 From the President
This is an exciting time for WTWS. The 41st Annual Lubbock Art Festival will be Saturday, April 13-14 at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Visual Artists, Craftsmen, Juried Art Gallery, Multiple Children's Activities, Singers, Musicians, Dancers, and Actors will be participating. The festival includes 150 Artists! In preparation for our booth we are having another Paint-In April 6, 10:00-2:00 at the Legacy. Bring your art supplies, one or two small gallery wrapped cotton canvases, your ideas, your lunch and a spirit of fun. We'll have alcohol to clean the canvases, paper towel, coffee, and water. JoBeth and others will be there willing to help. All the preparation for the art festival is going to result in an eye catching WTWS booth full of bright, inviting displays. I really appreciate all the members that signed up to help in our booth. It is always a rewarding and fun time. I would also like to remind everyone about the Spring Show April 5-25 at the Garden & Arts Center.
Somewhere inside each of us is a longing to make things - art, music, writings, hand--knit sweaters, or loaves of bread. We are creative beings and our choice in life is to nurture and grow our creativeness or let it stay dormant. We must allow ourselves to try, to fail, and then try again. This continual process moves us forward in our desire to create. I have a great appreciation for the hard work and time of our members as they each progress and grow in their art journey. When I think of our members that are further along in their journey it continually encourages me that so many are so willing to reach back to help others learn and grow.
Don't forget our Paint-In, Art Festival, and Spring Show!
"No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late, or selfish, or silly to work on your creativity." ~Julia Cameron~
Jane
|
|
Splash of RED & Rose' (VI)
The Legacy will be unable to host FFAT on April 5th, due to a wedding.
Emily Sharpe would prefer that WTWS artists leave in place any RED Show art pieces that they do not need for the near future. If artists need a piece from that show, they may pick up beginning April 6th during the Paint-in, or during Legacy open hours beginning Monday, April 8th. (Check in with Legacy Staff to remove any art piece.)
If artists have a similar sized replacement piece for one that they need to remove, please email Kathryn (kathyt88@gmail.com) the information for the label.
People’s Choice voting will continue through April 5th.
Thank you all for your entries, and for your willingness to work with Emily in keeping WTWS art on her walls! Kathryn
*********************
Spring Show
April 5 - 25, 2019 @ the Lubbock Municipal Garden & Arts Center
Judge: Shawn Kennedy
Art Retrieval at end of show: Friday, April 26
Prospectus to be published soon!
********************
Summer Show
July 5 - 27, 2019 @ LHUCA
September 6 - November 4 Fall Show @ Legacy
December 6, 2019 - January 19, 2020 Winter Show @ BHC (music theme)
|
|
|
THERE WILL BE NO MEETING IN APRIL.
HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE ART FESTIVAL.
SEE YOU IN MAY
|
|
|
The next PAINT-IN is this Saturday from 10-2
Please Bring a canvas to paint
paints, brushes etc.
a sack lunch
and plan to have lots of fun!!
Also Parking updates- The Legacy has 2 events going on-- we need you to park in the Legacy's north parking lot, come down the sidewalk to the east where the exterior door to the Board Room will be open for you. Artists can enter there. When everyone is in, though, we need that door to be pulled shut so no outsiders can enter.
Thanks!
|
|
GALE WEBB
Gale Webb received an Honorable Mention Merchandise Award in the
44th Western Federation on Watercolor Societies 2019 Exhibition.
TIM OLIVER
Honorable Mention for "Konriko Rice Mill"
At Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Competition-New Iberia, Louisiana March 16, 2019
First Place for "New Iberia Corner" in the 2-hour Quick Paint at Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Competition-New Iberia, Louisiana March 26, 2019
Selected for inclusion in Watercolor Artists Magazine-"Open Book" Features, April 2019
DEANNA THIBAULT
"A Walk in the Park" by Deanna Thibault won the "Best Work on Paper and Paper Substrate"
at The 43rd Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibit in Arlington TX.
She has 3 pieces in the show and she will be a Demo for
The Arlington Visual Art Association April 8th and a workshop this summer.
|
|
WONDERING ABOUT DUES?
WTWS membership year begins in May and runs to the following April. Everyone with paid membership in August will be included in the current year's membership roster. Mail $40 checks to West Texas Watercolor Society, PO Box 2022, Lubbock Texas 79408 or pay at the monthly meetings. The WTWS.org website accepts dues also, $42 if paid on-line through PayPal.
Wondering if you are current or not, text Cecilia at 806-778-2289 (don't forget to tell me who you are) or email to jcadams1949@gmail.com.
|
|
Do you have art supplies that you are not using and you would like to get rid of? Please consider donating them to the Guadalupe Community Center. The donations can be brought anytime we have a membership meeting or event. We've been doing this all along but most of our members don't know about it.
|
|
|
SUZY 'PAL' POWELL
Sketching/Sketchbooks
Cloudcroft June 3-6. And
Is time to be planning and signing up.
Dillmans in Wisconsin June 10-14
|
|
WTWS 2018/2019 PROGRAMS
1500 14 th Street in Lubbock.
3 RD Sundays at 2:30 pm
Our next meeting is Feb 17th at 2:30pm we will be meeting in a new location at the Legacy.
Demonstrators:
April: Art Festival. No meeting
May: Karla Bennett and Gale Webb duo
New meeting room is the Ballroom shown in green on the attached map. (old room shown in blue)
You can park and enter on the east side at the yellow arrow.
|
|
|
|
|
Our Mission
The purposes of the West Texas Watercolor Society is to provide an opportunity for the interchange of ideas among persons interested in all forms of water media. To promote the highest aesthetic standards in the art of watercolor and water media, and to provide civic, cultural, and educational support in the arts of all water media.
We host our meetings at the Legacy 1500 14th St 2:30 pm every third Sunday (South Side) unless other wise noted.
We have guest artists that provide a demonstration for our members so we are always exchanging ideas and learning something new or remembering something old! We have an open invite on meeting days to anyone who wishes to join our Society. Bring a friend !
|
|
|
|
