JUNE 2019

Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 7:00 pm, LLUMC Asbury Hall

THE LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER

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This is the last edition of the SCENE for the 2018 - 2019 year as the Southwestern Watercolor Society goes on Summer Hiatus during June, July and August. During the summer, while people are kicking back and vacationing, we take time off from programming and publishing the newsletter. Don’t worry, while we are away we will still be planning our next fabulous year. In the meantime, the website will continue to post news and articles as they become available. Stay tuned and we will see you in September when we start our next amazing year.

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Lou Bono,SWS President

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Lou Bono2018 - 2019 PresidentSouthwestern Watercolor SocietyLoubono5@gmail.com, 469-744-7559

It is hard to believe but we have reached the end of a memorable membership year. I had the honor of partnering with a terrific team and we did a great job together!

The May 14th Fundraiser was the culminating ac-complishment for this year and exceeded our expec-tations through the hard work of Pam Wilson and her outstanding team. We raised $5,200 that will support the September Membership Exhibition and our operating budget. The event went exceedingly well! I am sorry I was not able to attend, since I was in Lucca, Italy for a wonderful workshop with Jim Richards. A great group of urban sketchers and watercolor artists from the US, Australia and New Zealand attended. I returned home on Sunday, May 19 and am savoring the afterglow of a memorable art and cultural ex-perience visiting and sketching the UNESCO world cultural towns of Lucca, Pietrasanta, San Gimignano, Barga, Viareggio and Portovenere.

I am excited to continue a second term as SWS President for 2019-2020 with talented officers and pro-gram chairs, which are a great mix of new faces and prior experienced board members. The Exhibition Committee, led by Regina Carl, has been working hard for months and the preparations are going well for another great Exhibition.

Over the summer hiatus, we take a couple of months off while members vacation and the Board finalizes plans. The only planned summer event is the Exhibition Preview Party, showing all images submitted on Café for Juror, Vlad Yeliseyev. The Preview Party will be Sunday, July 7, 2019 at the Royal Lane Baptist Church from 2:00 - 4:00 pm, with an intermission for refreshments and visiting. Everyone is invited. A reminder will be emailed about 2 weeks prior.

Please keep checking our website for the latest news because the website will be updated but the SCENE newsletter will take a break. Members will be receiving the newsletter again in early September.

Read about all our activities and plans in this newsletter and see the list of all the people who are dedicat-ing their time and talents to make Southwestern Watercolor Society such a terrific organization.

Enjoy your summer!

ARTIST’S SPOTLIGHT

Gail Cooksey

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SWS member Gail Cooksey is the owner of a successful PR and Mar-keting firm by day, and a watercolor artist by night. She is hoping to switch that formula by the end of the year as she transitions into semi-retirement and can spend more time on her painting.

Gail got hooked on watercolor 15 years ago when she took a continuing education watercolor class at North Lake College in Irving, where her office is located. Instructor Arthur Guerra taught her the fundamentals of watercolor, himself a student of Edgar Whitney. She liked the class so much she kept repeating it for many years until Arthur retired.

As she sought more education and inspiration for her watercolor, she found SWS and a new world opened. She began taking workshops and soon be-came a “serial” workshop student. Her first workshop was with Mel Stabin, an internationally known teacher, author and award-winning watercolorist. “I was terrified of him, until I finally made him laugh,” she says.

Her greatest inspirations have come from Sterling Edwards and Jean Haines. “Sterling is the most wonderful instructor and has such a sense of humor! I’ve taken from him three times now.” She owns four of his original paintings.

Jean Haines proved to be a turning point in Gail’s watercolor journey, as she truly began to “feel” the painting and the life that comes from it. She

owns all of Jean’s books and has even traveled to Florida to take from Jean again. Recent workshops that have been especially beneficial for her in-clude Brenda Swenson, Ron Stocke, Richard Stephens, Keiko Tanabe and Andy Evanson.

As Gail enjoys traveling, she has started taking painting workshops around the world, including Cornwall, England, with Joyce Hicks; Italy with Betty Carr; and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with Betty Carr. She is hoping to take a class with Brenda Swenson in France next year.

Within the last year, Gail has started travel journaling with watercolor, and she has found that to be a great way to combine travel and painting without the pressure to produce full paintings. “I enjoy doing quick ink sketches in the travel journal and adding paint and other memorabilia later. These jour-nals become the best memories of our trips.”

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Gail recently starting volunteering with SWS and will be the PR/Publicity committee chair for 2019-2020. She donated her firm’s creative director to design the logos for the May Fundraiser and the Membership Exhibition.

Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, Gail graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. After working as a newspaper reporter for sev-eral years, she transitioned to corporate public relations and marketing, heading up those functions for several major banks in North Texas. Following a successful corporate career, she decided to start her own consulting business with just a few clients and a small executive suite in Dallas’ West End Historical District.

Today, Cooksey Communications employs 13 professionals and is cel-ebrating its 25th year in business this year. Cooksey Communications is consistently listed as one of the Top 10 PR Firms in Dallas, and Gail was recently named to the D CEO magazine’s Dallas 500 list of the

most powerful and influential business leaders in North Texas. Her firm has three times been named one of the Top 100 Small Businesses in the United States by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

“We specialize in issues-related communications for government/economic development, transpor-tation, water, energy and education clients, and strategic communications for professional services, commercial real estate/development, retail/hospitality/consumer and nonprofit clients.” In addition, the firm has expanded to include a full-service creative services department.

Gail lives in Colleyville with her husband of 35 years, Robert, and their two dogs: Jacques, a 12-year-old Papillon who was rescued from a puppy mill; and Chloe, an 8-month-old Yorkie who was a Christ-mas gift last year.

Her goals for her watercolor? To enter more competitions (she recently had two paintings accepted into the Trinity Arts Guild Open Invitational) and of course take more workshops! And her proudest accomplishment is that she won her first award for a painting in the Trinity Arts Guild Member Invita-tional. “A pig. A painting of a pig that I did one Sunday very quickly because it’s The Year of the Pig. Go figure that would be the one that would win!”

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SWS Fundraiser WAS the Best Ever!

See images of many of the paintings offered in the raffle and for auction athttp://www.swswatercolor.org/xPDFs/2019/Fundraiser-Paintings.pdf

The May Membership Meeting, started at 6:00 instead of 7:00 pm to provide plenty of time for all the evening’s activities. The event had been promoted as the “Biggest SWS May Event Ever”, and it lived up to the promises.

The annual fundraising event in May is held in lieu of the May Mem-bership Meeting and the proceeds are used to pay for awards at the upcoming Membership Show. Generous awards increase the number of artists who will enter and the level of competition as well as the re-

wards for the competitors. We offer more than $8000 worth of prizes each year, of which $5,000 - $6,000 are paid in cash awards. The money collected at the annual fundraiser pays for a significant portion of the cash awards. The SWS major awards include

Best of Show $1500.00 Edgar A. Whitney $1000.00 (for transparent watercolor only) 1st Place $750.00 2nd Place $500.00 3rd Place $300.00

plus memorial awards for deceased members.

In the last year, we have lost two long-time mem-bers, Marilynn (Lynn) Wilson and Bryce Wiegand, and accumulated amounts honoring a particular person in excess of $250 will result in an award named to honor that person. Lesser amounts will be collected into an SWS Memorial Award to honor the memory of all deceased members. In addition to cash show awards, there will be a gen-erous number of vendor merchandise awards.

This year’s spectacular event resulted from the hard work of a large committee of committed volunteers who planned the schedule, provided staffing and refreshments and solicited more than two dozen paintings and countless other new and gently used art supplies, books and materials. All that hard work earned us over 72% more this year

than we did at the 2018 Fundraiser. More than 100 people were in attendance.

Approximately 60% of our earnings were made in the silent auction. This year, we added small origi-nal art pieces to the silent auction and this was a beneficial decision since this year’s silent auction earned income equal to all of last year’s fundraiser. The live auction and raffle each contributed

Pam Wilson describes the Fundraiser activities

SWS RECENT EVENTS

twenty percent of the funds earned this year. This year’s live auction included eight paint-ings of less than half sheet size from very talented SWS mem-bers and from work-shop artists from the

United Kingdom, Utah, and from the Pacific Northwest. All of the artists whose works were auctioned are acclaimed professionals.

The expanded raffle included chances to win one of 11 prizes, including three original watercolor paintings from our well-loved founder Naomi Brotherton, gift certificates for Asel Art and Aaron Brothers Framing, free registration to the Janet Rogers October workshop or the Stephen Quiller November workshop, entry fees for the SWS Exhibition, and dues for two years. With all of these terrific opportunities, the event was a great success Thank you to all the great people who contributed!

Shopping at the Silent Auction

The Raffle Table

Bev Boren and Walt Davis at the Live Auction

Bidding at the Live Auction

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SWS Board Member Election

Before the Fundraiser event started on May 14, the new Board members and program chairs were introduced and then voted into office by the attending members. The new officers are:

OFFICERSPresident: Lou Bono1st VP, Programs: Jeff Jensen2nd VP, Membership: Isabel Davis3rd VP,Workshops: Paula Vining and Dalynn Montgomery4th VP, Exhibitions: Regina CarlTreasurer: Pam WilsonRecording Secretary: Nick KuntzCorresponding Secretary: Sherry DaerrParliamentarian: Gaylord O’Con

COMMITTEE CHAIRSPaint-outs: Gaylord O’ConProfessional Standards/Signature: Gail DelgerPublic Relations: Gail Cooksey, Gail ChandlerWebsite: Steve MillerSCENE Newsletter and Website Editor: Kay ByfieldArtist of the Month: Belan Woo-SiySocial: Dalynn MontgomeryProperty/Videographer: Champ Herndon, Kent PerigoPhotographers: Bev Boren, Cindy DaunisSWS Café Technical Support: Judith PaffordDVD Library: Shannon Sulton, Denise CribbetStepping Stone Scholarships: Carmen PrinceEducation Coordinator: Lou BonoPainting of the Month: Robyn JordeHistorian: Kay ByfieldWestern Federation: Jones McConnell, Gail DelgerFacebook: Cindy DaunisPublic Art: Gail Chandler

Thank you to all who are willing to serve to help make this society so special to all of the people who benefit from our programs. We look forward to another great year.

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SWS UPCOMING EVENTS

SWS Slide Preview of the Membership Show

The Southwestern Watercolor Society is on hiatus for the summer months of June, July, and August with the exception of collecting entries for the Membership Show on June 30 and showing the submitted slides at the preview show before they are sent to the Juror, Vlad Yeliseyev.

Entries must be submitted by midnight on Sunday, June 30, 2019 on Café. After the entries are catalogued to be sent to the judge, they will be projected at the Preview Party on Sunday, July 7, 2019 at the Royal Lane Baptist Church at 6707 Royal Ln, Dallas, TX 75230 from 2:00 - 4:00 PM. This gives anyone who is interested the opportunity to see all the entries submitted to the juror and enjoy refreshments and fellowship with other watercolor enthusiasts. Come join us to see all the work submitted for the 2019 SWS Membership Show.

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SWS UPCOMING EVENTS

Deadline for Entries for 2019 Membership Exhibition

MIDNIGHT, June 30, 2019The call for entries for the SWS 56th Annual Membership Exhibition officially opened Wednesday, May 1, 2019 on the CaFE website. The entry deadline is midnight, Sunday, June 30. You must be a SWS member in good standing with dues paid as of June 30 to qualify for the exhibition.

More than $8,000 in cash and merchandise will be awarded in a variety of categories, including $1,500 for Best of Show. (see prospectus on website). Juror will be internationally recognized artist Vlad Yeliseyev.

The Exhibition of accepted entries will open August 28, and the awards reception will be September 22. The show closes September 28.

Here’s what you need to know to enter via the CaFE website:

Set up a profile on the CaFE website (if you don’t already have one) and become familiar with how to submit your paintings. https://callforentry.org

1. Review the information posted on the SWS website regarding how to set up a profile, how to prepare your images for uploading, how to upload to CaFE and how to enter. Go to www.SWSWatercolor.org and go to the tab at the top entitled, “Exhibitions.” Click the down arrow and you will see a listing for, “Aids to Entering our Member Exhibition.” This is a wonderful resource

2. Entry Fee: $45 for up to three paintings.

3. All work must be painted after January 1, 2017 (strictly enforced), original water media on paper or Yupo. Accepted water media include watercolors, acrylics, inks, gouache, casein, egg tempera, watercolor pencils and watercolor crayons. For complete requirements, see the prospectus. www.swswatercolor.org.

Exhibition schedule:Call for Entries opens: Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Entry Deadline: Sunday, June 30, 2019 (midnight)

Preview Party: Sunday, July 7, 2019 – Royal Lane Baptist Church (2:00 - 4:00PM)

Acceptance Notification: Thursday, August 1, 2019

Deadline to receive shipped art: Friday, August 23, 2019 – Navis Pack & Ship

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Exhibition Committee:

Exhibition Chair (SWS 4th VP) Regina Carl

CAFE Coordination Judith Pafford

Take-In Standards Gail Delger

Take-In Team Linda Franklin

Take-In Team Ed Cunningham

Take-In Team Sherry Kappus Publicity Gail Cooksey

Communications Gail Chandler

Hospitality Vice Chair Dalynn Montgomery

Production Vice Chair Pam Wilson

Awards Coordinator Lana Housewright

Preview Party SlideShow Paula Vining

Catalog Robyn Jorde

Handout Celeste McCall

Printing Dana Brock

Deadline for hand-delivered art: Mon., August 26, 2019 – Eisemann Center (11 a.m.- 1:30 pm.)

Art hung: Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Show Opens: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 – Eisemann Center

Juror judges: Monday, September 9, 2019

Awards Reception: Sunday, September 22, 2019 – Eisemann Center (5:00PM)

Show Closes: Saturday, September 28, 2019

Pick-up hand-delivered art: Monday, Sept. 30, 2019 – Eisemann Center (11 a.m.-1:30 PM)

Entering the Annual SWS Membership Exhibition using CaFE:

1) Click https://www.callforentry.org/ to go to the website.

2) In the upper right hand corner of the Home page, log into your account or create an ac-count if you do not already have one. You can browse the various sections on the toolbar without logging in (e.g., media prep, helpful videos or FAQS), but you must log in to apply to calls. Select CaFE Help on the toolbar for helpful information on media prep, FAQs and other process help

3) If you are new to CaFE, create your Profile with your contact information.

4) Go to My Portfolio on the toolbar to upload images of the paintings you wish to enter. Your portfolio can hold up to 100 images that can be uploaded into any call in CaFE. Note that images are required to be JPEG or JPG under 5 MB and at least 1200 pixels or greater on the longest side. Larger resolution images may be able to be uploaded from an iPhone and CaFE may resize them to 1920 on the longest side for space considerations.

5) Click on View All Calls. Many artists like to do this before uploading images into My Port-folio in order to know how many images are allowed and the parameters of the images re-quired. You can easily go back and forth between your image portfolio and viewing the calls.

6) Type “Southwestern” into the search box to locate the SWS Exhibition Call for Entry.

7) Click on “View More Info” to read the show Prospectus.

8) Click on Apply to the Call to fill out the application, upload the images you have selected to enter, and pay your entry fee by PayPal or a credit card. During the application process, you may save your application and return to it at a later date to complete.

9) You can return to the CaFE site to check the status of your entry/entries by logging in and clicking on My CaFE Entries.

10) After the juror has made his/her selections, CaFE will send you an email showing the status of each painting you have submitted.

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SWS UPCOMING EVENTS

Southwestern Watercolor Society is a nationally recognized arts organization for watercolor artists. Members come from almost every state in the U.S. The membership year runs from June 1 through May 31.

Benefits include regular contact with fellow artists at meetings, workshops, paint-outs, and classes. Encouragement from fellow SWS members can be a huge factor in making one’s art a regular prac-tice. Monthly meetings provide an opportunity to learn from nationally known watercolor artists and participate in “Painting of the Month” competitions. Members receive discounts on workshop fees and are able to enter the annual juried SWS Membership Exhibition.

Membership levels are: Individual - $40; Seniors (65 and older) - $30; Family - $50; Senior Family - $45; Life - No Charge; Honorary (Non-active) - No Charge.

To join or renew your membership: Go to www.swswatercolor.org and click on “Join” at the top of the page. You can easily join online with your credit card or if you prefer, download and print a member-ship application and send it to Isabel Davis, Membership Chair at the address given. If you have questions, you can call Isabel at 903-886-2711 or text 903-366-6372..

Time to Join or Renew Your Memberships in SWS

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

The ART house Gallery in Flower Mound will be holding the 2019 AMERICANA Judged Art Competi-tion this summer. The art competition deadline for entries is July 10th. The judge will be award win-ning artist James Zamora and there will be cash awards, the opportunity to exhibit throughout August and have online exposure. Paintings must be picked up Saturday August 31, 2019 by 7:00 pm. Find out more, go to https://www.studioarthouse.com/competitions/art-house-gallery-exhibits

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SWS HAPPENINGS

News of Members

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Muriel Mimura’s painting “Reflection - Puerto Rico” was selected to be included in SPLASH 21: CAPTURING MOOD! published by North Light Books. It is tentatively scheduled for publication in August, 2020. The same painting won First Place in the Waterme-dia division in the Richardson Regional Art Exhibition, hanging May 1-28 at the Charles W. Eisemann Center.

Tricia Poupard’s painting, ‘Cabana” (shown here) earned third place at the CTWS member’s show juried by Michael Reardon in Waco in April. “Cabana” was also accepted into the 8th Annual Art At The OPOMAC In Graham, TX. The show is juried by Randy Meador and runs from June 21st - July 31. Another painting, “Daydreamer” was accepted into the SWA 2019 International Juried Exhibition in Fort Worth. The juror was Iain Stewart

Kay Byfield has a watercolor painting showing at the Creative Arts Center’s Instructor Exhibition at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas through the month of June. Her painting is titled “2018: Playground in Irving, Texas”.

Jeffrey Jensen, SWS, WFWS has won the Philip G. Paratore, Jr. Award in the 44th Annual Western Federation of Watercolor Societies’ exhibit, held this year at the San Diego Watercolor Society in the May. The juror and judge was Kathleen Conover. The painting is called “St. Paul Station”.

Nel Dorn Byrd received signa-ture status in the Watercolor Honor Society after three acceptances in Watercolor USA. Her painting, “Strip Ready” was juried into this

year’s exhibition by Dean Mitchell & the show hangs at the Springfield Art Musuem in Springfield, MO, June 8 through September 1.

HAPPENINGS are stories about accomplishments earned by SWS Members including selections for juried shows, awards won, speaking engagements, selections for publica-tion, etc. Announcements of upcoming workshop offerings, classes, art sales, and other announcements by members about services for a fee are classified as Advertisements, not Happenings. Please submit Happenings, Announcements and Advertisements to the SWS Editor, Kay Byfeld, at SWSNewsEditor@gmail.com.

SWS HAPPENINGS

Diane Salamon is participating in a group exhibit called “Between the Isms” at Fred Jone Museum, University of Oklahoma, Nor-man, OK, opening June 6, 2019. The exhibit will be up through Sept. 8., 2019. The at-tached painting for this exhibit is “Wandering in Blue” (acrylic, 20” x 20”), which also won an award in “Pushing Paint” in New York City at the National Association of Women Artists Gallery. Diane will also be doing a solo exhibit at the Kansas City Artists Coalition called “Living Resolutions” from June 7 - June 29, 2019.

Darla Bostick has paintings showing in the Visual Arts of Lewisville in their Small Works Show at the MCL Grand on old Main St. The show runs 8 June-13 July. Her painting, “Shaded Hostas” will be showing from June 1 - 26 at the the Texas Visual Arts Association Membership Show in their gallery in the Plaza of the Americas at 600 N. Pearl St downtown. Darla will be in the gallery on 11 June from 10-4.

Bill Dale’s painting ‘Red and Black’ was accepted into the 2019 Transparent Watercolor Society of America 43rd Annual Exhibi-tion in Kenosha Wisconsin.

Carolyn Harper had a painting entitled “Hollyhocks” accepted in the Texas Watercolor Society show in San Antonio. The juror was Carol Carter

DiAnne Arnette’s painting, “Boxed Intruder”, has been juried into the Texas Watercolor Society’s 2019 70th Annual Exhibition in San Antonio. The show will open on May 29 and run through August 15 at the Kelso Art Center, University of the Incarnate Word.

Judi Betts is featured in the May 2019 issue of Southwest Art Magazine. The article is called “Works on Paper”. Painting shown here is “Garden Rhythms”.

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