Watermark Vol. 21 No. 9a www.centralfloridawatercolor.org May 2020 SPECIAL EDITION
2020 Annual Juried Art Show
SoBO is opening on Tuesday, May 19!
Viewing will be limited by volume and social distancing required in the gallery. Our paintings will be hanging for 2 weeks. I.e., our show will run till the 29th. Hours will Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat: 10am-6pm, Closed Sunday and Monday.
A couple of rounds of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus seem to be in order!!!
Pick up will be on SATURDAY, MAY 30, 2020 between 3 p.m.-6 p.m. Leslie Macauley and Pam Merle plan to be there. However, more door greeters and runners may be needed. The plan is to have one person at the door of the studio and the other person retrieved the persons painting. That way no one enters the gallery. More info will go out to the exhibiting artists via email.
Contact Leslie at [email protected] or Pam at [email protected] if you'd like to volunteer.
So have a get-away day and visit the exhibition in Winter Garden at SoBO!
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SPECIAL EXHIBITION
Images of Pompeii
Cindy Sturla, Terri Chin and Marcela Moglia continue to work on the Pompeii show. Congratulations, ladies, on your tenacity.
Dates are changing and getting pushed back; and the OSC does not know the new dates, as they are still working that out. There are a lot of moving parts between the museum as it is at now, getting the exhibit it to the OSC, and bringing in artifact handlers who have to come from Italy. As soon as they know, they will let us know.
There has been an article in the Orlando Sentinel about this exhibition. Go to the following to read:https://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/os-et-orlando-science-center-pompeii-postponed-20200513- ruxc73jz5rhkvfivjgzlambkca-story.html
And, out of the sheer boredom of your editor, there is this. An extraordinary walking tour of the Pompeii ruins as they are today is on YouTube. Check it out on your television screen if you can. Here's the connection: https://youtu.be/sUYJ8LbF1Ys
## President’s Message Hello, CFWS members, Keep creating, stay safe, and keep washing your hands! There should be some interesting art made between all these weeks and our next show and tell.
Pam Merle and Charlie Cipes Pamela Merle and Charlotte Cipes Co-Presidents, Central Florida Watercolor Society
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2020-2021 CFWS Calendar
CFWS Members will show selections of work in our rotating online show starting June 20th, first day of summer. To be eligible to submit to this show, your membership must be paid in full for the upcoming 2020-2021 Season. Summer of Art Details & Submission Page.
It's time to pay your dues. To pay, go to the website under "Membership." www.centralfloridawatercolor.org
Any membership, dues or ASOA questions, contact Diane Darnall at [email protected] .
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Etcetera
A word to the wise: There are online demos and classes available through https://www.cheapjoes.com and https://www.dickblick.com for those who are seeking artistic stimulation. Sign up for their emails and you’ll be invited!
Local museums are exhibiting on-line, reaching out to the art lover who is stuck at home. They need support in these difficult times and have given access as never before. ##
About Rose Madder
The term Rose Madder is most commonly used to describe the colour made from the Madder Lake pigment, which is a traditional lake pigment extracted from the roots of the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum. The madder root pigment was found in the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun and in the ruins of Pompeii and Ancient Corinth. In the middle ages, Charlemagne encouraged madder cultivation as it grew well in the sandy soils of the Netherlands and became an important part of the economy. When industrialization was at its height in Great Britain during the 1860s, imports of Madder were valued at £1.25million.
One of the most instrumental people in helping make madder and lake colours that didn’t fade over time was George Field (1777 – 1854). Field was an outstanding colourman and chemist and by 1804 he had turned the madder extract, which was soluble in water, into a solid pigment that was insoluble. This resulted in what was known as a madder lake. It had a longer-lasting colour and could be used in creating paints. Pigments made from madder root, varied from rose to brown and were used by contemporary painters of the day, amongst them Constable and Holman-Hunt.
Lake colours were pigments made by bringing together or ‘fixing’ a dye with an insoluble substance or ‘base,’ in this case hydrate of aluminium or sulphate of calcium. Field wrote 10 volumes of notes and experiments on how to improve the quality of pigments and these notes were considered so important by William Winsor, the co-founder of Winsor & Newton, that he bought the lot.
Source: Winsor & Newton ##
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2019-2020 Officers and Committee Chairs
Charlotte Cipes, Co-President Mike Malloy, Webmaster, Designer, Programmer Pamela Merle, Co-President Marcela Moglia, Plein-Air Sandi Hanlon-Breuer, Vice President Susie Greenlee-Mamon, Greeter Mary Dall, Secretary David Williams, Audio Dawn Baldaccino, Treasurer Pat Shaer, Newsletter Diana Eagles, Hospitality Karen Bowden, Library Diane Darnall, Membership Terri Chin, Past President Judi Kaye, Publicity Ken Austin, Founder and Advisor Susan Grogan, Workshops Janet Asbury, Advisor Linda Stevens-Sloan, Registrar Roberta Lerman, Advisor Leslie McCauley, Gallery and Member Show ##
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