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VIEWS October Issue 2014 Mid-Southern Watercolorists, Inc. http://midsouthernwatercolorists.com President s Message Share... What do you think about when you hear the word share?

1 VIEWS October Issue 2014 Mid-Southern Watercolorists, Inc. President s Message Share... What do you think about when you hear the word share? Many of you immediately think of share associated with Facebook. That s what we do when we see something really cool that we want to tell our friends about. It s sort of like the show and tell that we did in elementary school. For some of the non-facebook types, you may first associate the word share with what we were taught at a very young age to do share our toys, share our food, or share our clothes with a younger brother or sister. We passed it on. We also learned at a young age that sharing helped someone. For the leaders of our MSW mini-workshops, sharing means spending a day without any compensation to share techniques or ideas with eager watercolorists or new painters. For those of you who provide a demo at one of our monthly program meetings, like long time watercolorist and teacher Jacqui Kaucher did at our last meeting, sharing means showing others different ways to paint watercolor. Wasn t it cool when we learned last month about negative painting and painting watercolor on tissue paper? MSW provides a way to share ideas with other watercolorists when we get together to paint or just to talk, as artists. We learn about the simple things: like other kinds of paints or other kinds of brushes to try out. We learn about things we never may have thought of on our own, like painting with a credit card! There are many ways we can share MSW with others who enjoy, support or are just learning about watercolor. Share MSW on Facebook, talk about it with your friends and fellow artists, share the new Facebook page Catalyst for Creativity with other watercolorists, bring a young artist to our meeting or tell someone about our meetings, give someone one of the new membership brochures the list of possibilities goes on and on... Take a moment to think back on what brought you to Mid-Southern Watercolorists? In thinking back I recall it was because someone shared MSW with me, told me about it, and made me feel welcome at the first meeting that I attended all by myself. How will you share MSW?

2 Calendar October Hand Deliver accepted paintings for Special Juried Members Exhibition to Christ Episcopal Church OPENING RECEPTION at Christ Episcopal Church 6-9-PM Workshop with Lian Quan Zhen 15 Board Meeting 5:30 PM Demo by Lian Quan Zhen 18 Plein Air Paint Out at The Old Mill 23 Notification/Acceptance for Annual Exhibition 25 Mini Workshop with Jaqui Center November MSW Demo at Arkansas Art Education Association Conference, Little Rock 15 Plein Air Paintout at Two Rivers Park 19 Board Meeting 5:30 PM Demo on YUPO by Barbara Rhodes 22 Mini Workshop with Barbara Center December MSW Member Holiday Gathering a Potluck at George Wittenberg s starting at 11:00 AM 28 Special Juried Members Exhibition at Christ Episcopal Church closes 29 Pick up paintings from Church 10-2 January/February 2015 **No Program Meeting Scheduled in January** Special WINTER PROGRAM on February 4 th!!! January Shipping deadline to the Arkansas Arts Center February Hand Deliver accepted paintings to 45 th Annual Exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center. Details to follow 4 Board Meeting 5:30 PM Presentation by Linda Baker, NWS- AWS, juror for the exhibition 5-6 Member Individual Critiques with Linda Baker (** contact George Wittenberg to sign up) th Annual Juried Exhibition opens at Arkansas Arts Center, Strauss Gallery 20 Opening Reception for Annual Exhibition at Arkansas Arts Center, Strauss Gallery 6-9 PM March Board Meeting 5:30 PM Demo by Linda Kemp Workshop with Linda Kemp April Annual Exhibition Closes 13 Pick up paintings at AAC 15 Board Meeting 5:30 PM MSW Art from the AAC Archives May Board Meeting 5:30 PM Demo by Marlene Gremillion June Board Meeting 5:30 PM Presentation by Art Outfitters about new and old media found in today s art markets. October 2015 Open Members Exhibition at Cox Center

3 Arkansas Art Education Association Convention November 6th and 7 th MSW will be doing two days of 50 minute demonstrations at the convention. This is in line with our desire to support and encourage teachers to teach watercolors in the art classroom...successfully. We plan to hand out "bare-bones" step-by-step outlinetype lesson plans for elementary, middle and high schools. Since we have members who are teachers they probably have one or two highly successful projects that we could write up and share. All they have to do is get the lesson to me, Barbara Rhodes, in writing or by phone ( ) and I will co-ordinate the handouts. If we have members who would like to demonstrate a technique or one of the handed out lessons, contact me. It would work out great if we have at least 3 members demonstrating and 2 handing out lesson plans and membership forms. If we have a 50 minute collection of 3 quick mini demonstrations with examples of finished products we will keep the interest up and make it fun for all. Samples Legion is donating Yupo paper for our members to try. Come to the meeting in November meeting to receive a sample of the Yupo paper." Board Meeting Bulletin Held on September 17, No items were moved or passed at this meeting. 2. Officer s reports reminded us to ask for volunteers for the November Art Educator s meeting. ARCHIVES Many of you may have objects pertaining to MSW at your home or studio that you would like to find a home for. Doris Mapes established an archive at UCA many years ago, and we would like to begin to fill that archive with more recent information. If YOU have anything you would like to give, bring it to any of our meetings and you will find a container there to put it in. Suzann Waggoner, our archivist, will gather them and deliver them to the university. Objects we can think of are catalogs, newspaper clippings, news announcements, photographs, etc. Exhibitions for 2014/ Special Juried Members Exhibition October 10 December 28, 2014 Christ Episcopal Church Juror: Barclay McConnell ******* 45th Annual Juried Exhibition February 13 April 12, 2015 Arkansas Arts Center Deadline: September 1, 2014 Awards Reception February 20, 2015 Juror: Linda Baker ******* Open Members Exhibition October 2015 Cox Center 3. All other committee heads reported on status of their area, nothing new.

September Meeting Demo by Jacqui Kaucher Jacqui provided 3 pearls of wisdom: Never put your watercolor palette on the roof of your car.

) The demo in the words of one of our members: Take gloss or matte medium, put on one side of torn pieces of tissue and stick onto 140 pound Fabriano.

Choice of yellow is painted on small areas spaced around the page, now turquoise is added be sure to leave white areas. Now allow texture to happen.

Now get a dark wash Derwetts pencil to find the subjects - some lillies and lilly pads. Leave these areas alone and use a hair drier to dry some of the areas.

4 September Meeting Demo by Jacqui Kaucher Jacqui provided 3 pearls of wisdom: Never put your watercolor palette on the roof of your car. Always take your (cut up) credit card with you to paint. Secure your acrylic tube lids with tape. (One can only imagine how these pearls came to be!) The demo in the words of one of our members: Take gloss or matte medium, put on one side of torn pieces of tissue and stick onto 140 pound Fabriano. Use a big brush to paint with as long as you can. A double pointed brush is easy to use since it is less to carry. She also uses the Goliath brush. Choice of yellow is painted on small areas spaced around the page, now turquoise is added be sure to leave white areas. Now allow texture to happen. Next pick pink, allowing them to mix with the other colors on the page when you spritz water in small areas. Purple begins to happen. Now get a dark wash Derwetts pencil to find the subjects - some lillies and lilly pads. Leave these areas alone and use a hair drier to dry some of the areas. Splash some areas with fingers dipped in water. Now paint splashes of color on the page. Softly add layers of paint around the lillies. Keep an abstract formation of the subject. Sprinkle on some salt in the wet areas of paint. In the foreground add lines for the reflection pool area. Use some water soluble color pencils. Value markers are good to carry outside to sketch on trips. Cynthia Schanink An example Jacqui brought from home

5 Mini Workshop Conducted by Caren Garner: Fall Colors Some of the paintings in process produced. These were examples of her work. And provided lots of inspiration and choices! A colorful day!!!!

6 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS #1618 Christine Alfery #1619 Judith Beale # 1614 Elaine M. Cook #1620 Lawrence McElroy #1621 Barbara McNutt # 1615 Paul Padzuikas # 1616 John Rhodes $ 1622 Ann Sauve # 1617 John Schmedeman MEMBER NEWS The River Walk Sketchbook of David Paul Cook was recently featured on the front and back pages of the Monday, August 18th Active/Style section of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper. Nine sketchbook paged were reproduced, and writer Kirk Montgomery told about the adventure of David's 13 day walk along this beautiful trail astride the Arkansas River in Little Rock and North Little Rock. The state-wide exposure of this newspaper story is sure to encourage more people to also explore this beautiful trail, and to try watercolor as a portable, sketching medium. Also a series of Central Arkansas landscapes of the Arkansas River, Pinnacle Mountain, Woods, forests, fields and barns are now being offered for sale by David at Carmen's Art and Antiques, 1022 Oak Street in Conway. This is the first time David has offered his watercolors for sale through a gallery. All works are matted, but unframed, to enable purchasers to pay a reasonable price for an Arkansas memory. ********** Venice Plein Air Watercolor Workshop (June 14-20, 2015) to be conducted by Marlene Gremillion! This is collaboration between the Arkansas Arts Center and Italy Adagio. To find out more details, contact Marlene at or the Arkansas Arts Center at I, Cynthia Schanink, would like to invite you to see thirty watercolor paintings of the views and buildings on Mt Nebo in my October show at the River Valley Arts Center, 1001 East B Street, Russelleville. Drawn to the mountain in my MGB with twelve exciting curves brings me back, now with my husband Daniel since we bought the Summit House on Mt Nebo in We have three children and five grandchildren to enjoy the history, views and wildlife while walking the Mt Nebo trails in clean air above the river valley. I started my education in watercolor in 1974 with Barbara Norris Church Mailer at Russellville High School, continuing on after graduation, I went to Arkansas Tech University and sought out specific mentors in watercolor. I am now a signature member of the Mid-Southern Watercolorist. ******************** Fifth Annual ALA Art Show Arkansas League of Artist Juried Exhibition September 12th - December 27th Butler Center Galleries Manuel Well-Off-Man, Juror Several MSW members are in the show. Awards were presented to Sandy Barksdale, Judy Shantz Honey, Sandy Marson and Charlotte Rierson Also, juried into the show were MSW members David Paul Cook, John Honey, Fran Otton, Mary Ann Stafford and Laura Woford ********* MEMBERS SHOWCASE We are going to begin again to showcase some of our members paintings in the newsletter! If you have a painting you would like to share from your summer of painting..send to me (Anne) at ctn95508@centurytel.net by October 28th to be in the November newsletter! If you need to mail me a photo please look up my address in the directory you received and send it by post.

7 Arkansas Arts Center 2014 Traveling Show The AAC has now chosen the following artists from our 2014 exhibition to be in the 2014 traveling show: Gary Alexander, Justin Bryant, Ruth Byrn, Jeannie Knod Edwards, L.S. Eldridge, Ruth Fein, Diana Foote, Jeannie Fry, Karlyn Holloway, Linda Larey, Sandra Marson, Yuri Ozaki, Luanne Stone, Gary Weeter, and George Wittenberg. This will be the final traveling show for the AAC. Upcoming Mini-Workshops Oct 25 Nov. 22 Contact Caren Garner for information Jacque Kaucher "Negative Painting" Barbara Rhodes Painting on Yupo" UPCOMING WORKSHOPS MSW workshop policy is to offer two 3-4 day workshops each year using non-member instructors. These workshops are lined up for the future. Make your plans now. October 2014 March 2015 October 2015 March 2016 October 2016 Liam Quan Zhen Linda Kemp Carl Purcell Robert Burridge Frank Francese If you have any suggestions for future workshops, please send the names to Cheryl Kellar at or Officers for 2014/2015 Jeannie Fry Barbara Rhodes Cheryl Hall Cynthia Schanink Selma Blackburn President President-Elect Treasurer Secretary Corresponding Secretary Membership Fiscal Year is June1 May 31 Go to the MSW website and print and fill out a membership form. Make your check for $35 ($40 effective March 1, 2015) payable to MSW. Mail the membership form and the check to: Membership Chairperson, MSW P. O. Box Little Rock, AR Meetings are held at the ARKANSAS ARTS CENTER 9th & Commerce / MacArthur Park Little Rock, Arkansas Use the south entrance Meetings start at 7 pm but come early for the social hour with cookies and drink. The Language of Art (This comes from a deck of cards recently purchased at the Cleveland Museum of Art, copyright Dona Budd) Gothic Named for the Goths who razed the Roman Empire, this term was used by Italians to refer to art and architecture of northern Europe between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries because they thought it crude. After the Romanesque period, emotional and preoccupied with sin, the Gothic spirit celebrated the joys of earth and glories of heaven, a spirit spectacularly demonstrated by the soaring pointed arches and the sculpture of Chartres s Cathedral (thirteenth century). The Ancestors of Christ adorning the west portal, in their schematic procession and formulaic arrangement of drapery, reflect the period s passion for iconography and complex systems of order, while the realistic and individualized faces of these figures incorporate a pleasure in and regard for life in God s daily world. The period also produced high art in the form of tapestries (The Apocalypse, , is singularly splendid), illuminated manuscripts (Tres Riches Heures, , is a magnificent example), and stained glass (Chartres s rose window is wondrous).

8 Catalyst for Creativity MSW Facebook Group Photos to appear in each newsletter. Challenge 3: Line Challenge 2: Waiting Challenge 4: Reflection

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VIEWS CALENDAR January 2014 Issue. Historic Arkansas Museum 10-4 pm. Mid-Southern Watercolorists, Inc. April

VIEWS CALENDAR January 2014 Issue. Historic Arkansas Museum 10-4 pm. Mid-Southern Watercolorists, Inc. April VIEWS CALENDAR 2014 January 2014 6-10 Shipped entries due 13 Deliver paintings to HAM, Historic Arkansas Museum 10-4 pm 15 Board Meeting 5:30 Regular Meeting 7:00 Presentation/Critique by Chris Krupinski,