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The Waterloo Watercolor Group Newsletter
Upcoming Dates:
Jester Show Show: Jan. 12-
Feb. 16
Bus Trip to Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Jan. 11
Entries due for
Watercolor Art of Houston (WAS-H)
Jan. 20
General WWG Meeting Jan. 28
Entries due for IMAGINEShow
Jan. 31
WWG Spring Show entry deadline:
April 1
Wet Paint January 2017
Banner art:: Garden Party By Carol Sue Witt
Framing is Important
If you are interested in learning how to order frames online and assemble them
at home, you will benefit from Helen Green’s demo at the Jan. 28 meeting. It
will include how judges respond to framing and how important it is to have a professional presentation. #
Now that the holidays are behind us, it's time to start thinking about all the activities that beckon: shows, workshops, painting groups, art exhibits and much more.
Look to the left for some dates for your new calendar. Hopefully you were able to enter the first WWG show of the year, Your Favorite Things, which will hang Thursday, Jan. 12 through Feb. 16 at Williamson County Jester Annex. Deadline for entries was Jan. 3.
WWG members and their friends are looking forward to a day trip to Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum on Jan. 11. Michele Missner says there are no seats available, but she has a wait list going. The current exhibit is Monet: The Early Years. You can also visit the nearby Modern Art Museum as well.
If you haven't already done so, go to UT and take a look at the Bass Show, on until Jan.9. While you're down there, stop by the Old Bakery and Emporium and see the January exhibit by WWG artist Helen Green, running from Jan. 8-Feb. 4. Or you might want to stop by North Hills Gallery, an extension of Northwest
Welcome to 2017 and start painting Hills Methodist Church off Far West, and see the January exhibit, Memories, with paintings by Eddie Sutherland and Beryl Kerwick.
Make plans to come to our Annual Meeting on Saturday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. at Apache Shores, 14919 General Williamson Dr. Not only will you hear about upcoming activities for WWG members, you'll also be able to vote on new officers for the WWG Board. After the meeting Helen Green will give a demo on framing your artwork, an important part of the overall presentation of your work for any shows you want to enter.
As the poem says, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? Yes, the spring show is just around the corner. Name of the show will be Pathways and the deadline for entries will be April 1. Get busy. #
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WWG celebrated the holidays with card exchange, party
The WWG holiday party featured good food and fellowship at out-going president Nancy Charbeneau's home in early December. About 60 people attended. The event was a potluck and the food was plentiful.
Highlight of the event was the exchange of hand painted cards, ready to mail with envelopes. Each member was asked to bring an original painted card and envelop in a brown folder. They were chosen randomly by members from a basket. Some recipients may send their cards to a good friend or family member, but I’m keeping mine! #
Top: Carol Keller (left) and Gayle Allen show the cards they received.
Bottom: from left: Nancy Charbeneau, outgoing president and hostess; Carol McCollum, Leslie Kjellstrand and Carol Sue Witt, all holding cards they received in the exchange.
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Enjoying the holiday party are, clockwise from top left; Cheryl Christian and Jennifer Polnaszek; (top right) Rosemary Thompson and Karel Dahman; (center) Rae Andrews, Janet Sopp-Sims and Pat Molina; (bottom right) Suki Gluzinski, Eileen Pestorius, Sue Stevens, And Genevieve Holland; and (bottom left) Lynn Cooper.
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Spotlight
The WWG Website is full of information for you Thanks to Sandra Carlton, WWG has an informative and updated website, waterloowatercolor.org. Since taking over the website about two years ago, Sandra has redesigned the site while she continues studying website best practices and working with information from many sources. She has updated the site to highlight members’ award winning paintings from WWG's shows.
Over the next few months, we will discuss the parts of the website and how to access them and how members and others can best use the WWG site. We'll start with the Home page and Welcome tab.
When you go to the website, you'll see Lonnie Shan's painting (screen shot, above) and above it tabs for the areas of the site: Workshops; Shows/Galleries; Memberships; and more. We will discuss these areas in detail over the next few months. Below the painting is an explanation of our group, our mission and links to areas that visitors may wish to see. Further down is a picture of our president, Nancy Charbeneau, and one of her signature paintings, My Stars. Finally at the bottom of the home page is another picture of the show winner, which will proceed to show the other top prize winners when you press the arrow
button. Just below that is a painting of one of the merit award winning paintings, which will play to the other nine merit paintings, listed in alpha order by last name of the artist.
This month we will discuss the Welcome tab. Two areas are available for you to click on: About Us and WWG Organization, which requires a password. All paid WWG members are sent the electronic password when they pay for membership or renew at the end of the year.
About Us is just what it says: information about WWG, how we function, our history, an invitation to read our current newsletter, and a list of current board members. Near the top of this page is a link to click to join our group. This will take a visitor or renewing member directly to the membership application and payment site.
Website, continued next page
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Happy New Year! We are 71 members strong with 5 pending for 2017. Thank you to those who are part of the 71. Passwords are changing at the end of the month and all new members who are current will receive the new password.
If you haven’t sent in your dues, NOW is the time so that you may receive all newsletters and notifications about future events. Only 2017 members can enter the Jester show in January as well as other WWG shows coming up in 2017.
Current members who have birthdays this month are: Beatrice Baldwin and Susan Herr on the 1st, Sara Jane Parsons on the 4th, Suki Gluzinski on the 5th (she’s a new member), Leslie Kjellstrand on the 15th and Alicia Diaz on the 28th (she’s from San Antonio). Happy birthday to all of you!
We also have several new members who are
Time to renew your membership to WWG for 2017
joining us for 2017. From Austin, please welcome Suki Gluzinski, Susan Dunning, Ann Flemings, Kathryn Burch, Supriya Kharod and Lonnie Swanson. From Georgetown – Carol Medford. The last new member is Prudence Kinsel. She did not complete our online application, so we don’t have contact information on her; does anyone know her?
LAST, we are building a presence online with Meetup.com. Coming in January, member Priscilla Wicker will be in charge of posting meetings, workshops and other information on this site to attract new water-media artists to Waterloo. Most of the information she will be posting on Meetup.com will be coming from our newsletter. If you are a member of Meetup, please look for Waterloo and join its page. #
—Pat Molina
If you are a member and have the password, you can also visit the other site under About Us: WWG Organization. Here you'll find the WWG By-Laws; the WWG non-profit letter; and general and board meeting minutes. If you are a member and do not have the password, contact Pat Molina to get the password, which changes for renewing members at the beginning of each year.
Next month, we’ll discuss, the Workshops tab. For information or suggestions, contact Sandra Carlton. #
Website, continued from Page 4 Bookworms on Feb. 18
Bookworms will meet at Eileen Pestorius' home on Saturday, Feb 18, at 9:30 a.m. to discuss The Printmaker's Daughter, a fictional look at mid-nineteenth century Japan before it was opened to the west. The Shoguns ruled, Hokusai and other artists were yet unknown to the French Impressionists whose minds they would soon capture with unusual color, shape and perspective. Degas, Van Gogh and many others excitedly collected works of Japanese masters with enthusiasm and even copied prints in their own paintings. The Printmaker's Daughter will open your mind to an era that was largely unknown, except to some Dutch traders, until American naval ships forced trade to the world from seas near Edo bay. #
Kudos to our members: exhibits, honors and more
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Two months of shows at North Hills Gallery feature WWG members. North Hills Gallery is at 76050 Village Center Drive, off Far West. It is open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 8:30 a.m. to noon.
From Jan. 4-29, Eddie Sutherland and Beryl Kerwick will exhibit paintings in a show entitled Memories. Both are award winning Austin watercolor artists with distinct approaches to the medium. At right, Beryl’s painting Hillside Tuscany is on exhibit there. A reception for this show will be Jan. 8 at 12:15 p.m.
In February Michele Missner will have a solo exhibit at North Hills Gallery called Watercolor Explorations. The show will run from Feb. 1- 26 with a reception on Feb. 5 at 12:15 p.m. Michele is an award winning Austin artist who creates inspired abstracts in water media.
Michele also sold four paintings at a recent exhibit of five women abstract artists at the Gallery at the J. She also sold a painting, Looking Westward at the WWG exhibit at the Bass Concert Hall, which will hang until Jan. 9.
Sue Gilliam is still cleaning up after her "last" art show and sale and found some more items. If you are interested in the following, contact her: four grey carpet-covered display panels76"x 36" each that all fit together; Several metal frames, some with Plexiglas, in sizes 27" x 35"; 26" x 29"; 23" x 36"; and 26" x 34".
Jennifer Polnaszek has two paintings hanging at the Round Rock Artspace exhibit Child's World until Jan 28, 2017, including Sharkboy. A reception will be held Jan 5 from 5:30 - 8 p.m. at the gallery.
Hillside Tuscany by Beryl Kerwick now at North Hills Gallery
Sharkboy by Jennifer Polnaszek at Round Rock Artspace
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Birds, Bees, Flowers and Trees is the title of a Chinese brush art and photography exhibition by Gail Threinen and Ariana Vincent at the Old Bakery Emporium in February. Gail is an expert in Chinese Brush Painting and Chinese Calligraphy. Upon returning from living in China and Singapore for five years, she served as a docent at the Minneapolis Museum of Art specializing in the China galleries where she received training from world-class scholars in Chinese art history and had access to close-up study of their extensive collection of Chinese calligraphy, bird and flower paintings and landscapes. Gail has been practicing and studying this art now for nearly 20 years. She is a member of the Sumi-e Society of America and has exhibited as well as won awards in their annual juried exhibitions and her work can be seen on their website. Ariana is a member of WWG, but in this exhibit she will show her photographs, for which she is best known. Her formal education in photography includes a B.A. and B.F.A. in Fine Arts from UT. She owns and operates Ariana Images. She is a former assistant to Professor Helmut Gernsheim, founder of the Gernsheim Photography Collection at UT. She has had many exhibits in Austin and Dallas. The opening reception will be held Friday, Feb. 3. Elizabeth Sullivan will have an upcoming exhibit at Old Bakery and Emporium in Austin in May with about 20 of her paintings. She had two paintings in the WWG Bass Concert Hall exhibit, and she just delivered a commission of a mural size acrylic painting (4 ft x 6 ft). She is working on another large commission of greyhounds, a new subject for her. She also is teaching watercolor classes in Elgin: to children and adults. If you are interested in her classes, contact her. You can always find Elizabeth at First Friday Art Walk in
Bastrop on Jan. 6 doing demonstrations and she will teach at the Palette Club in Austin on Jan. 10 and give a workshop in Sun City on Jan. 19.
Judy Copeland is showing and selling her prints and cards in Handcrafts Unlimited on the Georgetown Square including Old Truck. She also has paintings on exhibit in Williamson County Jester Annex with Center Art Club until Jan. 12.
Photograph entitled Painted Lady by Ariana Vincent; part of the Flowers from Heaven series.
Old Truck by Judy Copeland at Handcrafts Unlimited
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Thomas Shefelman, noted Austin artist and architect, died Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016. He was president of WWG in 2006. He was born in Seattle and graduated from the University of Texas School of Architecture and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Tom is especially known for his modernist buildings, including the Starr building at the corner of Colorado and West 6th Streets and churches, including Central Presbyterian Church at Brazos and 8th Streets. He also was instrumental in renovations of a number of historical buildings in Austin such as the Stephen F. Austin hotel, Travis County Courthouse and Norwood Tower.
As a result, he served on several Austin commissions. He also designed libraries, schools, office buildings and homes. He illustrated children's books and produced watercolor paintings from all over the world on trips with his wife, Janice, who survives him along with two sons. He taught at UT for years. His son Dan said, “My dad’s creations flowed from his head and hands like radiating shimmering beams of form, light and color.” His son Karl said, "He taught me how to truly see the world as an artist."
Mary Louise Curtis died on December 16, 2016, at the age of 88. She was a artist whose watercolors and paintings hang in many public buildings and
private collections. After raising her only child, son Bill, and doing clerical work for 15 years, Mary went to St. Edward's University, graduating with honors at age 50 with a degree in
interior design and a passion for art and architectural illustration. She painted prolifically for the next 30 years and became as member of WWG. Her art celebrated nature, people, and historic structures and she achieved notoriety for historically accurate pen line watercolors of buildings, recreated through research into old photos, archives, and personal accounts. She became the first artist honored by the 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial Commission. Mary is a lifetime member of the Austin History Center and also a member of the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center and the Balcones Canyonlands Nature Preserve. She introduced many to art through workshops, lectures, gallery talks, radio interviews, and television appearances. #
In Memoriam
Austin artists Tom Shefelman, Mary Louise Curtis were WWG members
Interior of Central Presbyterian Church designed by Tom Shefelman. Services for him will be held
there on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 11 a.m.
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Imagine Show in Round Rock
The 9th Annual IMAGINE show put on by Round Rock Arts Council is coming up soon and for those who might like to enter the art part of it, the deadline is Jan 31 at 5 p.m. While the art portion of Imagine will be on display from Feb. 27 through July 9, the event begins with a gala of art and performances on March 4. It will take place in the Avery Building of the Texas State University Round Rock campus, 1555 University Blvd. from 6-9 p.m. The show claims to be one of the largest annual art exhibits in Central Texas about 160 pieces. WWG member Betty Jameson created the IMAGINE poster, Canyon for the 2017 IMAGINE Show.
WAS-H 40th International Exhibit
The Watercolor Art Society-Houston has issued a call for entry for submission of water media paintings for its 40th Annual International Water Media Exhibition. The exhibition is open to all water media artists. Submission deadline is Jan. 20 and the show will hang from March 14 through April 6 in the WAS-H Gallery, 1601 W. Alabama St. Juror for the show will be Stephen Quiller, a nationally acclaimed watercolorist, teacher and juror who lives with his wife in Creede, CO
TWS 68th Annual Exhibit in Denton
Texas Watercolor Society is also preparing for its 68th Annual National Exhibit to be held this year at the Patterson-Appleton Center for the Visual Arts in Denton. Members may enter anytime after Jan.1 through April 1 and the show will hang from June 9 through August 6. Juror will be Soon Y. Warren who will also give a free demo on June 5 and a workshop from June 6-9. A resident of Fort
Worth, Soon is full time artist, author, and teacher with paintings are in permanent collections of several museums nationwide.
WWG Spring Show named Pathways
The WWG Spring Member Show has a theme, "Pathways” and art must be submitted by April 1. Show chairs Helen Green and Jennifer Polnaszek are already looking for volunteers . The show will hang on May 1 at the Corridor of Art, 700 Guadalupe St., Austin. It will be judged by Mark Mehaffey, who will do a free demo on April 23 and a four-day workshop April 24 - 27, 2017. Submitting to the member show guarantees one accepted entry for all WWG members, but members can enter up to three paintings. A prospectus for the show will soon be listed on the WWG website. For more information, contact Helen Green and Jennifer Polnaszek.
Wet those brushes for upcoming shows to enter
Poster for IMAGINE designed by Betty Jameson. She is signing them for patrons of the event.
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WWG 2017 Board Members President ....................................................... Nancy Charbeneau, [email protected]
First Vice Presidents (shows) ..................... Janine Garcia, [email protected];
........................................................................ Carol Sue Witt, [email protected]
Second Vice Presidents (workshops) ........ Tina Broderick, [email protected];
........................................................................ Michele Missner, [email protected];
........................................................................ Chuck Wallace, [email protected]
Membership ................................................. Pat Molina, [email protected]
Secretary ........................................................ Courtney Brown, [email protected]
Treasurer ....................................................... Genevieve Holland, [email protected]
Communications .......................................... Leslie Kjellstrand, [email protected]
Hospitality .................................................... Jennifer Polnaszek, [email protected]
Web ................................................................ Sandra Carlton, [email protected]
Activities ....................................................... Helen Green, [email protected];
........................................................................ Michele Missner, [email protected]
Liaison ........................................................... Janet Sopp-Sims, [email protected]
Bylaws/Historian ........................................ Kathy Summers, [email protected]
Librarian ........................................................ Carol McCollum, [email protected]
Publicity ........................................................ Betty Jameson, [email protected]
We welcome new members to Waterloo Watercolor Group. We are a non-profit group interested in the advancement of watercolor and other water-based media as an art form. Whether you are a beginning painter or a seasoned one, we invite you to join our group.
Among the benefits of membership, you can participate in workshops, juried shows or classes given by members. You'll hear about other art shows in the area and even be able save money on some supplies. We also have a library of art books and DVDs available to members.
Two informal painting groups are associated with WWG and meet on Tuesdays. One meets at
Apache Shores (14919 General Williamson Dr.) and the other at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church (8314 Mesa Dr.).
Look for us on the web, waterloowatercolor.org. If you are interested in joining, you can find an application on our website and pay through PayPal or you may send a check. For more information, contact Pat Molina. #
Membership in WWG
Do you know someone who would be interested?
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