7th Annual Show ~ Cafe Seventy8
Avelina Leanos
Bobbie Kahan
Carmel Adams
Darlene Zane
Heather Solway
Janie Dubuque
Jesse Schlenker
Joanie Helgeson
John D. Webster
Juan Vargas
Mary Ciofalo
Pam Rabinowitz
Shirley Edwards
We invite you to our 7th Annual Group Show
Reception: Thursday, Oct 05, 5 - 7 pm
Cafe Seventy8
78 29th Street near Mission
San Francisco
Show dates: Tuesday, Oct 03 through Monday, Oct 30
Group Contact: 415-205-7015, zygote1955@yahoo.com
Uma Kelkar: Blurred Lines
(This is a repeat of Uma’s September workshop)
Location: San Francisco, Arch Art Supplies
Friday, October 20, 4PM-7PM (+ homework) and Saturday, October 21, 12PM-4PM
Cost: $160
Join me and an intimate group as we build our skills in edge variety and work towards a plein air watercolor painting in this intense 2-day workshop. The workshop aims to build confidence in using a brush as an efficient drawing tool while teaching how variety of lost and found edges inserts interest in a painting. Arch Art and Drafting Supplies store lends it’s light-filled studio for our in-studio exercises. They will also have the art materials I use in stock other than the extensive collection of pigments, inks and art materials they always carry for purchase.
Day two will use the lessons of day 1 and homework in a larger plein air painting.
Details for ticket buying + FAQ.
Uma Kelkar
Thank you, Laurie Wigham
What is Art?
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Paul Gauguin, painter
Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider. Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist and poet
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. Twyla Tharp, choreographer
Art is a kind of illness. Giacomo Puccini, composer
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures. Georges Braque, painter
Art is not a thing; it is a way. Elbert Hubbard, artist
Art is long, and time is fleeting. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet.
Art is long, life is short. Hippocrates
Art is like soup. There will be some vegetables you don't like but as long as you get some soup down you it doesn't matter. George Wyllie, sculptor
Art is the signature of civilizations. Jean Sibelius, composer
Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately. You rape it. Edgar Degas, painter and sculptor
Art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography. Federico Fellini, director
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. Pablo Picasso, artist
Art is what you can get away with. Andy Warhol, artist
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. Robert Motherwell, artist
Art is childish and childlike. Damien Hirst, artist
Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. Leonardo da Vinci, artist
Art is a bang/blast. Taro Okamoto, abstract artist
Art is art. Everything else is everything else. Ad Reinhardt, artist
Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible. Paul Klee, artist
Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
QOR and CMYK
Hello Shirley,
Thank you for your question. As you know, printing inks and processes have very different visual properties than paint, so experimentation would be helpful. With watercolor, the paper itself will also be adding to the aesthetic results in terms of visual texture and color.
We have not tested which QoR paints most closely resemble printed color from a CMYK process, however the four below might be a good starting point. There will be different opacities and granulations with these paints:
- Phthalo Blue (Green Shade)
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Benzimidazolone Yellow
- Carbon Black
Manganese Blue (Hue) also might work as a replacement for Cyan. You can see digital images of these paints by clicking the color squares in the QoR on-line color chart.
We hope this is helpful, and we are here when you have more questions.
Best Regards, Cathy Jennings
Materials Specialist
QoRcolors.com
Anna Bucciarelli
This one is for Joanie!
Decorative Alphabet
Anna Bucciarelli is a freelance illustrator from Toronto, Canada. She has the ability to bring together various forms of traditional media, such as ink and watercolor, and introduce digital elements that take her work to the next level.
Her style is influenced by her training in classic Ukrainian "Petrykivka" painting, an Eastern European style focusing on floral and plant motifs.
Kuler (now Adobe Color)
"Adobe Kuler enables you to generate color themes that can inspire any design project. Create, explore, download, and save color themes wherever you are inspired. Experiment with themes and discover inspiration in a vibrant online color community…”.
Kuler Color Wheel
A blog article on how to use it
A Utube video on how to use it
Kay Russell ~ Recollections
Watercolor Tutorial
I am including this video because of the way the artist uses the flat brush in the beginning of the work. He uses every property the brush has to offer. -Shirley
How to paint a Rose
