June 30, 2016. Send titles, sizes and prices to Aimée by June 30. 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. The hanging committee will attempt to make the show cohesive if there is any variation.
This year, we are also offering bin space for matted pieces. If you have purchased a ten ft. space , you may also enter 10 matted pieces for a shared bin space. All pieces must be matted and in individual plastic sleeves. Please submit the titles and prices of these also by June 30.
If you have a bin to loan for the show, please contact Aimée.
Advertising for the show will appear in The Good Times.
This year’s image for the postcard features a landscape by Anne Harding. If you require more than 10 postcards, please notify Aimée.
If you have any suggestions or questions for the coming show, please send them to me at waveland@cruzio.com.
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Other Show Opportunity:
Santa Cruz Art League: Arrangements in Black and White August 13- Sept.11 deadline for entry June 27- open to all mediums
ONLINEJURIEDSHOWS.COM OR CONTACT SANTA CRUZ ART LEAGUE
Classes/Workshops:
Santa Cruz Art League:
1.Botanical Art in Graphite, Watercolor and Colored Pencil Botanical art involves accuracy as well as artistic technique and creativity, but you don’t need to be a botanist, and artists at all levels are welcome. In this class we’ll follow a traditional approach to drawing and painting a botanical subject – from study to finished work. Some drawing experience is a plus. We’ll practice particular methods of applying graphite pencil, watercolor and colored pencil. Each of these media has its own beauty and appeal for artists. The plan will be to render plant subjects in each of the three media first, then to use whatever one or more media you choose in a unified composition. You’ll get plenty of individual attention as you work, to challenge and encourage you at your own level of skill. Plant material will be provided for each lesson, but you may bring botanical subjects of your choice (live plant material, not photographs) if you wish. Level: All, Offered:6 Mondays,Beginning: Aug.15th, 9:00 AM – noon, Fee: $155 / $135, Instructor: Maria Cecilia Freeman is a professional artist with 25 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. You can see her work at her website: mcf-art.com.
Watercolor – Linda Lord – Thursday
This class is geared to facilitate those who have never painted and those who have advanced their skills. Most class sessions will include a demo and then time to work on the elements of the demo. Information on materials, including colors and “gimmicks”,and tools is given throughout the six-week period. The goal of this class is to encourage the joy of painting, while improving skills and knowledge.This is a “fun” class, so bring a sense of humor and whatever materials you have and enjoy. Level: All. Offered: 6 Thurs., Beginning: June 23rd, 1 to 4pm Fee: $155 / $135 Members Instructor: Linda Lord is a self-trained artist and illustrator with over 16 years teaching experience in her studio and via the SC Watercolor Society; an Open Studio artist whose exhibits include Cozumel, Mexico. Linda also publishes with a decorative art publisher.
Exhibits Around Town:
Santa Cruz Art League: 86th Annual California Land and Sea Exhibit June 3-July 3 Reception June 11 3-5pm.
MAH: The Art of Nature April 9 – June 19, The Museum welcomes back the California Guild of Natural Science Illustrators for its beloved annual exhibit of scientific illustration. Come experience over 40 works in a variety media, depicting flowers, birds, insects and mammals
Exhibits In Bay Area:
San Jose Museum of Art presents the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of the renowned Japanese artist Tabaimo through Aug. 21. Tabaimo creates alluring, large-scale, surreal animations that unfold from everyday objects and experiences such as train rides or dollhouses. The exhibition includes Tabaimo’s video installations aitaisei-josei, yundangami, and danDan, as well as site specific wall drawings she created for San Jose.
Exploratorium (San Francisco) through Sept. 5:
Presenting the first North American traveling exhibition of Strandbeests–giant, wind-powered, kinetic creatures by celebrated Dutch artist Theo Jansen. The artist’s mesmerizing lifelike figures move as familiar, yet otherworldly beings, blurring the lines between machine and animal, art and science, sculpture and performance. Jansen has been creating Strandbeests since 1990. His intricate assembly of these self-propelled creatures has evolved over the years, making these lifelike forms more able to adapt to their seaside environment. His most recent creatures move without assistance, powered by gusts of wind.
This is what SF/Arts curator Christian L. Frock had to say about Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen :
“Physicist-turned-artist Theo Jansen has been creating his strandbeests—Dutch for “beach animals”—since 1990. These enormous, self-propelled kinetic sculptures are a combination of whimsy, savvy engineering, mechanics and biology—wind plays a huge factor, naturally. A series of photographs by Lena Herzog rounds out our perceptions, along with videos and sketches. Expect to be dazzled. “
The Walt Disney Family Museum (San Francisco) through Sept 12
This exhibition is the first-ever retrospective of the life and work of Disney Legend Mel Shaw (1914–2012) — an artist and storyteller whose skills were in demand by the icons of Hollywood, from Orson Welles to Walt Disney. Shaw’s own life story as an artist, creative entrepreneur, and master horseman is as romantic and adventuresome as the animated stories he helped bring to life.
This is what SF/Arts curator Christian L. Frock had to say about Mel Shaw: An Animator on Horseback :
“Prized animator Mel Shaw occupies a unique space in Disney history – he first met Walt Disney while playing polo in Hollywood in the 1930s and was subsequently hired as an artist. He went on to work on numerous iconic Disney films, including “Fantasia,” “Dumbo” and “Bambi,” among others. This exhibition presents more than 120 works in all media, many being exhibited for the first time.
Asian Museum of Art- San Francisco through June 26:
This exhibition reveals the central position of elephants in the Indian cultural landscape. They hold a prominent place in Buddhist, Jain and Hindu religious traditions, and were popular subjects for Western artists traveling through India in the 1800s. They’re depicted as beloved possessions of kings, majestic carriers of royal riders in processions, valuable assets on both hunting grounds and battlefields and transporters of heavy loads.
This is what SF/Arts curator Christian L. Frock had to say about Elephants without Number :
“For anyone who considers the elephant their totem animal, this exhibition offers a treasure trove of elephant imagery and explores how these creatures are central to Indian mythology, art and culture. Featuring an exquisite array of paintings, sketches, prints and sculptures spanning centuries, from antiquity to now. “
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