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)
Membership News/ Show Opportunities:
The annual Membership potluck, social business meeting took place on Tuesday, the 28th of February. Thank you to all who attended. To those of you who couldn’t make it, we missed you.
Dale reports that SCWS finances look good. Much of this is due to Linda Lord’s efforts with bulk purchase of art supplies. Thank you, Linda. Also contributing is ongoing Critique and new membership. Thank you Dale.
Shirley encourages more attendance at plein air outings. Please contact her if you have an interest.
The Society voted a $300 award grant to three student watercolorists selected by the Critique group at the Art League’s annual student show.
The 2017 August annual membership show at the R.Blitzer Gallery was discussed. The fees and general format will remain the same as the past two years: Membership and $100 for essentially a ten foot hanging space, $35 for single entries and $25 for 2nd and 3rd entries. (Guidelines for the ten foot spaces can be found in the SCWS April 2016 Newsletter on this website.) We encourage your entries to be for sale. When you are pricing please remember that the gallery holds 20% of the sale price. Please commit to entries by June 30, 2017. I will need your name, the entry fee the titles, sizes and prices of your entries. Sometime in June I will email a form for the entries. Please just type in the information within the format so that I can paste it all together in a consistent manner. 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. The option for matted entries will also continue. If you have reserved the ten foot option, you may also share a bin for up to 10 matted entries. Last year’s show included 5 shared bins. We need to continue sharing bins. Otherwise the show becomes too crowded. I will also need a record of the matted pieces, their titles and prices for cataloging.
We voted to supplement the refreshments for the first Friday reception (August 4) by $200 and retain our musician for the evening.
There was further discussion of the accessibility of the Blitzer Gallery and how that is working/not working for our membership. The consensus of the group seemed to be that we should continue the August commitment with the Blitzer Gallery. There is also effort being put into researching alternative showcasing for additional yearly shows. I will post this information as it becomes available. Thank you Heidi Woodmansee.
Thank you Duane Harris for sharing the magazines from Eddie’s collections. We will miss Eddie. She was an uplifting presence in our group.
Workshops:
Greetings to Fellow Watercolor Societies from the National Watercolor Society, We are pleased to announce two upcoming workshops, one with Bob Burridge and the other with Geoffrey McCormick, and our Call For Entry to the National Watercolor Society International Exhibit. I have enclosed copies of these three events for your use in your newsletter. We hope you will encourage your members to enter the International Exhibit. We expect the awards to again be very high and magazine publicity for the First Place Award. If you have members interested in either workshop to be held in San Pedro, CA, our headquarters, I can tell you that the town has nice hotels and restaurants, is on the water with picturesque marinas and a major Port, numerous small art venues and is in proximity to Los Angeles. If you have any questions, the information and phone numbers can be found on our website. Thanks so much for your interest. Beatrice Trautman
“Improvisational Watermedia” Contemporary materials for contemporary times Robert Burridge Workshop Workshop: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday May 22,23,24, 2017 • 10am–3pm Demo/Lecture: Sunday May21,2017 • 10am–Noon NWS Gallery, San Pedro, CA Register online – www.nationalwatercolorsociety.org This powerful painting course will cover the latest in avant-garde watermedia materials and techniques that Bob is currently doing. The new Burridge bright and vibrant Color Wheel and Design Composition principles are emphasized. You will learn how to create with higher intentions and personal stuff. Be ready to create a huge frenzy of painting on paper or watercolor canvases in a variety of subject matters. Watercolor varnish techniques included. Plenty of time for personal critiques; daily demos and handouts included. Not your normal watercolor techniques class! Think experimental, contemporary Aquamedia Painting. Bob Burridge – robertburridge.com Workshop and Demonstration held at Further inquiries contact Penny Hill: Phone; 760-908-3389, eMail; NWSAnnualExhib@gmail.com Enrollment will be processed in order received. Register online – it’s easier & speedier. To register by mail, send the form below with a check payable to NWS to: NWS Workshops, c/o Penny Hill, 1145 Barham Drive #130, San Marcos, CA 92078 ——————- (CUTALONGTHELINEANDRETURNWITHYOURCHECK) ——————- ( please print or type ) Name _________________________________________________________________________________________________ E-Mail _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Address _______________________________________________________________________________________________ City __________________________________________ State ____________________________ Zip ___________________ Phone(s)________________________________ Cell _____________________________ ____ SIGNING UP AS NEW MEMBER Check all that apply. WORKSHOP: ____ Member $350 ____ non-Member $400 San Pedro, CA 90731. the NWS Gallery, 915 South Pacific Ave, DEMO: ____ Member $25 ____ non-Member $35
A Series of Good Ideas…. That Work! Geoff McCormack Workshop Workshop: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 24, 25, 2017 • 10am to 3pm Demo/Lecture: Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017 • 10am–Noon NWS Gallery, San Pedro, CA Register online – www.nationalwatercolorsociety.org Be prepared for a different approach to water media in Geoffrey McCormack’s latest three-day workshop at the NWS. Geoff is an emerging master of aqua-media, best known for his Rock series and Cardboard Box series: images with startling realistic textures, colors, perspective, lighting and shadows. His compositions form an intriguing interplay of shapes and contrasting values, often with objects appearing to float on multiple planes. 2016 saw Geoff shift his focus to an abstract series using all the features of his preceding series. He will share studio practices and techniques he developed or learned over fifty years as a professional artist. He will demonstrate an array of new materials, tools and techniques, revealing just how and why he creates such distinctive paintings. Geoff will focus on designing paintings with an engaging point of view, using rich color triads, unique textural effects, and dramatic lighting. You will combine these techniques and tools with your favorite aqua-media in a series of exercises and paintings. You will get several demos daily, personal instruction and critiques, plus plenty of painting time. Advanced beginners to masters will benefit from applying these new techniques and materials, suitable for abstract and representational painters. Special masking materials and films will be supplied the instructor. aws, nws, cws www.mcsurf.com Workshop and Demonstration held at the NWS Gallery 915 South Pacific Ave, SanPedro, CA 90731. Further inquiries contact Penny Hill: Phone; 760-908-3389, eMail; NWSAnnualExhib@gmail.com Enrollment will be processed in order received. Register online – it’s easier & speedier. To register by mail, send the form below with a check payable to NWS to: NWS Workshops, c/o Penny Hill, 1145 Barham Drive #130, San Marcos, CA 92078 ————– (Cutalongthelineandreturnwithyourcheck) —————– (please print or type) Name________________________________________________________________________________________________ E-Mail ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Address ______________________________________________________________________________________________ City __________________________________________ State ______________Zip___________ Phone(s)________________________________ Cell _____________________________ Check all that apply. ____ Signing up as new Member Geoff McCormack workshop: ____ Member $350____ non-Member $400 Demo: ____ Member $25____ non-Member $35 For cancellations, $100 will be deducted from the refund. —
Heidi Woodmansee sends a link form Filoli’s Newsletter for March (when the daffodils are blooming):
2017 is Filoli’s Year of the Garden Our three–year Centennial Celebration will culminate this year with the Year of the Garden. In addition to garden lectures, art exhibits, and a cultural series that all reflect on the 100–year history, Filoli will present new and exciting events and programs that allow visitors to access the Estate in new ways. Learn More / Maker Your Reservation » Artist Access Thursdays, March 23, April 20, May 25, June 22, July 13, August 24, September 28, or October 26, 2017, 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Filoli extends the opportunity for artists and photographers to have access to the gardens after hours. Experience the quiet beauty and stunning vistas of this rare and historical country estate. Artists may work in the medium of their choice; provide all their own materials and storage containers for the removal of all used water and non-toxic cleaning fluids. Fee for each class: $20 members; $30 non–members Non-members: Fee includes same day admission to Filoli. You are welcome to arrive anytime between 10:00 am – 2:30 pm to visit the historic House and Garden and scout locations for your next masterpiece.
Classes, Walks, Talks, and More:
Introduction to Botanical Art March 3 and 4 Enjoy this hands–on workshop that will introduce traditional botanical art skills such as plant observation, drawing, color mixing, and painting.
Beekeeping 101 March 11 Learn the basics of beekeeping from hive set up to regular maintenance of your colony. No experience or prior knowledge of bees is needed!
Oil Painting — Understanding Color and Value March 17 and 18 Beginners are invited to experience this class that will explore great color choices, color mixing, the importance of value, and more.
Introduction to Stained Glass March 18 This fun and engaging class will introduce you to the fundamentals of stained glass from design and patters to how to cut and grind glass.
Family Fun with Gardening — Pizza in a Pot March 25 Gardening is fun and easy! Any one adult, one child combination is invited to spend the morning decorating and planting their own Pizza in a Pot.
Beginning Floral Design March 24 and 31 Begin your journey of learning the art of home floral design as you learn about mechanics, tools, flower conditioning, and choosing the best materials.
Take a Guided Tour, Walk, or Hike Filoli offers a variety of guided tours, hikes and walks, some new this year, to help enrich your Filoli experience. Take a House and Garden Tour, enjoy a Nature Hike, experience a guided walk in our Gentlemen’s Orchard, a Camellia Walk in the Garden, or an Art Walk in the House. Space is limited so advance registration is recommended. Fiioli 86 Canada Rd. Woodside, CA. 94062 Phone: 650 364 8300 Website: www.filoli.org Email: newsletter@filoli.org Artist access: Select Thursday evenings during the 2017 visitor season: March 23, April 20, May 25, June 22, July 13, August 24, September 28, October 25. Time: 4-7PM Fee per day: $20 members, $30 non members Non members: Fee includes same day admission to Filoli during normal business hours Register: www.filoli org/art-exhibits to register or call the Ticket Office at 650 364 8300 ext 508 Mon.-Fri 10am-5pm
Other Classes/Workshops:
Bonni Carver: see brochure under Events on this website.
Northwest Watercolor Society PO Box 50387 Bellevue, WA 98015-0387
Be sure to sign up for our International Open Workshop April 24-28, 2017 with acclaimed artist, KEIKO TANABE! Keiko’s workshop is for students who would like to gain a better understanding of methods and techniques that will help you fill your paintings with light and atmosphere. We will work both indoors and outdoors. We will focus on understanding fundamentals: tonal values and colors, various techniques in paint application and brush handling, the importance of good design. Weather permitting, we will head outdoors and learn set up, choosing and composing a subject, editing and simplifying a complex scene. We will paint a different subject each day to discover what is effective in creating the atmosphere we desire. The workshop will be held April 24-28, 2017 at Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, 308 4th Avenue S., Kirkland, WA 98033. We will begin each day at 9:00 AM and end at 4:00 PM. Cost is $500 for members, $600 for non-members. To learn more and download a registration form and instruction / supplies list, click here. Please visit www.ktanabefineart.com to view Keiko’s stunning work.You’ll quickly see why NWWS is so fortunate to have her lead our workshop and judge our International Open Exhibition! For any other questions about the workshop, please call workshop co-chair, Molly Murrah, at 425-822-6552. Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity!
Santa Cruz Art League Weekend Workshops:
Painting the Figure Simply & Beautifully in Watercolor – Robert R. Dvorak
This class will be directed to the spontaneous representation of the female figure in watercolor. There will be a strong emphasis on the use of color, white space and composition. Color mixing from a limited palette, light, shade, shadow, brush techniques, graded washes, foreshortening, facial details, lost and found edges, and proportion will be demonstrated and practiced. We will work from professional models. No matter how much previous instruction you have had, this class will have you seeing and painting the figure in a new way. Have had some experience with watercolor, drawing the figure? You will learn easy techniques for painting the figure quickly, loose and free. You will build more confidence and skill painting figures. Robert will demonstrate, work with the class and give individual instruction. Bring a lunch, Offered, Sat. March 25th, Time: 10-4, Fee: $89… $15 material fee to instructor… Instructor Robert R. Dvorak, FAAR, presents workshops and lectures on creativity, drawing, and painting for colleges, universities and art centers. He is the author of The Magic of Drawing, Drawing Without Fear, and Experiential Drawing, The Practice of Drawing as Meditation, Travel Drawing and Painting and The Pocket Drawing Book. He is the author of “Twenty Minutes to a Beautiful Figure” featured in WATERCOLOR An American Artist Publication. He has presented this workshop many times for the University of California Santa Cruz, Foothill and De Anza Colleges, The University of Hawaii, Hui No’eau Visual Art Center in Maui, the Palo Alto Art Center and others. For more information: email: robert@youcreate.com
Intermediate Watercolor – JoNeal Boic
This Intermediate level class will include a variety of skills instruction and practice. How do you create the fold of a leaf or flower petal, the fold of fabric or the surface texture of wood? Can you paint a convincing water drop or effectively paint reflections on water. How do you paint a windowpane that looks real? How about the waves out on West Cliff? Do you know how to paint a tree using the technique of negative space painting? We will focus primarily on creating the illusion of form, painting reflections/reflective surface and negative space painting through a series of exercises. Come and join in on the fun!!!! Bring lunch, April 1 & 2, Time: 9-3:30 Fee: $160 / $140 members. 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.
From Samantha McNally, Artist Getaway calendar for 2017:
Artist Getaway 2017, workshops and art vacations April 8-9. Mark Monsarrat 3 day workshop, Alameda, oil May 1-5. Half Moon Bay Artist Getaway June 4-9. Murphys Artist Getaway July 17-19 Rolando Barrero 2 day workshop. Benicia, watercolor September 16. Meisha Grichuhin 1 day workshop, Pacifica, oil October 15-20. Occidental Artist Getaway www.artistgetaway.com for details and registration.
Exhibits Around Town:
Santa Cruz Art League: A National Art Exhibit Juror: Jimin Lee Profession, Art Department, University of Santa Cruz, California www.jiminleeart.net Printmaking has been expanding as an art form, from traditional methods such as engraving and woodcuts to the exciting area of printstallation. This exhibition will showcase an exciting, diverse group of printmakers and will be juried by printmaker and UC Santa Cruz Art Professor Jimin Lee. Awards Juror will grant $1,000 in Awards.
Exhibits In Bay Area:
The Diebenkorn/Matisse exhibit at SF Moma is a truly
wonderful and rewarding exhibit. It is large and has a lot of depth. I had
no idea of Diebenkorn’s fascination with Matisse, and most of his paintings
are exhibited side-by-side with his work, showing Matisse’s influence.
I’m hoping we can see it again before it leaves. Dale
Matisse/Diebenkorn
March 11–May 29, 2017
Floor 4
Presenting a new view of two of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary painters, Matisse/Diebenkorn is the first major exhibition to explore the profound inspiration Richard Diebenkorn (1922–1993) found in the work of Henri Matisse (1869–1954). It brings together 100 extraordinary paintings and drawings—40 by Matisse and 60 by Diebenkorn—that reveal the connections between the two artists in subject, style, color, and technique.
The exhibition unfolds across the arc of Diebenkorn’s career—from early abstractions, through his Bay Area figurative years, to his majestic Ocean Park series—all in direct dialogue with works that he knew and admired by Matisse. Diebenkorn grew up in San Francisco, and first discovered Matisse as a Stanford University art student in the early 1940s. Over the next four decades, he pursued a serious study of the great French modernist’s work, drawing from his example to forge a style entirely his own.
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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.