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November Meeting

 Show and Tell!!!!

 Shawna's new cupcake series and her Christmas card and Joan's ship painting. 

Joan's boats and Lynn's demonstration image

We did still life set ups with

pears and scrabble letters, then off we went to the store to crop and print the images.  It was an adventure.

Professional Development!

Creative Catalyst www.cppvideos.com







Just the ticket for Christmas!

Monday night meeting

We meet Monday November 15 in room 205 at NUP at 7:30pm.  All are welcome to come.

If you look lower on the blog you will see that there are two different demonstrations.  Lynn is doing one for beginners, and Shawna for those with slightly more experience.

See you there.

Jean Pederson

Last spring Jean came and taught here. We had a great time. She has her first dvd out that looks very cool.

Check it out at http://www.ccpvideos.com/page/CCP/PROD/JP1d

Shawna's Still Life Demonstration

Bring drawing supplies, still life items, and digital camera.  

Ideas for still life set ups.

Keep it to one or two different items (but in multiples of 2 or 3) with simple shapes to start with:

cups (with tea or coffee),saucers, glasses, fruit, berries, veggies, silverware, flowers, battenburg lace, bowls, children toys, books, playing cards, foods - dessert or cookies or candies or eggs, stones, jewelry, pitcher, figurines, children games, baby shoes, coins, ect

There are a few options to think about for Monday.

Fabric options for under the set up. Use a solid fabric or a piece that is graphically simple. So stripes, simple larger shapes. Remember the size of your still life objects when choosing fabric. If the item is a pear then choose a fabric that has a medium sized pattern that would not be overwhelmed by the pear or so large that the pear gets lost on it.

What is the theme of the still life set up? How does the fabric and still life objects work together to represent your chosen theme?

If you have any questions, call me.

Shawna

November Painting Saturday

Saturday was a perfect day to come to Painting Saturday. A group of 5 met and worked on their own pieces. As always a few hours really can bring a painting along.

Kevin working on a landscape.

Joan working on her latest boat piece

Lynn working on a landscape as well!

December 4th is the next Painting Saturday.

Painting Saturday coming up!

Hi all
November 6th is our next watercolour painting day. Come and Join Lynn and I for 5 hours of painting. 11 am in room 205!

Beginner Class canceled

Due to insufficient registry for the 4 hour Beginner class for Saturday October 23rd, this class will be rescheduled for the new year. Watch for it in January.

October Demonstration by Lynn

Here is the list of materials for the Landscape demonstration:

Watercolour Paper approx 8"X10"
(I still have 1/8 sheets-7 1/2" x 11" which
would be suitable - at $3.00 ea)
Support Board
Roll of Masking Tape 3/4" or 1" Width
Pen and/or Pencil
Eraser
Graphite Paper
Brushes
Water Containers (2)
Paints - the following are suggested
(but not required) colours:
   Ultramarine Blue
   Viridian
   Burnt Sienna
   Payne's Gray
   Permanent Rose
   Cadmium Yellow

If you don't have those colours, don't sweat it,
 there are substitutes.

Beginner Class

Yellowknife Watercolour Society member Lynn T. will be offering a beginner painting course on October 23 from 9am to 1 pm in room 215 at NUP.

Learn to transfer from image to watercolour paper, do a glaze/wash, various painting techniques like wet on wet, wet on dry, and dry brushing and use masking frisket.

Bring the following items - if you have them.
New Members Booklet
and painting supplies, pencil, red pen
Lynn will have 1/8 pages of watercolour paper for sale for 3$ per piece.

Cost of class 40$. Registration is at the Oct 18th meeting.

October 2010 Painting Saturday!

Lynn and I used this time to prep for the next meeting. Here is a peak of what we are doing...

My still life was inspired by a trip to the Co-op!

Lynn is painting his demonstration of boats in water...still a landscape! This is perfect for beginners and all others who want to join him.

See you on October 18!

September 2010 Meeting

We spent the evening watching a video. We were spiraling back to a more advanced colour wheel than we have explored before.

Rae our fearless leader...who took a long time to set up for this photo! I bet you thought no one would see it. ;-)

Sarah working on the Quiller colour wheel

New members Noushin and Prem working!

Joyce had a visitor Elizabeth from Sweden! Thanks for joining us Elizabeth.

September Newsletter and Meeting

We meet on Sept 20th at 7pm to do registration for membership.

We have a new look for our newsletter! I hope everyone enjoys it.

Have any questions call any of the executive members noted on the above newsletter.

See you all on Monday!

YWS Art Show May 2010

This May we held our third annual Art Show. It was a quieter show due to the amazing 25C weather outside. Yellowknifer's know what to do in that type of weather and none of it included being inside! ;-)

We had 8 members participate. Thanks to Lynn, Astrid, Rae, Kevin, Shawna, Sarah, Joyce, Joan for putting your work on display.

Thanks to Astrid for the wonderful poster, for Lynn, Rae, Kevin, Joyce and Shawna for working at the show. Thanks to Joyce and Sarah for sewing up our new black tablecloths.

Sarah

Shawna

Samples from Jean Pederson's class in April!

Rae B.

Lynn T.

Kevin B.

Rae, Joyce and Shawna

Kevin, Rae, Joyce, Shawna and Joyce's work from Brittney Lintick's class fall of 2009.