President's Palette

A new year means endless activity. Our Treasurer, April, and her assistant, Ruth, have been busy creating a Budget for 2023 and looking at Cost Analyses, Sabine and Dana have been organizing multiple Workshops and Demos, David has reserved venues for exhibits and then there is the Mid-Atlantic with Sharon and our new Chair Jim (see below) and so much more… It’s all lots of organization and paperwork, even if it’s a Zoom or online event that is involved.  

One of the changes coming to our Website is a new public area listing our members who teach classes or take commissions and you have all been receiving emails to that effect. We are making it easier for people seeking your services to find you. But, if you are new, or you just have not updated your profile in a while to include that information, we can’t add your information to our new listing.

So, please – everyone, update your profiles.  It is to your advantage:  
Do you teach or take commissions? (An attention getter for potential clients is an image of yourself or of a painting, so please upload one.)
What is your birth year?  (We are not nosey, but Life membership is partially contingent on age.)
Do you have talents in specific areas?  We often search the databases looking for members to fit certain Board positions.
Would you like to volunteer in certain areas or suggest artists or workshops? Or do a workshop or demo?  Help us find you or what you would like to learn, and from what artists - because You are BWS.

Wild Apricot is currently providing us technical assistance so that both the new Teaching and Commission information lists correctly on our Public Pages, and any problems are expected to be resolved quickly.

And speaking of new volunteers, I would like to introduce you to our new BWS Chair of the Mid-Atlantic, Jim Sandford, who will tell us about himself and also a bit about the 2023 Mid-Atlantic. Take it away Jim…

Sherry Morell
BWS President

Jim Sandford, Chair, BWS Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition

Having grown up in California and Colorado, Jim came east in the mid-1970s to study mathematics at Johns Hopkins University and has since remained in the Baltimore-Washington area. He worked 37 years for IBM and Lockheed Martin as an engineer and program manager. He was a member of the team that developed the Global Positioning System that we all now use, and spent many years working on programs for the FAA. Jim is now retired.

Jim has been a part-time studio potter since the 1980s, working from a studio he built at home which includes a large wood-burning kiln. He dabbled in sketching and watercolor for years before deciding to step-up his focus on watercolor and began attending various classes and workshops. Jim juried into Signature membership in the BWS in the Fall of 2022.

Jim also enjoys long distance running, travel, foreign language study and genealogical studies.

Jim lives in Sykesville with his wife, Janelle, a retired pediatrician. They have a grown daughter who works as an astrophysicist in Cambridge in the UK, and a grown son who works as an engineer in Maryland.

BWS Members' Winter Wonders

We are pleased to present "Winter Wonders" painted by BWS Members. Thank you to all who submitted paintings! It is great to be able to share your paintings in our newsletter and also use these in emails during the next couple months. Start thinking about Spring Paintings. We'll let you know when we are ready to receive them.

All images are the property of the artists and protected by copyright. No image can be used without the written permission of the artist.

Signature Artist Jurying March 2023

The BWS invites and encourages all Associates and non-BWS Artists, who reside in the “Mid-Atlantic Region (Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, or West Virginia) to consider becoming a “Signature Member Artist”. Please choose four of your best paintings and register for the March 2023 Jurying Event.

Registration opens on February 9th and closes on March 9th at 11:30pm.
Please review full instructions on the BWS website: https://www.baltimorewatercolorsociety.org.
Questions?  Please contact Kathleen (Kathy) Gardiner, BWS Jury Chair at kathyrgardiner@gmail.com or 410-991-1183.

We look forward to seeing your work!

13 BWS Members’ Paintings Accepted into the 156th AWS Exhibit in NYC

* You will note that Joanna Barnum, Ann Smiga Greene and Stacy Lund Levy all have an asterisk (*) beside the AWS after their names.  The significance is that this is their 3rd acceptance into the AWS Exhibition and they are now AWS Signature Artist members.  Congratulations Joanna, Ann and Stacy.

All images are the property of the artists and protected by copyright. No image can be used without the written permission of the artist.

WORKSHOPS

Do you struggle with depth and dimension in your paintings? Are you lost in a mire of mid-tones? 
Then check out the article about our workshop instructor, Joe Cibere, in “Watercolor Artist” Magazine February 2019 issue, and sign up to learn not only a new technique, but how to use value to turn your photos into dynamic paintings.

"Mid-Tone Crisis - Ink First" with Joe Cibere

Joe Cibere's workshop is now open for registration. He will be teaching values by using waterproof inks and watercolors by using the process of "NOTAN" to see the shapes defined by light and dark values. The pictures are painted with waterproof India ink, so that all that's left to do is to paint the mid-tone color.
There will also be painting with special semi-waterproof ink that breaks down into several colors.

More information and registration can be found at bws.wildapricot.org/event-4997042.

Opportunities

Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society
NFWS Spring 2023 OPEN Watercolor Exhibition
Carnegie Art Center
North Tonawanda, New York
https://nfws.org/call-for-work-2/
Entry Deadline: February 26, 2023

Taubman Museum of Art
65th Annual Sidewalk Art Show
Roanoke, Virginia
https://www.taubmanmuseum.org/signature-events/sidewalk-art-show/
Entry Deadline: March 13, 2023

Watercolor West
55th Watercolor West International Juried Exhibition
Art Gallery at Coastline College
Newport Beach, CA
www.watercolorwest.org
Entry Deadline: March 15, 2023

Membership Dues

Thanks to all who paid their dues between October 1st and now. As of January 15th, we still have 74 members who have not as yet renewed online or sent a check to the Membership Chair. Please remember, to be considered on time, dues should be paid by January 31st. If you have sent a check, there may be mail delivery delays, but we will process your check as soon as it arrives. 

It is suggested that you pay your dues online to expedite processing. To log on and pay your dues visit bws.wildapricot.org/Sys/Profile. 

You can also pay by sending a check made out to the “Baltimore Watercolor Society” and mailing it to:
Janice Hendra - Membership
103 Avondale Circle
Severna Park, MD 21106

For those who have not yet paid dues, please remember payment should be made by January 31st to be considered on time.

We very much appreciate your continued interest in BWS.

Welcome New Associate Members

Carol Auerbach, Baltimore, MD

Hannah Brobst Groholski, Beltsville, MD

Joan Cranor, Hurlock, MD

Yogini Dahiwadkar, Ellicott City, MD

Catherine Kelly Davis, Ellicott City, MD

Anne Marie Devoles, Hanover, MD

Joanne Fitzpatrick, Ellicott City, MD

Chris Koh, Rockville, MD

Kathleen Maling, Havre de Grace, MD

Linda Silverman, Potomac, MD

B. Ajo Stewart, Baltimore, MD

In Memoriam

Alice Webb, Ellicott City, MD (BWS Past President 1992-1996)