Today marks the half-way point of an incredible learning journey here in
bella Italia, and there is lots to "write home" about.
Before leaving Italy, I will be teaching a plein air workshop in the Cinque
Terre and Italian Riviera region.
We return to Nashville, Tennessee on April 13, 2009. On May 1, 100 (only about
half of the number produced) fresh, Italian works will be presented in a solo
exhibition at HA Gallery. The week proceeding the opening I will be teaching
three separate workshops directed at various levels of painters from beginning
to advanced.
St. Lucia
Two cultural researchers are here for the third time. Marion and Allen Nelson
from VT. She brought her watercolors, so we'll be out painting
sometime in the next two months.
I have a show of 12 pastel
paintings, 8 of which are plein air pieces, in downtown Scranton at
NOW Hair Studio through January. 132 Adams Avenue. Walk in to see all the
paintings or get your hair cut; both feature exciting color and
design!
PAPI is honored to be the first exhibit in our newly expanded state house
dedication ceremony in spring of 2010 as well as featured "Historical Places in
Idaho" exhibit at the Idaho Historical Museum, fall of 2010, both in Boise,
Idaho's capitol.
Always good to plan ahead in order to invite full community &
artist participation !
Plein Air Painters of Idaho will celebrate their seventh annual paint outs
in both the Saw Tooth Mountains Redfish and Stanley Lake locations the last week
of Aug. & Idaho Botanical Gardens of Boise the third weekend of Sept.
Please refer to the web site, www.pleinairpaintersofidaho.org , for more information and
beautiful photos of the events!
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Brandy Gale
Has an exhibit at the Campus Gallery at Helen & Arch Brown Centre for the Visual Arts at Georgian College, Barrie, Ontario Canada with an opening reception on January 8 at 7pm.
Exhibit runs till Feb 1, 2009
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Jose Rodriguez
This Saturday our painting group OPAP Ocala Plein Air Painters
http://
www.ocalapleinairpainters.org/ are having our first Christmas Party.
It will be hosted at my house. This is our first of many more
gatherings bringing our group closer as friends and painters.
Happy Holidays to you!
Jose
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Annika Farmer
I have completed a few commissions, one painting of a local park
for Mentor library, sold a few other paintings, have work on display at
Gallery West Art Gallery in Chardon, Ohio,
and just won a Third place and a Best of Show at a local art show. I stay pretty busy teaching part-time at a
local college, and instructing watercolor classes at Wildwood Cultural Center, here in Mentor, Ohio.
Have a wonderful Holiday,
Annika
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Laurel Wetzork
One of Laurel Moje Wetzork's pastels, "Flower Barrels on Canyon Road,"
has been juried into the Richeson 75 International Pastels Art
Competition exhibit and its show catalog for January 2009. Two of her
other pastel paintings, "Cloud over Le Perouse Bay" and "Hollyhocks near
Houshang's Gallery" were chosen for inclusion in catalog.
Other recent news, through December 2008, ten of her oil and acrylic
paintings selected from her en plein air "Beauty of North Carolina
Farms" series are displayed at the United Arts Council in Raleigh, North
Carolina. In November, 2008, Laurel's "Hollyhocks near Houshang's
Gallery" pastel was juried into and exhibited in the Pastel Society of
the Southwest 27th Juried National Exhibition in Fort Worth, Texas. In
October 2008, Laurel participated in a paint out in Cary, North
Carolina, where her oil painting, "Smokehouse and Fountain," won an
honorable mention.
To view more of her works, visit her website at www.mojewetzorkstudios.com
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Hello from Larry Joe Miller in Hollywood Florida, USA
We have recently
started a new Outdoors paint group in Hollywood Florida called The Hollywood
Outdoors Painters Society. (HOPS). We paint at various locations in the
Hollywood area every Saturday morning from 9:30 to 12:30. you can go to
www.hollywoodoutdoorspainters.com for a schedule or email Larry Joe Miller at
Larryjoemiller@hotmail.com
We love new people showing up and are planning a
Quickdraw paintout in Hollywood in February 2009. Watch the HOPS website for
more details.
Thank you,
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Linda Warner
Constantino
I will be conducting a workshop in Tuscany in June 2009
December 15, 2008 - Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Hilton Head Island artist Linda Warner Constantino will be conducting a unique plein air landscape painting
workshop in the Tuscany region of Italy from June 22-29, 2009. Plein air painting is French for “fresh air” and
refers to painting on site or outdoors. This will be an oil painting workshop.
843 384 4327 or e-mail at linda@lwarnerconstantino.com
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Sandra Nunes
At this time here there´s no artistic events, its holidays
season and everything stops till carnival (go figure!)...Despite of that, I´ve
been working on some commissions en plein air and in studio.Have a blessed and healthy holiday season!
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Christophe Cardot
I will have a workshop in pastel in NC, did received
recognizes awards...that' s it for now but next year I should have more
interesting things...I am actually working on a project to create a better tool
for plein air artists ...as soon I finished my prototype, deposit the patent and
find a company to create this tools, I will put it on the newsletter.email: christopheart@yahoo.fr
website: http://www.christopheart.com
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Sending warm thoughts to
Gerrye Riffenburgh
Bruce Newman
Emmi Andersen
the Best for 2009
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Linda Richichi
Involution, the solo exhibit by Linda Richichi at bau Gallery in Beacon, NY was
visited by the editor, Raymond Steiner and publisher, Cornelia Seckel of Art
Times Journal. They mentioned the exhibit in their paper and the editor wrote
this to the artist.
"As for the landscapes, well, as I've said before they are marvels of
light.....and your large Hudson River 'scape, with the sky opening with a bit of
light, was, for me, nature lover that I am, breathtakingly beautiful. It is, by
any standard, a masterpiece....and I love it."
Only the drawing for the composition was taken from a
photograph, however, the rest was created from life while in an Artist in
Residence program for 2008 at SUNY, Orange Campus in Newburgh, NY which
overlooks the Hudson River where the skies are magnificent.
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Sylvio Gagnon
Nothing new for me. I will just profit from the seasonal weather and paint the
Spirit of hand; for
the next few months. By the way the show in Unionville went well. It did not
reflect the economic down turn the whole world is presently experiencing. We
never know with art - do we ?
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Marilyn Fairman
The 6th Annual Worldwide Paint Out was the catalyst for the creation of an Upstate New York Plein Air painting group.
For the 6th Annual IPAP event, Marilyn Fairman, IPAP Signature Member
and recent transplant to the Mohawk Region of Upstate New York, invited
artists from many area art groups and organizations to join her to
paint at Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site for the 6th Annual
Worldwide Paint Out. Many avid plein air artists arrived and enjoyed
the weekend of painting and meeting other plein air artists. After
talking about the need for an organized plein air group in the area,
the Mohawk Region Chapter of the New York Plein Air Painters was
established. If you are interested in joining this new plein air group,
contact Marilyn at wallkillart@msn.com.
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France more info
Adam CopeWorkshop Dates 2009
Sat 13 - Sat 20 June 2009
Sat 20 - Sat 27 June 2009 - a few last places available
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Karl Leitzel
Over
the spring and summer of 2008, I worked with author Georgia Anne Butler
to create the cover paintings and layout design for her new book, The
Legend Awakes, the first in the Of the Wing trilogy. You can learn more
about the book at http://ofthewing.com.
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Barbara Perrotti
2009 Schedule
Historic Loop Paint Out& Exhibition – TBA- October
Easton , Md. One Woman Show (TBA) .... July
Gateway Center of the Arts, DeBary , Fl. Comm. ,
NMWAJuly 19-Aug.25
Epcot, Artist in the Garden, March 27th-29th
SPRAA, March 17-21,(Sale March 21- April 19)
Palette & Brush, Demo/Critique, February, Tues.,Feb. 5, 2009
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Tina Bohlman
IPAP February FEATURE ARTIST
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Lillian Asquith
Exhibited at the Old Stone Inn in November where she did demos od her watercolor paintings.
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Anne Street Bailey
I believe there is nothing more important to growth as an artist than
daily hands on painting. It is a rare day that you will not find me
somewhere outside painting beautiful scenes I have discovered.
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Christina Body Prentice Women's Hospital Corporate Art Collection
'Epicenter' 60" x 50" and 'That's Amore' 60" x 72"
Christina's two commissioned paintings are now hanging at the entrance
to the main dining room on the second floor at the new Northwestern
Memorial's Prentice Women's Hospital.
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Pierre Bouret Shows:
Maui Plein Air Invitational 2009 (Juried Entry)
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Bill & Marnie Brehm
Their works have been shown at Riversong Gallery in Neustadt,the
Durham Art Gallery, Arts Hamilton Gallery, and Earl's Court Gallery in Ontario,
as well as Wristen Art Centre and AGA Gallery in Wisconsin.
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Kathy Busillo
Painting the Figure en Plein Air Cortona Italy June 27-July 4, 2009
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Kitty Brumberg
Kitty Brumberg received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art
in 2005 where she won the prestigious Prince of Wales fellowship for
landscape study in Normandy, France. Since then, she has been included
in numerous exhibitions including The Artful Women in Bethlehem, PA,
the National Association of Women Artists' traveling exhibition,
Audubon Artists in NYC, and the Allied Artists Professional League in
NYC. During this time, she has won the Vera C. Rosenhaft Memorial award
as well as the Catherine Lorillard Wolf Art Club award.
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Beth Dean
Beth Dean began painting as a child. She studied under many local
artists and was classically trained in her fine arts education. She
holds a B.A. in Interior Design, and elected emphasis in Renaissance
Art History. After college, Beth put painting aside to pursue a highly
successful interior design career for over 20 years. Always vowing to
"go back to painting", Beth committed herself to fulfilling that desire
in 2000.
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Brian Eppley
In these tough times, economic and otherwise, we need to stay strong.
This is a painting of the Rockville bridge on the Susquehanna river.
This bridge represents strength to me. The painting sold, however I'm
happy to still be able to share the image. Stay strong.
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Julie Houck
Julie will be one of 200 plein air artists participating in the 2008 Nomades
del Arte exhibition to be held at Southwest Gallery, Dallas, Texas during
the month of April 2009. Two hundred plein air painters, representing
some of the top landscape painters in the country, will be participating
in this event. Artists must paint in one of the southwestern states including
Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah or Texas. Southwest GAllery
has been in business for over three decades and is one of Dallas' oldest
and largest galleries.
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Leslie Outten
I am a representational artist
focusing on light, value and color .The possibilities to interpret and
create are endless to me as I constantly try new ways of expressing
myself through my work in figurative, still life and plein air painting.
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WELCOME NEW MEMBER
Barbara Churchley
from Cedaredge Colorado
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http://sirlawrencestudio.blogspot.com/
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