It was a great turnout at Kingswood Manor for our annual members holiday party! President Sandi B. made announcements: The upcoming annual Members show entries for images start Dec. 15 and end Jan. 17. This year our show will be at the SOBO Art Gallery in Winter Garden. Start painting! She also mentioned the field trip to the Orlando Museum of Art on Dec. 12, 2025. Cost: $20 adults, $12 for seniors. Meet in the parking lot at 10am.

Save your date for our upcoming workshop, March 2 – 4, 2026, with Teresa Kirk “The Beauty of the Mark”. Member cost $350. Registration will begin soon.

Check the newsletter and social media for the calendar of meetings and plein air outings.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Gingerbread Man and Ann have fun!
Terri, Ginger, Sharon share a hug.
Ginger and Cindy wave to friends!
Ginger and Lois share a hug. (Surprise! Leslie was our surprise character!)
So many beautiful paintings!!! We had a hard time voting for only 3!
Beverly and Julie checked us all in and gave us our name tags. Thank you for always keeping us organized!!!
Lots of beautiful paintings.

There were a lot of great gift bags for our members!! How fun to have the winning numbers!!!

A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR “ALWAYS THERE FOR US” SPONSOR: TOM JONES! Congratulations to Leslie for winning the Tom Jones watercolor palette!
Congratulations to Debbie for winning the grand prize ARTISTICO Fabriano watercolor paper package! Only in an art group would you have people drooling over paper! LOL!
Thank you to all the members who created thier MINI painting masterpieces!
CONGRATULATIONS TO Third place People’s Choice winner: David W. and his painting “South Georgia Country Lane“!
CONGRATULATIONS TO Second place People’s Choice winner: Mary Ellen and her painting “Jars and Stars“!
CONGRATULATIONS TO First Place People’s Choice winner: Stewart J. and his painting “Laguna Beach“! Watercolors on Arches140# Rough paper. “This painting was inspired by a trip I took to Laguna Beach in California last year. My daughter lived in this area for a few years while working in the animation studio “Dreamworks” and she said this was her favorite beach in California. My wife and I visited her at least four different. I have painted a different beach each time I have gone there. It’s a wonderful place to visit and if it wasn’t for her moving there I would have never had this experience.”

THANK YOU MICHEL O., FOR RESERVING THIS BEAUTIFUL LOCATION FOR OUR ANNUAL PARTY!!!