March 8

BWS meets via Zoom;

turns ATCs into greeting cards

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Join your fellow BWS members for the group’s monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, March 8. Check your March 3 email for the Zoom link. Following the business meeting, Charlotte Griffin will guide members through the process of turning Artist Trading Cards into greeting cards. This requires a little preparation so Charlotte has offered the following:

So, you went wild and made too many Artist Trading Cards. OK, then, let’s make a greeting card out of a trading card that was created in portrait view (landscape view will not work).

Materials:

• Trading Card in portrait view
• 12”x12” piece of cardstock in a color that harmonizes with the Trading Card
• 8-1/2”x11” piece of Cardstock in a contrasting color for curtain insert
• Two templates (I emailed these to you on Feb. 17.)
• Scissors and/or an Xacto Knife if you have one
• Bone folding knife or Stylus
• Glue (Glue stick, Elmer’s glue, Quilling paste, Scrapbook adhesive roller, 1/8” or 1/3” Scor-Tape)

Before the program you should do the following:

Print template 1 that was sent to you Feb. 17 via email onto printer paper.  Note: It will print across two pieces of printer paper.  Cut out the large shapes and glue them into one long template 1. 

Trace that template 1 onto the 12”x12” paper and cut cardstock along the solid lines.

Do one of the following:

Alternative 1: Print template 2 onto the 8-1/2”x11” cardstock; cut along the solid lines.

Alternative 2: Print template 2 on to printer paper and cut out the shapes of the pulls and the window.  Trace those shapes onto 8-1/2”x11” cardstock. Use your own greeting for the curtain pieces, and write “Pull” on the pull tabs.  Cut the cardstock along the solid lines.

Charlotte will provide assembly instructions Monday evening in the meeting.

We Paint…Carnival!

On display at the Vault through March 26

9-5 Monday through Friday

The Vault at Gallery Mortgage

121 E. Sixth St., Bloomington

Congratulations to Candi Bailey for winning Best of Show for “Masquerade” (above) and to Tim Lewis for Silver Second for his “Bourbon Street Morning” (below).

Winners of the drawing for prizes were Phyllis Taylor, Patty Uffman, and Susan Savastuck.

Many thanks for donating awards and prizes go to Andrew Preston of Preston Arts Center, John La Bella of the Vault, and BWS. Paintings by Penny Lulich, Candi Bailey, and Lynne Gilliatt had sold by press time.

Several artists created greeting cards, and 21 of those have sold with orders for more. Thank you to Charlotte Griffin, Linda Branstetter, Sharon Parsons, and Penny Lulich for those creative contributions.

Gabe Colman worked hours on this exhibit as planner, curator, judge, and virtual tour host. Thank you, Gabe.

Check out the YouTube video of the “We Paint the Carnival!” show, narrated by Gabe Colman at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA381rjr0sA.

“BWS’s benevolent activities, including the Month of Chocolate and our Art Scholarship, have helped establish and maintain our organization’s credibility in the southern Indiana community,” Jeanne Dutton said. “We can be proud of that record of service.”

Members share resources

Jerry Harste wrote to say that Nancy Metz had alerted him to Karen Knutson’s approach to mixed media collage. As a result, he ordered Karen’s new video, “Fun with Mixed Media.” Below he shares a couple of recent paintings he did using Karen’s techniques. Jerry says any BWS member can contact him via email or phone to borrow the video.

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Editor’s note: Anyone wanting to share should send in a description of the resource and instructions on how to arrange the pickup. It’s the sort of sharing we would do during meetings; it just takes a little more coordination in these pandemic times.

Viridian Moon Gallery gets

coverage in local paper

The Feb. 28 Sunday Herald-Times featured Viridian Gallery, where several current and former BWS members are showing their work. Irina Shishova and Katya Alexeeva have opened the gallery at 1600 W. Bloomfield Road in Bloomington. It is open 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The gallery features acrylics, drawings, oils, watercolors, ceramics, and fiber art from Anne-Karine Bley, Carol Rhodes, Eric Brock, Henry Leck, Irina Shishova, Jacki Frey, Katya Alexeeva, Nancy Davis Metz, Laurel Bender, and Olga Klyachko. Check out the online gallery at www.viridianmoon.art.

Member news

Andy Roberts painted actively in preparation for the Annual Sanibel-Captiva Art League Fair, an event that attracted approximately 800 visitors, and it paid off. Andy sold five paintings and many notecards. He says he has enjoyed the winter in Florida and looks forward to returning to Indiana in April for spring.

”Rosemary at Rancho Jacona, New Mexico” by Lynne Gilliatt was awarded Best of Show in The Friends of T.C. Steele show in Nashville last month. The award includes a $1,000 cash prize. “My piece was very large and pastel work done in New Mexico of a friend, a peacock and the sun shining on trees at sunset,” Lynne said. “The setting was Rancho Jacona, a place where small casitas are available to rent and where I once stayed.” The pastel painting was done on fine grit sanded paper.

Clockwise from top left: Linton Barn by Robin Edmundson; Waiting for the S-Bohn by Penny Lulich; Market Day by Meri Reinhold; Social Distancing by Nancy Davis Metz, and Lotus Mandala by Sara Steffey McQueen

Bloomington Watercolor Society has a strong presence in the Kentucky Watercolor Society’s 2021 AquaVenture exhibit. Five of the 43 paintings are by BWS members. Robin Edmundson, Penny Lulich, Sara Steffey McQueen, Nancy Davis Metz, and Meri Reinhold have work accepted in to the exhibit, which will be displayed on the KWS website www.kentuckywatercolorsociety.com under “Exhibitions” from March 15 through April 30. The 43 paintings were selected by juror Marianna McDonald from 100 entries.

“The Collection” by Tim Lewis received the 3rd Place Award in the Brown County Art Guild’s Can You Paint Challenge. His “Sweet Gum Autumn” painting received an Honorable Mention award in the Nature’s Inspirations Fine Art Exhibit & Sale at Cool Creek Nature Center in Fishers. Two of his three entries were accepted into the Minnetrista Annual Juried Art Show in Muncie.

Beyond BWS

The Watercolor Society of Indiana has published the prospectus for the WSI Juried Show for 2021, which will hang at the Indianapolis Museum of Art @ Newfields Aug. 6 through Sept. 25.

Artists can register and pay online at www.watercolorsocietyofindiana.org. The fee is $35 for one entry and $45 for two entries. The competition is open to current and former residents of Indiana. You must be a current WSI member. May 3 is the postmark deadline for mailing entry fee and forms with May 7 being the deadline for receipt in the WSI Office of CDs, flash drives, emails and online signups. At presstime, the prospectus had not been posted on the WSI website. You may request a prospectus by emailing wsiemail@ori.net.

My Favorite Technique

We all have something to share. Think of it as if you were at an in-person meeting and someone asked,” How did you do that?” Share some watercolor technique you like to use. Write a paragraph or two. Or break down a process in to steps and include some photographs. Cell phone photos will work for most everything. Keep it short and simple. Have it ready so that when you get the Brushstrokes Call for News email, you’ll have it ready to send.

Calendar

March 8 BWS Meeting on Zoom, 6 p.m. Link was sent in a March 3 email.

Now – March 28 We Paint … Carnival! The Vault at Gallery Mortgage, 121 E Sixth St., Bloomington

April 12 BWS Meeting via Zoom, 6 p.m. Link will be sent via email.

April 24-26 Waycross Retreat, featuring Stephen Edwards, Waycross Conference Center or via Zoom TBD

May 3 and May 7 Deadlines for entering Watercolor Society of Indiana’s Juried Exhibit