Composition links

Susan Doster, who is speaking at our February meeting sent these links to check out.  One is about ice sculpture, the other has great tips about composition.  Thanks Susan!
 http://www.incredibleart.org/

http://www.goshen.edu/art/ed/percy1.html

January 2014 Program - Susan Doster

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The WVWS January program will be Tuesday, January 21, 7:00 at the Tippecanoe Arts Federation. Susan Doster will speak about composition.  All are invited to bring a painting that is either completed or in process for a critique.  This is a self portrait painted by Susan.

Van Gogh, Turner, and Animation

Two items of interest:

There's a new Turner exhibit in Britain. Follow this link to a blog post about it: http://linesandcolors.com/2013/12/30/turner-the-sea/
In that post, there's a link to the museum. Once there, click on the arrow to see some animations of Turner's works (or buy your tickets if you will be in UK for the show!). Also, go down and click on the link for the book, which takes you to amazon and some images from the book, some of which are watercolors.

This link takes you to a short (3 min.) animated film of some of Van Gogh's paintings. Interesting possibilities! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPQSN3fNLF4&feature=player_embedded

John Singer Sargent techniques

In case you can't get to Boston or Houston, the last two stops for the JSS exhibition, follow this link to see some great videos on recreating his watercolor techniques: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/john-singer-sargent-watercolors

November Program - Christmas Cards

Those that came to the Christmas Card paint out at the meeting had a fun time.  Here are a few photos.  LaDonna showed us how to paint something abstract with shaving cream - pretty fun idea.

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November Monthly Meeting

Here is a message from our president reminding us about our November meeting tonight!
I want to remind everyone about this evening's meeting that we are going to be creating greeting cards, not necessarily Christmas cards.  Jerie and I will be hosting this fun time, but we are all going to inspire one another.  I will supply the cards and envelopes, but you will need to bring your painting materials and anything else you like to use to make your cards unique.  Along with my watercolors I sometimes use string, stamps, gold leaf, stencils, shave cream, pen and ink. . .

Also, as usual we'll make time to share your new work or work you would like to have critiqued.

Same place, same time ~ TAF at 7:00pm.

See you tonight,

LaDonna

Handmade Greeting Cards

There will be an opening reception at the Lafayette Art Museum, Saturday November 16 from 4 to 6pm, featuring the artwork by Lori Amick's watercolor class with the theme of "Greeting cards and the art that made them."  Which will be a great prelude to our upcoming WVWS November 19th monthly meeting of having fun creating and experiementing making our own greeting cards.  More details to come in a next blog post.