B W S NEWSLETTER February 2017 Issue #112 Cocoa Playhouse by Pat Bowlds
SPOTLIGHT ARTIST PAT BOWLDS Pat has been an active member of BWS since 2008. She is, perhaps, best known as a teacher, and she offers watercolor painting and drawing classes on a regular basis. She will be holding a BWS mini workshop on perspective drawing on April 22, 2017. Her interest in art began early when she needed to draw the structure of molecules in her chemistry classes. Pat holds a doctorate in organic chemistry and discovered that she just loved to draw molecules in perspective! Her devotion and love of watercolor arose from living in England in the early 90's while on an IBM assignment. She studied under Alan Roe, one of England's best watercolorists and illustrators and has been hooked on watercolor ever since. Pat has also taken classes under BWS teachers Bobbi Q. Brown and Linda D. Neal and frequently attends BWS three-day workshops given by visiting professional artists. While her primary choice of media is watercolor, she also works with mixed media using acrylic inks and acrylic paints. Using her drawing skills, she loves to paint landscapes, houses, interiors, historic buildings, still life subjects and boats. More recently, her interests are focused on contemporary art and abstract expressionism. Today's wide variety of new materials and techniques and modifications of traditional paints are creating new directions in art resulting in exciting new works. She is currently developing a series of classes focused on these new directions. In Splash 2016, Pat received a merit award for her entry Salt Life. She was very pleased that it won an award as this was her very Moon Rise Pat Bowlds Salt Life first painting in her new directions. Pat is heading up the 2017 Splash Student Gallery at the BWS show. She is actively working with other BWS teachers to encourage their students to enter the show. It is a great learning opportunity for the students to follow the prospectus and to give them the confidence to participate. Pat can be contacted by giving her a call at (321) 633-9712 or sending an email to pbowlds@gmail.com. For more about her work, go to her blog at patbowlds.blogspot.com/
Fun! Get to know each other! ONLY VOLUNTEERS CAN MAKE SPLASH SUCCESSFUL This is our biggest event of the year and your greatest opportunity to get to know fellow members interested in keeping BWS the fantastic organization it is! BWS membership is such a great value for $45 a year in the information you can get from free demonstrations given by nationally recognized artists and our own members via workshops and just being around other artists who love watercolor. So please help out by giving some of your time and effort to making Splash great again. The greatest needs are: Baskets - Gathering new (or good condition) items, put together baskets by theme at home or at a Basket event TBD. IMPORTANT: Please include an index card in your basket with the theme or title of your basket, who donated the basket, itemized list of the contents and estimated value of each item. Suggested items: Gift certificates to local restaurants, art supplies, spa or bath
products, wine, kitchen items, small paintings, etc. Please deliver all baskets to Art & Antiques beginning February 1, 2016 Silent Auction - We also need individual donations for the silent auction, bigger ticket items or items that won t fit in a basket. Suggested items: small original paintings, jewelry, theatre tickets, etc. Again, items can be delivered to Art & Antique beginning February 1, 2016 Soliciting Ads for the Brochure - These must be submitted to the Webmaster by 2/6. Please download the ad form from the BWS website. Distributing Postcards/Posters available at the Art and Antique Studio. Chairpersons of Splash 2017 Phyllis Marple Silent Auction, 50/50 Raffle, Baskets, Demos, Cashier,321/960-8076, phyllismarpleartz@gmail.com Barbara Rios Postcard, Posters, Publicity, Display and Hanging/Takedown, 321/446-6154, barbrios@bellsouth.net Mary Salvage Volunteers, Greeters, Student Show, Marketplace, Judging, 321/301-7779, marysalvage@icloud.com, Debbie Whalen Awards, Ribbons, Winner s Certificates, Award Reception, Kitchen 321/474-9128, designdebbie@hotmail.com THE LAST VOLUNTEER MEETING WILL BE TUESDAY 2/7, 6:00PM- 7:30PM, COURTYARD STUDIO, 1425 HIGHLAND AVE, DOWNTOWN EAU GALLIE. 3-DAY WORKSHOP SCHEDULE FOR 2017 WHERE: AHF Hall, 535 Hammock Road, Melbourne Village WHEN: Sunday-Tuesday (dates below), 9:00 am 4:00 pm COST: BWS members $225 Non-members $340 FREE DEMO: for members at the General Meetings (Satellite Beach City Hall, 565 Cassia Blvd.) the Saturday prior to each Workshop (EXCEPTION BELOW) MATERIAL LIST AND SIGN-UP: www.brevardwatercolorsociety.com CONTACT: Jolene Bruce, jobarrybruce@yahoo.com or Brenda Hutchinson, brendartist@gmail.com
******The March General Meeting and Warren demo will be one week later than usual on 3/18 at the AHF Hall, 535 Hammock Road in Melbourne Village. BWS EVENT SCHEDULE No Plein Air or Mini-Workshop in February 2/6/17 Monday midnight Deadline for Splash ads to Webmaster 2/7/17 Tuesday 6pm-8pm Last Splash Volunteer meeting! 2/17/17 Friday 9am-10am Take In Paintings, Azan Shriner Temple 6pm-8pm Opening Reception and Awards 2/18-19 Sat/Sun 10am-5pm Splash Sunday 5:30pm Take Down Paintings 3/11/17 Saturday 9pm-noon Plein Air, location TBD 3/18/17 Saturday 1pm-3pm General Meeting, demo by Soon Y. Warren At AHF Hall, 535 Hammock Rd, Melb. Villg. 3/19-21 Sun-Tues 9am-4pm 3-day workshop by Soon Y. Warren 3/25/17 Saturday 10am-2pm Mini-workshop with Therese Ferguson 4/14/17 Saturday 9pm-noon Plein Air, location TBD
4/22/17 Saturday 10am-2pm Mini-workshop with Pat Bowlds 5/13/17 Saturday 1pm-3pm General Meeting and Robbie Laird demo 5/14-16 Sun-Tues 9am-4pm 3-day workshop by Robbie Laird 5/20/17 Saturday 9pm-noon Plein Air, location TBD 5/27/17 Saturday 10am-2pm Mini-workshop with Pat Mears June and July is summer break for BWS MISCELLANEOUS Keep informed on what art events are happening in Brevard County Brevard Cultural Alliance website: www.artsbrevard.org Lou Belcher s website: www.brevardartnews.com To get on their email list, contact: Lynne.brezina@artsbrevard.org lou@loubelcher.com BWS News is Published Quarterly by the Brevard Watercolor Society www.brevardwatercolorsociety.com, Newsletter Editor: Barbara Rios THE BREVARD WATERCOLOR SOCIETY P.O. BOX 361076 MELBOURNE, FL 32936-1076 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED BWS IS A NON-PROFIT 501(c)(3) ORGANIZATION, SPONSORED IN PART BY THE BREVARD BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, THROUGH THE BREVARD CULTURAL ALLIANCE. All rights reserved