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Parking at WASA meetings

Now we can park off the street at meetings without fear of a parking fine. Thanks to Le Pine Funerals we may use their customer carpark, not the one for their work-related

cars. It is in Linsey Street south of the library and they do not close the gate.

Meetings upstairs at

Box Hill Library

14 pages

March 2017 Issue 63

Next Members' Meeting 21st March 7pm for 7.30pm start

AGM & presentation about the collection, history and tales of Melbourne Museum's art collection by

the curator of History of Collections & Scientific Art.

Scientific Art as Historic Record: The history of the museum through its scientific art. A talk by Bec Carland. This rare glimpse at illustrations, specimens and objects in Museums Victoria’s collections which have informed scientific publications since the earliest days of the colony. Bec is an historian specialising in cross-disciplinary projects that connect the Natural Science and Humanities collections at Museum Victoria. She is responsible for the Museum History Collection, Scientific Art and Expedition and Fieldwork Collections. Bec is also field historian on the annual Bioscan series with Parks Victoria and is Vice-president of The Professional Historians Association (Victoria). __________________________________________________________________________ Important Notices: ** Some of the meetings have shuffled date due to circumstances beyond our control - please check 2017 calendar in this Warble. ** If you haven't paid your 2017 WASA subscription yet, this will be the last Warble you will receive from the Society. If you would like to renew your subscription please do so as soon as you can or let us know. The passwords for member access to Vimeo and the library area of the main website will change during April. Thanks to all who have renewed !



Dear WASA members, Please let me know during the month prior to issue if you would like any news included, such as exhibitions you are holding, art prizes you have won or any interesting art books/videos/exhibitions/workshops you have come across or attended. Members are also welcome to submit articles or an advertisement for exhibitions/classes. My contact details are [email protected], (or you can click on my name below to send an email), and my mobile number is 0402 554909.

Alison Clark

Check out the WASA Noticeboard to stay up to date with other members and more. It's a closed group for members only to post anything of interest. See page 13 for details

Our next Paint and Sketch :

Saturday 4th March 2017 at Melbourne Zoo, 9am-ish

When you arrive phone Kris on 0412 104 825 to find out where the others are, (probably drinking coffee just inside front gate). No set finish time for us as it depends on weather and other commitments. Normal zoo admittance applies or free if you’re a FOTZ member. If you would like some company it’s wise to confirm attendance on the WASA Noticeboard or check with Kris on 0412 104 825. If you’d like to share your wheels with others also please let us know.



UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS



Drawing studio afternoon Saturday 3 rd June 12.30pm – 4.30pm

at the meeting room, Box Hill library Drawing Naturally hosted by Janet Matthews who will be available to answer questions.

BYO art materials WASA is able to borrow from Birdlife Australia a few bird specimens. We will also have available

interesting feathers, TFM wings, a weedy seadragon specimen, a Blue Ulysses butterfly specimen, shells, and anything else we can think of. �BYO specimen/s to share (nests, feathers, shells etc)

Afternoon tea provided

Cost : $ 10 WASA members, $15 non-WASA members

Form return to Kate Goodman, WASA Councillor Email to : …[email protected]

or bring to WASA meeting or post to : P O Box 284, CANTERBURY 3126

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2016 Wildlife Photographer of the Year is now on at the National Wool Museum, Geelong. The world-renowned exhibition, on loan from the London Natural History Museum features images ranging from fascinating animal behaviour to breath-taking wild landscapes. When : daily now until 14th May 2017 Where : National Wool Museum, 26 Moorabool St, Geelong, Victoria Cost : adult $9, concession $7 More info : Telephone 03 5272 4701 Web: http://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/events/item/8d1d2d86d6c819a.aspx Email [email protected]



CALL FOR ENTRIES The Australian Fly Fishers’ Art and Craft Show Organised by the Victorian Fly Fishers’ Association Incorporated (VFFA) Closing date July 31st. 2017

$5,000 first prize, show date: 13th to 16th. September 2017

A great opportunity to show and sell your works of art. Whether your interest is sculpture, art, photography, metalwork - in fact anything that shows your creative skill.

Entries must represent any aspect of the sport of fly fishing and can be in any media including sculpture, rods, reels, knives, nets, river landscapes, fish paintings, bags – anything. Show your talents to keen collectors, anglers and artists. And you have the chance to sell your entries as well as winning the first prize of $5,000. Entries cost $50 and are limited to four per person.

Log onto the website www.vffa.org.au

Click on the link to the show to print out as many entry forms you need.

April 22-23 Exhibition in 2017

Venue – Oak Hall, Melbourne Rudolf Steiner School, 213 Wonga Road, Warranwood 3134

Entry details http://www.warranwoodartshow.com.au/events



Call for Natural History and Botanical Artists

reFraming Nature 2017

Each year, the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens (FRBG) Melbourne present an art exhibition in October. In 2017, the theme of the exhibition will be natural history entitled reFraming Nature 2017 held in Melbourne from October 7-22.

The exhibition covers topics such as ferns, fungi, insects, butterflies, marine life, pond life, shells, birds, fossils, amphibians as well as botanical subjects (not flower focussed) such as fruit, vegetables, seeds, nuts and leaves. All the paintings and drawings exhibited aim to be as scientifically accurate and detailed as possible while expressing at the same time artistic vision and creative individuality.

Official entry rules can be obtained from our website (www.rbgfriendsmelbourne.org). Entry forms will be available on our website a few months before the entry due date of September 1, 2017. For further information or to join our email list, please email [email protected]

reFraming Nature 2017 at a glance:

Date: 7-22 October

Where: Domain House Gallery, Dallas Brooks Drive, Melbourne 3004

Times: 10am - 4pm daily

Admission: free (although a gold coin donation will help with our fundraising efforts)

All framed works are for sale as well as artists cards, unframed originals and prints



Vimeo films are now available for viewing. The film of Nadine Dudek's demonstration will be available soon.

Do you ever wish you could chat to a gallery manager, a few successful professional artists - someone who's done it and is happy to share their experience and knowledge and welcome your questions? Brenda Innes, Robert Knight, Vida Pearson and Stephen Powell gave us just that - invaluable information about framing, sizing, subjects, presentation and loads more. Grab a cuppa, click the link and settle in to be part of this meeting.

Click this link to visit Vimeo https://vimeo.com/wasavideo/videos

Log in using [email protected] and the password is cockatoo. If you can't

see the list of WASA videos click the WASA logo in top right corner of the

webpage.

Please don't share these films with others – they are under WASA copyright and we know you will respect this. We have enough films up now to ask you to scroll through to the second page.

Our thanks again to David Reynolds for his work.

Visit David's website to see what else he has been doing. http://www.davidreynoldsart.com.au/



WASA Meeting - 21st February 2017 by Ralph Keller

A new year of WASA meetings has begun and our first speaker for 2017 was Nadine Dudek, giving us a masterful demonstration in pure watercolour painting. I would describe Nadine's work as highly decorative. However, this is not supposed to suggest that her pictures are in any way "lightweight" but rather that she has the ability to eliminate superfluous detail and focus on emphasising the stand-out features of her animal subjects. This imparts great impact to Nadine's work, her delicately fluid style is very easy on the eye and her pictures fit nicely on any wall. This has made Nadine's watercolours much sought after by buyers of wildlife art. Her distinctive style, already well known in WASA circles, was again illustrated by the number of completed paintings of various birds she brought along - among them three gorgeous Owl studies. For her demonstration subject she chose a composition showing two Mute Swans. Here again, the intention was to clearly define the heads and the elegant necks of the birds as the focal point of the picture, whilst the rest of the bodies and wings were to be loosely indicated only and largely allowed to be lost in the background. Nadine usually spends a considerable time thinking about her compositions and has a clear idea on what she wants to achieve before she sketches the subjects with a soft pencil on heavy watercolour paper - now always 640gsm rough (cold pressed), by the French manufacturer Arches. This thickness of paper holds a lot of water, which allows more wet in wet painting and better blending of colours. Winsor & Newton, as well as a selection of Daniel Smith colours form Nadine's palette. Whatever the brand, her advice here is to stick to good artist grade paints - a quality product will always repay the artist with better results. Nadine prefers Neef brand brushes - she paints with a limited range of mainly taklon/squirrel mix, both oval and round in shape. Again, whatever brand you purchase, good quality costs money but will pay dividends. When Nadine started her demonstration, she liberally covered the swans heads and necks with water and a little yellow ochre to lift off the basic shapes from the white paper. The beaks were then painted lightly in quinacridone violet and permanent rose whilst the dark skin surrounding the eyes was also indicated, using indigo blue and either burnt umber or Van Dyke brown. The definite shapes of heads and necks she painted to clean edges while the rest of the bodies were treated increasingly loosely and allowed to blend into the white of the paper. Shadows of burnt sienna and French ultramarine - with indigo blue added for deeper tones - then gave nicely rounded shapes to heads and necks.



Nadine's equipment Early Stage The picture was finally completed by strengthening the three-dimensional shapes of the beaks, and giving highlights to the swan's eyes - together they provided the strong centre of attention to an otherwise delightfully loose painting.

Throughout the demo Nadine explained the various steps, whilst at the same time answering the increasing number of questions from the audience. She also touched on the basic philosophy she brings to all her painting - the central piece of advice of which is clearly the principal guide line for her own art:



- Don't overwork your painting. - Keep it simple. - Stop unnecessary fiddling and the end result will be the better for it. Thanks, Nadine, for giving us a very enjoyable evening, full of interest and lively discussion - you have started the year on a high note with your inspiring presentation. We wish you much continued success in your career as professional artist. Our thanks also to Kris for her interlude in demonstrating wet stretching of paper. If you are interested to learn more about Nadine's eye-catching style of watercolour painting you can take part in her next workshop. It will be held at Senior Art Supplies in Malvern on Sunday 9th April 2017 (see AGRA webpage http://www.agra.org.au or phone AGRA 039882.5859 for details).

Mute Swans

DISCLAIMER: Support of all WASA members is very welcome however the editor and WASA Council reserve the right

to edit or refuse publication of any submission. Views expressed in the articles are not necessarily those of WASA.

Tony Weston’s Masterframe Melbourne framing services [email protected] telephone 0408 316 313 Melbourne



It is past the time to pay WASA membership renewal!

Your subscription renewal of $70 exhibiting or $40 non-

exhibiting was due January. If you joined after S eptember 2016 you are considered paid until December 2017. If you won't be exhibiting during 2017 you can pay the $40 non-exhibiting subscription and still receive Warble an d have access to the member’s area of the website and WASA

Noticeboard.

We hope you can renew by direct credit to the WASA bank account and complete and email or post the renewal form. If

you pay by direct credit note your name in the refe rence field so we know who the money is from.

WASA won’t be issuing invoices for the subscription renewal.

If you are paying by cheque or postal order please complete the form and post with your payment to

P O Box 284 Canterbury Victoria 3126 BSB 633000 Account number 152552865 Treasurer [email protected]

Visit the news page on the WAMA website to keep up with progress in

this project for wildlife art in Australia.

http://www.wama.net.au/news.html



CALENDAR 2017

March 4 Paint & sketch - Melbourne Zoo

Now -21 Deliver for MIFGS to depot IF you can't bring to meeting on 21st.

21 Meeting AGM & presentation about the collection, history and tales of Melb. Museum's art collection by the curator of History of Collections & Scientific Art

7pm for 7.15pm start

26 Hang at MIFGS 10am – 1pm WASA in attendance

29 MIFGS opens and is on until April 2nd

April 2 MIFGS - last day & bump out – WASA in attendance

8*** 2nd. Sat Paint & Sketch at Werribee Zoo 10am

18 Meeting : Presentation by Brett Jarrett professional wildlife artist 7pm

May 6 Paint & sketch - Melbourne Zoo

16 Meeting : demonstration Linda Weil pastel pencil with graphitint washes 7pm

June 3 Drawing Naturally with Janet Matthews at Box Hill meeting room bird specimens from Birdlife Australia, BYO specimens to share & your art materials (nests, feathers, shells etc)

12.30-4.30

10 Scratchboard workshop registration due

20 Meeting : Same subject - different media – 3 or 4 WASA artists demonstrate wclr, pastel pencil, digital and charcoal

7pm

30 Entries close for our exhibition at AGRA in Camberwell

July 1 Workshop : scratchboard with Patrick Hedges at Box Hill Library meeting room suited to those with scratchboard experience, beginners welcome also

10.30-4.30

12-23

Exhibition at AGRA Galleries in Camberwell

18

Meeting : In the Artist’s Studio featuring 3 WASA artists creative backgrounds : splashing, spraying, medias you can and can't put together with Sue Schreiber Achieving Texture pastel and/ or acrylic - Alison Clark new trends in framing - Tony Weston

7pm

1-31 WOW Online Exhibition 2017 to be confirmed

Aug 5 Paint & sketch - Melbourne Zoo 10am

15 Meeting : digital painting with Rachael Hammond and making resin 3d artworks by Barnes Company

7pm

Sept 2 Paint & sketch - Moonlit Sanctuary 10am

19 Meeting : Care of materials, types of brushes and their uses, new products Mark Griffiths 7pm

Oct 7 Paint & sketch - Healesville Sanctuary 9.30am

Entries close for our exhibition at Geelong

17 Meeting : Appraisal of our Art – by Regina Hona and a WASA artist 7pm

Nov 1-30 WASA exhibition at Geelong Art Society

Nov 4 Paint & sketch - Melbourne Zoo 9.30am

21 Meeting : Members' critique and group discussion of top-ranking artists' work combined with working out the composition from the images on screen

7pm



To access the library area of the main WASA website

the username is cockatoo. We encourage new members to be aware of this feature, which has lots of

helpful reference material. Also the WASA Noticeboard, mentioned below.

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Remember to ‘like’ the Facebook page and please share it with friends.

We're up to 470 Likes- double hooray

https://www.facebook.com/wildlifeartsociety

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WASA Noticeboard on Facebook

You may post pictures/comment about your artwork and discuss with other WASA-ites both your own and

their artworks or anything else of interest.

Click here to view WASA Noticeboard in Facebook

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WASA 2016 Councillors contact details

Reluctant President

Kris Peter [email protected] ph 03.9833.3431 & 0412.104.825

Treasurer Jenine Bell

[email protected]

Facebook & Exhibition Director Nadine Dudek

nadinedudekart @gmail.com Ph 0416 966 290

Kate Goodman

[email protected]

Karin McKee [email protected]

Jess Skepper

[email protected]

Helpers

Alison Clark – editor Warble

Ruth Ault Rikki Fisher NSW – artwork for exhibition

Rachael Hammond Ralph Keller – articles for Warble,

Dario Zanesco Q’land – website advice/help

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The W A S A Warble€¦ · ABN 92 325 040 041 Drawing studio afternoon Saturday 3 rd June 12.30pm – 4.30pm at the meeting room, Box Hill library Drawing Naturally hosted by Janet