Weekly Critique group: Tuesday 1PM at the Santa Cruz Art League 526 Broadway.
The third Tuesday will be an open paint day and/or presentation day. These have proved to be enjoyable. Bring your supplies and join us. *note: We have eliminated the first Tuesday as an open paint day.
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. If you are needing a refresher on posting on your page, please contact Aimée.
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)
Santa Cruz Watercolor Society annual show at the Blitzer Gallery for the month of August:
SCWS Annual Show: R. Blitzer Gallery 2801 Mission St. EXT. (Old Wrigley Building)
hours: Tuesday- Saturday 12AM- 5PM
Our show:
August 4-August 28, reception: Friday, August 4;
Participants are:
Heidi Michelle Woodmansee
Aimee Bagur Nelson
Dale Johnson
Ann LeBlond Harding
Jere Ann Hall
Paul Lachance
Nancy Howe
Linda Lord
Ari Avalos ( Ignacio )
Lee Taiz
Lenore Doler
Carol L. Riddle
Shirley Motmans
last day open to public: Saturday, August 26
drop off: August 1 R. Blitzer Gallery 1-4 PM, pick up August 28
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Workshops:
Santa Cruz Art League:
| Beginning Watercolor – JoNeal BoicThis workshop is an introduction to the medium of watercolor. It will include the basic techniques used in painting with watercolor; wet into wet, washes, layering/glazing and a combination of these. Color theory as well as practical application of those theories. If you have a desire to learn to paint in watercolor,Jo-Neal will prove you can do it! And…she is especially fond of working with beginners. Offered: Sept. 23 & 24, 9 – 3:30 pm, Fees: $160 / $140. Instructor: Jo Neal Boic has been a teacher for more than 40 years and she has been painting and teaching watercolor for 29 of those. She loves to teach and believes that all students are capable of learning to draw and paint in whatever medium they choose. She fancies a variety of subjects but is particularly drawn to nature. | |||
| Mastering the White Paper in Watercolor – Robert DvorakFollow in the footsteps of John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer as you learn, through a series of carefully crafted exercises, how to make your watercolors come alive with light and color. The transparency of watercolor demands that you work from white to dark and from large shapes to small. You will learn that where we put color is just as important as where we leave the paper clean and white. Enhance your color shapes with white paper–dark against light to create luminosity, use lost and found color edges to add mystery and space. Whether you are a beginner or a more advanced painter, you will benefit from this workshop. Mastering the white paper is one of the most important skills in watercolor painting. Offered: Saturday, Sept 30, 2017, 10-4pm, Fee $89. Instructor: Robert Regis Dvořák is an artist and professional speaker who presents workshops and keynotes on drawing, watercolor and creative thinking education and business. He is the author of four books on drawing including The Practice of Drawing as Meditation. His latest book is Travel Drawing and Painting. | |||
Exhibit Opportunities:
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Exhibits Around Town:
Exhibits In Bay Area:
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.
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