March 16, 2012
MISSOURI WATERCOLOR SOCIETY ONLINE NEWS
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March 16, 2012 -- "Male red-winged blackbirds begin to set up territories. Greater prairie-chickens 'booming' through mid-April. Wild turkeys gobble through early May. Spring peeper calling is at its peak. Muskies begin spawning. Spicebush blooms through mid-April. Watch for the fiddleheads of ferns. Elms begin blooming. Red cedars release pollen. On warm days, watch water striders on streams. Raise purple martin houses today."
Missouri Department of Conservation supplies this bit for the News.
3:17 a.m. CST - St. Pat's Day is tomorrow- Top of the morning to ya!
Birthstone: Aquamarine
Flower: Jonquil
"I may shock some by saying this, but I strongly feel that an artist should improve and enrich his strong points and not waste time trying to improve his weak points along a broad front. If you do not draw cows well, there is little to be gained in taking great pains to become a painter of cows. Put them in deep grass or forget them . . . You should aspire to improve your own strengths to the point that what you already do well, you will do better than anyone else in the world."
-- Edward Betts, from his book, Master Class in Watercolor
1. Watercolor Missouri National will open April 1, 2012 in the National Churchill Museum's Anson Cutts Gallery. Awards will be presented at 2:00 p.m. If you can get a group together to share the cost of gas, please join the MOWS Board of Directors and other MOWS members for this opening. Juror of Selection Cheng-Khee Chee, AWS d.f., NWS, MOWS-HR, has picked an outstanding exhibition of national painters; many are from Missouri. Juror of Awards Robert Lee Mejer, NWS, MOWS-HR, will have the job of selecting the award winners before the exhibition opens. Visitors/viewers to this exhibition will rate it as one of the finest watermedia exhibitions in Missouri for 2012.
2. Point of Interest: MOWS will only allow professional artists with Signature Status in either the National Watercolor Society, the American Watercolor Society, or both, to serve as jurors for Watercolor Missouri National. These professional artists must have an established national and international exhibition record of substance. Simplistically: They can paint at the national level and they can prove it!
3. This is the week we unpack the shipped painting for Watercolor Missouri National 2012. Robert Lee Mejer (Bob), NWS, MOWS-HR, will select the winners on Saturday, March 24. The winners will be posted in the gallery April 1 before the reception. The awards will be made at 2 pm. PLEASE, do not call Juror of Awards, Bob Mejer, to see if you won an award. Bob will not tell you. Do not call the National Churchill Museum: they will not know who won awards. Do not call Laura King: she will not know. That leaves me! You got game?
4. Yesterday we said good-bye to a few artists who did not pay their dues. We wish them well and great success.
5. It has been interesting to watch from afar various individuals and organizations try to copy what we do because of our national and international success. MOWS does have a huge advantage. As Missouri folks say, a ringer! So what's the difference? Very simple. Other organizations do not have access to a world-class museum which carries the name of a great world leader: Sir Winston Churchill. . . . A world leader who loved to paint! And he had a famous wit. Here is an example from the Quotable Winston Churchill edited by Richard J. Mahoney with Shera Dalin:
While attending a reception during a speaking tour in Canada, a Methodist minister refused a glass of sherry offered by a waitress, saying "Young lady, I'd rather commit adultery than take an intoxicating beverage."
Churchill hailed the server: "Come back Lassie. I didn't know we had a choice."
Have a great week!
May God always keep you on His palette.
Papa
http://www.mowsart.com
March 16, 2012 -- "Male red-winged blackbirds begin to set up territories. Greater prairie-chickens 'booming' through mid-April. Wild turkeys gobble through early May. Spring peeper calling is at its peak. Muskies begin spawning. Spicebush blooms through mid-April. Watch for the fiddleheads of ferns. Elms begin blooming. Red cedars release pollen. On warm days, watch water striders on streams. Raise purple martin houses today."
Missouri Department of Conservation supplies this bit for the News.
3:17 a.m. CST - St. Pat's Day is tomorrow- Top of the morning to ya!
Birthstone: Aquamarine
Flower: Jonquil
"I may shock some by saying this, but I strongly feel that an artist should improve and enrich his strong points and not waste time trying to improve his weak points along a broad front. If you do not draw cows well, there is little to be gained in taking great pains to become a painter of cows. Put them in deep grass or forget them . . . You should aspire to improve your own strengths to the point that what you already do well, you will do better than anyone else in the world."
-- Edward Betts, from his book, Master Class in Watercolor
1. Watercolor Missouri National will open April 1, 2012 in the National Churchill Museum's Anson Cutts Gallery. Awards will be presented at 2:00 p.m. If you can get a group together to share the cost of gas, please join the MOWS Board of Directors and other MOWS members for this opening. Juror of Selection Cheng-Khee Chee, AWS d.f., NWS, MOWS-HR, has picked an outstanding exhibition of national painters; many are from Missouri. Juror of Awards Robert Lee Mejer, NWS, MOWS-HR, will have the job of selecting the award winners before the exhibition opens. Visitors/viewers to this exhibition will rate it as one of the finest watermedia exhibitions in Missouri for 2012.
2. Point of Interest: MOWS will only allow professional artists with Signature Status in either the National Watercolor Society, the American Watercolor Society, or both, to serve as jurors for Watercolor Missouri National. These professional artists must have an established national and international exhibition record of substance. Simplistically: They can paint at the national level and they can prove it!
3. This is the week we unpack the shipped painting for Watercolor Missouri National 2012. Robert Lee Mejer (Bob), NWS, MOWS-HR, will select the winners on Saturday, March 24. The winners will be posted in the gallery April 1 before the reception. The awards will be made at 2 pm. PLEASE, do not call Juror of Awards, Bob Mejer, to see if you won an award. Bob will not tell you. Do not call the National Churchill Museum: they will not know who won awards. Do not call Laura King: she will not know. That leaves me! You got game?
4. Yesterday we said good-bye to a few artists who did not pay their dues. We wish them well and great success.
5. It has been interesting to watch from afar various individuals and organizations try to copy what we do because of our national and international success. MOWS does have a huge advantage. As Missouri folks say, a ringer! So what's the difference? Very simple. Other organizations do not have access to a world-class museum which carries the name of a great world leader: Sir Winston Churchill. . . . A world leader who loved to paint! And he had a famous wit. Here is an example from the Quotable Winston Churchill edited by Richard J. Mahoney with Shera Dalin:
While attending a reception during a speaking tour in Canada, a Methodist minister refused a glass of sherry offered by a waitress, saying "Young lady, I'd rather commit adultery than take an intoxicating beverage."
Churchill hailed the server: "Come back Lassie. I didn't know we had a choice."
Have a great week!
May God always keep you on His palette.
Papa
