Our Polasek Pop Up event was a success and we have been invited back for their Museum Day on Sunday, September 23!
For O.M.A. Members – Orlando Museum of Art asked for theme proposals for the upcoming 1st Thursdays season (July 2018 – June 2019). We encouraged members to write to the museum and suggest a watercolor show.
“Arts &Craft Day” on Altamonte Chapel campus – April14th. Lots of activities offered by the Central Florida Watercolor Society for kids outreach. Grant funds used to buy supplies for free art lessons.
Our next general meeting will be May 6 and Chauncey Nelson will demonstrate.
We requested (and were approved) that the following CFWS Pop Up projects be accepted by United Arts:
- Polasek on March 25th
- Leu Gardens March, 31st
- Arts & Crafts at Altamonte Chapel on April 14th
- Rollins College Plein Air on May 19th
- Lake Lily in Maitland on June 16th
- Polasek on Smithsonian Museum day, September 23rd
- Mt Dora Center for the Arts , sometime during our show: December 7-18, 2018
It’s important that we have as much participation as possible from our members. Those of us who have attended had fun!
These are the dates for the next season:
Sept. 9, 2018 – What I did this Summer
October 7- Bob Hague
November 4 – Jane Brinckerhoff
Dec. 2, 2018 – Holiday Party
Jan. 6, 2019 – Karen Bowden
Feb. 10, 2019 – Roberta Lerman
March 3, 2019 – workshop artist?
April 7, 2019 – Connie Hamilton
May 5, 2019 – Rebecca Wilkinson.
Patty Kane demonstrated her exceptional watercolor style. Patty’s passion is painting with transparent watercolor using a limited palette. She says, “it’s a process, which allows me to explore subject matter that inspires my creativity and passion for mixing color”.
Patty says that when she paints she simplifies the subject matter into large shapes and color. Her work is an expression of what she sees. Her painting seems to parallel the simplicity she strives for in her daily life. Patty painted beautiful, luminous pears using light, color and shadow of them sitting on a windowsill at a beach house. Her advice “Don’t be a slave to your photograph, change it.”
She won many awards for her Florida-themed paintings, most recently the ‘Lee Ackert’ Award for Outstanding Color at Fort Myers Beach Art Association.
Patty Kane studied painting and drawing at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park where she was accepted into the Fellowship Program, and was granted a Studio Artist position. She is now an instructor at Crealde, in watercolor, of course. She is also a member of the prestigious McRae Art Studios in Orlando
