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In memorium: Kim Minichiello

Kim Minichiello, past president of Florida Watercolor Society and a longtime member of Central Florida Watercolor Society, passed away suddenly during a plein air trip in Montana on July 23, 2021.

Kim pursued her dream of being a professional artist with gusto. Her love was watercolor and she was on the way to mastering the medium. She was a mentor, teacher and productive artist. Her work had won numerous awards and she was featured in a selection of professional art magazines focusing on watercolor painting and technique.

She was a signature member of numerous watercolor societies including American Women Artists-AWA, American Watercolor Society-AWS, California Art Club, Out of State Artist, Florida Watercolor Society-FWS, Georgia Watercolor Society-GWS, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society-PWS and the Louisiana Watercolor Society-LWS.

I came across this Interview with Kim by Eric Rhoads, the publisher of Outdoor Painter and other art services. It is his memorial to Kim. He thought very highly of her.

A Celebration of Life is being planned.  Donations in her honor can be made to the Florida Watercolor Society with proceeds going to establish the Kim Minichiello Memorial Award for the 50th Annual Exhibition.

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Call to Artists – Casselberry’s Friends of the Park, ARTFEST

ARTFEST – CALL TO ARTISTS 
Casselberry’s Friends of the Park is looking for artists and vendors to participate in Artfest!
When: September 11th, 2021 
Where: Lake Concord Park, Casselberry 
Time: 12 Noon to 6PM 
Artfest is a high energy art and craft event with a solid emphasis on entertainment and education.  The event will be held September 11th 2021 from 12 Noon to 6 P.M. on beautiful Lake Concord Park, in Casselberry Florida.  The event is hosted by Casselberry Friends of the Park a 501 c-3 non profit and proceeds will benefit “Historic Casselberry” for the Brightwater Estate.
Artfest is a quasi-juried event. Artists are invited to apply and the Artfest committee will jury and select artists.  Artfest committee reserves the right to make final interpretation of all the rules.  The committee reserves the right to reject/vendor it considers             unsuitable.  Artwork must be original and executed by the applicant/artist. No commercial dealers, agents, kits, or mass produced items allowed.  Artists booth are $75.  Opportunities for vendor booths as well, their higher pricing allows it to be affordable for artists to participate.
All proceeds from Artfest will be donated to “Historic Casselberry” a newly formed non profit that will help enrinch local cultural arts, and help with the preservation of the cities newly acquired “Brightwater Estate”.
About:  Friends of the Park is a local non profit volunteer organization founded in 1999.  They host “Earthfest” which quickly became Seminole counties largest Earth-Day event, As well as Central FL Brewers Competition and various other events to endow local arts and culture in Seminole County.
Deadline to participate: September 7th, 2021
For more information and download the artist packets:www.CasselberryFOP.com/artfest
Chairman: Anthony Aramendia 407-695-6069 
Email:  CasselberryParks@gmail.com
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Call to CFWS Artists! NewShow in Sanford!

The Central Florida Watercolor Society has worked hard over the years, since our inception, to build a good name in Central Florida. 
Well, it has worked!  We have been invited to hang a show in the:
SANFORD CITY HALL
map of Sanford locationSanford location
September 1 through November 30, 2021
Large paintings will be welcomed and older work will be considered.  This non-juried show is a great opportunity to display your art! 

Submission Deadline:  July 3 1, 2021
Notification of Acceptance: August 12, 2021
Drop Off:  August 25, 2021       10am – 4pm
Reception: will be announced

Artists my submit a maximum of 2 entries. So, pull out that masterpiece you are proud of or create a new one! You can send your jpg’s now, up until the July 31st deadline.


A prospectus has been sent out to members, see the
latest prospectus version here.

Don’t forget to check your emails for more information
and find out how to be part of the experience!

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Summer of Art 2012

Our summer online show is now live. The show features recent work by current members of CFWS. Work in this show will rotate every three weeks, so get your membership dues up-to-date and send in a submission.

Goto the Summer of Art show

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recap: CFWS Plein air at Leu Gardens

Our last plein air of the season was held at Leu Gardens and we had a great turnout of eight members. After we enjoyed the lovely art show, “The Agua Series” in the main house, we went out into the garden to find special places to paint and draw. Cathy and I painted next to the row of blue Agapanthus or Lily of the Nile.

Cathy paints near the blue Agapanthus and pink begonias.
Terri’s painting of the Lily of the Nile.
Cathy’s painting of the Musa Banana.

Marcela and Nancy were up by the main Garden House.

Marcela and Nancy over look the lake as they sit on the patio.
Nancy’s painting of the welcome center garden house.
Marcela’s landscape painting of violet flowers.
Janet did a graphite drawing of the gazebo by the idea garden.
Janet’s drawing of the gazebo in the Idea Garden.
Sandi, Karen, and Thouraya paint bonsai in the Idea Garden.

We had a lot of fun! It was a great time to be outdoors and enjoying the friendship and artistic “play time”. Come and join us in the new season. You don’t have to have any experience! You don’t have to lug around heavy supplies, we pack light and small. You just need a sense of adventure and the creative need to play with your paints. See you out and about next season!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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May 2 General Meeting/Election/Show & Tell

Pam welcomed everyone to the last general members meeting of the 2021 season.  We had our members election, of our four officers of the society, as first order of business.

Pam Chock (Merle) and Charlie (Charlotte) Cipes were unanimously reelected as co-presidents.

Richelle Siska was elected our new vice president.

Mary Dall was reelected as secretary.

Marilyn Rathbun, CPA, still working with Pam as our treasurer.

Congratulations to all! There was a great round of applause!

The last board meeting of our season is May 20. Members are invited to attend the fun! Learn what goes on behind the scenes!

There were some announcements from members: The Polk Museum of Art has a Toulouse-Lautrec exhibit up until May 23.

https://polkmuseumofart.org

Lakeland Art Guild Third Online Exhibition, CFWS member Ron Malone is in:  https://lakelandartguild.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=633638&module_id=416405

Lakeland Art Guild – 49th Annual Melvin Gallery Art Exhibition, CFWS members Marcela Moglia, Leslie Rossetti, Mary Kathryn Van Kleunen, Dorothy Cline are in:  https://lakelandartguild.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=0&club_id=633638

Richelle Siska put together a lovely slide show of art that our members have been working on over the last few months. The CFWS Show & Tell  were 14 wonderful pieces of art. Here they are:

Standing Tall by Mary Dall
Misty by Alice Dressner
Hope on the Horizon by Susan Greenlee-Mamon
Arbor Day Farmers Market by Stewart Jones
Eau De Parfum by Richelle Jarc (Siska)
The Queens by Judith Kaye
Yellow Crested Night Heron by Nancy Larkin
Four Owls by Roberta Lerman
Orchids by Marianna Ross
Floofing by Leslie Rossetti
Rock Landscape by Susie Schreiber
Bad Hair Day by Marion Wagster
Planting Time by Ann Worrall
Water Lily by Thouraya Zapara
Quantum Leap Winery by Teresa Chin

More paintings, and great art tips, were shared from our members at the zoom meeting:

Pat Shaer’s abstract
David Williams’ portrait
Dawn Shumard’s mother and child
Leslie holds up the Loew Cornell fine line pen
Paint fine lines with white for whiskers or do your signature with this pen.

https://www.amazon.com/Loew-Cornell-Fine-Line-Painting-2-Pack/dp/B011C4F9YY/ref=sr_1_2?crid=25AGLLUSHS3H&dchild=1&keywords=low+cornell+paint+pen&qid=1620422680&sprefix=low+cornell%2Caps%2C199&sr=8-2

Jane Brinckerhoff’s painting of Nehrling Gardens

Cheri Ptacek’s Girl on Beach
Mary Kathryn Van Kleunen’s White Bird
Faye Tambrino’s Landscape
Pam (Chock) Merle’s Seascape

      Pam had a great tip on using yellow frog tape to tape down your paintings. It is a low tack tape for delicate surfaces found here:

https://www.amazon.com/FrogTape-Delicate-Surface-Painting-280221/dp/B004Y6TJAS/ref=asc_df_B004Y6TJAS/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=193154321880&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18132549816371865405&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9011518&hvtargid=pla-307142242740&psc=1

See how much action and information you can miss if you don’t come to the meetings!?  Our members are a wealth of inspiration and knowledge!

Keep painting!  Remember to enter the Summer of Art Online Show … and see you soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Painting the Trumpet flower by Carol Carter

Carol Carter’s workshop was an exciting experience!  We had 3 hours so it was a fast painting. We had already drawn out our Trumpet Flower or Datura onto a #140 watercolor paper. Since she does the background first, we masked the flower with masking tape and Incredible white mask.

Mask the flower with tape and Incredible White Mask.

We wet the entire background then brushed in Cobalt Turquoise Light, deeper, richer and vibrant on the bottom and lightly graduated tint to the top.

Cobalt Turquoise Light background gradient.

Dry the painting and remove the mask. Then start painting the flower bloom, on the right.  Use a number 2 brush. – wet the shape with clear water – then outline with Burnt Sienna.  Just do the exterior edge, then soften with water. Add Aureolin Yellow, then Winsor Green in the middle.

Remove mask after background dries.
Start painting flower on far right.
Next, paint the shapes at the top of the flowers and big leaf.

Next, small shapes near the top. Aureolin, then some Winsor Green around the edge.

Flowers painted one at a time.

Drop down to the petal on the lower right, add Aureolin, outline in Burnt Sienna. Down below outline in Burnt Sienna, soften with water then drop in Aureolin.

Wet the big leaf at the top right and the second trumpet on the right. Outline in Burnt Sienna on the outside edge to the neck of the flower, open the line with water, drop in Aureolin at the tip, leave light paper in the middle, add Aureolin at the neck, then Winsor Green. Then outline the big leaf with a mix of Winsor Green and Burnt Sienna, open the line with water and add Aureolin to the tip and gradated it back and add green and yellow

Finished painting.

The steps were repeated with each blossom and at the end of the session we showed off our beautiful Datura’s!  Carol Carter was fun to work with. We all learned so much!  Thank you Carol!

We show off our finished work!

Carol Carter has more workshops coming up, so check out her website for more opportunities:

https://www.carol-carter.com/workshops

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Dick Blick Art Materials and Hahnemuhle celebrate Earth Day

Two of our generous CFWS sponsors sent out emails today in honor of Earth Day.  So, for your consideration please remember to check them out next time you need art supplies:

Blick Art Materials:  Save up to 30% on handmade watercolor paper. Discounts on Fabriano EcoQua notebooks and EcoCare Frames. Live on Facebook today at 4PM CST, artist Karen Elaine Parsons demonstrates a folded watercolor notebook featuring Yasutomo watercolors.https://www.dickblick.com/artists/facebook-live/?trk_msg=OD0VGVEHES7K331QK7JIH616D8&trk_contact=BD0DQGC2HMOBLLEVPEP8I4ILD8&trk_sid=UJ1ETLJ0O313FK6GM73TV4MC00&utm_source=listrak&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Q%26amp%3bA+with+Karen+Elaine+Parsons&utm_campaign=Bweb_042221OMW&utm_content=omni

Hahnemuhle:   With our Natural Line product range, we offer the perfect opportunity for artists to be creative using paper made from alternative raw materials such as agave 135# watercolor paper, hemp sketch paper, or bamboo mixed media for watercolor, acrylic or pastel.

https://doodlewash.com/hahnemuhle-natural-line-review/

 

 

 

 

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Recap – Plein Air at Cypress Grove

Leslie and Karen concentrate on their painting, down by the lake.

We had 7 plein air artists paint by the lake at Cypress Grove on Saturday. Thouraya, Sandy, Marcela, Debbie, Karen, Leslie, and Terri enjoyed a breezy day painting a gazebo, Great Blue Heron and the shore of Lake Jessamine. It was fun to get together to enjoy each other’s company and exchange tips on painting outdoors.

Sandi, Thouraya and Debbie under the lush trees with lots of hanging moss.
Great Blue Heron poses for us.
Finding your muse.
The Great Blue Heron by Leslie Rossetti.
Beautiful Lake Jessamine by Thouraya Zapara.
The gazebo by Sandi Baier.
Lake Jessamine view by Teresa Chin.

Sandi had a great tip on an Easel Butler (from Canada) which hooks around the legs or your easel creating a shelf. It can hold some type of tray or board to hold your paints, palettes and other tools.
(#EB 125  $38.95 plus shipping $8.95) easelbutler.com website has other products …

 

The website has photos and reviews:

https://www.easelbutler.com