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Next Meeting December 7 at Artist’s Show-

place for Christmas Party

WORKSHOPS 2009

• GAIL AYRES February 9 - 11, 2009 (3 day) Artists Showplace $150 + $36 materials All materials provided

• JUDI COFFEY March 11 - 13, 2009 (3day) Artists Showplace, $180* & $205**

• ROBERT BURRIDGE April 6 - 10 (5 day) Jaycee Center, Irving $400 * $425 **

• KATE BURRIDGE ON MARKETING April 9, 7-9 pm at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church

• CHENG KHEE CHEE September 7 - 11, 2009 (5 day) Jaycee Center, Irving $400* 425**

• CARRIE BURNS BROWN October 12 -16, 2009 (5day) Artist’s Showplace $400* 450**

• SANDI D’ALESSANDRO November 9 -11 (3day) Artist’s Showplace $180* $205**

*Member **Non Member

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W A T E R C O L O R S O C I E T Y

It was a glorious day in Weatherford... Twenty four people gathered in Weatherford on November 7 to sample the visual treats of Mary Martin's home town. Some stayed at the La Quinta Inn and others in the Angel's Nest B&B on a hill on the edge of town. Friday night we scattered to several local restaurants sampling everything from barbecue and steak to fried catfish and chicken-fried steak with free beer. Saturday dawned clear and crisp. Most of us went to Chandor Gardens and were greeted with autumn foliage and a deep blue sky. We painted fountains, waterfalls, garden arches, fall flowers, Chinese dragon dogs and a footbridge arching over a running stream filled with koi. Other of us painted at the farmer's market, the old train station, or one of the many historic homes in town. That evening we gathered at Skinny's, a BYOB hamburger joint, where we taped our paintings to the front window and held an impromptu art show complete with a "blue" ribbon for Priscilla Krejci's plein air masterpiece of the Weatherford court-

house. Best of all we had fun together with plenty of time to visit, laugh, share stories, and make memories. Years from now, I will not be sur-prised to hear someone say, "Remember that time in Weatherford . . ."

Priscilla Krejci contemplates her next move at the waterfall as Nell Byrd looks on. Tom Wellman preferred the three tiered

fountain.

Richard Wilson sketches at a nearby fountain

Herb Reed was fascinated with the Dragon Fountain

Bob Voges came well prepared for the painting experience

Naomi Brotherton and Andrea Seidman nestled among the bushes

The day’s work taped against the window at Skinny’s Walt Davis, Bob Voges, Herb Reed and Richard & Lynn Wilson enjoy libations before burgers

Dear Friends . . .

What a great fall SWS has had! Three wonder-ful workshops – with Ratindra Das, Louise Cadillac and Stephen Quiller; an annual exhibi-tion as good as any; a terrific paint-out in Weatherford in early November; and finally a

standing-room-only meeting with Steve Quiller demonstrating. Members seem to be enjoying meetings in our new space at LLUMC, with our improved sound system. And there’s more to come.

Our annual Holiday Party will be on Sunday, December 7, at 3 PM. We’ll meet at Artists’ Showplace (southwest corner of Coit and Arapaho) and have a gift exchange of paintings. Please bring one of your paintings – not framed, but matted to not exceed 11” x 16” – and gift wrapped. Also bring some nibbles or a bottle of wine to share. We will have a lot great door prizes from suppliers, teachers and artists.

If you have designs on one of our workshops, get your reser-vations in early. Our workshop schedule is set through 2010 and many of those events already have a healthy list of re-served spots. A few are already full.

We’ve ordered SWS caps, aprons and tee-shirts. Many mem-bers reserved items at our November meeting. Send me an e-mail if you want to order.

Finally, our January meeting occurs in a month where we don’t have a workshop scheduled, hence no visiting demo artist. But we do have a special surprise planned. It’ll be fun, educa-tional and a meeting to remember. Don’t miss it.

Have a meaningful holiday season,

Herb

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President’s Corner

Painting of the Month (The winners of our Painting of the Month competition receive gift certificates from Asel's Art Sup-ply. (Right to Left) 1st Walt Davis “Spring at the Trumpas”, 2nd Jeff Good “Canada Morning”, 3rd Don Mitchell “Beachboy”

Painting of the Month for November 2008

Get Your SWS Gear SWS tee shirts, caps and aprons are in production. While many members placed orders items at our November meeting, plenty are left (so far). Here are the details: Caps: $10 each, khaki with name and SWS logo on the front and web address on the back. Tee Shirts: $10 each, navy blue with the name and logo on the front and web address on the back. Sizes: small, medium, large and extra-large. Aprons: $12 each, navy blue with name and logo on the front. E-mail Herb Reed at herb.reed@tx.rr.com to order your gear. Plan to pay with check (to SWS) or cash at our January meeting.

SRO Crowd Dazzled by Stephen Quiller Demo One of the largest crowds in SWS history crowded into the LLUMC for Stephen Quiller’s amazing wa-tercolor demonstration at the November meeting. He prefaced his painting with a brief explanation of his patentened color wheel and palette. The painting was a somewhat representational landscape of the Colorado area in which he lives. But it took on the Quiller style that resulted in a masterful painting. After the break he presented a slide show of his works that was eagerly received by the audience. Patti Bowler reported that the 25+ participants at the workshop were challenged and gratified that they had signed up for his workshop.

DVD Project We plan to have instructional DVDs available to members of borrow for a month (no charge). But we have very few DVDs. If you have one or more DVDs that you’ve watched and would like to share, bring them to the next meeting. Mary Truelove and Jay Conrad head up this project.

2008

DECEMBER

SWS Christmas Party Dec. 7

Holiday Reception Dec.12

2009

JANUARY

“Artists Gone Wild” Reception “ Jan. 9

FEBRUARY

Mel Stabin Feb. 2 - 6 Watercolor

Invitational Reception Feb. 6

MARCH

Greg Biolchini March 19 -23 Pastel

Anne Bagby Reception March 13

Anne Bagby March 26 - 28 Experimental

APRIL

Ken Hosmer April 20 - 24 Watercolor

MAY

Gerald Brommer May 11 - 15 Stained paper/Abstract

Gerald Brommer May 18 - 22 Watercolor landscape

JUNE

Sandy Maudlin June 22-26 yupo paper

JULY

Donna Zagotta July 13-17 Watermedia/Design

AUGUST

James Toogood Aug. 3-7 Watercolor

SEPTEMBER

Steve Rogers Sept. 14 - 18 Watercolor

Carol Barnes Sept. 28- Oct. 2 Abstract

OCTOBER

Ron Ranson Oct. 5- 9 Watercolor

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Happenings…

Jane E. Jones was featured in the 2008 Artists in Newspapers of the Gunnison County Times in Colorado and was also featured in the Round Up section of the same paper. Jane judged the 7th an-nual Irving Art Association Wildlife Juried Art Competition. She also taught a 4-day Abstract Workshop for the Granbury Art League and a Watercolor Structure Class for the Crested Butte Art Center.

Recent winners in the Richardson Civic Arts Society Annual Art Show from the Watercolor Category: Chairman's award: Elsie Hicks “Old Friends” Merchant Awards: Jones C. McCon-nell “End of the Day” Martha [Muffy] Carlo “Zeus Temple” Honorable Mention: Babs Light “Sunshine and Shadows” 3rd: Bob Voges “Leaves III” 2nd: Carol Powell “Paris Apartment” 1st: Gay Anderson “Mums” Best of Show: Barbara McNutt “Nature Spirits”

Cecy Turner won Best of Show in the Paint the Aspens 2008 plein air event sponsored by the Arizona Plein Air Painters in Octo-ber. She also won First Place in Oils at the recent Richardson Civic Art Society Membership Show. Cecy invites all SWS'ers to her Annual Christmas Exhibit at her home studio, 7824 Glenneagle Dr., Dallas 75248, from 5-8 p.m. on Friday December 12th.

Joel Sampson got 2nd place and a $1000 Daimler Financial award in the TCU Art in the Metroplex exhibit, juried by Eleanor Heartney, contributing editor for Art in America.

Maureen Brouillette received the International Society of Acrylic Painters award and Joel Sampson received the Maxine Masterfield award in the ISEA (International Society of Experimental Artists) exhibit in Houston. The juror was Polly Hammett. Their scheduled demos got canceled due to Hurricane Ike.

Walt Davis' painting, “Las Trampas Spring”, won first prize in the professional, under glass category of the Greenville Art League annual show in November. He continues to teach weekly watercolor classes at Post Oak Studio near Commerce. Next April, he will conduct a three day watercolor workshop for the Salado Art Association. Walt is also completing a suite of sixteen pencil drawings for an upcoming book about Texas naturalists and is writing a brief biography of Irving artist Granville Bruce who was for many years staff artist of the Dallas Museum of Natural History.

Sue Kemp, Austin, TX, won First place in Watercolor in the Ir-ving Art Association's 7th Annual Wildlife Juried Art Competition with her painting "In a Tailspin". The juror was Jane Jones. Her

painting, "Fragments of Faith", was selected for a merit award by Christopher Schink in the Waterloo Watercolor Group's Juried 30th Anniversary Fall Show in Austin. Sue had a one woman show at Scott & White Hospital's Smith Gallery, Temple, TX, in August.

Toni M. Elkins, Columbia, SC has won one of the TOP 10 awards in SC Watercolor Exhibition. She also won 2nd place mixed-media in The SC State Fair Art Exhibition.

Teta Smith Aris, Naomi Brotherton, Gail Delger, Gwen Talbot Hodges, Judith Irwin, Sally Meding and Herb Reed are among the artists whose painting are in nationally-known artist Nita Leland’s recently published book, “Confident Color”. All par-ticipated at a signing party at Artists’ Showplace on October 10. Naomi Brotherton, whose book Nita credits with her early inspira-tion, was honored at the event.

Herb Reed’s painting, Jake, has been selected for the cover of the winter issue of Art-to-Art Palette, a Midwest magazine and website. The website is http://www.arttoartpalette.com/.

Ron Stephens recently took home a First Place ribbon for his “The Art Festival” at the annual Trinity Arts Guild, New and Upcom-ing Artist Show. Awards were presented at the November meeting.

SWS ARBORETUM ART NEWS The third annual Fall Artscape was a huge success with seventy artists exhibiting. It was so successful that we are planning a spring Artscape for Mar 21and 22, 2009. SWS Painters were painting on the grounds during Artscape. The plien air artists were Cecy Turner, Florence Mullin, John Go-forth, Tom Wellman, Margaret Bailey, Pat Fekete, and Betsy Johnson, who was also exhibiting at Artscape. SWS artists that participated in the Garden Gallery were: Marga-ret Bailey, Jodie Baldwin, Michael Borne, Sharon Giles, John Goforth, Babs Light, Ramona Murphy, Carol Scott, Jeff Good and Sandra Reese. A total of thirty two artists partici-pated. 84 paintings were entered, 54 paintings were selected by our juror Patricia Meadows to hang in the gallery. The Garden Gallery exhibit displayed the artist’s works in the historic DeGoyler home all month. IN MEMORIAM Laura Minna Potter, 83, passed away on Tuesday, November 18, 2008. She had suffered a heart attack and apparently never recovered. Laura was a long time member of Farmers Branch Carrollton Art Association. She loved painting, sculpture, and experimenting. She took many art classes thru Brookhaven and was always willing to explore new things. She especially loved watercolor. She was workshop chairman for a couple of years for SWS several years ago. She was also a signature member of SWS. Her husband, Delbert, said there would be no service as Laura did not want a fuss. See Dallas Morning News obits Friday, Nov 21, 2008

The Irv ing Art Assoc iat ion Wants You…To attend a three day Water Media Experimental workshop featuring Jane Jones, February 5,6,7, 2009. For more information and reser-vations call 972 721 8063 or Mary Treadwell at 214 263 6245

Maureen Brouillette Art Classes Three Day Mixed Media Workshop in Dallas, Jan. 14, 15, 16 2009 Use collage & acrylic paint to create art that is personal & original.

"Fast & Loose" Acrylic Painting Classes. Loosen up and finish three small paintings per class.

Dallas - Feb.19, Mar.19, Apr.16, May 28 2009 Arlington - Feb.17, Mar.17, Apr.21, May 19 2009

Go to www.mbrouillette.com for details,

or call Maureen at 214-340-6914.

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ARTISAN'S STUDIO-GALLERY WINTER/SPRING CLASSES

& WORKSHOPS 2009

PAT KOCHAN SWS,TVAA,TWS, NAPA, WHS FINDING YOUR OWN STYLE All Levels - Focus is on Individual Style Watermedia Monday Weekly DAY Classes -10:00-2:30 $50/day Dec 1, 8 Jan. 19, 26, Feb 2, 9, 16, 23 March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 ACRYLIC WORKSHOP 2009 All Levels 3 - Days $200 $50 deposit Jan 12-13-14 Mon - Tues - Wed 9:30 3:30 YUPO WORKSHOP 2009 2 Days Mon. &Tues. April 6-7 9:30 - 3:30 $150 $50 deposit NAOMI BROTHERTON SWS, NWO, TWS, WFWS VARIATIONS IN WATERCOLOR Times of Day/Kinds of Weather Wednesday Weekly DAY Classes 10:00-2:30 $50/day Dec., 3, 10, 17 Jan. 7, 21, 28 Mar. 4, 18, 25 Feb. 4, 18, 25 April 1, 15, 22, 29 May 6, 20 Friday Classes Painting Flowers March 20 and May 15 $50/day Can combine with Saturday in March or May below Saturday Classes (3rd Sat) 9:30 -3:00 $50/day Jan. 17 Painting different kinds of trees $50 Feb. 21 Painting Night Scenes $50 March 21 Painting Flowers....Iris $50 April 18 Painting Fog Scenes $50 May 16 Painting Magnolias or Calla Lillis $50

SPONSORED WORKSHOP Renowned Artist from Colorado to return

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Oct. 22, 23, 24, 2009 Thurs-Fri-Sat 9:30-4:00 $250 ($50 deposit)

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Farmers Branch, TX 75234 972 488-8182 www.artisansstudio.com

Holiday Party December 7

at Artists’ Showplace at 3 pm. Bring unframed paintings

in mats that do not exceed 11” x 14” and any refreshments you

want.

Jane E. Jones Art Studio S.W.S., T.W.S., N.W.S., A.C.A., W.F.S., N.W.O., W.C.W.S

2009 WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

EXPERIMENTAL – Jan. 19-23 (5 days); 9:30-3:30; $295

BEGINNERS – Wednesdays; Feb. 18, 25, March 4, 18, 25, April 1, 8;

9:30-2:30; $378 DESIGN/COMPOSITION – Tuesdays; Feb. 24,

March 3, 10, 17, 24, April 7, 14; 9:30-3:30; $413

LAKE CITY PLEIN AIR – June 22-27 (5 ½ days); $375

LAKE CITY PORTRAIT WORKSHOP – June 29-30, taught by Julie Dunlap,

Jane’s Assistant, $90 LAKE CITY COLLAGE & EXPERIMENTAL –

Aug. 12-15 (4 days); 9:00-3:00; $375; supplies included

LAKE CITY GALLERY STUDIO CLASSES – Tuesdays July 7-Aug. 18; 9:00-2:30; $50 per day

CRITIQUE – Fri. AM or PM, Oct. 10, Dec. 5, Jan. 16, Feb. 27, March 27, April 17;

$120; Jane’s studio

Individual Critiques Available All Dallas classes are held at

Artists’ Showplace, 15615 Coit Rd Visit Jane’s web site www.janejonesart.com

For information call 972.407.1566

SWS CONTACTS PRESIDENT Herb Reed 972-231-0411 herb.reed@tx.rr.com 1127 West Lookout Dr Richardson, TX 75080

PROGRAM CHAIR Joel & Maureen Brouillette Sampson 214-340-6914 js@joelsampson.com 1108 Ferndale Rd Dallas, TX 75228

WORKSHOP CHAIR Patti Bowler 214-544-3502 pbtexin@aol.com 519 W. Hunt St. McKinney, TX 75069

MEMBERSHIP CHAIR Address Changes Priscilla Krejci 972-359-0262 pkrejci@tx.rr.com 4 Harper Drive, Allen, TX 75002

PAINT OUT CHAIR Walt Davis 903.886.2711 widavis@arn.net 3915 FM 1568 Campbell, TX 75422

WEBMISTRESS Sharon Giles 972-570-7565 sharon.giles@gmail.com 2824 Burning Tree Ln. Irving, TX 75062

TREASURER Bill Riley 214-352-6288 billriley@swbell.net 10263 Better Dr. Dallas, TX 75229

HAPPENINGS & OTHER NEWS: Newsletter Editor Ron Stephens 972-986-7133 ronstephens2342@verizon.net 2925 Linden Lea, Irving, TX 75061

SCENE Newsletter Submissions

Contact Scene Editor to receive advertis-ing rates by mail or email. Discounted rates are available to members. Happen-ings contains news that is submitted to the editor about current SWS members. Email notices are preferred. Contact in-formation is above. Copy deadline is the 15th of each month preceding publication date. The SCENE is pub-lished ten times a year: Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May, June. Next deadline: December 15 for January issue

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