WORKSHOP WITH PETER X O'BRIEN: SPRING/SUMMER LANDSCAPE

IMPORTANT!!!!  PLEASE NOTE:

 

WOW has finalized the June Education Schedule.

 

• GPSs for June 2nd and June 19th have been cancelled.

• We have added both a Workshop (June 5th) and a GPS/Demo on June 16th. See below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring/Summer Landscape w/ Peter X O'Brien

WOW Workshop: Friday, June 5th, 2pm- 6pm

at the Tualatin Heritage Center

 

Yes, that's right. It will be a 4-hour workshop with an award winning artist. And you've heard us talk about him! 

 

Peter O'Brien will teach and demo A Spring / Summer Landscape with Figures and Farmhouse.

 

We will explore wet-in-wet techniques, working with a flat brush, and adding figures, while incorporating vivid blended colors, light and dark, and a focal point, "sweet spot", in a dramatic setting.

 

Peter is well-known for his Golf Landscapes, American Landscapes, and Cowboy Art.  Read about him and view his artwork at his website:    www.peterxobrien.com   

 
This workshop is intermediate and advanced level. 

Priority is to WOW members. Members should send in Registration Forms so we receive them by May 27th.

For WOW Members:   Pre-Registration Workshop            Fee:  $45                               

                                    After May 26th and at the door       Fee:  $55

For Non Members:      "Open Registration" to friend and guests begins on May 28th as     
                                    space is available. 

                                    Non Member Fee:  $65

Guests/Non Members may sign up and will be placed on a waiting list.

Class Limit is 12 participants.

Registration Forms have been sent out. If you haven't received a Registration Form and would like one, contact Karen Berg at roses2paint@gmail.com.
 
Send completed Form and Check with Workshop fee to:

WOW

PO Box 4668

Tualatin, OR  97062-4668

 

April 27th WOW Demonstration on Pen & Ink Techniques for Watercolor

WOW Demo: Pen & Ink Techniques #1 with Angela Wrahtz

"Healthy Snack" by A Wrahtz (c) 2015

Many of you know, Angela Wrahtz is teaching “Pen & Ink with Watercolor” down at the Keizer Art Association. As part of her teaching there, she incorporate techniques with the blendy pen, going beyond the Elegant Writer some of you are already familiar with.

Please join her for a demonstration of one of her new favorite secret weapons…the Kuretake Clean Color Real Brush a recent discovery. Unlike other blendable pens, this tool behaves is more flexible and offers colors (yay!) which allow you to start a painting with greater ease…or finish it with extra flare. She will show you how this tool can function for you at the beginning of an artwork or at the end to drop in details that sing.

Demo begins at 1:30pm at the Tualatin Heritage Center (THC) at 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, 97062. Free to WOW members and $10 for guests. Membership materials available for folks who want to look at that and maybe sign up.

As a note to our guests, the Demo happens in the middle of the GPS—Group Painting Session—which is essentially open painting time together at the THC. You are welcome to come to the GPS as well which begins around 11am when tables are set up and goes through to about 5pm (sometimes break down is earlier.)

Come when you like and stay as long as you like.  Bring everything you need to paint.

Please RSVP to angela.wrahtz@comcast.net  if you are coming so the right amount of chairs are set up!

 

WOW Calendar 2015

2015 ACTIVITIES

Date/Day        Time         Description

4-7     Tues      11-5pm     GPS: Potluck / Gen Mtg / Painting

4-19   Sun        2-4pm       Board Meeting

4-27   Mon      11-5pm     GPS & Demo (TBA) & Painting

5-5     Tues       1-4pm      Workshop #2: (TBA) 

5-12    Tues     11-5pm     GPS: Demo (TBA) & Painting

5-17   Sun        2-4pm      Board Meeting

6-2     Tues     11-5pm     GPS: Art "Share & Tell" & Painting

6-19   Fri        11-5pm     GPS: Demo "Animal Eyes" & Painting

7-7     Tues     11-5pm     GPS: Potluck / Gen Mtg / Painting 

7-24    Fri        11-5pm   GPS: Painting Day

8-4     Tues     11-5pm   GPS: Painting Day

8-16     Sun     2-4pm     Board Meeting

9-1     Tues      11-5pm   GPS: Demo (TBA) & Painting

9-14    Mon     11-5pm  ANNUAL MEETING (1-2:30) & Painting

9-20     Sun     2-4pm    Board Meeting

10-6   Tues     11-5pm   GPS: Demo (TBA) & Painting

10-18  Sun      2-4pm    Board Meeting

10-23    Fri      1-4pm    Workshop #3 (TBA)

11-3     Tues     11-5pm   GPS: Potluck / Gen Meeting / Painting

11-15   Sun     2-4pm     Board Meeting

11-20    Fri     11-5pm  GPS: Demo (TBA) & Painting

12-8     Tues    11-5pm    GPS:  Art "Share & Tell" & Painting

12-13  Sun    2-4pm  WOW HOLIDAY PARTY

    

Watercolors of Lois Mitchell Light Up The Living Room Gallery

DEMONSTRATION at WOW GPS

Menucha Zentangle by Angela Wrahtz

 

 

December 9th at 1:30pm  

Zentangle & Mini Abstracts:

Techniques for Purposeful and Fun Doodling

using Pens and Brushes

with Angela Wrahtz

 

"Zentangle" is a meditational art form that looks hard but is easy to pick up. You will find yourself filling several sketchbooks in a couple of weeks! By popular request, at the December 9th GPS, we will have a half hour demo that will get you started with some basic information and a fun project. This demo will repeat some info from the May demo but will have a new twist to get you into projects that stretch your abstract side to creation. Angie will have a number of interesting samples and some new tools to share

with you to spark your creativity. Focus will be on composition, artful line work and applying color.

This art form allows a person to achieve a relaxed focus while creating beautiful images using repetitive patterns. This demo will teach you how to do it....how to feel the zen of this type of doodling which draws deep on brain function and unlocks your imagination for interlocking lines and shapes while adding depth and character from watercolor. The results stand on their own or become the basis for embellishment in your larger works.

This demo is free to WOW members and $10 per guest. Bring a drawing pad and/or watercolor pad, sharpies (thick and thin), and your usual watercolor painting supplies and a friend if you like. Handouts provided. Angie will bring stencils for artists to use for

the "next level" project. Books on Zentangle including "repeating pattern" suggestions can be bought at amazon.com, Blicks, or your favorite art store if you want extra resources. Hope to see you there!

Calendar Updates

Hello Friends & Fellow Artists,

 

Just a programming note here, the Workshop which had been prcviously scheduled for Tuesday, November 18th has been moved to January. So, next week, when we meet for our GPS, it is a Group Painting Session only. Also, there is a time change...instead of beginning at 1:00pm and running til 6pm, we were able to get into the Heritage Center at our usual time of 11am and we can paint until 4:30pm.

 

Hope to see you there!  --Angie Wrahtz, President, WOW

Updated GPS & Activities Schedule:

Tuesday, November 18th  11am to 4:30pm      Group Painting Session

Tuesday, December 9th, 11am to 5pm      Group Painting Session & Calendars
                                                                                   distributed

Sunday, December 14th, 2pm to 4pm      WOW Holiday Tea. Details to come!

Tuesday, January 6th, 11am to 5pm      Group Painting Session

WOW CALENDAR FOR 2014

WOW CALENDAR FOR 2014

 

Dear Members, Here is the revised schedule of our activities for the remainder of the year. Please review carefully as there are many changes to previous calendars. Most Mondays have changed to Tuesdays, for example. More information to follow. This is also posted at blog. Thank you! -- Angie

 

October

 

October 7th (Tuesday) 11 - 5 pm...... GPS and Potluck

 

October 19th (Sunday) 2 - 4 pm....Board Meeting at Denny's/Washington Square

 

October 24th (Friday) 11 - 5 pm....GPS and Possible Demo at 1:30 pm

                                                          (More info to follow)

 

November

 

November 4th (Tuesday) 11 - 5 pm....Workshop: "Painting A Winter Scene"

                                                          (With Karen Berg. More info to follow.)

 

November 16th (Sunday) 2 - 4 pm...Board Meeting. Location TBA

 

November 18th (Tuesday) 1:30 - 6 pm....GPS & General Meeting and Demo                                                         (Info on Demo to follow. Start time is 2:00 pm.)

 

December

 

December 9th (Tuesday) 11 - 5 pm....GPS

 

December 14th (Sunday) 2 - 4 pm...WOW Holiday Tea (More info to follow.)