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Welcome to the FLOAT-YOUR-PIGMENT Newsletter #165, TWSA 2018
Last Tuesday I went to see the 2018 TWSA exhibition up in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I met up with a few artists and we went through the exhibition painting by painting. Below I will talk about what
we thought of the exhibit.
Next week I will be teaching in Burlington, Vermont for the Vermont Arts Event that is sponsored by Holbein. There are many different 3 hour and full day classes taught by many talented instructors and you don't have to bring any supplies because all supplies are provided. I'm hoping to sit in on a few instructors whose work and instruction I love. Next week's newsletter will be about Ogden N Pleissner, another one of my favorite
masters of watercolor. The Shelburne Museum near Burlington, Vermont houses many of his works and I plan on going to see them again this year.
Yes to Class at the Civic Center Libertyville, Thursday, July 19th, 1:00 pm to 3:30 NO CLASSES at the Antioch Fine Arts Foundation, Thursday, July 19th, 26th & Aug.
2nd NO CLASSES at the BeckerArt Gallery in McHenry, Saturday, July 21st and July 28th
Last weeks visit to the TWSA exhibit was as great as always. It's great to have such a high caliber show so close to where I live. I arrived at 10am when the museum opened and met artists and students that read my invite and decided to join me for a walk and talk through the exhibit.
When you enter the gallery of works you are always greeted with the top prize winner which this year was the painting by Xiaochang Zhang from San Ramon, CA which is pictured below.
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Hanging next to this award winner by Zhang were the 2 judges paintings. After seeing the award winner and then the judge's work I could see why this piece was picked. Both of the judges works and the award winner showed detailed craftsmanship in using the medium of watercolor, and all 3 works were extremely
complex and show hours and hours of work in them.
These 2 judges have very complex styles and they choose a show with many of the works that were also complex and detailed. That's not to say that there weren't any non-complex paintings but the majority were extremely complex and detailed.
I asked the people with me what they would pick as best in the show and nobody picked Zhang's piece, everyone I asked chose the other artist named
Zhang's work, I agreed as I also picked that for my best in the show. It pictured below. Photos never do the paintings justice as this piece is huge and extremely well painted.
There were 2 rooms in the exhibition and as you walked into the second room I noticed 3 pieces right next to each that were my kind of paintings. I loved these three below. I gave the Unique Fixer Upper painting by Andy Evansen my Peoples Choice
Award.
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There were many many works I loved and there were some I didn't like as much, but then there were 2 that I won't identify that I believe weren't up to the quality of this show and I only say this because I saw some of the works by my students that weren't accepted into the show that I thought were of better
quality, but then again I am biased to works done by former and current students. I'm also a little jealous that I didn't get in this year, but that just makes us work harder for next year. All in all, I liked the show and the artist with me and myself included thought we learned a lot from viewing this show along with getting inspired to painting more. If you want to see the show for yourself you have from May 5 – August 5, 2018 to visit the Kenosha Public
Museum. For more info go HERE My BeckerArt Workshops and Demos in 2018 Next week I am in Vermont, sign-up so you don't miss out!
Vermont Art Event Classes. Burlington VT, July 23rd -27th, For Information Click Here
Dillman's Fall Workshop, Wisconsin, September 9-14th, For information Click Here
Artisan Materials Expo Classes, Santa
Fe, September 27th-30th, For Information Click Here
Perquimans Arts League, Hertford NC, October 15th and 16th, For Information Click Here
Jacksonville Watercolor
Society Workshop, Jacksonville FL, October 24, 25, 26 For Information Click Here
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John Singer Sargent is one of the greats when it comes to masters that used watercolors. It seems that whenever I look for Sargent watercolors I find
hundreds and always new ones that I have never seen before. I am tentatively planning to see the Sargent exhibition at the Chicago Art Institute on August 14th, more info will be coming in future newsletters.
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