The Hawai'i Watercolor Society's June/July Newsletter
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MONTHLY NEWSLETTER ISSUE 6 June/July 2012 HWS Membership Benefits Your HWS membership card receives the following discounts at local merchants: Hawaiian Graphics 123 S. Beretania St., Honolulu 10% off entire purchase/25% off fine art paper. Robyn Buntin 848 S. Beretania St., Honolulu Offers professional artists (GE license required) a 20% discount in the framing department. Hakubundo 1600 Kapiolani Blvd, Ste. 121, Honolulu 10% discount off all sales except magazines and cds/dvds. Art Attacks 3390 Campbell Ave, #A, Honolulu 25% discount on framing. Tom Terrifics 2961 Woodlawn Ave., Honolulu Located in Manoa, receive 15% off all printing of art or photographs on many media including mugs, tiles, mouse pads, jewelry boxes, jewelry, and more. Sunshine Arts Hawai`i 47-653 Kam Hwy., Kahalu`u 10% discount to all card-carrying HWS members on custom matting and framing. Art Source & Designs, LLC Diane Ko 4558 Malia St., Honolulu 15% off framing by appointment. Maalea Press, LLC Peter Sieg, Director 11 Funeaux Lane, Hilo, HI p: 808.969.9200 f:808.969.9215 [email protected] 20% discount off first order, 10% discount off subsequent orders. in this issue President’s Letter P.1 Member Profile: Joan Wood Fleming; Member news P.2 Robert O’Brien Workshop P.3 Calendar; Upcoming Events P.4 2012 Open Exhibition Prospectus included in this newsletter HWS is alive with thoughts, ideas, and actions. The board has decided to deliver 2–3 issues of the newsletter each year, the rest are available online and are being sent out via the Watercolor Wireless. Susan Phillips compiles the wireless from the emails and messages sent to her at [email protected]. Keep your messages coming; we want to hear from you! To increase our communication, member Colleen Sanchez is blogging about watercolor on our website. You can read it under that last tab on the upper right side of the site; no login is required to read or comment on the blog. Please check it out and leave a comment. Send your news or ideas about watercolor events to Colleen at: [email protected]. Lifetime Signature member Ruth Pistor, recently reminisced about going on paint outs with Hon Chew Hee, the founder of HWS. She said he loved to paint and wanted to instill a love of watercolor painting in those around him. To encourage his fellow painters, he would give the person with the “best painting of the day” a fresh sheet of watercolor paper. That tradition is the tradition upon which our Hawai`i Watercolor Society was founded in 1962. HWS has sponsored monthly paint outs for more than a year, with sparse attendance. Why are you not attending? Is it the day of the week? Is it because they move around and you can’t keep track of where it is? Do you already have a group with which you paint and don’t feel the need to join another? Please reply to [email protected] Our Open Exhibit at the Honolulu Museum of Art School (Linekona) on September 23–October 19 is fast approaching. You can enter up to four paintings. Please enter at least one, actually, enter four! Chances of getting into any exhibit, and of winning an award, increase with every entry. Remember: “Luck is quite predictable. To have more luck, take more chances.“ ~Brian Tracey That’s what HWS members who participated in the Affordable Original Art exhibit at the ARTS at Marks Garage have learned! This year’s sales have tripled the sales of previous years! Read more about the cost/benefits of selling art inside the newsletter. Selling art is not something most people think about and is certainly not necessary to have a happy life. Painting, can feel like a necessary component of a joyful life, so do keep painting and expressing yourself. Then please share your art with the rest of us through our exhibits, our blog, and wireless posts! Paint on! Patrice Federspiel HWS President Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is about knowing which ones to keep.” ~Scott Adams 'The Dilbert Principle' cartoonist
Transcript of The Hawai'i Watercolor Society's June/July Newsletter
MONTHLY NEWSLETTER
I S S U E
6 J u n e / J u l y
2012
HWS Membership
Benefits
Your HWS membership card
receives the following discounts
at local merchants:
Hawaiian Graphics 123 S. Beretania St., Honolulu
10% off entire purchase/25% off
fine art paper.
Robyn Buntin
848 S. Beretania St., Honolulu
Offers professional artists (GE
license required) a 20% discount
in the framing department.
Hakubundo
1600 Kapiolani Blvd, Ste. 121,
Honolulu
10% discount off all sales except
magazines and cds/dvds.
Art Attacks
3390 Campbell Ave, #A,
Honolulu
25% discount on framing.
Tom Terrifics
2961 Woodlawn Ave., Honolulu
Located in Manoa, receive 15%
off all printing of art or
photographs on many media
including mugs, tiles, mouse
pads, jewelry boxes, jewelry, and
more.
Sunshine Arts Hawai`i
47-653 Kam Hwy., Kahalu`u
10% discount to all card-carrying
HWS members on custom
matting and framing.
Art Source & Designs, LLC
Diane Ko
4558 Malia St., Honolulu
15% off framing by appointment.
Maalea Press, LLC
Peter Sieg, Director
11 Funeaux Lane, Hilo, HI
p: 808.969.9200 f:808.969.9215
20% discount off first order, 10%
discount off subsequent orders.
in this issue
President’s Letter P.1
Member Profile: Joan Wood Fleming; Member news P.2
Robert O’Brien Workshop P.3
Calendar; Upcoming Events P.4
2012 Open Exhibition Prospectus included in this newsletter
HWS is alive with thoughts, ideas, and actions. The board has decided to deliver 2–3 issues of the newsletter each year, the rest are available online and are being sent out via the Watercolor Wireless. Susan Phillips compiles the wireless from the emails and messages sent to her at [email protected]. Keep your messages coming; we want to hear from you! To increase our communication, member Colleen Sanchez is blogging about watercolor on our website. You can read it under that last tab on the upper right side of the site; no login is required to read or comment on the blog. Please check it out and leave a comment. Send your news or ideas about watercolor events to Colleen at: [email protected]. Lifetime Signature member Ruth Pistor, recently reminisced about going on paint outs with Hon Chew Hee, the founder of HWS. She said he loved to paint and wanted to instill a love of watercolor painting in those around him. To encourage his fellow painters, he would give the person with the “best painting of the day” a fresh sheet of watercolor paper. That tradition is the tradition upon which our Hawai`i Watercolor Society was founded in 1962. HWS has sponsored monthly paint outs for more than a year, with sparse attendance. Why are you not attending? Is it the day of the week? Is it because they move around and you can’t keep track of where it is? Do you already have a group with which you paint and don’t feel the need to join another? Please reply to [email protected]
Our Open Exhibit at the Honolulu Museum of Art School (Linekona) on September 23–October 19 is fast approaching. You can enter up to four paintings. Please enter at least one, actually, enter four! Chances of getting into any exhibit, and of winning an award, increase with every entry. Remember: “Luck is quite predictable. To have more luck, take more chances.“ ~Brian Tracey That’s what HWS members who participated in the Affordable Original Art exhibit at the ARTS at Marks Garage have learned! This year’s sales have tripled the sales of previous years! Read more about the cost/benefits of selling art inside the newsletter. Selling art is not something most people think about and is certainly not necessary to have a happy life. Painting, can feel like a necessary component of a joyful life, so do keep painting and expressing yourself. Then please share your art with the rest of us through our exhibits, our blog, and wireless posts! Paint on!
Patrice Federspiel HWS President
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is about knowing which ones to keep.” ~Scott Adams 'The Dilbert Principle' cartoonist
Art Shows & Exhibits
Member News
Hawai’i Watercolor
Society Board Meetings Board meetings held the first Wednesday of each month.
All HWS members are encouraged to attend and get
involved. Call Patrice Federspiel at
392-9104 or email [email protected]
for more information.
Member news: 242 Active Members, 90 life Members, 23 new members 2012. Watch for the next Watercolor Wireless for new member names, phone numbers, email to add to your 2012 Roster.
Roster Changes: Aveiro, Judy, Annual Member, 1519 Nu`uanu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96817,[email protected] Brower, Judith,Annual Member,876 Curtis Street, #3505,Honolulu, HI 96813,H 808 454-7599,[email protected] Dawson, Ruth,Annual Member,1539 Halekoa Drive,Honolulu, HI 96821,[email protected] Denego, Carol,Annual Member,PO Box 10011,Honolulu, HI 96816,H 808-732-9508 C 808-386-8872, [email protected], mandalajoyrising.com Eyer, Alexandra,Annual Member,3721 Kanaina Ave. Apt.# 204,Honolulu, HI 96815,C 541 425-1951, [email protected], portraitsbyalexandra.com, Spouse: Frank Martinez Figueroa, Nita,852 Paahana,Honolulu, HI 96816,H 808-375-6421, [email protected] Finch, Katherine,Annual Member,PO Box 1873,Kailua, HI 96734,C 808-228-9293,Katherine Finch [email protected] Fullard-Leo, Betty,Annual Member,1144 Akuila Place,Kailua, HI 96734,H 808-262-8270 C 808-741-8654,[email protected] Grasse, Vivian,Annual Member,92-1112-2 Olani Street,Kapolei, Hi 96707,H 808-673-8006,[email protected],Spouse: Larry Grasse Hovey, Rick,Annual Member,701-1337 W 10th Avenue,Vancouver, BC, Canada, H 604-732-0934,[email protected], portraitswithadifference.com Kerr, Gina,Annual Member,45-632 Uhilehua Street,Kaneohe, HI 96744,H 808-381-4668 C 808-441-8157,[email protected] Meyers, Don,Annual Member,1600 Ala Moana #910,Honolulu, HI 96815,H 808-941 9056,[email protected] Miles, Katherine,Annual Member,320 Kawaihae Street Apt. H,Honolulu, HI 96825,[email protected] Mirei, Dave,Annual Member,1915 Judd Hillside Road,Honolulu, HI 96822, [email protected] Nakamura, Susan,Annual Member,1416 Lalamilo Street,Honolulu, HI 96819,H 808-384-3602,[email protected] Olson, Mary Jo,Annual Member,312 Holter Street,Helena, MT 59601,C 406-461-6453,[email protected] Ouye, Joe Aki,Annual Member,750 Spruce Avenue,Pacific Grove, CA 93950, [email protected],[email protected] Pitluck, Deanne,Annual Member,555 Haha‘ione Street #1 D,Honolulu, HI 96825,H 808-394-0492,[email protected] Steinberg-Orlowski, Barbara,Annual Member,P.O. Box 1764,Kīhei/ Maui, HI 96753,H 808-879-0025, www.barbarasteinbergart.com Sumimoto, Estelle,Annual Member,1544 Ulupuni Street,Kailua, HI 96734,H 808-261-6214 C 808-271-3885, [email protected], Spouse: KenethSumimoto Tolstoy, Alexandra,Annual Member,1538 Hampton Hill Circle,McClean, VA 0,H 703-760-0881, [email protected], www.atolstoyart.com Wynn, Michelle,Annual Member,5064 Milburn Loop,Wahiawa, Hi 96786,H 808-341-8438,[email protected]
Hawai`i Watercolor Society Website: www.hawaiiwatercolorsociety.org
Email: [email protected]
Standing Committees:
Awards: Linda Bachrach 926-9178
Membership: Susan Phillips 262-9626
Publicity: Carol Shibata 254-5444
DVD Librarian: Jane Houk 262-4448
Workshops: Rebecca Snow 286-5909
Anita Bruce 372-4561
Board Members:
President: Patrice Federspiel 392-9104
Vice Pres.: Rochelle Weidner 349-4179
Treasurer: Jerry Mayfield 595-3055
Recording Sec.: Carky Ainlay 261-7655
Member at Large: Linda Lau 239-7141
Trustees: Frances Hill 261-4767
Roger Whitlock 732-6573
Newsletter: Elizabeth York 551-1956
www.yorkdesigns.com
Assistant: Nancy Taylor 235-1736
I began watercolor painting while a student at Punahou School and minored in art in college. After graduation, I gave up painting to raise four children, one of whom is also an artist. Volunteering at Punahou led to employment there as graphic designer for fifteen years. Many of my student staffers went on to careers in the art field. Retirement brought time to paint again. Determined to master watercolor (I love its transparency and glowing colors) I took a class at Linekona from Juanita Kenda – amazingly, also my art teacher as a freshman at Punahou! As a way to keep on painting, I organized the Windward Wanderers. We have met weekly to paint together “en plein aire” for 15 years. I have especially enjoyed being a part of the HWS Board. Participating in show planning and taking advantage of twice-yearly workshops has been an opportunity to learn much from other artists. Meg Stone gives a great critique and Roger Whitlock has been an inspirational and supportive teacher – thanks! And I’m working on that “mastering watercolor” for Signature status!
Inspiration awaits in the HWS DVD Library! Don Andrews’ video Making Watercolor Glow
along with six of Don’s Figure Painting dvds are now available! Enjoy and learn from the HWS Art Video Collection
Visit the HWS website or see the back of your HWS roster for a list of the available instructional DVDs and details on how to rent them.
Contact our Librarian, Jane Houk at 262-4448 or visit the HWS website at www.hawaiiwatercolorsociety.org
Robert O’Brien Watercolor Workshop
October 15-19, 2012 5 day workshop featuring 3 days at ARTS at Marks
Garage and 2 days Plein Air lessons on the Windward side of O`ahu.
HWS Member’s price - $435 Non-member’s price - $475
Sign up by Aug 15 and save $40 Early Bird price - $395/$435
Space is limited to only 20 artists so sign up early to reserve your spot. $50 non-refundable deposit required.
Contact Rebecca Snow at 808-286-5909 or email [email protected]
Mail registration fee to HWS, C/o ARTS at Marks Garage 1159 Nu’uanu Avenue, Honolulu, HI 96817
Call for Artists
Hawai`i Watercolor Society 2012 Open
Exhibition
September 23-October 20, 2012 The Honolulu Museum of Art School (formerly Academy of
Art, Linekona) Juror - Robert O’Brien
Awards Reception September 27th, 5-7pm
Entry Deadline August 10, 2012
Prospectus available on line at www.hawaiiwatercolorsociety.com
Robert O’Brien has been painting in the watercolor medium for forty years. Since moving to Vermont in 1977, he has focused his work on landscape and architectural studies. Vermont, with its distinct four season climate, provides him with a wealth of subject matter and ever changing light effects. Robert is known for finding beauty in the ordinary, subtle reminders of everyday life in rural New England. In his own words, he is driven “to capture the vanishing landscape in my paintings” before they disappear forever as a result of the steady hand of “progress”. Since 1998 Robert O’Brien has traveled annually to Southern France. The region’s sun-splashed landscape and timeless quality of light has added a new dimension to Robert’s paintings. Don’t miss this opportunity to work with this award-winning artist. Be inspired by this master of light and color whose work has been featured in numerous publications including Watercolor Magazine, Splash 9, 10 and 11 Best of Watercolor, and l’Art de l’Aquarelle. See more of Robert’s work on his website. Visit www.robertjobrien.com.
2012 Open Exhibition
Having an art show? Conducting a workshop?
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Windward Wanderers meet Wednesday mornings. Contact Joan Fleming 254-2757 or Spencer Chang 262-2144. Foster Gardens plein air painters meet Thursdays 9am-1pm. Contact Meg Stone 262-8071 Ho`omaluhia Paint-outs Paint in a garden of flowers and plants on Wednesday mornings. No instruction but plenty of friendly banter. Wahiawa Botanical Gardens for self-directed drawing and painting 9-10am Wednesdays. Call 621-5463 for more information.
HWS Monthly Newsletter June 2012
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Hawai’i Watercolor Society c/o ARTS at Mark’s Garage
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www.hawaiiwatercolorsociety.org
The Watercolor Paper is a monthly newsletter published by the HAWAI`I WATERCOLOR SOCIETY, a member society founded in 1962. Our purpose is to promote the advancement and appreciation of watercolor painting and education of the public to its significance as a permanent medium. We welcome your membership in the Hawai`i Watercolor Society. For more information on joining, visit the HWS website at www.hawaiiwatercolorsociety.org, email HWS at [email protected], or request information by mail at The Hawai`i Watercolor Society, c/o ARTS at Marks Garage, 1159 Nu`uanu, Honolulu, HI 96817.
Upcoming Events Jul 5, Partners Meeting, ARTS at Marks 1:30 pm Jul 8, Paint Out, Ho`omaluhia Botanical Gardens, 10-1pm July 19, Partners Meeting-Marks Garage, 1:30 pm Aug 1, Board Meeting, Jane Houk’s House 4:30 pm
Aug 10, Entries due for Open Exhibit at Linekona Aug 16, Partners Meeting-Marks Garage, 1:30 pm Aug 22, Paint Out Sep 5, Board Meeting
Paint Out 10-1
Ho`omaluhi Botanical
Gardens
HWS Board
Meeting
Info for
newsletter due
Haliewa
Arts Festival
Haliewa
Arts Festival
Partner’s Meeting
Marks Garage
