TWSA slide show, pot luck, Jan. 13. Feb. 10 Mini-show. Volume 32, Number 1 December 2010 / January 2011

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1 Volume 32, Number 1 December 2010 / January 2011 TWSA slide show, pot luck, Jan. 13 Happy New Year to all of our wonderful members. We will start the New Year off with the January 13 meeting. There will be a slide presentation of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America (TWSA) show. During the break we will have a pot luck. Please bring a dish to share. This is a great time to catch up with other members. Karlyn Holman to demo for the Feb. 10 MNWS meeting. Karlyn Holman will paint in a traditional approach to watercolor, but with a non-traditional twist. She will be combining collage, colored pencils and watercolor in a oral motif. Karlyn is an internationally recognized artist, author and art instructor. Feb. 10 Mini-show We will not have a mini-show for January. However, the theme for February will be sweethearts. WHAT S A MINI-SHOW? Its a way for members to display one painting at our monthly meeting. Participants have the option to submit their work for a critic. The critic is strictly volunteer and not mandatory. Member with a painting on display will be entered into a drawing for a prize. This is a great way to share your work.

2 2 Volume 32, Number 2, December 2010 / January 2011 BrushStrokes: MINNESOTA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY NEWSLETTER from the President My rst bit of business with this letter is to let members know that we have openings on the board. Presently we need a Hospitality chair. Volunteers sign up to share the food part and there is help the night of the meetings. Participating on the Board is a great way to get to know other artists and since we are all volunteers, we help one another. We ll have more opportunities in the coming months. Those who have volunteered in the past have found it very satisfying. Don t hesitate to let me know you have an interest to serve. If one job doesn t t for you, there will be others! We had a good turnout of members sharing their art at Easel Night this month and it was a great time to say hello to people I haven t seen in a while as well as asking questions of the artists. Our panels and demos are very educational and there is a little time for just visiting at these meetings but our December (easel night) and January (Transparent Watercolor Society Show DVD and pot luck) meetings are a great time to talk with fellow members. I hope you brave our winter to attend in January. This past month a few of us on the board met to discuss plans for our web site and social web sites. I feel my presence is strictly to insure that the others are aware of the technically challenged among our members. We have an article in this month s newsletter about the sites you can visit that include our organization. I hope many of you will sign in and visit these sites. My rst hurdle was deciding on passwords etc and then there was the awkwardness of just viewing, not really adding anything. I soon realized that this internet socializing or sharing is a process and for me a careful, slow process. First I will be there just to look, to learn. Baby cyber steps. So along with coming to this January s meeting I hope you will spend some time cozied up to your computer on long winter nights and snowy weekends. Some of our members are unable to attend the meetings and we hope that these sites will give these artists a more immediate sense of belonging and participating beyond our Newsletter. For those who do attend it s another way to connect. We want to hear from you and welcome comments and suggestions. As I brave this social network I ll let you know my observations. So far it has been fun, in a quiet, observing kind of way. BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Deb Chapin, chapindeb@comcast.net Past President Catherine Hearding, cathy@chearding.com Vice President Open Secretary Dianne Jandt, artistjandt@aol.com Treasurer Georgia Kandiko, jgkandiko@msn.com Exhibition, Fall Sonja Hutchinson, sonjahutchinson@mchsi.com Exhibition, Spring Deb Magelssen, debmagelssen@yahoo.com Historian Marian Alstad, mardi4011@aol.com Hospitality Phyllis Winther, exel3@aol.com Librarian Mary Brainard, brainard@q.com Membership Carol Wingard, cjwin48@hotmail.com Newsletter Therésa Weseman, tweseman@earthlink.net Program Judy Haeny, Publicity Kathleen Riopelle, kkriopelle@att.net Technology Peter Sohal, petersohal@hotmail.com Workshop Kathleen Sovell, jksovell@comcast.net Susan Zinschlag, s.m.zinschlag@att.net Dianne Jandt, artistjandt@aol.com Northstar Liaison Marilyn Jacobson gjake@comcast.net BRUSHSTROKES Editor Therésa Weseman Mailings Bev Beckman Proofreader Jeanne Long Website BrushStrokes Newsletter BrushStrokes is published September, October/November, December/January, February/March, April/May, June MNWS BrushStrokes Editor & Advertising Quebec Ave. S., Bloomington, MN tweseman@earthlink.net

3 BrushStrokes: MINNESOTA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 3 MEMBER happenings Send member news to: BrushStrokes, Quebec Ave. S., Bloomington, MN or tweseman@earthlink.net. Images are welcome and used as space permits. Robin Berry s new book, How to Paint Watercolor Flowers, Reader s Digest, 2010 was released Sept. 30, Her second book, Watercolor Secrets: 300 tips, techniques and trade secrets, is due out in the fall of Kathy Braud was awarded a 2011 Five Wings Arts Council Individual Artist Grant with funds from the McKnight Foundation. Her painting Park Trails 2 was awarded a Merit Award in the Northern Showcase exhibition at Blaine City Hall. Terry Genesen Becker received an honorable mention at the Bloomington Theatre and Art Center 34th Annual Member s Exhibition. MNWS NEW MEMBERS David Kamminga Mary Lewis Carole Backer Nola Walter Richard Graves We have 336 paid members. (Check the label on your newsletter to see when your membership dues are due.) workshops and classes Want to find classes? classic exhibition frames wholesale Complete framing advice on the web. Visit the MNWS website at and click the Happenings link at the top of the page. To include your listings on the website please information to info@minnesotawatercolors.com Northstar Meetings Held at The Roseville Oval at Roseville Skating Center, 2661 Civic Center Dr. Directions from MPLS, take Hwy. 280 to Hwy 36 and East to Snelling North Exit, turn right on County Road C, drive past Hamline Ave. and left into Civic Center Drive before Lexington Ave. Art on a Line: Workshops: May 12-15, 2011 Sterling Edwards - April 2011 George James - October 2011 John Salminen - October 2013 More info is on the Northstar website: Opportunities Burnsville Performing Arts Center currently holds eight gallery exhibits every calendar. Exhibit proposals are reviewed annually in June for the following calendar year. The deadline to apply is June 1. Individual artists, artist organizations, and groups working in any visual 2-D or 3-D medium may submit an exhibit proposal. Artwork and exhibit proposal selections will be based on artistic quality, originality, presentation, and overall t with the year s gallery programming. Application forms are available for download at artist-opportunities Janie Freeman is looking for art from wildlife artists to put on items with 100 percent of the pro t going to loon rescue out of Roseville s Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. She is accepting wildlife images not just loons. Those who wish to send her images can do so at Jane@janefreeman.com. Please spread the word.

4 4 Volume 32, Number 1, December 2010 / January 2011 BrushStrokes: MINNESOTA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY NEWSLETTER MNWS Goes Social MNWS Board Minutes November highlights: A new college student membership rate has been approved, $15 year Fall Members show will be at Colonial Church 2011 Plans for 2011 Members Day are underway Burnsville Art Center wants us back in 2013 Posters and advertising for Gloria Miller Allen and Cathy Hearding workshops are ready December highlights: Still need hospitality chair No judge yet for Spring Show Jan. meeting will include a vote by members on having 5 day long workshops from Monday thru Friday or Wednesday thru Sunday Technology committee has been formed to work on ideas for the website and social networking. Social networking is all the rage, and it s de nitely here to stay. It is particularly good for artists as it is a great way to discover, connect, and share in ways that were not possible before. Even though watercolor is our medium, and has to be experienced in person to be enjoyed at its best, the online world has plenty to offer to help us all grow as artists and promote our Society and our art. Here are the new MNWS networking channels and how to participate: MNWS LinkedIn group. LinkedIn is a networking Website used by people to connect with others in the same industry. It works well for artists, too. You ll need to join LinkedIn at and then do a search for Minnesota Watercolor Society group. MNWS on Facebook. Already using Facebook? Then search for Minnesota Watercolor Society Fan Page once you are logged in, and join the group to view and post messages, pictures, videos and more. MNWS Twitter account. Follow our Tweets at MNWatercolor A great source for quick announcements, news and other Society related goodness. MNWS YouTube channel. See video from recent Society events, and functions. Subscribe to the channel to be noti ed of the latest videos and upload your own vids of Society events, short painting demos, personal artist bios, etc. MNWS Flickr account. Browse photos at www. ickr.com/photos/mnws from Society happenings. Got MNWS related photos you want to share? Sign up at www. ickr.com and join the MNWS group. Links to all social media sites are available on our Website at: Any ideas for online channels where we are not represented? Contact me at info@minnesotawatercolors.com Peter Sohal, Technology Chair Stone Wins People s Choice The MNWS Fall Show People s Choice Award goes to Jennifer Stone for her painting Enlightening Congratulations to Jennifer who also earned the 2nd place award in the 2010 Fall show. All award winning works are featured on the MNWS website.

5 BrushStrokes: MINNESOTA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 5 MNWS Signature Status What is signature status? Simply put, it is a way to identify and reward sustained excellence of members of an organization. In February of 2008, the Minnesota Watercolor Society (MNWS) launched their Signature Status Program. Criteria for signature status: One must earn six points in a ve year span to earn signature status in the MNWS. Here s how you earn points One point is awarded for each piece accepted into our spring juried show. One point for any award won in our fall open show or our spring juried show. All awards best of show through honorable mention, including the Emrich/Stordahl award are worth one point. (Exception the people s choice award would not count for a point.) A person can accumulate multiple points in one show (i.e. Sue gets two pieces accepted into the spring juried show and one piece wins an award. Sue would accumulate three points in this situation.) Volunteerism roughly ten hours or more of volunteer time a year equals one point. Examples include serving as board members, conducting workshops, doing membership mailings, editing the newsletter, etc. These jobs are essentially covered in the long list of names listed inside the front cover of our newsletter. Only two points can come from volunteering, the other four points must be earned by artwork in shows. (If you don t have any volunteer points, you can still achieve signature status by earning all of your points through your artwork.) Only members paid-up in good standing can retain this status. MNWS after an artist s name denotes they have achieved signature status. Announcements of new signature members will be done as soon as a person earns that status; usually at the fall and spring show openings. Individuals can contact Dianne Jandt at artistjandt@aol.com to nd out their total points. Visit for a list of MNWS signature members. Watercolor Tips By Marilyn Jacobson Skin Tones... a Place to Start Here are some ideas for choosing colors for skin tones. The painting of the teenage girl uses colors suggested at a Janet Rogers workshop. For the cool side of the face (away from the light source), a combination of American Journey raw sienna and Sennelier cobalt violet light. For the warm side of the face (toward the light source), A.J. raw sienna and rose (I used Holbein permanent rose, but you may use a nice, clear rose which pleases you). The cheek color on both cheeks is a light wash of the same rose. The sleeping child image uses a triad of three colors. At a workshop by Pat Undes, we were encouraged to experiment with three colors; red, blue and yellow, to nd the combination that produces the tones desired in the painting. To the best of my recollection, I used Indian yellow, ultramarine blue and permanent rose. By using a triad for the entire picture, the result is uni ed and pleasing. Heidi Nelson, another specialist in portraits, uses burnt umber to paint freckles. This is done as an underpainting. Be sure to blot the freckles before they dry, to give a subtle and realistic look to the freckles. When I preserve the whites for highlights on the nose, cheeks (or cheek), lips and eyes, I m more pleased with the result. These ideas and suggestions are from a fairly new watercolorist. I know others use many more colors with beautiful results. However, this is a place to start. Marilyn Jacobson, If you have tips you d like to submit to the newsletter Theresa Weseman, at tweseman@earthlink.net or write her at Quebec Ave. S., Bloomington, MN

6 May 9-13, 2011 (Monday-Friday) Gloria Miller Allen, AWS, TWSA, WW, NWWS. Digging Deep into Artistic Building Blocks Cost $395 Members $435 (Nonmembers) The workshop is designed for the serious student of all levels who desires a firm grasp of the basics - color - values - and composition/design. I believe good academic studies are fundamental to growth and promote confidence and understanding not only of the basic tools we all want at our fingertips, but also the development of a rich awareness of personal strengths, weaknesses, preferences, emerging styles, and a focus on personal artistic goals Many handouts and a folder for everyone will be provided so that by the end of the workshop each student will have created a little booklet consisting of handouts, personal notes, and their academic studies done in the class. The objective of the workshop is to take growth steps toward your own personal goals No matter how far along the artistic journey you are today. BrushStrokes: MINNESOTA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 7 Minnesota Watercolor Workshops Workshop Registration I would like to register for the following workshop(s) Gloria Miller Allen, AWS, TWSA, WW, NWWS Digging Deep into Artistic Building Blocks Workshop May 9-13, 2011 (Mon Fri) Members $395 (Nonmembers) $435 Deposit $125 by April 1, 2011 Location: City of New Brighton Family Service Center Catherine Hearding, MNWS Take the Fear out of Color Workshop Strategies for Achieving Vibrant Color Mar 12 &13, 2011 (Sat & Sun) $100 Register by February 11, 2011 Location: Hopkins Center for the Arts For detailed information about the artist or workshop visit our Web site at: For inquiries contact: Kathleen Sovell, Workshop Chairperson Phone: JKSOVELL@comcast.net Name Address March 12 & 13, 2011 (Saturday & Sunday) Catherine Hearding Take the Fear out of Color Strategies for Achieving Vibrant Color Cost $100 This workshop will be an exploration into color value and intensity, color mixing and application of color. We know the basics of color theory: blue+ yellow= green. But how do we get the right green? Why are my violets so murky? How can I keep my colors clear and vibrant? These are all questions that will be answered in this workshop. If you want to strengthen your color knowledge and look at ways to use color more creatively, this workshop will introduce you to some strategies that will help to get you started. City State Zip Phone MNWS does not share addresses with others. Please send fee or $125 deposit for Gloria Miller Allen s workshop. Cancellations in writing must be received no later than two weeks prior to workshop to qualify for a full refund. If the workshop is cancelled, money will be promptly refunded. Amount Enclosed: $ Make checks payable to Minnesota Watercolor Society and mail with form to: Workshops Susan Zinschlag 2353 Glacier Way Hastings, MN Phone: ( ) s.m.zinschlag@att.net

7 MNWS calendar Programs are held the second Thursday of the month at 7:00 p.m. Jan. 13 TWSA slide show and pot luck Feb. 10 Karlyn Holman demo Mar. 10 CeCeile Hartleib demo Apr. May June Spring Show TBD Member s Day Location: Christ Presbyterian Church, 6901 Normandale Blvd., Edina, MN (Corner of 70th St. S. and Hwy 100) MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Mail your application and check payable to Minnesota Watercolor Society to: Carol Wingard, Membership Chair Fawns Way Eden Prairie, MN MNWS Membership Dues: College Student $15 Single $30 Couple/Family: $40 Seniors (65+) $25 Name Address City State, Zip Telephone Check here to have your name removed from the list sent to our exhibition award donors who mail product information to our members Fawns Way, Eden Prairie, MN