Mailing Address: PO Box 3061 Sherwood 1Park, AB T8H 2T1 Street Address: 590 Broadmoor Blvd, S. Park [email protected] www.artstrathcona.com Ph: 780 449 4443 May 2018 NEWSLETTER President’s Message Here comes Summer! I promise! Welcome back to all our snowbirds. We can be proud of our Spring Show this year– I believe that we impressed both members and non-members and had a good time doing so! It takes many hands to produce such an event, and I do thank all who stepped up to help out. That is one reason I joined this Society... even if I have to set up panels, sweep the floor or take out the trash... I get a chance to converse with and learn from other artists. Next up…. The Student Show, May 11,12, 13, features our high school students and their creative talents. The Centre will be full of impressive artwork! Don’t miss seeing this event. Thanks to Elaine for implementing a workshop schedule that any art group would envy. Our workshops are a big part of what makes our Society a success, and it is hoped that you will continue to support them in the fall. I wish to add my congratulations to our member, Anne McCartney, for receiving a “Gold Medal of Honor” from the American Watercolor Society. We are so fortunate to have you in our Society, Anne! I am so happy that members are enjoying the Drop-In Painting Days! Members have now requested that this time continue into May ☺ It is nice to see the building utilized for this purpose and to enjoy with you the good times together. Don’t forget to dig out your unused art supplies for the Exchange at the June meeting. The meeting will be followed by a Potluck to envy, social time, and art items will be on the tables for a Garage Sale, with proceeds supporting the necessary Coffee Fund! Regards, Sonja. Art Society of Strathcona County
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Mailing Address: PO Box 3061 Sherwood 1Park, AB T8H 2T1 Street Address: 590 Broadmoor Blvd, S. Park [email protected] www.artstrathcona.com Ph: 780 449 4443
May 2018 NEWSLETTER President’s Message Here comes Summer! I promise! Welcome back to all our snowbirds. We can be proud of our Spring Show this year– I believe that we impressed both members and non-members and had a good time doing so! It takes many hands to produce such an event, and I do thank all who stepped up to help out. That is one reason I joined this Society... even if I have to set up panels, sweep the floor or take out the trash... I get a chance to converse with and learn from other artists.
Next up…. The Student Show, May 11,12, 13, features our high school students and their creative talents. The Centre will be full of impressive artwork! Don’t miss seeing this event.
Thanks to Elaine for implementing a workshop schedule that any art group would envy. Our workshops are a big part of what makes our Society a success, and it is hoped that you will continue to support them in the fall.
I wish to add my congratulations to our member, Anne McCartney, for receiving a “Gold Medal of Honor” from the American Watercolor Society. We are so fortunate to have you in our Society, Anne!
I am so happy that members are enjoying the Drop-In Painting Days! Members have now requested that this time continue into May ☺ It is nice to see the building utilized for this purpose and to enjoy with you the good times together.
Don’t forget to dig out your unused art supplies for the Exchange at the June meeting. The meeting will be followed by a Potluck to envy, social time, and art items will be on the tables for a Garage Sale, with proceeds supporting the necessary Coffee Fund!
Regards, Sonja. ArtSoc
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Thank you to:
Norma and Leslie for updating the IPOD music!
Brian and Christina for once again being wonderful volunteers and putting out signs for the spring show! Much appreciated.
Lorraine and Ken for opening for the Drop-In days, and being an integral part of the fun!
Christina and her crew for updates in the Newsletter and an expert handling of our Library!!
MEMBERS’ CORNER
Next Board Meeting: Tuesday, May 1 @ 6:30 pm @ Ottewell Centre
NOTE: The Board meeting in June has been changed to Thursday, June 7.
Next General Meeting: Tuesday, May 8 @ 7:00 pm @ Ottewell Centre ***
Guest speaker will be member, Dianna Sapara, who will speak about and demo “Encaustics”. Dianna is also the Feature Artist in the Loft for May/June.
Any new members (or newer members or anyone) who would like information on the Art Society and its programs and regulations, please join Sonja at 6:15 pm (before the May 8 General Meeting) in the Loft Gallery...a time for information and questions.
Student Art Competition - Show and Sale - May 11, 12, 13 (Friday 7pm-9pm with prize presentation) & Saturday and Sunday, 11-4 pm.
Drop In Painting Days in May: Wednesdays, May 2, 16, 23, 30, and Mondays, May 7, 14 and 28..
Last General Meeting before Summer break: June 12 @ 6:30 pm. Please bring your unwanted art supplies for a garage sale to support our meeting coffee fund. …and of course, don’t forget your Potluck Dish!
ASSC Annual Student Art Competition, Show and Sale
May 11, 7 to 9 pm; May 12 and 13, 11 to 4 pm. COME AND VIEW (or buy) artwork with a difference! THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF TALENT IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH..AND YOU WILL BE INSPIRED, AMAZED AND IN AWE!
WORKSHOP REVIEWS: On the Sharon Lynn Williams Workshop - Luminous Oil Florals
As a 'realist' painter who started in acrylics but was now just starting to explore oil paint, I was attracted to Sharon's workshop to learn more about painting with oils, particularly 'wet-on-wet', try painting flowers, which I had no success at, and to loosen up my painting style. I wanted to be challenged and pushed a bit and Sharon did not disappoint! It was obvious she has a tremendous amount of experience painting 'wet-on-wet' and was able to lay paint down with very few strokes, using incredible color. To achieve the 'luminescent florals', which was the focus of her workshop, she emphasized the importance of starting a painting with transparent colors to create depth and richness where wanted, then adding opaque colors to highlight and emphasize the important parts of the painting. I had never paid much attention to transparent and opaque colors but after this I will ensure my color palette has enough of both! I don't think I can do a painting now without focusing on the transparency of any paint. Painting 'wet-on-wet' was totally new and, doing two paintings in two days, I quickly learned and understood the process. In doing so I also learned the importance of planning brush strokes, and ensuring the color values and hues were correct before applying them. I never thought I could start and finish a painting in one day or a few hours. I hope to try 'plein air' painting some day and this workshop also prepared me for that! Her composition and style of applying paint loosely, not worrying about so much detail, took me where I needed to go to 'loosen up'! It was an incredible valuable course for the fee that was charged!!! Thanks Wally
Email from Sharon Lynn Williams:
I had a wonderful time! The students were great and most appreciative. Dan and Sophia were most helpful and kind. The students have encouraged me to put in a proposal to teach an acrylic workshop,. The hotel was wonderful -thankfully they put me on the 4th floor, away from the mess of young boys present for a hockey tournament. I look forward to returning to your group in the future!
Cindy Revell Oil Painting Hi Sue, Sophia and Dan, I just wanted to say thank you once again for your help with this workshop. I am really happy with how it turned out and it certainly wouldn’t have gone as smoothly without you. Thank you for making this a great experience. I had an excellent time and am impressed with the artwork produced by the participants. They should all be proud of their work. Cindy. What a great Workshop! Cindy shared many great tips to help us out and made a point of coming around while we worked to encourage, suggest and guide us. We all produced some lovely fun whimsical pieces to bring home. Great turnout with seventeen students, some from the Leduc Art Club. Thanks to Dan and Sophia for their volunteer work, they looked after us very well!" L. Nagle Cindy's workshop was truly 2 fun filled days!! I did not realize how much I had missed ""playing" - with freedom to use crazy colors and wild ideas ... A wonderful instructor - I hope she returns. What was also so encouraging - the lovely pieces the participants were producing. ... magical! I had so much fun in Cindy Revell’s whimsical oil painting workshop. She is very enthusiastic and loves to share her amazing talent and ideas inspiring me to unlock my imagination. Although it was an oil painting class, Cindy was also very open to acrylic that some of us used including myself. She did however show us the benefits of oils and I am now eager to start painting with a new medium. Can’t wait to explore whimsy and oils!
AFTER HOURS - University Hospital
September 3 to November 2 If you are interested in showing in this display, we are being featured as the Art Society of Strathcona County. There are 11 panels behind glass located by the main entrance of the U of A Hospital and receive hundreds of people a day walking past. We will be setting up on September 3, but that is a holiday, so I will be contacting the hospital to double check and I think it will be the Tuesday which is the 4th. Time will also be announced. Panels will be done by a draw. Please email me on June 1st and the first 11 will be given a panel. If there is an overwhelming response we could have each one have a certain amount of inches as we do in shows. Sales - I will look after the sales and arrange for a switch out twice during our rotation. We will be collecting the money and will donate 30% back to the hospital. If someone is interested in a piece I will cc. you, the artist, and we will go from there. We can arrange a sale and switch out. Please consider that this show takes place as the same time as the Fall Show and also the Cross Cancer so keep that in mind. So... if you are interested please mark June 1st on the calendar and email me. Joyce Boyer - please note a new email - [email protected]
SPRING SHOW 2019
As discussed in a general meeting we have an exciting take on a new show and we will need to do a quick meeting to just get the ball moving prior to the Fall Show as we will have a hand out that will need to be ready for the fall show. Psst… this is going to be such a different take on a show that we have to have it going now. You artists are going to want to be at the OCTOBER MEETING 2018 so that you can get the full view of what this show is going to be like. It could be one that beats records in sales if we work it right. Please email me at [email protected] if you wish to be a part of the organization of this show, so I can get your name down.
Cheers, Joyce
STATS FROM THE “SPRING FLING” Art Show and Sale in April:
Artists Registered: 34 Art Pieces Registered 213 Art Pieces Shown 208 Art Pieces Sold 20 Attendance: Friday night 130 not including artists and spouses Saturday 125 Sunday $119 Total: 374 Approximate Financials Sales Friday $2040 Saturday $1085 Sunday $835 Gross Sales $3960.00 Payout to artists $3168.00 Commission to ASSC $792.00 Revenue: Registrations: $1,020.05 Silver Collection $ 744.05 Art Sales: $3,960.00 $5,724.05 Expenses: Hall Rental $ 400.00 Invitations etc. $ 113.40 Kitchen/food $ 304.50 Décor $ 62.95 Misc. supplies $ 13.64 Advertising: SP News $ 655.20 Bugle $ 69.00 Baseline Sign $ 75.00 Email blast $ 52.50 FB boost $ 62.84 Payout to Artists $3,168.00 $4,977.03 Surplus $ 747.02
WEBSITE You are a member of the Art Society of Strathcona County and both you and the society would benefit if you expanded your Profile page on the website. Your name has been added to the database so you will have access to our website and the Member’s Only section. To gain access to the Member’s Only section, you will need to do a one time setup of your account and password.
- Click on the “Forgot password” link located beside the “Login” button at the bottom of the left column. - Type in your email address and the 6 characters you see in the picture. - You will receive an email giving you instructions on how to set up your account.
- Once this is done, you will have access to all membership pages. - Be sure to visit the “How To Docs” section to learn how to setup your profile and include images of your artwork!!
Loft Gallery and Gift Shop
Open Saturday and Sunday 12:00 – 4:00 pm The new May-June rotation will be hung April 28 and promises to be a phenomenal show. We are excited to welcome some new artists to the Loft along with our Feature Artist, Diana Sapara. During this rotation, the Student Art Show and the Studio Tours will take place, potentially bringing in many visitors to the Gallery. This show will run until July 12. As the Loft Gallery moved toward ramping up our Facebook presence, we found it beneficial to discontinue our own Loft Gallery page and amalgamate it with the Art Society page. Now all information and reminders will be on one Facebook page. We have opened the “Shop” feature on the Art Society page to allow you to see all paintings in the Gallery. Please check it out!
SO PROUD OF OUR MEMBER, ANNE McCARTNEY !!! For the past 151 years the American Watercolor Society have hosted a juried international exhibition in New York City. As the awards usually total over $40,000, this has become a very prestigious show for watercolour artists around the world, attracting masters to the medium. After the panel of jurors (5-6) have selected the 150 or so pieces to be exhibited, the pieces are sent to NYC and another panel selects the prize winners. This year my piece “Art for Art’s Sake” was selected for the Gold medal of honour, the top award which comes with a $4000 (US) cheque. I am over the moon and very honoured. I will be heading to NYC at the end of April to receive the award at the awards dinner, a very exciting evening meeting artists from all over who I’ve admired for years, last year I was thrilled to meet Tony Bennett... who knows who’s going to be there this time:). I can hardly wait! www.mccartneyartworks.com www.facebook.com/mccartneyartworks www.facebook.com/AnneMcCartney.watercolorist
WORKSHOPS 2018
JUNE Geologic Abstracts and Abstracted Tree Collage with Carol Nelson June 4, 5, 6. - FULL
SEPTEMBER Alberta Landscape in Mixed Media - Doris Charest – Saturday/Sunday. Sept 8\9
2018. Cost $110 Willie Wong 6 week session Sept – Oct Cost $160
OCTOBER ALCOHOL INK ON YUPO - With Sherry Telle. Oct 13/14 9am-4pm Cost $110 NOVEMBER “THE FORCE OF GRAVITY” – Abstraction in Watercolour With Brent Laycock. Nov. 1/2 9:30-4pm Cost $110 BUILDING A BUILDING WITH PEN & INK AND WATERCOLOURS With Cam Wilson. Nov. 3/4 10am-4pm Cost $110 INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED PASTELS – with Trish Acres. Nov. 11. 10am-4pm Cost $55
Report by Elaine Tweedy Workshop co-ordinator May 2018
A note from a previous instructor – Cindy Revell
Once a month Cindy Revell emails out a mini art lesson called Artsnips. If you think you would be interested in receiving this, please feel free to email Cindy and she will add you to the list of recipients. You can visit this link to read some of them https://www.cindyrevell.com/artsnips.
Sherwood Park Photography Group of the ASSC The next meeting will be Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Abstract Photography by Bev Holoboff Sherwood Park Photography group committee of the Art Society of Strathcona County Library Corner Welcome to Spring! In celebration of the days becoming longer and providing enough sunlight (and warmth) to go for walks in the evening, we’ve put together a list of books in the ASSC library that cover the subject of light. We have quite a few, so come and browse our shelves at the next meeting and get ready for working in the light. Fill Your Watercolors With Nature's Light Roland Roycraft Painting Light with Colored Pencil Cecile Baird Atmosphere, Mood & Light (Paint a watercolor landscape in minutes)
Keith Fenwick
Splash 04 – The Splendor of Light Rachel Rubin Wolf Fill Your Oil Paintings with Light & Color Kevin Macpherson Light How to See it, How to Paint It Lucy Willis Light & Shade in Watercolor Hazel Soan Pouring Light Jean H. Grastorf Color Harmonies, Paint Watercolor Filled with Light Edin & Jepsen Strokes of Genius 2 - Best of Drawing Light and Shadow Rachel Rubin Wolf Capturing Light in Oils Strisik, Paul Fill Your Watercolors with Light and Color Roland Roycraft Splash 14 Light & Color Rachel Rubin Wolf Capturing Limited Light with Expressive Brushwork Betty Carr Light in Acrylic Linda Kemp
Color and Light James Gurney Painting Spectacular Light Effects in Watercolor Paul Jackson Painting the Many Moods of Light Rachael Rubin Wolf Capturing Light in Watercolor Marilyn Simandle See you in May. The Library Committee
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Editor’s Message It would be very much appreciated if all submissions for the Newsletter could be sent by the 22nd of each month. And if you possibly can, please use ‘Arial’ font for your submissions, (it just makes life easier for the editor.) Members If you are having a show or an art event, please send your information to Dianne Dixon, Newsletter Editor, at [email protected] for inclusion in the Newsletter! Also If you have any photos of art that you would like to send me so I can build of file of artworks to use in the newsletter, when there is space, it would be great.
YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT THESE LINKS!
Strathcona County Permanent Art Collection.
Interesting to have a look at these links – the first will give you a tour of the public act commissioned by the County and on display around the area. The second shows artwork in the Permanent Art Collection of the County.
Virtual Tour of Public Art in Strathcona County: https://strathconacounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Shortlist/index.html?appid=1d7ec74fcba040b98555994ce59a66fe Strathcona County Art Collection: https://ehive.com/objects?communityId=1034&query=cat_type%3Aart&sort=name&order=asc&viewlightbox
Edmonton Art Club Workshops:
QoR Watercolour Demonstration with Samantha Williams Chapelsky
EVERYONE WELCOME
Samantha will work with QoR Watercolors in combination with GOLDEN Acrylics to explore the resoluability
of watercolor and the permanence of acrylics. Attendees will each receive a selection of the products discussed
to take home and explore the breadth and depth of GOLDEN’s professional product line.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
WHERE Edmonton Art Club, The Orange HubRoom 108, 10045 - 156 ST NW, Edmonton
