September 11 Demo by Chuck Mauldin

from the President

Ripples THE NEWSLETTER OF THE GUADALUPE WATERCOLOR GROUP

c/o K.A.C.C.228 Earl Garrett St.Kerrville, TX 78028www.guadalupewatercolorgroup.com

September 2018

Meetings 2nd tuesday

sept-nov-Jan-March-May1:00

KACC basement

next meetingTueSday

Sept. 11, 2018

A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin’s interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew dur-ing his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium to portray a broad range of subject matter, in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct “alla prima” technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Workshops with Charles Sovek, Kevin Macpherson, George Strickland, Ted Goer-schner, Jan Kunz, Tony Van Hasselt, Jeanne Do-bie, and Tom Lynch have played a significant role in his development as an artist.

He is a member of Oil Painters of America and has achieved Signature mem-bership status in the Louisiana Watercolor Society and the Plein Air Artists of Colorado. in 2005, Chuck and his wife, Barbara, moved to Fredericksburg in order to pursue their passion for art full-time. In 2008, Chuck started teaching a beginner’s oil painting class and later intermediate class-es in composition, landscape painting, and limited palettes.

His work is displayed at the fol-lowing galleries: Fredericksburg Art Gallery, Fredericksburg, TX; Lee-Bunch Studio Gallery, Del Rio, TX; Brookwood Gallery, Brookshire, TX

www.chuckmauldin.com

Chuch Mauldin’s demo will be working with a liMiteD pallette.

The Guadalupe Watercolor Group is off to another great start for the year. This is our 25th Anniversary, and we have lots of great activities planned. Our big judged show is coming up in just a few weeks, and we are having a wonderful workshop with our judge, Carla Gautier.In the near future I will be asking for help with the upcoming Southern Watercolor Show. This is a national show that GWG is sponsoring, along with KACC. The juror for that prestigious show will be teaching a three day workshop here at that time. This will be next Spring, so we have time to get ready. I want to ask all of you to consider getting more involved with the running of our club. We have had the same officers for several years, and I know that one or two would like to have a break. We all need to pull together to keep this group the fun and educational forum that we love. See you at the meeting! Jeanne

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President - Jeanne Heise jeanneheise@aol.com

Show Chairman - Doris Tyler jdoris460@gmail.com

Secretary - Marsha Pape mpape101@gmail.com

Treasurer - Glenna Hartman dghartman@msn.com

Newsletter - Janet Reinwald janetreinwaldart@gmail.com

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CarD paintingCheryl Grundy hosted our paint-in on July 31. The artists attending had fun painting many beautiful cards that were donated to Peterson Hospital patients. Look for the article about our card painting in the Community Journal.

if you haven’t already paid....

gwg $25 annUal DUeS

are DUe.treasurer glenna hartman

will be at the sign-in table to take your check or cash.

MEMBERS IN THE NEWSGWG would like to recognize our members.

Please let us know of your achievements.

hoSpitality CoMMittee The GWG Board members will be supplying the refreshments at the

September meeting.All members are asked to help with the Hospitality Committee the remaining

4 meetings of the year - Please sign up at the Sept.meeting for

the month you would like to serve.

NeW MeMBeRSMartha Bean, Megan Bean

IN MeMORIAMour sympathies to doris tyler whose husband Bob passed away this year.

Kerr County’s Premier waterColor soCiety

25th silver AnniversAry show

Reception and awaRds

oct. 6, 20182-4 p.m.

Kerr Arts And CulturAl Center

Downtown Kerrville

Guadalupe

Group

sept. 28 thru

oct. 26 2018

Watercolor

For the latest GWG information about our club, shows, meetings and more, check out our gwg FaCeBook page (thanks to Maureen Merrill) https://www.facebook.com/ guadalupewatercolorgroup and our weB Site (thanks to Mary Ann Moss) www.guadalupewatercolorgroup.com

Some of the paintings from last year’s show

Marsha reeves’ painting “Guadalupe Morning” won the Creative Catalyst Award at the Texas Watercolor Society’s show at the HCAF this summer. Two of her paintings, “Faithful” and “Back Yard Harvest” , were accepted into the 27th Annual Juried Art Show and Competition at the Breckenridge TX Fine Arts Center.Virgil Carter received a $1,000 Jacomini Memorial Award in the TWS show for his painting “Hill Country Skies #4”.Dan Burt’s painting “The Comfort Bank” was accepted in the TWS show.Cynthia Fletcher will be represented by Texas Fine Art-ists at a couple of gallery venues - first at the Woodway SpringHill Marriott Hotel Gallery July 28 - Nov. 30, 2018.Caroline Dechert will be giving a class in pastel painting this fall.

l The American Watercolor Society’s traveling show l will be at KACC Sept 6-29, reception Sept 8, from 2-4.

JUdged SHOW Remember to be taking • high resolution (300 dpi) photos of your paintings as you finish them, and before they are framed.Paintings under glass do not photograph well, •and they look bad in our catalogue. If you do not send in a photo your work, it will •be disqualified from receiving top awards.Email your digital photos to: •janetreinwaldart@gmail.com by Sept. 21.

AWARdS foR ouR SHoW

All framed paintings will be eligible for cash and merchandise awards. If you

would like to donate a cash award from your group or in memory of a

family member or others, please contact Doris Tyler.

This year our show will have over $1,450 in cash awards as well as numerous

merchandise awards.

Our 25th Annual Judged exhibition will openSeptember 28 and run through October 26.

entry take in:

thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 11 am-1 pm

awarDS reCeption:

Saturday, oct. 6, 2018 2-4 pm

entry piCk Up: Friday, oct. 26, 2018 2-4 pm

We will be in the larger Avery Gallery.

I hope all of you have been diligently painting this year and are ready to enter your work in the Fall Show.

new category this year: Since this is gwg’s 25th anniversary, there will be a SILVeR category for paintings of or about anything related to SilVer.

Take in will be on Thursday, September 27 from 11am to 1 pm. Please remember to have your entry form filled out when you arrive. early birds will be seated in a waiting area.

I want to give special thanks to members who have already donated their time and efforts toward making this our best show ever.

With all the help we have already received, there is still much to do. At the next meeting on September 11, I’m asking everyone to pitch in by taking and handing out fliers in your churches, clubs, and businesses. We will also need volunteers at take-in. There will be a sign up list for this at the meeting.

doris tyler, show Chairman

Juror for our Show: Carla gaUtier

GWG Judged Show Reminders!Painting size limits: One entry can be a full sheet (22”x30”). •Other entries must be half sheet size or smaller.

Take photos of your paintings BeFORe framing•

Paintings must be at least 80% water media•

There will be no restrictions on matting and framing except for •NO GLASS on paintings larger than 16” x 20” .

You may enter 3 framed paintings at $10 each, and 10 matted •paintings at $1 each.

No digital images, photo transfers or giclee prints allowed.• , either framed or unframed.

All paintings must be original, from the artist’s own photographs.•

If dues are not paid by day of show, there will be an extra $5 •charge, and you will need to bring entries after 12:00 noon.

Pricing: Framed: nothing under $100. • Unframed: nothing over $100.

For complete details, see the prospectus on page 5.•

Carla will be teaching a workshop on

Creating atMoSpheriC eFFeCtSPlaying with values, colors and edges.

M-Tu-W Sept. 24-25-26 at KACC. $150.Sign up at the meeting or contact Jeanne.

workShop!

Carla’s work combines her love of architectural detail and attention to qualities of light that transform commonplace scenes. Born and educated in Canada, Carla Gauthier has lived and worked in the U.S. and europe, and now resides in Houston, Texas where she continues to paint and teach. Carla is a signature member of the prestigious National Watercolor Society, the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour and an elite member of the Watercolor Art Society – Houston, where she recently won Best of Show. She has paintings in collections throughout Canada, the United States and europe.

May 2018 DeMo by JUlie DUnlapNotes and photos by Marsha Pape

Julie Dunlap primarily focuses on painting portraits. She loves painting faces. She uses multiple washes to build up the features slowly with a series of glazes until the values please her. She said that she really connects with her subject once she starts work-ing on the eyes.Julie has studied with Ted Nutall (http://www.tednuttall.com/) and Jane Jones (https://janejonesart.com/). Ted Nutall works freely and uses beautiful color. This has greatly influenced her style. Jane Jones used photo cards to keep track of her work. Julie uses this idea to document her own works with photo cards containing this information Artist Name: Number (date): Title: Awards: Image Size: Medium: Price: Collection:

Julie uses 140 hot press paper. She does not staple or •tape down the paper. She places a damp towel on a white board. She puts the 140 lb paper on top of the towel and then sandwiches it between another white board that is placed on top of that. She takes off the top white board but leaves the paper on top of the towel during her entire painting process. It leaves the paper flat and feeling velvety.She uses three brushes: #16 Raphael Kolinsky Sable Round •Point, #10 Isaby Round Point and Vernon Shader.Her palette colors are Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Orange, •Cadmium Red, Quinacridone Rose, Alizarin, Mineral Violet, Cerulean, Cobalt, French Ultramarine Blue, Hookers Green, Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Raw Sienna, Burnt Umber, Raw Umber. Her paints are primarily Winsor Newton or Daniel Smith.Julie described herself as a “gleaner” that picks up little •tricks. She shared many of those with us throughout her demo. She said she sometimes has difficulty drawing, so she prints out the photo in grayscale or black & white. She has that enlarged and uses that to determine which lines she wants to draw on the paper with her 2B pencil.To take away the fear of a white piece of paper, she put in •a very light wash of Cadmium Red and Cadmium Yellow in the lighter areas for skin tones, adding dots of Mineral Vio-let or Cobalt in the darker areas and letting the colors blend on the paper. Save the spot in the eye where light is re-flected. It should always be white. express with a minimum of strokes. It is more about painting the shadows than the forms themselves. She tickles the edges of the shadow side of the face, painting into the hair.To paint the hair she put in loose shapes and will go back •in to add detail. Blonde hair uses Yellow Ochre, Cadmium Yellow and Cobalt. Dark hair might have Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue and Mineral Violet. Other colors may be

worked into to hair to show reflected light or shadow. She blended the hair into the background on the darker side. She used the end of the brush to paint wisps of hair.She used Cadmium Red to paint form shadows around the •eye socket with soft edges. Using a broken line, she outlined the eye crease with a blended color of Cad Red and Fr. Ul-tramarine Blue. She tickled it in above to create an eyelash effect. She feels it is just a color painting until she does the eyes and admitted it looks “spooky” until she does the iris and pupil. After the eyes are in she connects with the perso she is painting. Using a little green at the bottom of the iris helps set the eye in the socket. Use Raw Umber, Cerulean or Violet could be used if the eye is brown. Make the iris a little abstract painting and leave some lights areas.She said to do the mouth without painting everything. The •teeth are not the white of the paper they were painted with the initial wash. Paint around the teeth, not the teeth them-selves. The corners of the mouth are always dark. She put in some Alizarin and Ultramarine Blue and let it bleed in. Again, she uses a broken line on the lips giving just enough infor-mation to define the lip. The upper lip had Cadmium Red and Raw Sienna and a series of spots. There are no hard edges between the upper and lower lip.The nose tip of a child often has Orange with a touch of Cad •Red or Cobalt. The nostrils were Ultramarine Blue and Cad-mium Red mixed on the palette to make a brown. She paints a hard line at the top to get a good shape and then blends down and lets it disappear into the lip.Ted Nutall introduced her to sloppy dots. They are used to •break up an edge if it is too hard. They add texture and color interest, moving color through the painting. They can con-nect the subject to the edge of the painting.Julie said that she is a slow painter. She told us to go slow •and take it easy. She cautioned us to be wary of the grays.

FraMeD paintingS:

1. All sales will be handled on a consignment basis. 30% commission on sold items will be retained by KACC and they will collect sales tax. KACC may take photos to be used for publicity. GWG will take photos of paintings for publicity, catalogs, and our web page. KACC and GWG will use the utmost care while handling your work but will not be responsible for loss or damage. It is your responsibility to deliver and pick up your work on the specified dates.

2. I certify that my entry(s) are original works of art, painted only by me, and were not produced in a class or workshop. I certify that any photo reference material was not from a purchased image, was not taken by a person other than me and was neither copyrighted nor published. My reference materials are attributable only to me. No digital images, photo transfers or giclee prints allowed.

3. Hanging entries must be framed, wired (no sawtooth hangers) and ready to hang. ends of wire should be covered with tape.

4. On watercolor paintings over 16 x 20, use plexiglass instead of glass. Weight and safety are an issue.

5. entry fee is $10 per hanging piece (3 maximum)

6. Size of entries: One entry can be a full sheet (22”x30”), Other entries must be half sheet size or smaller.

7. NEW POLICY The KACC policy is that you can show a painting twice if it has been two years or more since the last time it was shown at KACC.

8. Matted acrylic, clayboard and WC canvas paintings allowed as long as all other guidelines are followed. Gallery wrapped WC canvas and clayboard boxes allowed if the edges are properly finished.

9. Abstract/experimental. These paintings must be 80% watermedia, with any collage materials limited to 2 dimensions and hand painted by the artist.

10. Take-In: early arrivals will be seated. No drop-offs accepted - arrange for another member to check in for you. If dues are not paid by day of show, there will be an extra $5 charge, and you will need to bring entries after 12:00 noon

11. Photos are required for the show catalogue. Take photos of your paintings before framing and email to janetreinwaldart@gmail.com by Sept. 21. If there is not a photo of your work, your painting will be disqualified from top awards.

12. Pricing: Framed paintings - nothing under $100.

entry take in:

thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 11 am-1 pm

awarDS reCeption:

Saturday, oct. 6, 2018 2-4 pm

entry piCk Up: Friday, oct. 26, 2018 2-4 pm

PRoSPECTuS2018

gwg Juried Show

UADALUPE ATERCOLOR ROUP

art Mart paintingS:

Up to 10 unframed paintings may be entered in the Art Mart for a fee of $1 each. 1.

They must be 2. matted and shrink wrapped (sealed art bags).

You must enter at least one framed painting to be eligible to enter paintings in the Art Mart. 3.

Paintings may be student work (from a workshop) and may have been shown before at KACC. 4.

All work must be original paintings. No 5. digital images, photo transfers or giclee prints.

Number your Art Mart pieces in the front top right corner and list the numbered pieces on the Art Mart form. 6.

Make a copy of your list for your records.7.

Pricing: Unframed paintings - nothing over $100.8.

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Bring this completed form to the Show Take-in at KACC Avery Galleryon thursday, Sept. 27, 2018 11 am-1 pm