Monthly Meeting
Monday, February 13, 2017
6:00 pm at First Christian Church
After a brief business meeting and introduction of our new juried Signature members, Tricia Wente and Carol Rhodes will present the evening program, “Disasters: Best Practices in Correcting Errors in Watercolor.”
Improve your paintings, learn to make “adjustments” during the painting process. Everyone needs to learn a few tricks to manage this medium, and by experimenting you too will have a better grasp of how to deal with certain quirks of watercolor painting.
Bring one disaster painting of your own (we all have them) and any of the following materials you have on hand. For example: sponge, a few brushes, small water container. We will provide some tools to share.
The BWS Spring Calendar will be distributed and it’s a full one!
Welcome to New members
BWS welcome the following artists and we hope to get to see you soon:
Joanne Baum, Rose Brenner, Eric Brock, Patricia Coleman, Ellen Flach, Tereasa Laakman, and Grant Wood.
The Art of Chocolate Show
We Paint…Mardi Gras!
Opening Reception
Friday Gallery Walk, February 3, 5-8 pm
The Vault at Gallery Mortgage
Wear your beads and mask and have fun at the opening reception where the Best of Show will be announced with a prize of $100 and two tickets to the Week of Chocolate Keynote event at IU Memorial Union. The Runner-up will receive two tickets, and four names of participating artists will be drawn to receive two tickets each, too. (Value of the tickets is $75 each!)
Sales will be split 50/50 with the artist and LIFEDesigns. Greeting cards featuring chocolate and Valentines will be sold at the reception for $5 each, with all proceeds going to LIFEDesigns.
And while you are downtown, scoot on over to the Monroe County History Center where a few BWS artists will be doing demos. The Centennial show is up through the end of February and now is a good time to go see it again!
Emerging Artists Exhibit
BWS is proud to support and encourage young high school artists, and we did just that by sponsoring awards at the Emerging Artists exhibit, held in January at the Venue Fine Art and Gifts. The results are in: below, you can see the three works that won the 2D painting category and the 3D Best in Show.
Child by Emily Yeargin
(Best in Show)
Boy by Olivia Robinson (Silver Best in Show)
Pine Trees in Winter by Jaiden Harris (Honorable Mention)
Imre by Barbara Granicz (Stained Glass (3D Best in Show))
BWS Scholarship Application Open for input
Thanks to Jo Weddle, chair of the BWS Scholarship Committee, for attending and promoting the scholarship. Many thanks, also, to Andy Lehman for designing the BWS Scholarship poster. See the poster at the link below:
Please encourage your young artists to apply. Request details at info@bloomingtonwatercolor.org
Member News
BWS Upland Plein Air Painters
On January 17, Upland held the winter/spring organizational meeting where we began to fill in the 2017 calendar. Through March, Upland will concentrate on a variety of inside activities which are in the planning phase now. If you are not an Upland participant and want to join in, contact upland@bloomingtonwatercolor.org.
Plein Air Exhibition at Bellevue Gallery
The 1st Annual Plein Air Exhibition of the Bloomington Watercolor Society and Upland Plein Air Painters will be at the Bellevue Gallery at the Farmer House Museum, April 6 to May 2. The reception will be Friday, April 7 from 5 to 8 pm. Members have already signed up to exhibit and, because of limited space, there is a waiting list. The prospectus was distributed and posted online at bloomingtonwatercolor.org. For more information, contact upland@bloomingtonwatercolor.org.
Opportunities
All-Media Still Life Class
Don Geyra has scheduled an all media art class for two Wednesdays, February 15 and 22, 2-4 pm. Price is $60 and will consist of a still life to be worked over the two sessions. All media are welcome. Pastel. Oil. Watercolor. Acrylic. The class will be held in Bedford at the Lawrence County Art Association.
Contact Don Geyra 287-8748 or Phyllis Westfall 279-4734 to enroll. If you are unfamiliar with Don’s work, go here to dongeyra.com/gallery
Color Theory Workshop
Robin Edmundson will be facilitating a 3-day Color Experience at MoonTree Studios in Plymouth, Indiana, April 21-23, 2017. If you’ve been waiting for a chance to learn some color theory, and then have the time really run with it, this is your chance. There will be a half day class on basic color theory to jump start you, then you’ll have 2 1/2 days to explore color in your own direction. Robin is there to cheer you on, help with more color theory, brainstorm, bounce ideas off of, etc. We conclude each day with a “show and tell” to look at what others are doing with other media, share progress, ask questions, share frustrations, and brainstorm. You’ll be encouraged to experiment and explore things you haven’t tried before, and explorations will be flexible enough to allow for change in direction if desired. Our emphasis is on the color exploration, not on completing a set of products by the end of the experience. It’ll be a small-ish group between 6-8 folks in any area of visual art or fiber art. $320 for the three days [$290 if you’re a member of MoonTree Studios] (For example explorations and materials list, see their website – link below.) Here’s the link to the class: http://www.moontreestudios.org/index.php/test-store/2015-09-11-19-14-42#!/Color-Exploration-in-2D-and-3D-Visual-Art-with-Robin-Edmundson/p/72672647/category=19838035 Robin will have MoonTree Studios catalogs at the February meeting so you can see all the great classes they offer.
Lawrence County Art Association
The LCAA, located in downtown Bedford at the Wiley Art Center, 1402 J Street, offers members an opportunity for a paint-in nearly every Thursday from 1-3 pm. To discover more and become a member, link to http://www.lawrencecountyart.org.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
