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Guest Artist: Patricia Osborne.
We
are pleased to have Patricia Martin Osborne as our guest
artist on May 8th. She will demonstrate the use of masking
fluid and the amazing effects she can produce in her
Bird’s Nest and Eggs. Here is a short biography
for her:
“Patricia Martin Osborne is an award-winning artist
who has received wide acclaim for her watercolor and
mixed media work in both impressionistic and abstract
form. Patricia studied at CCAC, Oakland and San Jose
State University. She is an instructor, guest lecturer,
demonstrator, juror and workshop presenter for many
art groups and organizations, and has taught at the
Mendocino Art Center for 11 years as well with other
prominent artists. Her workshops are designed to feel
and see the magic in watercolor while inspiring confidence
and creative excitement within her students and have
fun doing it.” Website: http://www.patriciaosborne.com/
Aqua
Areas Registration Form
The
14th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Best Watercolor
Paintings Entered from Northern California will be presented
at the Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa, CA, September
12-21, 2008. To register, print
and fill out this entry form and send in to Joan
Wale. (Must have Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF's,
free
from Adobe.)
WASCO
Winning Posters
Winners for the Poster
Contest have been selected: Best of Contest goes to
Janice Swanson for her painting called "Sunny Sunflowers".
It will appear on this web page for a year until the
2009 poster is selected. The three other winners were
Pia McKenna's paining "Old Plow", Linda Unti's
painting "Cantaloupe" and Glad Baker's painting
"Geese". All four will be used for WASCO's
small posters and postcards. The winning poster for
Montgomery Village is Melinda Shook's painting "Rose"
and it will also be used by Montgomery Village in their
Press Demo Ad.
WASCO
Sponsored Workshops
•
The Joan Hoffman “Field Paintings in Plein Air”
plein air workshop date has been moved to June 16 -
19. The good news is that this will allow us to spend
one afternoon soaking up the fragrance of lavender as
we paint the lavender fields at Matanzas Creek Winery
in Bennett Valley. Other sites will include a winery
in Healdsburg and a hillside scene. Cost is $200.00
for four days of instruction, demonstration and hands-on
work with lots of support. Class is limited to 15 participants.
For more information or to sign up for this class call
Grace at 937-3326.
http://www.joanhoffmann.com
• A workshop is in the planning stages featuring
Jeannie Vodden. Details will be released as I know them.
For more information or to sign up for this class call
Grace at 937-3326.
WASCO
Volunteers Needed
We need Chairmen to take over Venues. For more information,
contact Rae Ann Williams at 575-1676.
WASCO
Member News
Katrina
Small’s painting“Apple Blossom Time”
won a First Place award in the watercolor division at
the Apple Blossom Festival Art Show in Sebastopol, CA,
sponsored by the Art Workshops of Western Sonoma County
(AWS).
Send
an email to Web
Editor if you are a member with news you'd
like to share.
WASCO
Email Address
WASCO now has its own email address: wascoart@aol.com.
Please make sure that you can receive e-mail from this
address. We will send important WASCO information, workshop
availability, good art links, etc. from this address.
Recently this address was used to inform people, who had
overlooked rejoining WASCO, that their membership dues
needed to be paid and in some instances the emails went
into SPAM or TRASH files. If you do not want WASCO to
send you emails, please inform us of that fact and your
address will be deleted from the address book. This is
an important addition to WASCO’s services –now
if we miss some important information in the Newsletter,
we can get that information to you.
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