Ian Ramsay

This watercolorist popped up on the Lines and Colors blog. You may have seen his work in magazines as well. He paints a lot of street scenes, boats, and evocative rural scenes, like this one:



Check him out: http://ianramsay.blogspot.com/
http://linesandcolors.com/2016/07/18/ian-ramsay/

Brandywine River Museum

Noted on Lines and Colors blog, the Brandywine River Museum is hosting two fab landscape exhibits, one of which showcases the Hudson River School painters.

http://www.brandywine.org/museum/exhibitions/current

Click on "read more" for each exhibit and you'll see a few works from them. One example, a brilliant fall landscape by Bierstadt.

Painting Cuba! Program

Our Painting Cuba! program tonight at the Art Museum was amazing. Kathryn and Howie Clark presented a power point from their February trip to Cuba where Kathryn painted and Howie played his banjo. Howie kicked off the evening by playing "I'll see you in C -U - B -A" written by Irving Berlin. Oil paintings of scenes from the photos gave us the opportunity to experience their trip. Thanks Kathryn and Howie!

Terry Miura

Terry Miura is an oil painter whose work came to my attention a year or so ago.



He paints cityscapes, landscapes, and figures. The above is called "Chicago Drizzle."

website: www.terrymiura.com

His blog is really excellent and should appeal to anyone interested in the painting process, regardless of media. http://terrymiura.blogspot.com/ Scroll down to the March post which details how he decided to paint over a finished (and exhibited) painting. Scroll down to the February posts, first for composition decisions on a landscape painting, then for one on painting snow.

May News Painting Cuba!

Mark your calendars for the May 17th program with Kathryn Clark!
Painting Cuba! From Kathryn:

It will be held in the Mickey Shook Room of the Lafayette Art Museum on May 17th, from 7-8:30pm. I'll show photos of my Cuba trip along with all the plein air watercolors, drawings done there and the five studio oil paintings created after I returned. One of those oils has been accepted in the Indianan NOW exhibition at the museum. Hopefully, there will also be Cuban background music from CD's we purchased from the four piece bands we heard play. My husband, Howie will help with set up and will probably join me in the presentation.

April 2016 Newsletter

                                    
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Spring Greetings on a Cold Morning!

I'm sure spring is around the corner somewhere and soon we'll have warm days and forget how long it's taken for those balmy days to appear!

For those of you that attended the March meeting and created zentangles, it would be fun to see your finished tile.  Let's bring the zentangles we've done to share at the April meeting! 

April 19th, 7:00pm, TAF,  Jo McGraw will be our guest artist.  She has some very creative approaches to her paintings that you won't want to miss seeing! You can check out some of her work on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jo.mcgraw.737.  Here is a charming turtle she has on exhibit at the Bindery through the end of April (https://www.facebook.com/events/1053497301404656/?ref=22&action_history=null&source=22)

        
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If you are interested in entering "Indiana Now" - the deadline is April 13th - click on this link:    https://www.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=3274&sortby=fair_name&apply=yes

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The May 18th meeting was scheduled to be a critique with Ladonna Vohar and Lorie Amich, but stand by we may have another exciting program instead! Details are being worked out! TBA!!!!

June 18th, the WVAS had scheduled a paint out to Turkey Run State Park, but Jean Jackson,  one of our members made us aware that the Indiana Plein Air painters are coming to town that weekend for a paint out.  So if you would like to have a plein air painting experience here in town, we cancelled the trip to Turkey Run.  Click here for details to participate:  http://www.haanmuseum.org/paintout2016.aspx

Skipping ahead a few months, the WVAS annual juried show will be held in September.  The venue will be Sylvia's Brick Oven this year - more details to come, but begin thinking about what you would like to enter now! 

I think this is a wrap for this edition of the WVAS newsletter.

Happy painting!

Aron Wiesenfeld

I was perusing a Lines and Colors blog about an exhibition in Santa Monica, which led me to check out Wiesenfeld's website. He works in charcoal and in oils. His figures are really evocative and quite wonderful.
http://www.aronwiesenfeld.com/4n2dftk3w8pchwx5v8v3nifv8rbt7v