Santa Cruz Watercolor Society Newsletter May 2019

Weekly Critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway.

The third Tuesday ,open paint day and/or presentation day has been discontinued. If you would like to revive it, please contact Aimée or Dale.   A reminder: SCWS annual dues are $35 to Dale Johnson. Also, if you have a gallery page on this website, please remember to also include 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.  If you are needing a refresher on posting on your page, please contact Aimée. 831 425 5954

 

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)

 

Member News:

From Heidi Woodmansee: May 11, I will be the pop-up artist at Maggies Place, 910-A Soquel Ave, Santa Cruz, CA
For the “Midtown Mother’s Day Stroll”, featuring my colorful acrylic paintings
June 7, First Friday reception at the SCAL “The Barnyard and Beyond” my watercolor animal paintings in a collaboration with “Art Finds Art” fashion designer Jill Pillot, of Ricochet Wearable Art
June 22, Annie Glass Warehouse 310 Harvest Dr., Watsonville, I will be teaching a “loose watercolor florals” workshop. Additional dates to be announced.
July 5, First Friday reception at Botanic and Luxe, 701 A Front St. Santa Cruz (behind El Palomar restaurant), featuring my colorful acrylic floral paintings

From the SCWS:  The annual meeting of the SCWS was a small group. If you were not there, we missed you.
The main topic for discussion at the annual meeting was our upcoming show at the Santa Cruz Art League which will be held in conjunction with the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild. This will be our only SCWS group show for 2019. Please note that it will run for almost two months and proceed the Open Studio exhibit at the League.
 I have met with the Metal Art Guild representatives and with Keelin at the League. The plan is for there to be the exterior wall exhibit space dedicated to watercolors. There will also be two of the free standing panels which will hold shadow box metal works. The front panel of the free standing panels will be the exhibit introduction with the title: Water & Metal, one piece of watercolor and one metal piece ( perhaps on a pedestal) and two write ups (one for the Metal group and one for the Water). Cases and pedestals for the Metal exhibit (which will be primarily jewelry) will be centered within the free standing panels.
The reception will be the first Friday, August 2 although there will be a smaller First Friday in September. We will continue with our music contribution to the reception.
The watercolor group consensus at the annual meeting was to continue with the format of the watercolor annual show being individual spaces with comprehensive body of work. There will also be a wall dedicated to individual pieces

 

Show Opportunities:

Santa Cruz Watercolor Society Annual Show in conjunction with the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild. Friday July 19- Sunday, September 15, 2019. Entry fee is: $75 for a space. $15 for individual entries. (plus up to date SCWS membership).  You do not need to be an Art League member to participate, however, you will have a break on the commission angle if you are a League member. Please send your entry fee to Dale Johnson : 709 Walnut Santa Cruz, CA. 95060.

Receiving of the work for this show will be Tuesday, July 16 (Art League hours) We will be hanging the show on the 17th.  Pick up will be Sunday, the 15th of September and Monday, the 16th.

Title:  Water & Metal  Friday, July 19 – Sunday, September 15, 2019

Reception: August 2, First Friday 6–8pm

An invitational exhibition showcasing the artworks by members of the Watercolor Society and the Monterey Bay Metal Arts Guild.

Classes Santa Cruz Art League: Botanical Art Workshop Levels: All  Sat 5/18/19-Sun 5/19/19  10am-4 pm Instructor: Maria Cecilia- Freeman Fee: $160/ $140 for members Botanical Art prizes both beauty and accuracy. In this workshop we’ll begin with close observation of our live plant specimens (to be provided), learning to see and draw the botanical details – a rose is not just a pretty flower! We’ll work on varied approaches to color mixing, and practice techniques of watercolor brushwork particular to botanical art – layering colors and small “dry brush” work that allows us to capture fine details of our subjects. You’ll get plenty of individual attention as you draw and paint, to challenge and encourage you at your own level of skill. 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, and in the Filoli Florilegium. You can see her work at her website: mcf-art.com.

Watercolors with Linda Lord!
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.
Level: All
6 Fridays
beginning 05/31/19
1:00pm – 3:30pm
Instructor: Linda Lord
Fee: $160/$140 members
This class is aimed at familiarity of Materials, as well as why to chose them. In the 6 weeks, we will endeavor to produce 6 pieces of frame-able art. Each session will comprise of an instructor demo on which a painting will be based.
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.
Level: All
6 Thursday afternoons, starting 5/30/19
1pm – 3:30pm
Instructor: Linda Lord
Fee: $160/$140 for members
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.

Shows around town:

Showing presently: R. Blitzer Gallery :  6th Annual Catamaran Art Exhibit

Coming June 7- June 14 at the R. Blitzer Gallery:  10th Anniversary of Fine Art (60 artists who have exhibited at the gallery over the last 10 years).

Bay Area Exhibits:

The Bold Brush pf AU Ho-Nien May 31- Aug 18Asian Art Museum, San Francisco: The artist Au Ho-nien brings a modern sensibility to traditional Chinese ink-wash painting. He uses bold brushwork to convey a freedom of expression central to his philosophy: broad strokes capture sea spray, unfinished strokes suggest figures gathered in a bamboo grove, broken strokes evoke a rocky mountainside and fluid strokes render a galloping horse.

Au, now in his eighties and living in Taiwan, is a leading figure of the Lingnan school of painting, which originated in southern China in the late 19th century. It looked to Western realism and the practice of sketching from life as a way to revitalize Chinese art.

The Bold Brush of Au Ho-nien presents 22 vertical scroll paintings by Au, some created especially for this exhibition, that exemplify the Lingnan’s school’s fusion of Chinese and Western approaches.“Painting conveys poetry, just as poetry embodies painting,” says Au, and his work often emphasizes poetic expression over precise physical description. The loose brushstrokes of his seascapes and mountain views incorporate an element of abstraction. Similarly, he draws attention to the temperament rather than the likeness of the figures in his paintings. Au’s paintings of animals – from mythical dragons ascending toward the heavens to a workaday buffalo in a rice paddy – rely on both naturalism and symbolism for their expressive force.

DeYoung, San Francisco: Monet: The Late Years: By the time this exhibition opens, it will have been two years since the Legion of Honor presented “Monet: The Early Years,” which looked at the work of the most famous Impressionist painter from a time before Impressionism. Now, at the de Young Museum, the spotlight pivots to the period (1913-26) after the artist’s participation in the key art movement of the 19th century. Included are some 60 paintings, including more than 20 of his popular images of water lilies. Feb. 16-May 27. De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, S.F. 415-750-3600. http://deyoung.famsf.org

UC Berkely Art Museum: Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction: The list of famous painters influenced by Hofmann is so long that New York’s Museum of Modern Art once mounted a show called “Hans Hofmann and His Students.” It included 51 artists of high reputation. Curator Emerita Lucinda Barnes returns to BAMPFA with the goal of assembling the definitive exhibition since the artist’s death in 1966. Feb. 27-July 21. UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St., Berkeley. 510-642-0808. https://bampfa.org