“…to spread knowledge and cultivate interest in the transparent watercolor medium used in both traditional and non-traditional ways.”
Featured Work of the Month
Flower Market
1885
James McNeill Whistler
From The President’s Brush The summer weather has been mostly good this season. Let’s hope it stays that way as it offers many opportunities to paint.
BWS wishes to welcome another new Associate member: Brielle Wilchinsky Brielle is an artist of many talents including watercolor. She says: “I love using watercolor as a way to counteract my tendency to over-control in my artwork. Putting water to paper and letting colors mix, flow, and change allows me to experiment and loosen up in ways that i have never been able to in other media. It’s the medium I reach for when I want to relax and play with my art. I also find watercolor to be a very natural compliment to my meticulous and detailed sketching style.” Check out her website here.
BWS is happy to announce our fall exhibit at Gallery Three located at the Artists Resident Theatre’s space at 138 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. There are thirteen BWS signature member artists exhibiting. “A Watercolor Ensemble” will have its reception on Friday, September 20th at 138 South Oxford Street from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. Please mark your calendars and please be sure to attend and support our fellow watercolorists. Your presence would be most welcome and appreciated.
-Albert
Members News
Note: “Extra extra, read all about it!” Since Steve Yaeger, our BWS Newsletter-in-chief is utilizing MailChimp to facilitate the process, we are pleased to announce that all recent newsletters are now available for perusal and your convenience on the BWS website. In the future we hope to have all past newsletters available in an archive on the BWS website. Please check it out here.
From Maruchi Santana
New Fall Trip…all members welcome to visit the New York Historical Societyfor
a 60 minute tour of the Society’s special exhibition Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville & Audubon Focus Gallery on Thursday, November 7th at 12 noon. The tour will be led by Curator of Drawings, Roberta Olson $25.00 for adults You will also receive: a 10% discount in the Museum Store,
admission to introductory filmNewYorkStoryand new Center for Women’s History filmWeRise, and
individual vouchers for reduced Regular Admission tickets on a future visit. For more info: Artist in Exile Please RSVP Maruchi@parhamsantana.com by August 31st.
One of Jeff Berman’s mixed media watercolor paintings will be in the National exhibition of the Audubon Artists of America. He says that he has been experimenting with water color pencil, watercolor crayon and traditional watercolor in the same artwork.
His students at the senior center in Brooklyn have been working with different approaches to watercolor and his acceptance to national shows using different techniques have spurred them on. They are doing homework and staying after class to improve their skills. He adds, “I am proud of them.”
Members Gallery
Bob Ferguson tells us that his Flowers in a Blue Vase was “painted with as little detail as necessary to portray a vase of colorful flowers.” Bob adds that he “felt that the fluidity and softness of watercolor seemed particularly well suited for the subject.” The viewer, I’m sure, agrees that Bob’s finished work satisfies his comment.
If you want one or two of your works to appear in the Newsletter Members Gallery send copy of image(s) by email to newsletter editor: sydocent@aol.com, or in print by regular mail to Steve Yaeger, 450 Beach 128 Street, Belle Harbor, NY 11694 together with a description of your work and an SSAE if you want prints returned.
You may also send information on any exhibitions in which you are involved; paintings (watercolor, oil, acrylic or drawings) that you are working on, or want to show in the newsletter; something related to art you wish to write about; tips on techniques that you use or any other items related to your art.
Note: Please include the title(s), if any, of work(s) you wish to show in the Newsletter.
Off The Palette
Rockaway Artists Alliance Exhibition, Art Splash 2019, is now accepting entries.
For prospectus and information go to: ArtSplash
Art Exhibit: May We All Grow Up To Be Children.Illustrations by the noted British artist, George H. Lewis.Sands Point Preserve, 127 Middle Neck Road, Sands Point, NY 11050. Exhibition ends Sept. 2. Hours: 12:00pm-5:00pm. More Info
Comments
From Anthony George (antgeo1@yahoo.com)
Norman Rockwell did watercolors very well. Sad his European vacation album and sketch book was stolen. His baseball dugout is also a watercolor. I will be in a show in September. Based on prior shows, I may do well. That may prompt me to return to BWS. Around the time of me participating in the past, I did not know how to draw well!
(Anthony, thanks for the Rockwell info. We wish you luck in the show and hope to see you back.)
NOTE: The deadline for BWS Newsletter is the 15th of each month.
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