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Scheduling Notice--Meeting Cancelled

Due to many WOW members being busy, away, and otherwise unavailable for Spring Break week, the previously scheduled GPS meeting for Wednesday, March 28th, at the Tualatin Heritage Center is cancelled. Apologies to those of you who could have made it. We just didn't have the numbers to it a go.
See you in April on  Monday, April 9th from 12:30 to 5pm when we are next scheduled to meet.

Thank you!

2018 Calendar for WOW Group Painting Sessions (GPS)

Hello Members and Guests!

We continue to meet for our Group Painting Sessions (GPS's) at the Tualatin Heritage Center, 8700 SW Sweek Drive, Tualatin, next to the Police Station.

Overflow parking at is available at the Police Station when the tiny lot next to the Heritage Center is full. 

Dates and/or times subject to change. We ask for your RSVP before we confirm our  dates one week prior to scheduled activity. Low response rates lead to cancellations.

$5 fee per person per date requested to help cover rent.

Friends and guests are always welcome.

Send you questions to angela.wrahtz@comcast.net.

JANUARY	5—12:30-5pm (Friday) 23—12:30-5pm (Tuesday)	JULY	10—11-4pm (Tuesday) 30—11-4pm (Monday)
FEBRUARY	9—11-4pm (Friday) 26—12:30-5pm (Monday)	AUGUST	10—11-4pm (Friday) 22—11-4pm (Wednesday)
MARCH	16—12:30-5pm (Friday) 28—11-4pm (Wednesday)	SEPTEMBER	7—12:30-5pm (Friday) 25—11-4pm (Tuesday)
APRIL	9—12:30-5pm (Monday) 27—11-4pm (Friday)	OCTOBER	8—11-4pm (Monday) 26—12:30-5pm (Friday)
MAY	8—12:30-5pm (Tuesday) 25—11-4pm (Friday)	NOVEMBER	9—11-4pm (Friday) 19—11-4pm (Monday)
JUNE	11—12:30-5pm (Monday) 29—12:30-5pm (Friday)	DECEMBER	7—11-4pm (Friday) 9—2-4pm (Sunday) TEA 17—11-4pm (Monday)

Experimenting with Brusho Ink Crystals -- WOW Workshop with Sue Parman

We had a great time learning about and playing with the possibilities of these tiny, potent ink crystals! Thank you, Sue Parman, for sharing your experience and knowledge with us and for guiding our play! Thanks to all who attended and made it a fun day of painting and visiting with friends. Thank you to the Tualatin Heritage Center for providing a great space to do art!

WOW Workshop with Rene Eisenbart

Thank you, Rene, for bringing your passion for creativity and a mountain of stuff to the Tualatin Heritage Center so Wild Over Watercolor (WOW) and its guests could experience a whole new world of pattern making and collage experimentation. Here are some pictures from our day.

Rene Eisenbart comes to Wild Over Watercolor!

• Just to clarify payments on more time for anyone who is interested in the workshop:
• Before January 30th, if you are a WOW member: $75.
• After January 30th, WOW members and guest participants: $95.
• Pro-rated joining fee for guests who wish to become WOW members: $20.
• There is no requirement that guests join WOW.
• Come and have a good time!
• As of January 15th, eight WOW members are on the list for this

Highlights from Annual Meeting 2016

Congratulations to all of those artists who participated in our first ever WOW Group Show hosted by the Keizer Art Association in Keizer, Oregon, at the Enid Joy Mount Gallery in the Keizer Heritage Center. More congratulations to our Award Winners including:

·       People’s Choice Award—“Simon’s Rabbit” by Win Martinson

·       Best of Show—“Barista” by Zsuzsanna Vamos

·       First Place—“Yup…Corn Again For Dinner” by Debbie Hornibrook

·       Second Place—“Pismo Beach Sand Dollars” by Dianne Hicks

·       Third Place—“Boats at Sunset” by Mary Fran Anderson

·       Juror’s Merit Award—“Tempest in Belize” by Lindsay Atherly

·       Juror’s Merit Award—“Autumn Centerpiece” by Karen Berg

·       Honorable Mention—“Old Man and the Sea” by Sue Parman

·       Honorable Mention—“I’m A Cowboy” by Virginia Green

·       Honorable Mention—“Bloomin’ Cactus” by Carol Aimonetto

Special thanks to Zsuzanna Vamos for arranging the hospitality and putting out lovely festive decorations which set an extra friendly holiday tone! What an awesome group WOW is!

Friday July 22nd GPS is cancelled

Due to low response (RSVPs) on invitations to our GPS, we gave up our reservation at the Tualatin Heritage Center.

Our next WOW event is planned for July 29th in Tualatin for a "Matting and Framing Workshop." Details to follow in email!

WOW Press Release July 2016

PRESS RELEASE

(July 8, 2016, Tualatin, Oregon.) The art association formerly known as WOMEN OF WATERCOLOR—GUILD OF ARTISTS has changed its name to WILD OVER WATERCOLOR—WOW! as of July 2016. The move came as a unanimous decision by the membership of this art group to be more inclusive in its name. While the group was previously open to male and female members alike, the new name is more encouraging of broader membership in the local art community.

Founded almost exactly seven years ago in July, 2009 by seven artists who met at an art retreat, WOW has grown in membership from a small group of watercolorist to at its height at over 50 members. Currently the membership is approximately 30 artists from emerging to award winning and nationally recognized for their work.  The membership encourages the development of all its artists on a creative, technical, and career level while maintaining an environment that is cooperative and friendly. 

WOW offers group painting sessions (GPS) often twice monthly at the Tualatin Heritage Center and also offers teachi learning opportunities that extend beyond its membership. WOW artists participate in art shows locally, regionally, and nationally. The group is run by volunteers and directed by a Board of elected officers.

2016 Calendar of Important Dates

Wild Over Watercolor!!!! WOW!!!

2016  Calendar of Important Dates

July 2016

Early July             WOW Elections of Officers

Friday 7/8           WOW Group Show Participants List announced

Friday 7/22         12:30pm to 5pm Group Painting Session (GPS) at the Tualatin Heritage Center (THC)

                              1pm to 1:30 Annual Meeting – Invitation to follow

Friday 7/29         1pm to 3:30pm  “Matting & Framing” Workshop with Angie  – More info to follow

August 2016

Monday 8/8       12:30pm to 5pm Group Painting Session (GPS) at the Tualatin Heritage Center (THC)

Friday 8/26         12:30pm to 5pm GPS & Final prep for WOW Group Show / Carpools confirmed

Weds 8/31          2pm Cars leave for Keizer from Tualatin

3pm to 7pm  Artwork Drop-off at KAA, Keizer, Oregon, for WOW Group Show

September 2016

Thurs  9/1           WOW Group Show is hung by KAA Exhibition Committee

Saturday 9/3      2pm to 4pm ARTIST’S RECEPTION for WOW Group Show – All WOW is invited!

2:30pm  AWARDS CEREMONY with Judge Diana Nadal

Monday 9/12     12:30pm to 5pm Group Painting Session (GPS) at the Tualatin Heritage Center (THC)

Friday 9/30         GPS at THC – Please note adjusted times for today are 11am to 4:30pm

October 2016

Weds 10/5          2pm Cars leave for Keizer from Tualatin

3pm to 7pm  Artwork Pick-up at KAA, Keizer, Oregon, for WOW Group Show

Fri-Sun 10/7-9    WSO Convention in Oregon City

Monday 10/17   12:30pm to 5pm Group Painting Session (GPS) at the Tualatin Heritage Center (THC)

Monday 10/31   HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 12:30pm to 5pm Group Painting Session (GPS) at the THC

                              Come in costume if you want!

November 2016

Saturday 11/12  9am to 4pm “COLOR FOR THE WATERCOLOR ARTIST-- WORKSHOP” More info to follow

Friday 11/18       12:30pm to 5pm Group Painting Session (GPS) at the Tualatin Heritage Center (THC)

Monday 11/28   Possible additional GPS date…awaiting confirmation

December 2016

Sunday 12/4       2pm to 4pm. WOW Holiday Tea. A super fun WOW tradition!!!

If you would like to be host this year, please contact Karen.

Friday 12/9         12:30pm to 5pm Group Painting Session (GPS) at the Tualatin Heritage Center (THC)

GPS at Karen's house Spring 2016

A glorious day in a glorious garden. We need to do this again... :)

Elegance in Black White & Gray in the Art of Linda Rothchild Ollis at the Tualatin Library

From TUALATIN LIFE NEWSPAPER December 2015 Edition now available.

 Congratulations to WOW Artist Linda Rothchild Ollis on her latest solo exhibition which runs at the Tualatin Public Library from this December 2015 through April 2016. Don't miss this exhibit which has big WOW factor is mostly black, white, and gray colors. Here are some more photos from our installation today including Linda and her husband Steve Ollis, our wonderful volunteer helper from Tualatin High School, Alyssa Newcomb, and yours truly.
 

Linda Rothchild Ollis and husband Steve

Alyssa Newcomb, Tualatin HS Volunteer

 

Linda and Angela Wrahtz, Gallerist, Living Room Gallery 

 

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