BWS / Merritt Island Wildlife Association (MIWA) 16th ... · The BWS Plein-Air outings will resume on January 18, 2020, 9:00am-noon. Contact Jan Faerber at 989-295-5451 or [email protected]

BWS / Merritt Island Wildlife Association (MIWA) 16th Annual “Watercolor Paintings from the Refuge”

November 1, 2019 - January 31, 2020 MINWR Visitor Center, 1987 Scrub Jay Way, Titusville, FL

Thirty one beautiful paintings were chosen by judge Judy Mercer. Categories for art this year were Refuge Flora, Fauna, and Life on the Indian River Lagoon. Awards were presented at the Opening

Reception at the Refuge Visitor Center on Sunday, November 3, 2019, which included:

Fall/Winter 2019 • Issue #121“Prickly Pears” by Therese Ferguson

Best of Show: Therese Ferguson, “Prickly Pears”MIWA Award: Susan Smith, “Cleared for Landing”Best of Life on the Lagoon: Mikey Riedl, “Laguna De Ais”Best of Flora: Therese Ferguson, “Prickly Pears”Best of Fauna: Susan Smith, “Cleared for Landing”Merit Award: Darleen Hunt, “Red Kayak”Merit Award: Cindy McKee, “Gliding Towards Sunset”Merit Award: Darleen Hunt, “Wild Hogs”

1994-2019 Celebrating 25 Years!

Merit Award: Therese Ferguson, “Basking In the Sun”Merit Award: Mary Lou Antes, “Resting”Merit Award: Dorothy Koliba, “Here Comes Mama”Merit Award: Kathie Benson, “Misty Habitat”Merit Award: Phyllis Lappert, “Watchful Eye”Merit Award: Beverly Morgan, “Splish Splash”Congratulations to all! See more about the show on page 2 of this newsletter.

BOARD OF DIRECTORSPresident

Donah Miller

1st Vice President (Workshops)Karen Krosnick

2nd Vice President (Membership)Barbara Rios

TreasurerDeborah Marriott

SecretaryMary Warnick

COMMITTEE CHAIRSAudio Tech - Ron Marchetti

BWS/MIWA Co-Chair - Darleen Hunt BWS/MIWA Co-Chair - Therese Ferguson

Communications - Diane Harmon Meeting Greeter - Cathy Robinson Mini-Workshops - Laurie Griffin

Newsletter Editor - Barbara Brennan Plein-Air Co-Chair - Janet Faerber

Plein-Air Co-Chair - Open Publicity - Open

Scholarships - Renee Stewart Social Media - Ruth Foreman

Splash 2020 Chair - Phyllis Marple Sunshine Secretary - Debbie Whalen

Webmaster - Pat Bowlds Webmaster Apprentice - Open

ADVISORSTherese Ferguson

Diane HarmonMary Salvage

Ken Spaulding

BREVARD WATERCOLOR SOCIETY, INC.

P.O. Box 361076 Melbourne, FL 32936-1076

brevardwatercolorsociety.org

Brevard Watercolor Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Florida Dept. of

Agriculture & Consumer Services Charity Registration #CH24195.

Tax ID # 59-3760216

More from MIWA!November 1, 2019 - January 30, 2020

THERESE FERGUSON and DARLEEN HUNT, Show Co-Chairs

Our thanks to the Merritt Island Na-tional Wildlife Association and Refuge for their support and enthusiasm in hosting the show and reception. Hats off to our judge Judy Mercer, as well as MINWR’s Kim King-Wrenn and Layne Hamil-ton for selecting the MIWA Award. As always, we are grateful for Co-Chairs Darleen Hunt and Therese Ferguson.

In addition to congratulating the award winners, we applaud the artists who were chosen to exhibit in this year’s show: Mary Antes, Kathie Benson,

Barbara Burkhardt, Pete Crumpacker, Jeanette Drake, Therese Ferguson, Diane Harmon, Darleen Hunt, Dorothy Koliba, Susan Kessler, Christiane Kopp, Beth Kring, Phyllis Lappert, Phyllis Marple, Carol Marshall, Connie Marshall, Cindy McKee, Beverly Morgan, Mikey Riedl, Susan Smith, Sue Tully, Lolly Walton and Debbie Whalen.

Please be sure to visit the exhibition, on view until January 30, 2020 at the MINWR Visitor Center, 1987 Scrub Jay Way in Titusville.

MIKEY REIDL (left) winner of Best of Life on the Lagoon for “Laguna De Ais”

with Darleen Hunt

SUSAN SMITH (left), whose “Cleared for Landing” won the MIWA and Best of

Fauna Awards, with Darleen Hunt

KATHIE BENSON with her Merit Award winner, “Misty Habitat”

2 | FALL/WINTER 2019

Azan Shrine Temple1591 W Eau Gallie BoulevardMelbourne, FL 32935

Open to the public Saturday, 10:00am - 5:00pmSunday, 10:00am - 4:00pm

• No admission fee

• Plenty of parking

• Food available for purchase

25TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR February 15-16, 2020

of WatercolorSplash of Watercolor is the Brevard Watercolor Society’s annual mem-bers’ show. It is the largest display of watercolor paintings for sale in Bre-vard County. It offers beautiful framed paintings ready to hang. There is a marketplace where artists sell prints, unframed originals, note cards and oth-er items created from their original art.

Stroll the show and enter a vote for your favorite painting into “The Peo-ple’s Choice Award” ballot box. Bid on exquisite art and other items in the silent auction. Buy raffle tickets for your chance to win an amazing gift bas-ket, a painting from the “Paint Around” or 50/50.

Demos are ongoing all weekend. The “Paint Around” typically takes place around 3:00pm on Saturday. This is an event to behold! Five artists provide a composition which they paint on first

for 10 minutes, then time is up and they pass to the artist on their left. This con-tinues until each artist has their origi-nal composition back with 10 minutes to fully complete. Five amazing paint-ings are created right before your eyes! Buy raffle tickets for the chance to win one of your choice.

This year there will be a special exhibit of paintings to commemorate BWS’s 25th Anniversary. These paintings will be offered at a special price with pro-ceeds to benefit a charitable cause.

Friday, February 14, 2020 Artist’s Reception & 25-Year Celebration6:00 - 8:00pm, Azan Shrine TempleAll members and their guests are welcome!

Monday, February 3, 2020 Entry Deadline Please visit the BWS website for prospectus and other entry details.

Show Chairperson: Phyllis Marple [email protected]

Volunteers Needed!All help is appreciated,

no job too small. Please contact Kathie Benson,

Volunteer Coordinator: [email protected]

BREVARD WATERCOLOR SOCIETY | 3

THERESE FERGUSONDouble Reds With Stripes, Winner of The

LaVerne Philips Memorial Award

LORI PITTEN JENKINSThe World is your Oyster, Winner of The Ruby

Grace Denson Memorial/Holbein Award

MARY SALVAGE, Driving RainAwarded FWS Signature Membership

DEBBY MARRIOTTAwarded FWS Signature Membership

The Florida Watercolor Society’s 48th Annual Exhibition and Convention on September 19-22, 2019 was amazing! The event was headquartered at the Doubletree Hotel and Resort, just steps away from SeaWorld in Orlando near International Drive. The Florida Wa-tercolor Society (FWS) has over 1,000 members and it seemed like all of them were there, including a large contin-gent from BWS.

There were many wonderful demon-strations, workshops and great teach-ers, including BWS members Therese Ferguson and Frank Spino. Carol Carter, the jurist, gave a detailed re-view of the 100-plus paintings. Many “stars” were spotted, and were even ap-proachable. Lori Jenkins won the raffle for TWO of the paintings generated in the paint-arounds. Way to go, Lori!

The reception was held at Leu Gardens, a wonderful destination on its own. The exhibition was beautifully hung, with 103 paintings on display.

BWS Members at the Florida Watercolor Society Convention

BWS Participating ArtistsLori Pitten Jenkins,

“The World Is Your Oyster” Therese Ferguson,

“Double Reds With Stripes”Kathie Benson, “Community of Trees”

Barbara Brennan, “Stratosphere” Ruth Foreman, “Javier”

Debby Marriott, “Señora Habana” Mary Salvage, “Driving Rain”

Frank Spino, “Transparent Lemon”

FWS 2020 Online ShowTo those who entered but weren’t chosen for the exhibition, consider entering the FWS 2020 Online Show, which is open for entries through Saturday, November 30th. You can find more information at floridawatercolorsociety.org.

More details and photos on the BWS Blog!


Please put the word out to your friends who are holding off or thinking about joining BWS. New members can join for $50 (Individual) or $60 (Family) and membership is effective through December 31, 2020. That’s 14 months for the price of 12! If they want to join for the balance of the year, the fee is $25.

RenewalsYour 2019 membership expires on December 31, 2019. If you can, please consider paying your dues in November or December. The dues are now $50 for Individual and $60 for Family memberships. Student memberships remain at $25. Renewal is a snap on our new website. Hard copies of the application/renewal form are available to download on the website, and at our general meetings.

Welcome New Members!Rose Allan, Sharon Burridge, Karen Chadbourne, Candy Grammel, Mary Hall, Phyllis Lappert, Wayne Lind, Maureen Maurer, Jacqueline Moor, Amy Lee Peters, Gale Poteat, Charles Robinson and Anna Shuman.

“Joining BWS over 10 years ago is one of the best things I’ve ever done. It’s so easy to make friends, GOOD friends, with people having the same passion for creating art. To me, the three opportunities BWS membership offers and has helped me grow as an artist are: interactive member demonstrations given monthly resulting in a wide variety of technique and viewpoints; watching nationally and internationally-known artists demonstrate at bi-monthly membership meetings; and the opportunity to show and sell your work (or just ‘test the waters’ for your future display) at our annual ‘Splash’ show.” - BARBARA RIOS

BWS MembershipTime to Renew!

FRANK SPINO’s Key Lime #1, Best of Show at A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery

“Best of the Best” Annual Exhibition

Gallery

RUTH FOREMAN’s Javier, Exhibited at the 2019 FWS Convention

KATHIE BENSON’s Community of Trees, Exhibited at the 2019 FWS Convention

BARBARA BRENNAN’s Stratosphere, Exhibited at the 2019 FWS Convention

JEANETTE DRAKE’s Mama Love at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery’s “Best

of the Best” Annual Exhibition

SUSAN SMITH’s Cleared for Landing, winner of the 16th Annual BWS/MIWA “Watercolor Paintings from the Refuge”

MIWA and Best of Fauna awards


Marvelous Minis!August 24, 2019 Abstract & Contemporary Watermedia with Pat Bowlds

“This enhanced my familiarity with design, introduced me to new water media and/or techniques, and placed me in a friendly and supportive group of fellow artists.” -Irene “Reenie” Noden

September 28, 2019 There’s a Medium for That! with Bobbi Q. Brown

“We explored various watercolor mediums with some exciting results. Our thanks to Bobbi for taking the guess work out for us and showing us how we can use these different mediums!” -Ruth Foreman

October 26, 2019 Ephemeral Watercolor Stamping with Kathie Benson

“We had a lot of fun using dried leaves and flowers as stencils. She also showed us how to make easy and unique tree trunks. Thank you, Kathie!” -Diane Harmon

Our thanks to Bobbi Brown for all her hard work as Mini Workshop Chair. She has turned the reins over to Laurie Griffin, who notes there are still a few spots open for teachers for next year’s Minis. Email Laurie if you are interested at [email protected].

Workshops

“Ephemeral Watercolor Stamping” with Kathie Benson on Saturday, October 26, 2019

“There’s a Medium for That!” with Bobbi Q. Brown on Saturday, September 28, 2019

“Abstract & Contemporary Watermedia” with Pat Bowlds on Saturday, August 24, 2019

3-Day WorkshopsWe’re anticipating a fun and education-al workshop with David R. Smith on November 10-12, and were delighted it sold out well in advance! Registration is now open for Watercolor Sketching & More with David R. Becker March 15-17, 2020. Complete details on all 3-Day Workshops are available on our website under the Events tab. Left: “Erie and Ontario” by David R. Becker, TWSA.


Plein-AirThe BWS Plein-Air outings will resume on January 18, 2020, 9:00am-noon. Contact Jan Faerber at 989-295-5451 or [email protected] to sign up and for location information. We still need a Plein Air co-chair since Jan is a win-ter resident. For an alternative, the Art Students Guild of Brevard (tasgob.org) meets every week and welcomes ev-eryone at no cost.

We launched our new website on August 31, 2019, and hopefully you’ve had a chance to check it out! Besides a bright, colorful design, you’ll find all the information you need to get the most out of your BWS Membership, including:

• Secure online Membership application and renewal form• Secure online registration and payment form for upcoming 3-Day

Workshops• Updated list of BWA Instructors, classes and locations• The latest details on upcoming events: workshops, meetings, demos, plein-

air outings, and shows• Updated Membership Roster• A Blog with features on our talented members, event recaps, important

announcements, and other BWS news• ... and more!

Note: If you have bookmarked brevardwatercolorsociety.com on your computer or devices, please change it to brevardwatercolorsociety.org. If you encounter any problems with the site, please email [email protected]. - PAT BOWLDS

Visit brevardwatercolorsociety.org

New Website !

Throughout the years, I have always felt blessed to see people in various organi-zations volunteer to work together for the common good. At the September 14th general meeting, I experienced that same cohesive feeling of camara-derie when I saw my fellow artists step forward and volunteer to fill vacant of-fices, chair a committee or join a com-mittee that needed help. The board put out a call for help and the membership said YES.

We are proud to announce the new BWS elected officers: 1st Vice Presi-dent (workshops) is Karen Krosnick; 2nd Vice President (Membership) is Barbara Rios, and Secretary is Mary Warnick. I also wish to thank Cathy Robinson for volunteering to be our new greeter, and Pat Bowlds and Grace Delanoy for all their hard work in cre-ating our lovely new website.

Special thanks to Frank Spino for the wonderful demo immediately follow-ing our meeting. We all appreciate the opportunity to learn from such a talent-ed artist, and are fortunate to have him as an active member.

After the meeting, I received an email from Phyllis Marple offering to chair a committee of BWS members to run Splash 2020. The committee is com-posed of Debbie Whalen, Cindy McK-ee, Lolly Walton and of course, Phyllis Marple. What a pleasant surprise it was to discover that they were willing to take on this monumental job for us.

Currently, we need chairs for Publicity (other than Splash), Plein-air, a web-master apprentice, and more teachers willing to do mini workshops. If you are interested in any of these positions, let any board member or committee chair know.

- DONAH MILLER

President’s Message


November 1, 2019 - January 30, 2020 BWS/MINWA Show – “Life Along The Indian River Lagoon”

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center

Saturday, November 9, 2019 • 1:00-3:00 pmBWS General Meeting & Workshop Demo

Wickham Park Community Center, 2815 Leisure Way, Melbourne, FL

Sunday, November 10 - Tuesday, November 12, 2019 • 9:00am-4:00pm3-Day Workshop with David R. Smith

Elks Lodge, 211 Nieman Ave., Melbourne, FL

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 • 5:30pmSPLASH! Planning Meeting

Art Oasis Studio, 714 S. Patrick Dr., Satellite Beach, FLVisit brevardwatercolorsociety.org for all important SPLASH! dates.

Thursday, December 12, 2019 • 1:00-3:00pmBWS Board Meeting

Eau Gallie Library, 1521 Pineapple Ave., Melbourne, FLMembers welcome.

Saturday, January 11, 2020 • 1:00-3:00 pmBWS General Meeting


Saturday, January 18, 2020 • 9:00am-12:00pmPlein Air Outing

Location TBD, contact Jan Faeber: [email protected] or 989-295-5451

Monday, February 3, 2020SPLASH! of Watercolor Entry Deadline

Enter online on the website, or email [email protected]

Friday, February 14, 2020 • 6:00-8:00pmSPLASH! Artist’s Reception & 25-Year Celebration

Azan Shrine Temple, 1591 West Eau Gallie Blvd., Melbourne, FLAll members and their guests welcome!

Saturday, February 15 - Sunday, February 16, 2020 BWS’s 25th Annual SPLASH! of Watercolor Art Show

Azan Shrine Temple, 1591 West Eau Gallie Blvd., Melbourne, FL

Saturday, March 14, 2020 • 1:00-3:00 pmBWS General Meeting & Workshop Demo with David R. Becker


Sunday, March 15 - Monday, March 17, 2020 • 9:00am-4:00pm3-Day Workshop with David R. Becker

Elks Lodge, 211 Nieman Ave., Melbourne, FL

Upcoming BWS Events & Important Dates

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