Paintsites Blog: October 2018

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Mtn View Library / Pioneer Memorial Park, Mountain View, October 18, 2018

We are very grateful to SCVWS member Shaowei Liu who gave an excellent tree painting demo at Mountain View Library / Pioneer Memorial Park. We are also grateful to Salinda who first suggested this lesson. The lesson was so well attended that it would have been nice to use the large monitor used for demos in the Hoover Theater. But it was so much better to be outside among the actual trees and to see the shadows and sunlight on the trees and to see how Shaowei handled it in the plein air setting.

The Mountain View Pioneer Memorial Park was an excellent venue for a tree painting demo because it has many mature trees of different varieties, groupings of trees, intensely green grass, and attractive buildings in the background: the library, Center for Performing Arts, City Hall, and the Chamber of Commerce.

Upcoming paintsites: See the SCVWS website or the October/November Newsletters for details:

Thursday, Oct 25, 2018: Clos LaChance winery, San Martin
Thursday, Nov 1, 2018: Crissy Field West Bluff, San Francisco
Thursday, Nov 8, Sunnyvale Baylands Park
Thursday, Nov 15, Paintsite at Alum Rock Park, San Jose
Saturday, Nov 17, Clos LaChance Winery, San Martin
Thursday, Nov 29, Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, San Jose

Shows & Exhibits by Paintsites Regulars:

Annie Haines and John Ediger each have two paintings in the California Watercolor Association's "Explore Color / Discover Color" exhibit at Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. John's painting "Red Barn" won the 2nd place award. The show runs thru January 31, 2019. (Official website: https://www.californiawatercolor.org/gallery.php?cat=95
Tiangong Liu's painting "Low Tide" has been accepted in the California Watercolor Association's 49th National Exhibition to be displayed Jan 11 - Feb 16, 2019 at the Harrington Gallery, Firehouse Arts Center, 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton. (Official website: https://www.californiawatercolor.org/index.php )
Elaine Goldstone has a watercolor “Smith Rock" accepted to The Pacific Art League 97th Anniversary exhibition. The piece will be on view at Pacific Art League from Friday, November 2nd, 2018 - Thursday, November 29th, 2018. Opening reception at our First Friday Art Party on Friday, November 2nd from 5:30pm to 8:00pm. PAL is located at 668 Ramona Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 | 650.321.3891 | info@pacificartleague.org

Paintsite Regulars on TV/YouTube:

Candy Yu was interviewed for two installments of the "In Our Community" program which aired on KMVT15 Community Media in August. Each installment is about 25 minutes long. You can view the interviews at:

Edward Rooks discusses his wildlife paintings (and his interesting life) with Valentina Design Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZNRuBlIrIM&feature=share

Also see Edward's Flikr album of the Mountain View paintsite on:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardrooks/albums/72157674647337908

Images of Shaowei's work and photos of the very helpful and well attended lesson:

Shaowei's finishing painting

Shaowei prepared a "before and after" comparison to show the extra

brushstrokes she added after her demo.

After the demo Shaowei prepared a detailed drawing to show values.

Shaowei is talking to a large group of students

Shaowei is showing some sample artwork.

Shaowei starts with a light pencil drawing.

Shaowei's painting is coming along very nicely, and the students

are watching intently.

After the demo we painted. Some artists followed the lesson very carefully:

Benay's painting

Helen's painting

Indira

Liz

Liz's painting

Salinda

Salinda's painting

Sunny, keeping warm while wearing her SCVWS T-shirt

Sunny's painting

Tanvi

Tanvi's painting

Some artists took a looser interpretation of the lesson:

Annie

Dick has been concentrating on putting people in his paintings

Edward

Edward's painting of library

Iris and Lisha

Iris's pencil sketch of trees

Jan

Lorraine's painting of the Mountain View

Center for Performing Arts

Matt's painting of closeup of strawberry tree

Shaowei's brother Tiangong is also an excellent watercolor artist and a group

of artists gathered around to see how he paints.

Tiangong's painting of the Mountain View Library

Some artists painted the "Wind in the Willows" characters at the Mountain View Library:

Carol

Jane's painting of Badger and Toad from

"The Wind in the Willows"

Leslie's tombow and watercolor painting of the library,

and "Wind in the Willows" characters

Nancy is proudly wearing her new SCVWS T-shirt

Nancy's painting of Toad

After painting:

A group of artists posed after lunch.

Brad set up two display easels to display our artwork.

Getting ready to discuss our artwork

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Ardenwood Historic Farm, Fremont October 11, 2018

This Thursday is the fourth time that Paintsites has visited Ardenwood Farm in the past five years, and understandably so. The pumpkins are the big draw for many of us but Ardenwood has so many attractions in one location that a yearly Paintsite visit makes it a worthwhile destination. One's first impression on approaching the farm is the striking orange of a field full of pumpkins, yet there is so much more beyond the entrance: the historic Victorian style Patterson House and its gardens, a beautifully preserved water tower, an amazing collection of old farm equipment, a railroad museum, a working blacksmith shop, farm animals (lots of roaming chickens) and wildlife (including rare songbirds, monarchs and one very sly fox).

For more information on the sights and programs of Ardenwood Historic Farm please visit the following link:
http://www.org/parks/ardenwood/

Upcoming paintsites: See the SCVWS website or the October Newsletter for details:

Thursday, Oct 18, 2018: Mountain View Main Library/Pioneer Park
Thursday, Oct 25, 2018: Clos LaChance winery, San Martin
Thursday, Nov 1, 2018: Crissy Field West Bluff, San Francisco
Thursday, Nov 8, Sunnyvale Baylands Park
Thursday, Nov 15, Paintsite at Alum Rock Park, San Jose
Saturday, Nov 17, Clos LaChance Winery, San Martin
Thursday, Nov 29, Bernal-Gulnac-Joice Ranch, San Jose

Shows & Exhibits by Paintsites Regulars:

Annie Haines and John Ediger each have two paintings in the California Watercolor Association's "Explore Color / Discover Color" exhibit at Dominican University, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. John's painting "Red Barn" won the 2nd place award. The show runs thru January 31, 2019. (Official website: https://www.californiawatercolor.org/gallery.php?cat=95
Tiangong Liu's painting "Low Tide" has been accepted in the California Watercolor Association's 49th National Exhibition to be displayed Jan 11 - Feb 16, 2019 at the Harrington Gallery, Firehouse Arts Center, 4444 Railroad Ave, Pleasanton. (Official website: https://www.californiawatercolor.org/index.php )

Paintsite Regulars on TV/YouTube:

Candy Yu was interviewed for two installments of the "In Our Community" program which aired on KMVT15 Community Media in August. Each installment is about 25 minutes long. You can view the interviews at:

Edward Rooks discusses his wildlife paintings (and his interesting life) with Valentina Design Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZNRuBlIrIM&feature=share

Also see Edward's Flikr album on the Ardenwood Historic Farm paintsite at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/edwardrooks/sets/72157702124303084/