President Sandi started our member meeting by asking if any new members or guests were present. Welcome to Richard H. and Richelle J …we were very glad to see you. !

CFWS Librarian Chris talked about her list of borrowed books and DVD’s overdue so please check the list and see if any titles sound familiar.

Workshop Chair Susan announced our upcoming Zoom workshop with Alexis Lavine. Only a few spots are left. Timeline: 10am-12pm demo – Lunch – 1pm-3pm critique of art works by students. After the workshop you get the video to watch for 2 weeks and then download to your computer! Registration is available on CFWS website.

Mary Ellen mentioned she is working with SOBO to plan our members exhibit in April. Entries would begin in Jan. or Feb. Judy Saltzman will be our jurist and do a demonstration.

**Mary Ellen** reminded members we still have a few mugs for $10 each.

Lots of activities coming up for our CFWS members! Join us.

Long time member Tom Jones generously brought some art supplies to share! Tom got a special surprise at the Florida Watercolor Society. For teaching there for 35 years they had a festive celebration with yummy cake!

**Marianna** drew the first lucky number and got a large watercolor paper.

**Thouraya** drew a series of sketchbooks in different sizes.

**Pat** got a pad of landscape format **Arches** watercolor paper… good for plein air.

**Debra** got a full size sheet of 300# **Arches** watercolor paper.

**Judi** got a watercolor palette by **TOM JONES**. THANK YOU TOM!

Demonstration by Leslie Rossetti – an accomplished painter in watercolor. She has created art her whole life, but started watercolor in earnest when she retired from Universal Orlando Resort in 2019 after 20 years of photo retouching. Nature is her inspiration, but she has a real passion for birds and animals portraying them either in their environment or showcasing them as a portrait. Leslie painted a portrait of Winston. He belongs to the daughter of Lauren K. Last spring Lauren won a raffle to have the portrait painted by Leslie. Leslie showed us the finished portrait and then demonstrated how to paint a dog’s eye and nose. She feels if the eyes, nose, and mouth are correct, the painting will look like the subject. Leslie traces the reference image. She always traces the outline, the nose, the eyes, and the mouth to make sure they are in the correct place using Saral transfer paper.

For the nose, bleed the black color around the nose with a grey wash. She painted the nostrils and the straight line between the nostrils with the “black” and let that rest.

QOR Dioxazine Purple plus Holbein Shadow Green makes a very black – black (Perylene Green by Daniel Smith works just as well.) Start with the green and slowly mix in purple to get the black you want.

For eyes, start with pale yellow, then burnt sienna for the eye, then burnt umber. The eyes have shadows from the eyelids accentuates the glow in the eye. Also note that almost all dogs have a ring around their eyes. Then let it dry. A Rosemary eradicator brush amazing to lift.If you get the nose and eye right the portrait is successful.

Bleed proof white is good for highlights on the nose, using a brush. Dab if the white is too bright because it is forgiving. A Jusart white Gel ink pen will also work.
Embosser tool is good to dip into white for highlight. Notice where the highlights are.

No animals teeth are white. Not even humans! She uses QoR Titan Buff. For the tongue she mixes quinacridone rose and a little gamboge nova. All dogs tongues have curl in them. It is always lighter on the interior. Add a little cobalt blue to make the tongue more orange. She puts a little neutral tint at the back for the shadow. There are lighter areas and pink areas along the sides and back of the mouth.