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 Aire: Thursdays (Call Shirley for location and time- Shirley’s phone number appears on the membership calendar on this site.)
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Membership News:
Happy 2016!
The Watercolor Society will hold its annual meeting/pot luck social gathering on Tuesday February 23. Please plan to come. We will be discussing our upcoming show at the Blitzer Gallery in August of 2016:
11:30 229 Fridley Drive Santa Cruz (831 425 5954)
Exhibit Opportunities:
National Watercolor Society:
The opening for entries is June, 1, 2016. The deadline for the NWS International Exhibition is July 15, 2016. The exhibition will be held Oct. 22-Dec.18. Jurors are Frank Webb, AWS, NWS, Paul Jackson, AWS,NWS, Myrna Wacknov, NWS. Awards juror is Derrick Cartwright, Director University Galleries, USD.
$40,000.00+ awards. Upload prospectus: nationalwatercolorsociety.org. Info:424-225-4966.
2016 Workshops also registered online nationalwatercolorsociety.org
9/26-9/28 Paul Jackson: Painting the Night in Watercolor
9/30-10/2 Paul Jackson: Reflection, Translucency, and Transparency
10/24-10/26 Robbie Laird: The Abstract Nature of Nature
10/27-10/29 Robbie Laird: Layered Watermedia Paintings
Respectfully, Beatrice Trautman
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.
Classes:
Bonni Carver Classes: $20 drop ins, $140 for 8 classes beginning 1/12/16 Tuesday mornings 9-noon
Corralitos Art Center 125 Hames Road
or 1/14/16 Thursday mornings 9- noon
La Salva Beach Clubhouse, 314 Estrella Avenue, LSB
email: bonnicarver@aol.com or 454 6140
At the Santa Cruz Art League:
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: Jan.7, 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.
| Introduction to Botanical Art in Watercolor – Maria Cecilia FreemanIn this workshop you’ll learn a practical, traditional approach to drawing and painting a botanical subject – from study to finished work. Botanical art involves both accuracy and artistic technique, but you don’t need to be a botanist, and beginning artists are welcome. We’ll go through a process of observation, drawing, composing, color mixing, and techniques of watercolor brushwork particular to botanical art. You’ll get individual attention as you draw and paint. We’ll work with interesting and beautiful plant specimens of the season that will be provided. Bring lunch. Offered: January 23 & 24, Time: 9-3:30 Fee: $160 /$140 Members. Level: Beginners, and artists at any level who want to learn or review the basic techniques of botanical art and illustration.Instructor: Maria Cecilia Freeman is a professional artist with over 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. | |
| Botanical Art: Intermediate – Maria Cecilia FreemanThis workshop is designed for artists with some previous experience in botanical art or natural science illustration who want to continue advancing their skills, 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. Bring lunch Offered: Feb.20 & 21, Time: 9-3:30 Fee: $160 /$140 Members. Level: Intermediate February 20–21, 2016. Instructor: Maria Cecilia Freeman is a professional artist with over 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, Techniques & Fun – JoNeal Boic
It is true, possibly…that watercolor requires more knowledge of the paints than other media. However, I believe it’s a fallacy that it is the most difficult medium! Come and learn the basics with a seasoned teacher of 40 years (wow! am I really that old?). 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, not to mention and have had a whole lot of fun. Oh yes, I am ALL about painting and fun!! Bring a lunch. Offered: March 5 & 6, Time: 9:00 – 3:30, Fee: $160 / $140 Members. Level: Beginner. Instructor: Jo-Neal Boic: Jo-Neal comes to us with 40 years of teaching experience, more than 20 of them working for Santa Cruz City Schools. She began painting in watercolor 25 years ago, then returned to school so that she could teach painting and art at the secondary level. During that years leave she studied fresco painting and restoration, serigraphy and oils in Florence, Italy. Her first love will always be watercolor but recently she has been painting in oils, acrylics, pastels, as well as on silk, which she also marbles.
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Exhibits in Santa Cruz:
R. Blitzer Gallery:
The Rydell Visual Arts Fellows Exhibition continues through the month of January. If you have not seen the work of these three Fellows, we hope you will make a point of coming in to see it.
Jody Alexander, the fellowship recipient for 2015, is a bookmaker, librarian and teacher. She binds books with found and discarded papers and fabric in a number of historical and modern binding styles and combines them with found objects to create sculptural works and installations.
Jim Denevan, fellowship recipient for 2014, is a surfer, chef and internationally renowned land artist known for his monumental, temporary drawings on California beaches.
Elizabeth Stephens, artist fellow for 2014, is an activist and educator whose art has explored sexuality, gender and feminism for over 25 years. Recently, her film, Goodbye Gauley Mountain, An Ecosexual Love Story, done with her collaborator Annie Sprinkle, opened the 2013 Santa Cruz Film Festival.
2801 Mission Street , Santa Cruz, CA 95060- 831-458-1217– 831-458-0141 blitzart@cruzio.com http://rblitzergallery.com
Exhibits in the Bay Area:
415-581-3500
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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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