October 28, 2011
MISSOURI WATERCOLOR SOCIETY ONLINE NEWS
http://www.mowsart.com
October 28, 2011 -- Green-winged teal, American wigeon, pintail and gadwall ducks are at their peak. Juncos arrive from Canada. Striped skunks are fattening up for winter while lady beetles congregate on the sunny side of houses. Average day of first frost in southern Missouri.
Missouri Department of Conservation supplies this bit for the News.
3:32 a..m. BOO! MONDAY IS HALLOWEEN! BOO AGAIN!
Birthstone: Opal
Flower: Calendula
"Color, says the dictionary, is 'the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object.'
Reflected is the word to remember"
-- Tom Hill, AWS, from his book, The Watercolorist's Complete Guide to Color.
1. Congratulations to MOWS Signature member, Doris Davis-Glackin. Doris received the Frank Webb Award for Aquamedia at The Audubon Artists 69th annual/international exhibition at The Salmagundi Club in NYC.
2. ATTENTION! If you are picking up a painting from Boone County Historical Society, and you have a problem please call Jenifer Flink (cell phone) at 573-239-7353, or BCHS at 573-443-8936. If you cannot pick up your painting you MUST CALL BCHS. BCHS is going on winter hours after this week so the hours published in the prospectus may not work next week (November).
3. REMINDER! Don't forget, this year MOWS will only accept digital entries in Watercolor Missouri National held each spring at the National Churchill Museum. Be sure to follow the prospectus for size and email your entries (paintings) to this link: nationalshow@mowsart.com
Laura King has a very fine article in the summer issue of Watercolor Studio which you can find on the MOWS website, which may help you in this endeavor.
PLEASE : Read the prospectus carefully. Follow those instructions. You must also send your entry form, entry fee, notification card, #10 SASE, and a photo copy (hard copy) of each entry. You may also enclose a CD with your entries. These come to the MOWS office.
Missouri Watercolor Society
George "Papa" Tutt
1406 Kenwood Drive
Fulton, MO 64251-1317
If you have a problem: Call me at 573-642-6410, or email me at georgetutt@socket.net
4. A thought from MOWS member Douglas Kelly. (Doug used to write the newsletter for the Springfield Symphony.) Doug emailed me about an article by Jerry N Weiss on the last page of The Artist’s Magazine (December issue). And that Weiss' article is something that can be a lesson to all MOWS members. Here is the important part of our emails:
"Poor old Tom Eakins did a wonderful painting (even in oil) of “The Gross Clinic” in 1875. It never got the attention it deserved, and was purchased for $200 by Thomas Jefferson University. But later, when the university decided to sell it in 2006, darned if the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art wanted it and paid $68 million for it. Amazing, eh? Such encouragement is so inspiring, and it should be paramount to offer to all artists entering shows and suffering the heartbreak of rejection."
5. The BEST reason why you should have shown your work on the MOWS website in the "Members' Holiday Online Invitational": Here are the stats (visits) the day I published "it was up" in the Online News. The News goes out early Friday morning. I checked these stats Friday afternoon. Gives you a good idea of how many foreigners check out the MOWS website for the new online shows. Remember that these represent different time zones and different days around the world:
COUNTRY
Asian Cities
China -- 79 Shanghai, Guangzhou
India -- 24 Calcutta
Turkey -- 22 Istanbul, Antalya
Russia Federation -- 2 Moscow
Georgia -- 2 Tbilisi
Korea -- 1 N/A
Uzbekistan -- 1 Tashkent
Europen Cities
Spain -- 30 Barcelona
United Kingdom -- 119 Alloa
Italy -- 193 Caglian
France -- 123 Paris, Roubaix
Sweden -- 38 Stockholm
Ukraine -- 30 N/A
Greece -- 146 Athens
United States and Canada
United States -- 7,099 Columbia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, others to numerous to mention
Canada -- 187 Oshawa, Montreal
Worldwide Total -- 8,096
Sunday and Friday are the biggest worldwide viewing days for the MOWS website.
6. Question: Do any of the members from Mississippi, or elsewhere, know anyone living in Olive Branch, Mississippi? MOWS and Papa are getting very unusual traffic from that locale.
7. Sidebar: I goin' to do it again! Folks, this is the sixth time I've had this in the Online News. It was in the News last year, ... and the year before! I wrote this in 2005. But a number of our members are my age and asked -- AGAIN! -- if I would run it because they remember those painted hose seams, too. So here it is again, ENJOY! And Happy Halloween!
. . . The first class in school for me was in 1942. My teacher had just graduated from MU. Because of the war, she -- like all the gals -- couldn't get nylon hose to wear, so she used a marker and painted a line down the back of her legs to look like a hose seam. That fantastic bending line certainly made a lasting impression on a little boy. I had never seen real art work before. Even today, as I approach the twilight of my life, I'm still not sure that that beautiful line making its way down that curved leg wasn't the driving impetus that turned me into an artist. Here is what else I learned from my first-grade teacher:
H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N! H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N!
Oh what funny things are seen.
Witches' hats!
Coal-black cats!
Broomstick riders!
Mice and rats!
Have a SPOOKY Halloween!
May God always keep you on His palette.
Papa
http://www.mowsart.com
October 28, 2011 -- Green-winged teal, American wigeon, pintail and gadwall ducks are at their peak. Juncos arrive from Canada. Striped skunks are fattening up for winter while lady beetles congregate on the sunny side of houses. Average day of first frost in southern Missouri.
Missouri Department of Conservation supplies this bit for the News.
3:32 a..m. BOO! MONDAY IS HALLOWEEN! BOO AGAIN!
Birthstone: Opal
Flower: Calendula
"Color, says the dictionary, is 'the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object.'
Reflected is the word to remember"
-- Tom Hill, AWS, from his book, The Watercolorist's Complete Guide to Color.
1. Congratulations to MOWS Signature member, Doris Davis-Glackin. Doris received the Frank Webb Award for Aquamedia at The Audubon Artists 69th annual/international exhibition at The Salmagundi Club in NYC.
2. ATTENTION! If you are picking up a painting from Boone County Historical Society, and you have a problem please call Jenifer Flink (cell phone) at 573-239-7353, or BCHS at 573-443-8936. If you cannot pick up your painting you MUST CALL BCHS. BCHS is going on winter hours after this week so the hours published in the prospectus may not work next week (November).
3. REMINDER! Don't forget, this year MOWS will only accept digital entries in Watercolor Missouri National held each spring at the National Churchill Museum. Be sure to follow the prospectus for size and email your entries (paintings) to this link: nationalshow@mowsart.com
Laura King has a very fine article in the summer issue of Watercolor Studio which you can find on the MOWS website, which may help you in this endeavor.
PLEASE : Read the prospectus carefully. Follow those instructions. You must also send your entry form, entry fee, notification card, #10 SASE, and a photo copy (hard copy) of each entry. You may also enclose a CD with your entries. These come to the MOWS office.
Missouri Watercolor Society
George "Papa" Tutt
1406 Kenwood Drive
Fulton, MO 64251-1317
If you have a problem: Call me at 573-642-6410, or email me at georgetutt@socket.net
4. A thought from MOWS member Douglas Kelly. (Doug used to write the newsletter for the Springfield Symphony.) Doug emailed me about an article by Jerry N Weiss on the last page of The Artist’s Magazine (December issue). And that Weiss' article is something that can be a lesson to all MOWS members. Here is the important part of our emails:
"Poor old Tom Eakins did a wonderful painting (even in oil) of “The Gross Clinic” in 1875. It never got the attention it deserved, and was purchased for $200 by Thomas Jefferson University. But later, when the university decided to sell it in 2006, darned if the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Museum of Art wanted it and paid $68 million for it. Amazing, eh? Such encouragement is so inspiring, and it should be paramount to offer to all artists entering shows and suffering the heartbreak of rejection."
5. The BEST reason why you should have shown your work on the MOWS website in the "Members' Holiday Online Invitational": Here are the stats (visits) the day I published "it was up" in the Online News. The News goes out early Friday morning. I checked these stats Friday afternoon. Gives you a good idea of how many foreigners check out the MOWS website for the new online shows. Remember that these represent different time zones and different days around the world:
COUNTRY
Asian Cities
China -- 79 Shanghai, Guangzhou
India -- 24 Calcutta
Turkey -- 22 Istanbul, Antalya
Russia Federation -- 2 Moscow
Georgia -- 2 Tbilisi
Korea -- 1 N/A
Uzbekistan -- 1 Tashkent
Europen Cities
Spain -- 30 Barcelona
United Kingdom -- 119 Alloa
Italy -- 193 Caglian
France -- 123 Paris, Roubaix
Sweden -- 38 Stockholm
Ukraine -- 30 N/A
Greece -- 146 Athens
United States and Canada
United States -- 7,099 Columbia, St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, others to numerous to mention
Canada -- 187 Oshawa, Montreal
Worldwide Total -- 8,096
Sunday and Friday are the biggest worldwide viewing days for the MOWS website.
6. Question: Do any of the members from Mississippi, or elsewhere, know anyone living in Olive Branch, Mississippi? MOWS and Papa are getting very unusual traffic from that locale.
7. Sidebar: I goin' to do it again! Folks, this is the sixth time I've had this in the Online News. It was in the News last year, ... and the year before! I wrote this in 2005. But a number of our members are my age and asked -- AGAIN! -- if I would run it because they remember those painted hose seams, too. So here it is again, ENJOY! And Happy Halloween!
. . . The first class in school for me was in 1942. My teacher had just graduated from MU. Because of the war, she -- like all the gals -- couldn't get nylon hose to wear, so she used a marker and painted a line down the back of her legs to look like a hose seam. That fantastic bending line certainly made a lasting impression on a little boy. I had never seen real art work before. Even today, as I approach the twilight of my life, I'm still not sure that that beautiful line making its way down that curved leg wasn't the driving impetus that turned me into an artist. Here is what else I learned from my first-grade teacher:
H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N! H-A-L-L-O-W-E-E-N!
Oh what funny things are seen.
Witches' hats!
Coal-black cats!
Broomstick riders!
Mice and rats!
Have a SPOOKY Halloween!
May God always keep you on His palette.
Papa
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