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September BWS General Meeting Review

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Through the years, I have always felt blessed to see people in various organizations volunteer to work together for the common good. Last week at the September 14th BWS general meeting, I experienced that same cohesive feeling of camaraderie when I saw my fellow artists step forward and volunteer to fill vacant offices, chair a committee or join a committee that needed help. The board put out a call for help and the membership said YES. Isn’t it just wonderful when everything falls naturally into place?

We are proud to announce the new BWS elected officers:

  • Our 1st Vice President (workshops) is Karen Krosnick,
  • Our 2nd Vice President (Membership) is Barbara Rios,
  • and our Secretary is Mary Warnick.

I also wish to thank Cathy Robinson for volunteering to be our new greeter, and Pat Bowlds and Grace Delanoy for all their hard work in creating our lovely new website. 

Special thanks to Frank Spino for the wonderful demo immediately following our meeting. We all appreciate the opportunity to learn from such a talented artist, and are fortunate to have him as an active member.

After the Saturday meeting, I received an email from Phyllis Marple offering to chair a committee of BWS members to run Splash 2020. The committee is composed of Debbie Whalen, Cindy McKee, Lolly Walton and of course, Phyllis Marple. What a pleasant surprise it was to discover that they were willing to take on this monumental job for us. Many of these ladies have worked Splash shows in the past, and are very experienced with Splash operations.

My thanks go out to all of you who have volunteered to sacrifice their time and energy for BWS. We still have a few positions open. Currently, we need chairs for Publicity (other than Splash), Plein-air, a webmaster apprentice, and more teachers willing to do mini workshops.  If you are interested in any of these positions, let any board member or committee chair know.

Donah Miller
BWS President

Photos courtesy of Ruth Foreman.

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Mini Workshop – Using Value and Scaling to Paint a Monochromatic Portrait with Barbara Rios

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Many artists have a fear of three things:

  1. using dark values
  2. painting portraits
  3. skin tones

Artist Barbara Rios’s hope is that at the end of this workshop, you will be able to mix at least 10 different values of one color and paint a portrait. You will learn how to scale features, concentrate on abstract shapes of values, and reduce skin tones to one color! Barbara’s advice is don’t stress yourself out by trying to paint a portrait of a family member in your first try.

CLICK HERE for artist’s bio.

Information about materials will be announced at a later date.

COST:
Members – FREE
Non-Members – $20
 
REGISTRATION:

We're sorry, this workshop has reached its maximum entry capacity. Please email mini workshop co-chairs Sue Grabowski and Susan Carden-Flicker at bwsminiwkshp@gmail.com if you wish to be added to the waiting list.