Reminder

Mark your calendar for December 17th!  Our Annual Christmas Party!  We have asked John Fackrell to present a "Trunk Show" for us this year.  If you have never attended a trunk show, you are in for a real treat.  A trunk show showcases one artist's work.  John will be sharing his award winning watercolors with us after dinner.  During dinner we will be listening to some amazing Christmas music from CD's, enjoying each other's company and we will have a gift exchange, so please remember to bring a small (under an 8" x 10") painting to exchange.  Time: 6:30-8:30, or come a little early and help set up the cafeteria!

Please mark your calendar for our first monthly meeting, January 21, 2016!  Spike Ress from southern Utah will be demoing his amazing landscapes for us.  I was lucky enough to watch Spike's demo this past year, when he was a guest artist for the Utah Watercolor Society.  In just a matter of a few minutes, he changed how I paint landscapes!  Really!  He made it possible for me to understand how to paint canyon walls with a few strokes of his brush.  I was in awe!  I know you will not want to miss this monthly demo, so mark your calendar!  Take a minute to visit his website, by clicking his name above.  It is a direct link to Spike's beautiful paintings.

Want a new challenge for 2016?  I love a good challenge, especially if it involves watercolor painting.  John Fackrell will be teaching a 3rd, 6-week workshop, but this time it will be about painting just one large painting.  When I say large, I mean 1/2 sheet!  That's the challenge! Yup!  We will be painting the Park City (white) Barn, the one that is on the National Historical Registry and pictured here.  (This is an image I took last week, but it is very similar to John's).  With this, we can learn how to paint snow, mountains, bushes, shadows, etc. etc. etc.  Each week we will be learning something else and at the end of the workshop, we will have a beautiful painting!  $45 and only a few seats (3) are left! I am collecting payments now, so reserve your seat!  You can give me a check at the Christmas Party or on Monday afternoons, when I'm at the Senior Center.  (Please make your check out to Sandy Senior Center).

Don't forget to pay your 2016 Membership dues!  They are due on January 1st, but you can pay at the Christmas Party or January 21st monthly meeting.  (Make checks out to: Sandy Senior Center)

Have questions, give me a call: (Cindy) 801-6749503

General Information

There will be no meeting tonight due to our summer break, but we will be back in full swing, September 17th!  There are some exciting things happening, some minor changes and some great workshops planned for 2015-2016.

One of the changes will be how we organize the Christmas Party.  This year it will be held at the Sandy Senior Center and it will be a down-home, pot luck with a gift exchange.  We will provide the main meat dish and Apple Cider!  More about this in a future post.

Some of you know, I volunteered at the County Fair this summer and made some interesting contacts. These people are interested in providing us with a venue to demonstrate our painting talents by giving us the room to offer painting demos at the 2016 County Fair.  You will also have the option of selling your work.  Anyone interested in participating in these 4 days of demos, please call me (Cindy) 801 674 9503 and I will add you to the list.  (Please note that we will need to break up the times over the 4 days, into 2-4 hour slots and you will be able to sign up for the hours you can be there.  No one is required to be there for the full 4 days!  Also, I will work on getting you parking passes for these time slots.)  The County Fair is normally the 2nd week of August every year, but this has not been confirmed yet.  There will be more information about this opportunity in the future.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer, vacations, family and friends at the Monday Paint Group.

June Meeting is in Plein Aire

The next Sandy Water Color Guild Meeting will be on Thursday June 19th.  We will meet at the gazebo west of the Sandy Senior Center for Plein Aire Painting and a Pot Luck Dinner. Bring something yummi to share.

Virginia Kimball will be there to give us tips...and  it's getting close to the solstice, so it should stay light enough for us to paint for quite a while. This will be fun, especially since you've all got your new plein aire kits organized (right???)...so let's try it. You might not be comfortable at first, but you'll get the hang of it...and it's surprising how well this exercise will help you understand contrasts of light and dark. 

In July, we take a break. NO MEETING.  Then August 21 we'll start up again.

Colleen Reynolds has a Brusho workshop on Saturday August 23. You can sign up through her website and pay with paypal. (Click her link in the right sidebar) It's simple. If you are going to pay with a check, please bring it to the June meeting. It's so much less work if the checks come in all at once and don't straggle over a couple months time.

We have been asking for help with managing the club. Here are some responsibilities you could volunteer for.

-workshop coordinator

-meeting scheduler

-membership recorder (keeping up contact info)

We'll be discussing this at the next meeting

Check us out on Facebook by typing in Sandy Watercolor Guild in the search section.  Then "Like" us!

 

Photo: Courtesy of Cindy-Draper Park

Spring Show Announcement

Mark your calendars!  Maggie, Karla & myself (Cindy) will begin hanging the Sandy Guild Spring Show in just six more days!  Monday, March 3rd from 8-4 at the Sandy Senior Center!  Remember, you can enter up to 3 paintings!  See more details by scrolling down to the Spring Show post below.
If you currently have a painting hanging in the ballroom, please make sure it is picked up before Friday, Feb. 28th!  That's in 3 days folks!  Thank You.

Just A Reminder

This is just a friendly reminder about Ian Ramsay's demo Thursday night, Jan. 16th at 6:30  at the Sandy Senior Center. He is one of our favorite artists and you won't want to miss him.
You know our regular meetings are held the 3rd Thursday of each month (except for July and December for summer & winter breaks).  These meetings are free and open to the public. So if you have a friend who might be interested in art/watercolor painting, please invite them to join us.
*Reminder:  The annual membership fees of $15 are due...so please bring your check (made out to SSCAC....that's Sandy Senior Center Advisory Council if you want to write it out.)
We also need you to check the accuracy of your info. and update any changes to your email, phone numbers, address, etc. so that we can contact you. We only use your info for club business and never share it with anyone.
* Our next workshop is Virginia Kimball's, "Come Celebrate Chinese New Year" on Feb. 13th from  10:00am to 4:00pm at Virginia's home in Sandy. The fee is $35 for members and $40 for non-members. This workshop will include a Chinese Buffet Lunch.  Virginia is hosting this workshop at her home and she will have the address available with other information at the Thursday meeting.  Please reserve your seat/place by signing up and paying for this fun and exciting workshop at our Thursday night meeting.
The monies we collect from fees and workshops helps to support our club activities, and allows us to offer more guest artists and have a wider variety of workshops/demos.  These fees also allow us to host an annual Christmas Party for all of our members. 
* Maggie Harrison is chair of our annual "Spring Show 2014",  a non-juried watercolor exhibit of members & non-members art.  (See blog post below for updates and show rules).  Maggie is going to need help for this event, so please sign up to help her with this huge endeavor.  All help will be greatly appreciated. 
See you Thursday night!
Suzan

PS-If you have completed the January "Challenge" Art-Using a Palette Knife-(See post below), please bring your artwork to the meeting for Show N' Tell.  This photo is of a "3rd attempt" at this challenge using a different image.  I'm enjoying the process so I will keep playing around with it for awhile longer but I have another challenge (February) that will be posted soon! "Contour Drawing"   It's all for fun so if you don't have time to participate, that's Okay-you may be able to in the future.  Cindy

A Call for Art

Dear friends,
Sandy Senior Center is asking us to please hang some art in the ballroom even BEFORE the March Spring Show. If you have some older pieces framed and just being ignored, why not give them some air and light?  Keep your new stuff for the show if you must, but at least let your other work shine!
If you can/would do this for the SWG, that would be fabulous. It's very informal, and Shauna Alcorn or I would be willing to meet you all and get things put up before the end of January.  What if we say Wednesday, January 22 at Noon, at the Sandy Senior Center?  Please let one of us know if you are bringing something so we can plan our time and space accordingly.
Monday Paint Group attendees: This is especially geared to you, but I don't have addresses for everyone. Let's mention this on Thursday before Ian gets started.  Your help would be appreciated.

Contact Karla : kfnye@msn (dot) com
or Shauna: swalcorn@msn (dot) com

Thanks!
Karla