CALENDAR 2018/19

The Northern Arizona Watercolor Society meets monthly at the Sedona Methodist Church110 Indian Cliffs Rd., from 9 AM - Noon, usually on the 4th Friday. General Meeting dates 2018/19

Featured Critique Groups: September: Show’nTell, every one- no specific group October: High Country – Flagstaff area Contact : Aliene Austin

Programs:Sept: We will start the year off with a “Too Much Art Stuff” sale of art supplies (see article else where in newsletter) and a slide show of the National Watercolor Society’s Member Exhibition 2018 to get us excited about a new painting year.

October: Gretchen Lopez will demonstrate using photographs how she composes onsite paintings, what to include, what not.

NAWSletter September - October 2018

GENERAL MEETING 
 Sept. 28 and Oct. 26

Walkin Old Town Cottowood

This year Walkin on Main will be held November 10 in Old Town Cottonwood. The event starts around 10 or so, but if you want to come, it is best to be there around 8-8:30 to set up. We donate 10% of our sales to the City of Cottonwood. NAWS and El Valle typically share a large tent, and since most of the El Valle people are also NAWS members, most of us know each other.

If you think you would like to try this venue to sell paintings or other art work, contact Sandy Beck at 928-282-1391 or at becksandra35@gmail.com. I will be in Europe until October 25, so it might be best to either text or e-mail, although I will have my phone with me

NAWS 2019 Exhibition

The NAWS Exhibition for the coming year will be held at SACs Special Exhibition Gallery from March 1 to the 14th. Take in will be Feb 28 from 10 to noon and take down will be March 15 from 10 to noon. We get to have a First Friday opening as well as our awards reception on March 14 from 5 to 8 pm. We should have some pretty good traffic since the show occurs the same time as spring break! The prospectus has been expanded and includes both 2D and 3D entries and is very inclusive. The prospectus and all the information on the show will be on the NAWS website in Oct. Everyone will be notified when the website information is available.

If you have questions feel free to call me... Wayne St. John at 928-300-8520.

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President’s Corner

Committee ChairsCity Hall Exhibits: Bonnie Baumberger and Mary Jane CookeCritique Groups Rita BondDVD Library:   Jeanette Suggs & Telca MachesnyHistorian: Linda SlaterHospitality: Nancy Beckley & Anita BelongerNewsletter:   Firuse StalcupOutdoor Events, Paint Outs:   Linda Slater & Jan MulrooneyPublicity:   Lynne CroweScholarships:   Mary DoveSedona Public Library Exhibit: Wayne St. John & Mary Ann UndrillSpecial Recognition:   Carolyn CarsulaWebsite:   Terry Morris

2018-2019 Officer President: Marsha Owen Secretary: Marie Rolf Treasurer: Firuse Stalcup 1st Vice Pres. Membership: Sue Johnson 2nd Vice Pres.: Wayne St. John 3rd Vice Pres.: Programs : Pat Dunham 4th Vice Pres.:Workshops :Meg Beauchamp& Marti McNamee Nominations: Mary Jane Cooke Ways&Means: Mary Ann Undrill

Dear Members, Did you get a chance to paint this summer? It can be a busy time of year with travel, family or even medical procedures. For some, that hour or two you thought you’d have each day to paint on vacation can somehow evaporate. I take my small kit on trips with the best of intensions and come back with very few examples. Others dedicate their summer months to painting excursions or quiet studio time. Lucky them! I hope you got to visit some art museums or art fairs and came away inspired. Now that it’s September, NAWS is here to contribute to your art life. I’ve been working with Programs chair Pat Dunham to line up programs to suit a variety of interests. Membership chair Susan Johnson and I have some ideas for the monthly meeting and how to attract new members. All the Board folks have used part of their summer to work on their responsibilities for a great 2018/19 season. We have such a good team. The September meeting is one you won’t want to be late for. Jeanette and Techla will have the new DVD titles out, there’s art supply gems to find at our “Too Much Art Stuff Sale”, make sure you get a slot in your favorite workshop and a cup of coffee while the pot’s full. The meeting will also include a digital show of the 2018 winning entries from the National Watercolor Society. Most of all, catch up with your painting buddies and meet some new friends. See you soon, Marsha Owen

Workshops

In this 3-day workshop we will explore various techniques to strengthen your skills in watercolor landscape painting. Subjects covered will include: how to create a strong composition, the use of values to invoke a sense of light, and the manipulation of color for its full expressive effect. A demonstration will start each day, followed by individual painting and individualized guidance. This workshop is open to all levels, but some experience with watercolor will be helpful.

We will also explore ways to work with photo references so that they help, not dictate, your final painting.

Cost:  Members $325 Non-members $360

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Ken Hosmer March 12, 13, 14, 15

Energizing Color

Explore color through a unique approach! Learn interpretive color, light and dark pathways, and how the eye moves through a painting. Ken reveals ‘color secrets’ and design ideas each day. He offers guidelines which encourage you to creatively interpret painting subjects in your own style. Painting demonstrations emphasize free flowing watercolor and cover a variety of subjects, including landscape, flowers, human figures or animals.

Cost: Members $375 Non-members $410

Don Andrews May 14, 15, 16, 17, 2018

Landscape Color and Composition Learning to paint with watercolor should be fun! Don’s Landscape Workshop is geared specifically for artists eager to paint and study in a no-stress studio environment. Each day, Don will address a major visual concern; light, color, granulation, organizing nature and utilizing negative space are just a few subjects to be covered. Don’s class isn’t geared to any specific level of achievement; rather artists at all levels will benefit from a more personal understanding of the painting possibilities available in the exciting world of landscape painting. This workshop will be packed with demonstrations, discussions, individual help and personal and group critiques.

Cost: Non-members $375 Members $410 Artwork Title: Guatemalan Market

Michael Reardon January 16, 17, 18, 2019 

Painting Light and Color in Landscapes and Cityscapes

Art workTitle: Cattle

Art work Title: Reines

Watercolor: Texture and Story November 10–13 2018 AlanWylie

Watercolor | All Levels Class meets 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. on the first day  and 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. on subsequent days. $550

for complete information go to the SAC website: sedonaartscenter.org

Students Art show 2018

SVAC Fall Artist Open Studios Tour
October 26, 27 & 28 2018

 A self-guided event that lets attendees plan their own tour based on what types of art they like best. Visitors will see works in glass, ceramics, pottery, photography, jewelry, paintings and other mediums. Go on our website: sedonaartistscoalition.org  to see the list of artists and photos of their work along with a map.

ART WALK SCHEDULE Sedona: First Fridays Flagstaff: First Fridays Williams: 2nd Saturdays Cottonwood: 2nd Saturdays Jerome: First Saturdays

14th Annual Sedona Plein Air FestivalOctober 13 - 20  Thirty top plein air artists from around the country will be out and about painting their best for this event. For a complete schedule visit: sedonapleinairfestival.org

Northern Arizona Watercolor Society:   Cash Awards & Scholarship(Cash Award - Outstanding Watercolor)Beginner   Advanced1st Kalystica Rodriguez, PHS 1st Rachel Sparks, PHS2nd Melissa Shandera, MUHS 2nd Aaliyah Babbitt, FHS3rd Anya Kline, MUHS 3rd Tonny Yonnie, FHSScholarship:   Morales, MUHSMary Hughes Memorial Award: Pei-Wen Yang, MUHSNote: PHS - Prescott High School

MUHS - Mingus Union High School High SchoolFHS - Flagstaff High School

NAWS CRITIQUE GROUPS – 2018-2019

The Northern Arizona Watercolor Society (NAWS) critique groups are made up of watercolor artists who meet on regular basis to show and discuss their work. Critique meetings can be invaluable as an aid to personal growth, increased knowledge, positive reinforcement and objective opinions both positive and negative from the perspective and experience of other artist.

Aquarelles – Sedona Contact Barbara Mallek – 928-284-3127- February Show’nTell at NAWSCamp Verde/Elote – Camp Verde/Rimrock/Cornville Contact Elaine Bomkamp – 928-451-1182 – March Show’nTell at NAWSCottonwood – Cottonwood/Clarkdale Contact Sue Davis – 928-300-2352 – November Show'nTell at NAWSHigh Country – Flagstaff area - Contact Aliene Austin 928-774-6479 – October Show'nTell at NAWSUptown Aristocrats -Sedona Contact Sandy Beck – 928-282-1391 -January Show'nTell at NAWSWaterWorks – VOC/Hwy179 area Contact Scotti Ruhlman – 928-284-0756 – April Show'nTell at NAWSRita Bond – Critique Groups Chairperson – 928-282-4494

HELP WITH SCHOOL TEACHERS ART SUPPLIES

At the 2018 Northern Arizona Student Art Show, Made In Clarkdale asked the participating teachers to fill out a Wish List for their art classes. This is the first time they were asked directly about supplies. Watercolor supplies that several of them have asked for include:—Watercolor paints - tubes and/or liquid—Trays with 12 cups—Watercolor brushes - rounds and flats—Watercolor paper—Tabletop easels—Large easels

Our Art Supplies Yard Sale event is the September meeting.

Please bring your extra material and decide what you wish to sell and what you would donate. You may also bring new supplies and we'll see that they get to the teachers. "Your efforts to keep watercolor alive and well is having an effect. So anything you can do to help the teachers will be greatly appreciated." Deborah Downs, Made In Clarkdale, event coordinator

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The Flagstaff critique group is mourning the death of Robert Dalegowski. We still half expect to see him at our gathering with an armful of paintings. He was right-on with kind suggestions to improve our work, we rarely critiqued his. Bob was exclusively a plein-air painter - no camera, no preliminary sketch, just an exact record of the place before him in perfect proportion and color – start to finish in 2 hours. His love was the Grand Canyon - he painted it every week. He knew it’s geology, every monument, trail and water feature because he experienced it since his youth. Bob was a member of NAWS for about 13 years. He came to almost every meeting, entered paintings every year and won numerous awards. He was our Paint-Out director for much of that time. I got to know Bob pretty well as a painting buddy and sharing shifts at the Artist Gallery. I’ve never met a more grounded, kind, humble person. We are fortunate as artists to not only have a friend but see the world though their eyes in their art. I’m so sad the paintings have stopped.

Robert Dalegowski died on June 17th at 70 years of age from acute myeloid leukemia.

Caption: This is his last studio painting and caption for Grand Canyon Celebration Of Art. A dedication to Bob will be on display there Sept. 15 – Jan. 21

River Of Stars 24” x 18”Deep below the rim, in the bottom of the Grand Canyon (soon to be an International Dark Sky Park), the horizon sky glow is obscured by soaring walls, the silence is broken by the muffled roar of Deer Creek Falls at Colorado River Mile 136.4, as magical starlight reflects from the dark river surface. Grand Canyon is one of the best places to observe the primordial star filled night sky and luminous cascade of our galaxy, the legendary Milky Way. This is the sky seen by our ancestors, with thousands of stars inspiring the art, science and religion of civilizations since the dawn of mankind.

"With Sympathy"

Suzi Ludvigson's beloved husband David Passed away on Friday, June 22, 2018 after a long battle with liver cancer."

It is with sadness we report the passing of these wonderful people

Al OverendThe husband of member Lynn Overend

Ray McGinnis Husband of member Sharon McGinnis

Louise MacDonald She was a NAWS member for many years and had included many members in her book “Sedona’s Best Artists”.

June Van ValkenburgShe really loved getting to know some of the members and was saddened when her health could no longer let her continue her membership.June had a long struggle with cancer and fought very hard. Painting watercolor was always joyful for her.

Programs:

DVD Library News

DVD ListWe‘re starting off the NAWS new year with an assortment of of wonderful DVDs for your watching/learning/listening pleasure. New since last year are the following:Negative with Watercolor; Brenda Swenson; Making Watercolor glow, Don Andrews; Watercolor & Light Collection, Michael Reardon; Pot of Marigolds, Pat Weaver; Mixed Media collage Adventure, Cathy Taylor; Acrylic Painting : Mixed Media Flowers, Jean Pederson; Top Vibrant Watercolor Techniques, Soon Y Warren: Watercolor Techniques: Wet Glazing with Jean Pederson; Luminous Watercolor: The Wooded Landscape, Sterling Edwards Brushwork Techniques for Expressive Watercolor, Sterling Edwards; Pushing the Boundaries of Watercolor, Curtis Golomb; A Solid Start in Watercolor With Lynn Peers II; Level 1 and Level 2 Alcohol Ink Dream escaping, June Rollins, Watercolor Portraits of the South, Mary Whyte; Watercolor in the Wild ,James Gurney; Mastering Yupo, ;George James; and my Work of Watercolor: The Art of Shirley Trevena

Paint outs will be set by request. Ifyou have a place you want to paint let me know where when and we will send out emails to members to join us. Let me know if you want be on the email list. Leave Message by LindaSlater, 928-567-5900 and Jane Mulrooneyemail anthromajor2001@yahoo.com.

“Too Much Art Stuff” Sale.   Is your painting space cluttered? Have you invested in items, used them, and moved on to new ideas? We all have at one time or another. It’s time to CLEAN OUT THAT STUDIO!!! The September meeting will begin with an EXTENDED SOCIAL TIME. Tables will be arranged so that each of you will have space to put out a few items that you’d like for another artist to have a chance to purchase. You will manage your own table, set your own prices, collect your own money. At the end of the social/sale time, we will tidy up, rearrange the tables and chairs and begin our meeting.

We look forward to seeing everyone and what items they may bring for our sale!!

NAWS members can check out up to 3 DVDs before the meeting begins and up to 4 more during the break, from the ones that remain.  There is a check-in sheet at the beginning of the display to return your borrowed DVDs, and a check-out point at the other end, for signing out new items.  We have purchased numerous DVDs and members can check them out at the September Meeting.  Please remember to return your DVDs at the beginning of the next meeting.  There is a $1.00 charge per DVD per month for late returns. This money goes towards the purchase of new DVDs for our NAWS collection.If you can't get to the meeting, we have drop-off points where you can leave them with the person in your area who will bring your DVDs back to NAWS.DROP-OFF POINTS:Camp Verde                                 Lisa Aragona-King                                    Cornville                                       Linda KahnCottonwood/Clarkdale                 Wayne St. John, Jeanette Suggs, Tecla MachesneyVillage of Oak Creek                    Diane ThomasSedona                                         Susan LudvigsonFlagstaff                                        Marsha Owen, Sharon Dyer

If you have questions, please email or call Jeanette Suggs, DVD Librarian, at 649-9151

Membership Dues Are Due!Please renew your membership soon so that you don't miss a bit ofour coming year. There are several ways to renew:*  Go online at www.naws-az.org, click on the Membership Forms link on the left side of the Home Page. Then just fill out the form and submit with your payment via PayPal or send a check.*  Go online at www.naws-az.org, click on the Membership Forms link on the left side of the Home Page.  Fill out the form and print or just print and complete it.  Mail the form with your $35 check to: NAWS Membership, PO Box 508, Sedona, AZ, 86336*  Bring your check to the meeting. I will have some forms there for you to complete.Questions?  Contact Sue Johnson at nawsmembership@gmail.comThanks to all for keeping your membership up to date and happy painting!Sue Johnson

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What’s Up With Members!

New NAWS Juried MembersNAWS 2017-2018 President Wayne St. John with recent NAWS Juried Member Marti McNamee and Bonni Baumberger

NAWS 2017-2018 President Wayne St. John with recent NAWS Juried Member Rita Bond

Marsha Owen: I traveled to Boulder, Colorado in May to take part in the "Boulder Plein Air Festival" this was my first invitational. It required a city street quick draw and a minimum of 6 framed paintings created in a 5 day period. I was floored to receive a 2nd place and one painting sold. 

"Jan Saunders and Mary Ann Undrill will be exhibiting their work at the Canyon Mesa Clubhouse in VOC from Oct. 10 through the end of December.  An artist “meet and greet” will be held Nov. 1.  Please stop in and enjoy this exhibit that includes many new works by both artists."

WELCOME NEW MEMBER  Wendy Breeden joined NAWS over the summer. We owe Sandy Beck & Cecilia Binkley a thanks for their sales job on NAWS. Wendy was a member of the Vermont Watercolor Society and has relocated to Sedona. She's going to be using more of the warm side of her palette now. Say hi to Wendy when you see her at the October meeting. (She's not passing up Sept. in Vermont)

Road Trip to Maine by Sandy Beck

This past summer, I decided to take a risk and drive solo to Maine. Because I was driving alone, I took a little over two weeks to arrive in Maine, stopping to visit friends, and to do some sight-seeing in Memphis and Gettysburg. Once in Maine, I spent one week in my home town of Bath, then one week in Rockport, and a third week in Belfast, where I was joined by Cathy Stedman. We were supposed to be taking a workshop with Mel Stabin, but the workshop got cancelled due to lack of students. Since we were not restrained by the class, we traveled all over, visiting many lighthouses. I have always loved lighthouses, and really enjoyed the opportunity to paint so many of them. The trip was so much fun, I’m going to do another in two years, covering the five states I have never visited.

Sue Johnson had a request from a professor in the Forestry

Department at NAU. He is looking for painters to create flora

and fauna plates (for pay) to be used in a book he is writing.

Please let Sue know if you might be interested in this project.

Sue will gather names and perhaps they can arrange a meeting

with him after one of our fall meetings to learn details.

Please contact:

Sue Johnson (Membership ) nawsmembership@gmail.com

414-581-5398

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What’s Up With Members!

Rose MoonMy book is now out and available on amazon.com/author/rosemoon.    It is a tale about a woman named Laurence Donahue, a college art professor and accomplished painter, whose life is interrupted when she is kidnapped, drugged, and transported to a remote place in the Sonoran Desert. Connected only by a chat line to a person or an AI called Max. she finds herself alone. She is ordered to paint anything she wishes in exchange for supplies, which are delivered by the same drones that pick up the paintings. You will join her on a magical adventure into her dreams and subconscious mind as she realizes that solitary confinement has it's own rules. Not knowing if her visitors are desert sorcery dreamers or figments of her imagination, she journeys into her own inner world to process her dark past, and learns of a future she hopes will become reality -- if she is ever released.

Penny GuptonWednesday Watercolor class - it is ongoing class I encourage students to paint what they would like and I help. 9 -12 each Wednesday.  small class in the village of Oak Creek. website www.pennygupton.com see how I paint. Call for more information Penny 808-325-6106 POBox 20998, Sedona, AZ 86341

For a year now Pat Dunham has had a spot in the Gallery in Williams, AZ. There she has some originals, prints and cards. Recently she has added a few quilted items and soon there will be Crocheted Jewelry

Terry Ann Morris' photograph “Radiance"was selected for the 56th Annual Juried Exhibit at The Hardy Galleryin Ephraim, Wisconsin, June 15 to July 15, 2018. The most notable of theHardy exhibits, this exhibit features a variety of media; painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, ceramics and mixed media. This exhibit offers emerging artists the opportunity to gauge their development and established artists the opportunity to explore new ideas and techniques. A fun fact is that Terry took this photograph while kayaking down the Mink River in Door County, Wisconsin. :-)

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