SEPTEMBER 2019

Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 7:00 pm, LLUMC Asbury Hall

Fall Kick-Off

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Summer flew by and here we are again kicking off another membership year. Over the summer, the SWS Committees and Board Members have been working behind the scenes preparing to host activities designed to spark your creativity and build relationships with other people who share your love for watermedia. First up is the September Membership Meeting on September 10 with a demo by reknowned artist Vlad Yeliseyev along with his workshop from September 10 -12, 2019. The reception for the Membership Show, which opened on Wednesday, August 28, 2019, will be Sunday, September 22, 2019 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at the Eisemann Center. In addition to the regular October Paintout being planned, SWS is partnering with the Plano Art Association and Outdoor Painters Soci-ety to participate in a joint paint out at the Plano Balloon Festival 2019 over the weekend of Septem-ber 20 - 22

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Lou Bono,SWS President

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Lou Bono2019 - 2020 PresidentSouthwestern Watercolor SocietyLoubono5@gmail.com, 469-744-7559

Welcome back to the first Scene newsletter following our summer hiatus. My photo is from the 400 year old villa, Casa Fiori, near Lucca, Italy last May – I was blessed to attend a glorious ten day sketching and watercolor vacation with a fellow SWS and Urban Sketchers members from Dallas – it was a life changing event with an abundance of art, history, food, and fellowship.

Our 56th Exhibition committee, led by 4th VP of Exhibitions, Regina Carl, has been hard at work over the summer to make this year’s exhibition the best ever! A huge thank you to the entire team for your dedication, time and talents! All the details which have come together in a great way including Café management, Juror correspondence, printing certificates, name cards, venue, entertainment, cater-ing, professional standards, shipping, art take in, catalog and handout design, printing. Wow!

Special thanks to Gail Cooksey and company for providing design themes as well as local and nation-al media release and PR, and Pam Wilson for managing production tasks and vendor awards.I am so proud of our Exhibition team’s leadership and what they have accomplished for SWS and our members! The Exhibition’s opening at the Eisemann Center on August 28 and the Awards Reception on September 22, will be spectacular!

Our Board and Committee Chairs also have been working hard to line up another great year of guest workshop artists and events. September brings a special plein air event at the Plano Balloon festival where we join palettes with the Outdoor Painter Society and Plano Art Society. October brings our SWS fall paint out in Mineola-Quitman – thanks to Gaylord O’Con, our Paint Out Chair.

Thanks to Sherry Daerr, our communications/ Constant Contact Chair, Kay Byfield, our news editor and Steve Miller, our webmaster - this team always does a great job keeping members informed. I am optimistic about the coming year and privileged to serve a second term as SWS President.

ARTIST’S SPOTLIGHT

Dana Brock

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‘Be fearless in pursuit of what sets your soul on fire!’

And, painting sets my soul on fire! I’m a fairly new artist. I’ve only been painting for the last nine years. I have no formal art training, just a love for creating. I spent my college days split between two disciplines: Inte-rior Design and Accounting; and a lot of my working years doing both. After working several years in the accounting field, I was looking for a creative balance and began taking jewelry classes. Hooked on the pro-cesses, jewelry making became my creative passion in my off hours. I am self-taught in some areas, class taught in others. I started design-ing jewelry, opened my business, D’zyn By Dana; and seventeen years later am still completely in love with the art of making jewelry.

Overall, jewelry design has been relatively smooth; but you know those creative juices don’t always flow, even when you are doing something you love. I came to a stretch where I just couldn’t come up with a single creative idea. So, I decided to step back and try a different creative expression. I took a painting class. I wanted to approach shapes and color from a different perspec-tive. I wanted to just let go and create and hoped that it might ‘jump start’ my creativity in jewelry design. I had taken a few art courses in college but had not worked much in acrylics, water-colors or inks. That was nine

years ago, and I am still hopelessly in love with the art of painting. I’ve taken numerous art workshops since beginning, and am in-spired by a great many artists. Painting and jewelry are my perfect

mix. They each entice, encourage and challenge the other, always spurring each other on. So, now my weeks are a mix of both my loves.

‘Stop thinking! Just Paint!’ That is a phrase that works great for me. Some of my paintings begin with a purpose. Others evolve through the layers, directing their own path. I usually start with a limited palette, an abstract mix of colors, marks and white space. I’ll stand back and look at the painting, turning it different directions to see if any shapes emerge. It’s fun to see the painting cre-ating itself. Many of the marks I make are loose quirky shapes, things that are crooked or slightly off. I prefer drawing with my non-dominate

(left) hand. It creates marks that are less contrived, more abstract. I love experimenting with textures. Most often texture and shapes compete with contrast and color. Then, using negative space tech-

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niques, paint the images I see emerging. It’s fun and sometimes sur-prising to see what the final painting looks like.

My favorite surfaces are paper, canvas and birch board. Acrylic is my go-to guy; but watercolor, ink, and charcoal like to sneak their way in. My process of painting is very free-flowing and organic; pleasurable in it’s unfolding, expansive in the knowledge it reveals, and occasionally surprising in its emergence. I look forward to seeing all the ways my paintings and my painting life will reveal themselves in the years ahead

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SWS RECENT EVENTS

SWS Slide Preview of the Membership Show

The Southwestern Watercolor Society was on hiatus for the summer months of June, July, and August with the exception of collecting entries for the Membership Show on June 30 and show-ing the submitted slides at the preview show before they were sent to the Juror, .

The deadline for entries was midnight on Sunday, June 30, 2019 on Café. After the entries were catalogued to be sent to the judge, they were projected at the Preview Party on Sunday, July 7, 2019 at the Royal Lane Baptist Church. This gave anyone who was in-terested the opportunity to see all the entries submitted to the juror and to enjoy refreshments and fellowship with other watercolor enthusiasts. It is always fun to see the full range of works that were submitted before the juror selects his or her favorites.

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Exhibition and Awards ReceptionThe 82 watercolor and water media paintings that were accepted into the Southwestern Watercolor Society’s 56th Annual Member Exhibition are now on display at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. All members and their families and friends are invited to the Awards Reception on Sunday, September 22, from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

At the reception, there will be almost $6000 in cash awards. The SWS major awards include Best of Show $1500.00 Edgar A. Whitney $1000.00 (for transparent watercolor only) 1st Place $750.00 2nd Place $500.00 3rd Place $300.00

plus memorial awards for deceased members.

The exhibition will be open to the public through Saturday, September 28, at the Eisemann, located at 2351 Performance Drive in Richardson. The exhibition is in the Mezzanine Gallery and is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, or any time during public events.

Internationally recognized artist Vlad Yeliseyev will judge the show in advance of the awards reception. Yeliseyev is also holding a SWS workshop in Dallas in September.

A total of 412 paintings were submitted in this year’s competition from 162 artists. Yeliseyev selected 82 to be accepted into the show.

Artists whose work was accepted in the show must pick up their art on Monday, September 30, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Eisemann, or arrange to have the work shipped by Navis Pack & Ship.

There is a lot of work that goes into a successful exhibition and the committee leaders who were instrumental in mounting this show were:

Exhibition Chair (SWS 4th VP) Regina Carl

CAFE Coordination Judith Pafford

Take-In Standards Gail Delger

Take-In Team Linda Franklin

Take-In Team Ed Cunningham

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Take-In Team Sherry Kappus

Publicity Gail Cooksey

Communications Gail Chandler

Hospitality Vice Chair Dalynn Montgomery

Production Vice Chair Pam Wilson

Awards Coordinator Lana Housewright

Preview Party SlideShow Paula Vining

Catalog Robyn Jorde

Handout Celeste McCall

Printing Dana Brock

Sincere thanks to everyone who contributed.

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September Membership Meeting

The September Membership Meeting will feature well-known water-color and plein air artist Vlad Yeliseyev who is a signature member of the American Impressionist Society, National Watercolor Society. The meeting will be held at the Lover’s Lane United Methodist Church at the corner of Northwest Highway and Inwood Road.

Vlad will have been the juror and judge for the 56th Annual SWS Membership Show and will be demonstrating his “3 Stages and 3 Colors” approach to painting. His goal is to show painters how to focus on clarity in understanding color and its implementation.

The Russian émigré came to the Unites States in the 1980s equipped with a classical art education from Moscow School of Art and a Mas-ter’s Degree in architecture from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Now he works in his studio in Sarasota, Florida, Rather than painting traditionally beautiful landscapes and cityscapes, he finds beauty in alleyways and paints commonplace scenes. Critics noted his bold brushwork, expert loose color passages, and crisp well edited calligraphy in his paintings. Considered a minimalist, he believes that his challenge is to say a lot with as few brushstrokes as possible so that viewers are free to bring their own insights and interpretations to the work.

Come join us to see Vlad Yeliseyev demonstrate his painting techniques at the September meeting.

September Watercolor Workshop - Vlad YeliseyevIn additon to demonstrating on Tuesday, September 10, that will also be the first day of the three day workshop featuring Vlad Yeliseyev. In this workshop. students will painti a variety of subjects from seascapes to cityscapes and learn about color and value. The workshop will be held at Teta Smith’s Studio in the SKYPONY GALLERY, at the Shops at Willow Bend Mall, 6121 W Park Blvd, Plano, TX 75093 from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. The Vlad Yeliseyev workshop is sold out but interested artists can get on the waiting list by contacting Paula Vining at pjvining1@gmail.com.

SWS Joint Paint-Out - Plano Balloon Festival, September 20 - 22, 2019Southwestern Watercolor Society/Plano Art Association/Outdoor Painters Society

This year, SWS is partnering with the Plano Art Association and Outdoor Painters Society to paint out at the Plano Balloon Festival 2019 over the weekend of September 20 - 22. Artists will have access to the Festival

Friday (4 pm - 10 pm), Saturday (6 am - 10 pm) and Sunday (6 am - 7 pm). On Friday and Saturday evenings be sure to stay for the inflating and balloon glow at twilight. A tent and tables will be available to artists to meet, show and sell work but artists must be available for the transaction. To attend the Balloon Festival participants MUST register on through the OPS website, https://www.outdoorpainterssociety.com, by September 12 for free parking and entry. Once registered, OPS will email you additional details and maps

The Outdoor Painters Society has been working with the InTouch Credit Union Plano Balloon Festival to encourage plein air painters from OPS, SWS, the Plano Art Association to paint at the festival (September 20-22, 2019). Balloon Festival officials offer incentives for artists to attend: Free Parking and Free Admission, along with tent space for gathering and showing/selling paintings (limited space. Artist must be present for sales). The latter won’t happen, however, without volunteers to help in the tent. Duties are to hand out printed material provided by each organization and hand out water bottles to registered artists during the course of the festival.

We need several volunteers to work 2 or 4 hour shifts (two volunteers per shift) during festival hours, which are: Friday 4pm-10pm, Saturday 6am-10pm, Sunday 6am-7pm. Please contact Irma Ward, irmaward99@gmail.com, to schedule a slot. (SWS President Lou Bono will be working Saturday 6am-10am slot and encourages other SWS members to staff the tent and attend this great event.)

Please register to attend at www.outdoorpaintersociety.com and contact Irma Ward, irmaward99@gmail.com, to volunteer to take a shift volunteering in the painter’s tent.

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SWS Fall Paint-Out - Grand Saline, Mineola, Quitman - October 11 and 12, 2019

In addition to the Joint Paint-Out at the Plano Balloon Festival in Sep-tember, the regular SWS Fall Paint-Out will begin with an orientation meet-ing on Friday October 11, with free paint during the day on Saturday, Oc-tober 12 ,and culminat-ing in an informal dinner gathering on Saturday evening.

On Friday, there will be an informal dinner at 6:30 PM at the East Texas Burger Co. located at 126 E Broad St, Mineola, TX 75773 (not mandatory) (Highway 80 and 69 intersection). There will be an Orientation meeting in the Hotel Lobby of the Best Western Mineola at 8:15 pm. This meeting is recommended as a way to become acquainted with the great possible locations available in Mineola, Grand Saline and Quitman, Texas, but it is not mandatory.

On Saturday painters will be free to choose their own location to set up in the area and lunch will be on your own. The evening reception and dinner will be at Lake Ford Captain Jacks Restaurant.at 3362 N Fm 17, Alba, TX 75410 (17 Minutes from Mineola) beginning at 5:30 pm. Please bring your art and a portable easel to the reception. Paintings that have been produced during the day will be shared and discussed during the optional reception. The dinner menu includes Captain jacks Famous smoked pork loin, vegetables, salad, cold drinks and tea at $15 per person. Pay Gaylord in cash the day of.the reception. BYOB. RSVP for dinner by October 1, 2019.

Twenty rooms have been reserved in a block with two queen beds or one king bed at the Best Western Mineola for $89.99 plus tax. Accomodations include a free breakfast. To make a reservation, you must call the motel (reservations for the reserved rooms cannot be made on the internet). Be sure to tell the motel that you are with the Southwestern Watercolor Society.

Motel Reservations:Motel: Best Western MineolaAddress: 100 Debby Ln, Mineola, TX 75773Phone: (903) 569-5331 Contact Dee at the motel if you have problems with your reservationBOOK EARLY

For more information or to make a reservation to attend the Paint-Out Dinner, contact:Gaylord O’Con, SWSSWS Paint-Out Chairman214 - 876 - 4851 (Text or Voice)gaylord@gaylordocon.com

To attend the Fall Paintout, RSVP to Gaylord O’Con. Only 19 places left / RSVP Soon!

Main Steet, Mineola,Texas

DATE ARTIST VENUESeptember 10 - 12Tuesday - Thursday

(3 DAY)

Vlad Yeliseyevhttps://yeliseyevfineart.com/

Teta Smith Studio

$450/$500 Class Now Full

October 8 - 10, 2019Tuesday - Thursday

(3 DAY)

Janet Rogers https://www. watercolorsby-

rogers.com

Teta Smith Studio

$350/$400

October 12 - 14, 2019Saturday - Monday

(3 DAY)

Janet Rogers https://www. watercolorsby-

rogers.com

Teta Smith Studio

$350/$400

November 13 - 15 2019Tuesday - Thursday

(3 DAY)

Stephen Quillerhttps://www.quillergallery.com

Teta Smith Studio

$350/$400 Class Now Full

Watercolor workshops are being held from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm at the Teta Smith’s Studio inside the SKYPONY GALLERY, at the Shops at Willow Bend Mall ON SECOND LEVEL, 6121 W Park Blvd, Plano, TX 75093. Park in Neiman’s garage. The mall is just off North Dallas Tollway and George Bush. The venue does not require navigating stairs to get to the workshop location and parking is easyMap: https://www.shopwillowbend.com/directory-map/

To find out more about each of the artists and the workshops, please check out the Workshops page on the SWS website at https://www.swswatercolor.org/workshops.

FALL WORKSHOPS 2019 - 2020After a hiatus over the summer, starting in September, the Fall workshop schedule begins. You will want to treat yourself to one or more of the upcoming workshops by well-known watercolor artists

Enrollment in Fall SWS Workshops is open for registration where space is still available. (Membership information is available online at https://www.swswatercolor.org/join) To register and find out more about the workshops, go to https://www.swswatercolor.org/workshops. Fill out the workshop form and make a $50 non-refundable deposit to hold your seat. The deposit is non-transferable to other work-shops or persons and will only be refunded as a result of dire circumstances or emergencies. Any refund requests will be evaluated by the Workshop VP and 1st VP Programs.

Invoices for the final balance will be mailed to workshop participants and are due 3 weeks before the workshop start date to continue to hold the seat. Fall workshops vary by instructor with non-members paying $50.00 more than members. For more information, contact Paula Vining at 817-991-3639.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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SWS HAPPENINGS

News of Members

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Tracy Poupard’s painting, “Busy”, was juried into the Watercolor West 51st International Exhibition by juror Keiko Tanabe. The show runs from Oct 12-Dec 15 at the Brea Gallery in California.

Darla Bostick had two paintings, “Night Blooms, Nairobi, Kenya” and “Beneath the Banyan” accepted by the curator to be published in the inaugural edition of the Contempo Annual book, Vol. 1. In addition, her painting, “Night Blooms, Nairobi” won 4th place in the Visual Arts Society of Texas Membership Show.

Robyn Jorde will be showing her recent watercolor and gouache paintings of old Texas movie theaters at the Oaklawn branch of the Dallas Public Library, September 3-30. The Oaklawn library is located at 4100 Cedar Springs Road, Dallas, 75219.

Robyn Jorde, “The Fort Worth Rose”, watercolor and gouache.21 x 12.5 inches.

Robbie Fitzpatrick’s watercolor “Aglow” was awarded the Diana Kan and Sing Si Schwartz Memorial Award at the 2019 American Water Color Society’s 152nd Annual Exhibition. It was also included in the pieces going on tour. Her piece “Alone,” recently juried into the New Mexico Watercolor Society Spring 2019 Exhibition, was awarded the “Dr. P.H. Martins Award “ by Juror John Salminen. Robbie’s watercolor “Foot of the Bed was one of 48 artworks included by the editors of Southwest Art Magazine in a feature in their current issue honoring their 48th Anniversary, “48 Artworks We Love.”

HAPPENINGS are stories about accomplishments earned by SWS Members including selections for juried shows, awards won, speaking engagements, selections for publication, etc. Announcements of upcoming workshop offerings, classes, art sales, and other announcements by members about services for a fee are classified as Advertisements, not Happenings. Please submit Happenings, Announcements and Advertisements to the SWS Editor, Kay Byfeld, at SWSNewsEditor@gmail.com.

Gail Delger had her painting titled, “Happytown” accepted into the Kansas Watercolor Society National Exhibition. Thomas W. Schaller is the juror. The show runs from Octo-ber 4th- December 14th at the Mark Arts Center in Wichita, Kansas.

News from the SWS Board of Directors

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SE[TEMBER MEMBERShip NEwSTotal Number of Members: 412

New Members since May:

Mark Wegmann Joel NugentDeb Arndt Pamela FineCathi Gramling Carla SimonsRick Lee, Kambiz KhadiviPatrick Fail Vonnie KohnManal Fashi Renee Mays Kerry Waltz Jan ShraderGerald Evans Karen StopnickiDavid Pyle Marilyn BrooksJeff Huckeby Jennifer Polnaszek Ginny Clougherty Ginny Webb Priscilla Wicker Linda ClaryJody Hoke Karl Schopmeyer Randal Mitchel Francoise BarnesDebbie Parmley Michele Tabor Kimbrough Diana Burke Carla GauthierStephen Henry Carla GautherStacy Geitgey Murthy ManthaPaula Weech Johathan ShireyJeanne Edwards Jeffrey JensenBrenda Catlett Charles NiemanLinda Leroy

WELCOME TO THE Southwestern

watercolor Society!

PRESIDENTLou Bono, 469-744-7559

1st VP PROGRAM CHAIRJeff Jensen, 214-244-5677

2nd VP - MEMBERSHIP CHAIRIsabel Davis, 903-886-2711

3rd VP - WORKSHOPS CHAIRPaula Vining, (817) 991-3639Dalyn Montgomery, (972) 679-9924

4th VP - EXHIBITIONS CHAIRRegina Carl,

RECORDING SECRETARYNick Kuntz, 214-520-3362

CORRESPONDING SECRETARYSherry Daerr, 214-212-7113

TREASURERPam Wilson, 972-839-1086

PARLIAMENTARIANGaylord O’Con, 214-876-4851

PAINT OUT CHAIRGaylord O’Con, 214-876-4851

SCENE EDITORKay Byfield, 214-532-5559

CONTACTS

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Teacher listings are available to members for a small annual fee of $25. For more information,

contact kaybyfield@gmail.com

LISTINGS ARE FROM JUNE - MAY FOR THE 2019-2020 MEMBER YEAR

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Marian Hirsch - marianhirsch@live.com; (972) 422-2163, Watercolor, gouache and pastel instruction.

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