Applying the fundamentals, creatively. How to paint what you see! How to design

what you see! How to be creative using what you see! One hour of demonstra-tion/instructional discussion, on and off location, begins each daily session. Step by step for beginners, becoming more creative for intermediates, and creative chal-lenges for the advanced! Suggestions, advise, critique for each participant each day.

Miles G. Batt, is artist, author, teacher, juror, and internationally known for a sin-gularly personal painting style that emphasizes an inimitable perception of the world around him. His credentials include over 155 major awards and consum-mate painting skills gained from more than 30 years of art involvement. In 1998 Miles won awards at the Red River National Watercolor Society, and Watercolor

U.S.A. He conducts workshops worldwide and is listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART.......included in 28 internationally distrib-uted books and publications.....his own THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CREATIVE WATERCOLOR is widely used by both students and teachers of watercolor.

"Understanding design, color, and the creative process serves as the springboard for underscoring an individual concept. We are living in an intense time, our paint-ings should be equally unique." Batt prom-ises a week of demonstration, stimulation, and motivation in an atmosphere created for DISCOVERY and INVENTION. Ses-sions will be programmed for the partici-pant eager for self realization and a more contemporary watercolor painting. YOU WILL BE INSPIRED TO PAINT IN OUTRAGEOUS NEW WAYS !!!!

Miles Batt Workshop & Demo Promises to be Entertaining and Enlightening.

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Next Meeting October 10, 2007

at Fretz Recreation Center, Dallas

WORKSHOPS 2007

• MILES BATT October

8-12 (5 day) Asel’s Ce-dar Springs $300* & $325**

• ARNE WESTERMAN

November 12-16 (5Day) Max 21 students Irving-Jaycees Park $300* & $325**

WORKSHOPS 2008

• PAT DEWS March 10-14, 2008 (5day) max 22 students Art-ist’s Showplace $300* & $325**

• GALE WEBB April 7-

10, 2008 (4day) Asel’s—Cedar Springs $240* & $265*

• RATINDRA DAS

September 8-12,2008(5day) Asel’s –Cedar Springs $300* & $325

*Member **Non Member

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Double Jeopardy

Drive Through Morning

Nu Kabuki

Sun Flowers & Vase

Bull Mountain

River Gathering

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Arne Westerman to Teach Workshop in November Virginians with their horses, they are all painted with di-rectness, emotion and move-ment. His paintings have depth, feeling and more than a hint of impressionism.

Paintings by Westerman are in permanent collections of art museums and universities throughout the U.S. His awards include the Jane Peter-son Award from Allied Artists of America in l990 Exhibition, the l989 Watercolor West Exhibition Grand Prize, three

Grand Prizes from the Northwest Watercolor and Midwest Watercolor socie-

ties, as well as numerous other awards including the Salma-gundi and the National Arts Club in New York in l988.

In l994, Arne was invited to join the American Watercolor Society as a signature member becoming one of only three Oregonians to hold this honor. l994 was also the year that Arne's very successful book, PAINT WATERCOLORS FILLED WITH LIFE AND EN-ERGY was published (now sold out and a collectors item). Westerman is a native of Ore-gon, attended Reed College and earned his degree in jour-nalism at the University of Oregon. George Hamilton was his first art teacher along with Sergei Bongardt, David Leffel, Milt Kobayashi and Willam Reese. Arne is now a success-ful teacher traveling nation wide holding watercolor semi-nars. He is also a member of the National, Northwest, and Oregon Watercolor Societies.

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"Arne Westerman, A.W.S. signature member is Nationally known for his richly colored watercolors of people from all walks of life. He cap-tures fleeting moments in their interaction as they go about their daily pursuits. Arne does not try to paint pretty people or contrived scenes, but real situations catching the warmth and earthiness of his subjects. Whether ballet dancers, Jewish scholars, street people, New

Yorkers, Portlanders,

Finish

Dancers

Zipper

Hot Dogs

Theresa at Work

Sassy

Kati

Pat Dews, a graduate of The Fashion Institute of Tech-nology, New York City, is a signature member of the Ameri-can Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the National Collage Society and the National Association of Women Artists.

Dews creates experimental works in watermedia on paper

and canvas. She paints the ab-stract essence of nature. The shapes and textures of flowers, rocks, water and crumbled walls are translated into richly layered paint surfaces. Collage is often integrated. Dews skillfully juggles organic and geometric forms, transparent and opaque paint - all held together by a basic ab-stract underlying shape. It is this intricate dance, rendered in strong color and value, which produces her award-winning paintings. When Pat paints, it is a lively, fascinating performance as she shows that, with the sim-plest tools, less can become more, much more.

Pat is an enthusiastic, popular instructor, teaching workshops internationally. She takes great delight in her students' many successes.

Pat is the author of Creative Com-position & Design (The Painter’s Workshop), 2003, and Creative Discoveries in Watermedia, 1998, published by North Light Books. Her work has appeared in nu-merous books and publications. Dews’ video, Designing Great Starts with Texture and Form is available through Cheap Joes.

Pat lives in Hobe Sound, Florida and spends summers in South-old, New York.

Snow

Cliff Study

Acadia Remembered

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Painting of the Month for October ‘07

Painting of the Month (The winners of our Painting of the Month competition receive gift Certificates from Asel's Art Supply. (Left to Right) 1. Karin Michele Anderson - Bicycles of Buggs 2. Michael Bales -- Sun Draped 3. Cecy Turner -- Enduring Through

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This year our Membership Show

will be in October. I hope you all will get a chance to go to the show and reception at the Eise-mann. We have Miles Batt and Arne Westerman workshops coming up and there are still some vacancies in each. These both are great opportunities to learn from two nationally known artists. The

"Paint Out" will be in November and Walt Davis has done a great job again organizing it, this time in East Texas. Lots of things are going on, come and join in the fun.

President’s Corner

Pat Dews to Kick Off 2008 with March Workshop

SWS Fall Paint Out Novem-ber 2-4 in Marshall, Jeffer-son, and Caddo Lake

This is the last call for painters interested in the fall paint out. Stay in Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn, La Quinta or another of Marshall’s accommodations or check into the Jefferson Hotel, Excelsior House, or one of Jef-ferson’s fine B&Bs. For other options and contact information, go to www.marshall-chamber.com or www.jefferson-texas.com . Call Walt Davis at (903) 886-2711 for the latest information or email him at wi-davis@arn.net. The twenty-minute drive through the piney woods between Marshall and Jefferson makes it possible to sample the artistic possibilities and wide variety of accommoda-tions of both places.

Schedule

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Walt Davis Plans Another Winner for a Fall Paint-Out Friday

1:00-5:00 Arrive early to visit the Michelson Art Museum and the Marshall Center for the Visual Arts. The Museum has a fine collection in a first rate facility, while the Center is a spacious, light-filled place perfect for pro-ducing and showcasing art.

4:00-6:00 Open house at SWS signature member Sally Martin’s home outside Marshall with a tour of Sally’s studio, personal work, and collection of watercol-ors by Ed Whitney, Rex Brant, Don Andrews, and many other well known painters and teachers. Arrive before dark for a leisurely stroll down husband Paul’s spirit path through the woods and down to the lake shore through a unique collection of outdoor art.

6:00 Happy Hour at the Martin’s

7:00 Dinner provided by Sally and Paul Martin

Saturday

9;00 – 5:00 Select from a wide variety of painting locations in Marshall, Jefferson, Caddo Lake State Park, Uncertain, Texas, or the historic Scottsville Ceme-tery.

6:00 Happy hour at Lamache’s award-winning Italian Restaurant in Jefferson with an exhibition of the day’s paintings

7:00 Dinner at Lamache’s

Sunday

8:00 A hearty plantation break-fast in the Excelsior House din-ing room in Jefferson

9:00 On your own for more painting or an early start home

Contact Walt Davis at wi-davis@arn.net to put your name on the reservation list for the group functions you want to attend.

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Woodland Fairy, Marshall

Boat in Uncertain

Caddo Lake Cypress

Excelsior House, Jefferson

SWS Fall Paint Out Novem-ber 2-4 in Marshall, Jeffer-son, and Caddo Lake

This is the last call for painters interested in the fall paint out. Stay in Hampton Inn, Holiday Inn, La Quinta or another of Marshall’s accommodations or check into the Jefferson Hotel, Excelsior House, or one of Jef-ferson’s fine B&Bs. For other options and contact information, go to www.marshall-chamber.com or www.jefferson-texas.com . Call Walt Davis at (903) 886-2711 for the latest information or email him at wi-davis@arn.net. The twenty-minute drive through the piney woods between Marshall and Jefferson makes it possible to sample the artistic possibilities and wide variety of accommoda-tions of both places.

Irving Art Association Invites You to Their 6th Annual Wildlife Art Show

September 29 - October 26, 2007 at the Jaycee Center for the Arts - 2000 W. Airport Freeway, Irving, TX

A Reception and Awards Ceremony will be held Sunday, October, 7 to announce the winners, Everyone is invited.

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Happenings... SWS member Amy Ehrlich will be traveling to Japan for a three week study tour with other educators from across the USA. Amy is the recipient of a Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Schol-arship and will be drawing, paint-ing and photographing her way around Japan. She is an art in-structor for Covenant Christian Academy and was selected from a national pool of over 1,700 participants.

Cecy Turner will have a solo show of her watercolors and oils October 5 -31 at Silver Heron Gallery in Depoe Bay, Oregon. The opening reception is Octo-ber 13 from 6 - 9 p.m. In addi-tion, she had a painting juried into the Top Mini 50 of Paint the

Parks, and paintings accepted into the Society of Master Im-pressionists and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society Annual Exhibition. Cecy will be participating in American Art in Miniature Oct. 20 - Nov. 4 at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, OK, Mountain Oyster Club 38th Annual Contemporary Western Art Show Nov. 8 - Jan. 5 in Tuc-son, AZ, 15th Annual Southeast Invitational Miniature Show Nov. 30 - Jan. 1 at Germanton Gallery in Germanton, NC, and the December Miniature Show at Planet Bronze Gallery in Boze-man, MT.

Dave Maxwell, SWS, won an Award of Excellence in the 32nd Annual Exhibition of the West-ern Federation of Watercolor Societies Show in Arvada, Colo-rado. He additionally won third

October 5 Craters and Freighters to deliver shipped paintings to Eisemann Center. October 6 8 a.m.-noon, Hand deliver accepted paintings to Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Dr., Richardson, TX. October 8 Hanging of show at Eisemann Center. October 9- October 29 SWS 44th Annual Membership Exhibition. October 10 Demo by Juror Miles Batt at Fretz Recreation Center, 6950 Belt Line Road, Dallas October 23 7-9 p.m., Awards Reception at Eisemann Center. October 30 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Pick up hand-delivered paintings at Eisemann Center. Return ship ping by Craters and Freighters of shipped artwork.

SWS 44th Annual Membership Show Judge - Miles Batt

place in the Society of Water-color Artists National. He had a painting accepted in the Water-color Art Society of Houston International, and won the DaV-inci Paint Award in the Visual Arts Society of Texas Member's Exhibition.

Gail Delger’s painting titled, "Windows to the World" was accepted into the Rocky Moun-tain National Watermedia Show in Golden, Colorado and also her painting titled, "Pots and Posts" accepted into the First Frontier Collage Society in Aus-tin.

Gallery VIII and Friends an-nual studio tour is scheduled for November 3 & 4. A map listing all the artists with studio ad-dresses is available at www.gallery8.com. SWS mem-bers participating include: Mary

Anne Durnin, Priscilla Krejci, Tom Johnson, Sue Alston, Marie Renfro, and Nel Dorn Byrd. Everyone is invited.

Nel Dorn Byrd had paintings accepted in this year's American Watercolor Exhibition, the Southern Watercolor Society Show, and Pittsburg Watercolor Society Aqueous Exhibition. She also juried the member's show for Watercolor East Texas which is based in Nacogdoches.

Dorothy Johnston will judge a Fine Arts League of Coleman County show on Oct. 3, 2007 in Coleman, Texas.

Pat Kochan will be in the Oc-tober "Advocate Magazine" and the Club Corp. Magazine. She also was accepted in Interna-tional Society of Experimental Artists and San Diego Water-color Society.

Southwestern Watercolor Society 44th Annual Membership Exhibition

at The Charles W. Eisemann Center

Tuesday, October 23 7 - 9 p.m.

The Eisemann Center is located at 2351 Performance Way in Richardson, TX.

972-744-4600 www.SWSWatercolor.org/ 972-690-9449 Exhibition Dates: October 9-29

You are cordially invited to attend the awards reception of

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Happenings… Karin Michele Anderson has garnered many awards and hon-ors lately including: been juried into the Artists Showplace Na-tional, RCAS Regional Show and 50+ Show, Western Federation of Watercolor Societies in Den-ver, Irving's Texas & Neighbors, Society of Watercolor Artists in Ft Worth, Plano Art Associa-tion, two Honorable Mention awards in two shows at VACD(one for a watercolor and one for a photograph) , Southwest Watercolor Society, TVAA's Citation Show, Studio 2600's Bountiful Harvest show and two paintings have traveled to the Shreveport Regional Arts Coun-cil with the Bath House's Day of the Dead Traveling Show.

She will be having a one woman show in November at Marshall Motors, a Foreign Car Service Center. The opening is Novem-ber 15th.

Mary Eitzen-Jones recently had a painting accepted to the National Watercolor Oklahoma show judged by Warren Taylor.

Reid McNabb has agreed to be Property Chairman. He and Diane are relatively new mem-bers displaced by Katrina in New Orleans.

Also, Tom Wellman has agreed to be Historian. He will be sharing SWS history with us each month in the Scene.

Jill Morrissette recently re-tuned from teaching watercolors on the MS Amsterdam’s 105 day Grand World Voyage. There were 55 days at sea, 2 classes a day with 30 passengers in each class. At the invitation of the cruise director, she will be teaching September 21 through November 24 for the 64 day Asia, Australia and Polynesia

Explorer cruise. On returning, Jill, with Laura Potter, will have an exhibition of paintings and sculpture at the Farmers Branch Library, 13613 Webb Chapel Road, December 8 through Janu-ary 5, 2008. Everyone is invited to a reception December 9 from 1:30 – 4:30

George C. Hetterich , Mas-ters Graduate Thesis Exhibit”, running October 5 thru Novem-ber 17, 2007. Reception evening of October 5, 2007, 7:30 – 9:30 pm. This will happen at Univer-sity of Texas at Dallas, Visual Arts Building on the mezzanine. This is a combination history & art show. Hypothesis :- “ Leo-nardo Da Vinci was the Father of Industrial Design” It in-cludes :- Leonardo’s inventions, his Industrial Design work, his traditional paintings, and my NEW ART which combines Industrial Design with Art.

The Visual Arts Society of Texas (VAST) located in Denton, TX, will be hosting its 40th Annual Visual Arts Exhibi-tion, April 10-May 29, 2008. Juror will be Nic Nicosia, pho-tographer. Deadline for entry is 12/21/07. Best of Show $1000; $11,000 + cash/merchandise total awards. Entry fee is $35 for non-members; max. 3 slides/digital images. Full color catalog. Prospectus for details: SASE VAST, P.O. Box 1281, Denton, TX 76202 or www.vastarts.org.

Joy Schuhmacher won a merit award in a Central Texas Pastel Society competition recently and a third place in a Central Texas Watercolor Society Mem-bership show.

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Artists’ Showplace 2007 Workshops

OCTOBER Ken Hosmer 9:30-4:30 $300 NEW! October 8-12 Pat San Souci October 15-19 9:30-4:00 $300 She uses a unique technique of pouring transparent and opaque water media,

Society of Layerists in Multimedia Exhibit October 5 -31 “It’s About Time” Reception— 6:00—9:00 pm Friday, October 12

NOVEMBER Ann Bellinger Hartley’s Mix It Up! November 1-2 9:30-4:30 $175 (includes supply fee) She works abstractly using paper, fabrics, paint found objects and more.

Associates Reception 6:00—9:00 pm Friday, November 9 Featuring Jewelry by African women. Proceeds to go to its creators.

DECEMBER 5th Year Anniversary & Holiday Reception 6:00—9:00 pm Friday, December 7th

972. 223.1223 Send $75 deposit to 15615 Coit Rd #230,

Dallas, TX 75248 www.artistsshowplace.com

for more information

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M E M B E R S H I P A P P L I C A T I O N

Name___________________________________________________ Address_________________________________________________ City______________________________ State____ Zip_________ Home phone_________________ Work phone_______________ E-mail__________________________________________________ Occupation______________________________________________ Interest in volunteering?________________________________________________________ ______new OR ______renewing member? Membership categories (Check one) Active____ $35 Senior (65+)____ $25 Family____ $52.50 Senior Family____ $37.50 Earned status, check any that apply Signature member____ Honorary member____ Life member____ Past president____ Mail this form and check to SWS membership Chairperson:

Nancy Donley, 2305 Highland Creek Rd, Carrollton, TX 75007 972.306.1691 nand972@aol.com

2007 dues were due July 1st. If you have not paid them yet please fill out the form below and mail to address listed. Please mail the com-pleted form below and your check to Nancy Donley, 2305 Highland Creek Rd, Carrollton, TX. 75007

Congratulations to the Class of 2007

the list of SWS members that have earned signature status in 2007.

L A R R I E W . A R N O L D , M D G I S A E L W A Z I R

B E T T Y J A M E S O N P A T R I C I A L . J O N E S J A N E M A T W I J E C K Y K E N J I N I S H I K A W A

F R A N C E S B . O ' C A L L A G H A N L E S L E Y T A L T Y

Frances Garrett has made an appeal for all SWS members to review their email information and submit any changes to her as soon as possible. It is very impor-tant to keep your email current so that she can send you important emails about upcoming events and hap-penings. Her email is fran.garrett@charter.net

Donna Zagotta Workshop Proves Delightful for Participants Twenty

artists from around the state joined Donna Zagotta at a fast-paced and interest-ing SWS workshop in early

September. Concentrating on design -- first in value, then in color -- the class made many studies leading to strong and simplified design. Only then did they render these in a paint-ing. Zagotta, with memberships in both NWS and AWS, is

known for her figure studies that have that "Wow" factor, ren-dered in opaque water-color, often painted on watercolor board.

Students left the three-day workshop with a renewed interest in plan-ning first, then paint-ing. "No more Ready -- Fire -- Aim," said one participant.

SWS has four more work-shops planned for this year and next. Check into these: Miles Batt in October, Arne Westerman in November, Pat Dews in March and Gale Webb in April.

Donna’s demonstration at the September meeting

SWS CONTACTS President

Gail Delger 972-542-2956 gaildelger@sbcglobal.net 540 E. New Hope Road McKinney, TX 75071

Program Chair Joel Sampson & Maureen

Brouillette Sampson 214-340-6914

1108 Ferndale Rd Dallas, TX 75228

js@joelsampson.com Workshop Chair

Herb Reed 972-231-0411 herb.reed@tx.rr.com

1127 West Lookout Dr Richardson, TX 75080

Membership Chair Address Changes

Nancy Donley 972-306-1691 nand972@aol.com

2305 Highland Creek Rd Carrollton, TX 75007 Paint Out Chair

Walt Davis 903.886.2711 3915 FM 1568 Campbell,

TX 75422 widavis@arn.net Webmaster

Herb Reed 972-231-0411 herb.reed@comcast.net 1127 West Lookout Dr Richardson, TX 75080

HAPPENINGS & OTHER NEWS:

Newsletter Editor Ron Stephens 972-986-7133

ronstephens2342@verizon.net 2925 Linden Lea, Irving, TX 75061

SCENE Newsletter Submissions

Contact Scene Editor to receive adver-tising rates by mail or email. Discounted rates are available to members. Hap-penings contains news that is submit-ted to the editor about current SWS members. Email notices are preferred. Contact information is above. Copy deadline is the 15th of each month preceding publication date. The SCENE is published nine times a year: Sept., Oct., Nov., Dec., Jan., Feb., Mar., Apr., May/June. Next deadline: October15 for November issue

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Naomi Brotherton Pat Kochan Lyn Vermillion

FALL CLASSES & WORKSHOPS 2007 Watercolor • Acrylic • Monotype Mixed Media

WEEKLY DAY CLASSES

Studio/Gallery 2825 Valley View #301 Farmers Branch, TX 75244

(972) 488-8182 www.artisansstudio.com

Pat Kochan, SWS, TVAA, TWS, NAPA, WHS Finding Your Own Style Watermedia Mondays 9:30-2:30 Watercolor Sept. 17-29 $45/day Tuesdays 9:30-3:00 Acrylic Classes Oct. 16 & Nov. 13 $50ea. Tuesday Sept. 18 Photoshop Demonstration Class 10:00-1:00 $45 Naomi Brotherton, SWS, NOW, TWS, WFWS Variations in Watercolor, Times of Day/Kinds of Weather Wednesdays 10:00-2:30 Watercolor Sept. 15—Dec. 12 $45/day Saturday Work Days Sept. 15—Oct. 20—Nov. 17 Landscape, Flowers, Still Life $50ea

2008 Workshops MARK MEHAFFEY NWS, AWS

3 Day— Color, Composition & Intuition for Powerful Images

Feb. 21-22-23 Thurs-Fri-Sat 9:30-4:00 $250

FRANK FRANCESE NWS, AWS 3 Day— Advanced Watercolor Workshop

Oct. 30-31-Nov.1 Thurs-Fri-Sat 9:30-4:00 $250

HOLIDAY GIFT SALE 1 Month sale beginning at Open House Sat. Nov. 10, 2007 10:00-3:00 Ending Dec. 11, at 3:00 - Hours: 10:00-2:00 Mon., Tues., Wed., & Thur. during Sale

Selected Demo Paintings $100 or less: all other paintings 30% 0ff

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