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Sunnyvale Art Club Newsletter MARCH 2020 P.O. Box 2744, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 www.sunnyvaleartclub.org Creative Arts Center, Painting Studio at the Sunnyvale Community Center March MEETING on Thursday, March 19TH 7-9pm This month’s Art Competition Theme: MARCH THEME – Anything Goes!!!! (your choice) Club Officers & Volunteers President President’s Message: Angela Hsu Vice President TBD Secretary Ishwarryah S Ramanathan March 2020 Treasurer Penny Nolan Membership Hello my fellow artists, Jenny Tang Ewen Chen Hopefully you all enjoyed our Feb demo with projector and camera being used in the Shaheen Nazar Newsletter Editor program. Special thanks to Penny, Matt and Ish who made our demo even more Mary Williamson enjoyable. Newsletter Dispatcher Tanushri Mathur Demo Program Next month we'll invite Kai Lun Qu to our club meeting for a live portrait charcoal TBD drawing demonstration. Webmaster Sangeetha Krishnamoorthy Monthly Competitions The book I will introduce and loan to club members is also on portrait drawing- The Andrea Catura Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing The Head. I started my portrait journey with this Hospitality/Refreshments Barbara Wilson book and found it very helpful in understanding how chiaroscuro technique plays an Monthly Exhibits important role in the drawings. By copying the drawings in this book, I was able to Chris MacDonough improve my skills for rendering the values and eventually did a Donald Trump portrait Marketing & Publicity Mary Williamson painting for my very 1st art show. Auction Night Chris MacDonough I leave you with a quote from Vincent Van Gogh “Great things are done by a series of Regina Masero Sunnyvale Library Show small things brought together." TBD Santa Clara Library Show Chris MacDonough SVOS Silicon Valley Open Studios Angela Hsu, Penny Nolan SAC President Event Photographer Neela Shukla Facebook Advertising Angelo Lopez (Main) Lavonne Carrick Ketaki Adi March 2020 SAC Newsletter Page 1 of 23 PAGE TOPIC 1 President’s March 2020 Message Officers and Volunteers 3 2020 Membership Renewal Information 4 Welcome New Members February Demonstration Recap 5 March Demonstration Kai Lun Qu - Charcoal Drawing 6-7 Monthly Competition Winners, Runners-up 8-9 March 2020 SAC Monthly Competition Theme Exhibit Etiquette Nov Dec January Exhibition Venues Important Information for Exhibitors Fundraising Hospitality/Refreshments 10 Flyer for Fundraiser: Santa Clara Senior Health/Wellness 11-15 ART NEWS Local Art Museums and Events in March 2020 Competitions - Calls For Artists 16 THE BUSINESS OF ART - MARKETING & BRANDING SAC Artist Binder and Marketing on the SAC website 17-22 ARTIST RESOURCES, Info Tutorials, Instruction, More! Bio-Selma Burke, Sculptor The Story of Ultramarine Blue Old Masters Academy – Oil Painting – Best Mediums for Oil Paintingf Palo Alto Open Studios—Ceramics, Painting, Paper, Drawing, more. 4 Handy Tapes for Artists East Bay Creative Reuse Center for Artists and Craftspeople, Oakland The Ultimate Guide to Watercolor Papers End Membership Application form Please email items you want included in the newsletter, questions, comments, or requests to: [email protected] March 2020 SAC Newsletter Page 2 of 23 Some of the things you may miss this year: Attending club meetings to network and meet other local artists, make new friends. Enjoy workshops and demonstrations by professional artists. You will be eligible to enter our monthly Art competitions for a chance to show your work in a local venue for the next month! You’ll receive our monthly newsletter jam-packed with useful information! You will be eligible to enter our annual Juried Art Exhibit at the Sunnyvale Library with cash prizes. You will be eligible to show your work at various local venues throughout the year for two-months at a time! You will have the opportunity to volunteer for various activities and board positions, (which will look really good on your resume!) Post your artist biography and photos of your paintings to the SAC website in the Members’ Gallery. Your biography will also be placed in the SAC Biography Notebook, displayed at our art shows for patrons to review and learn about you and your work thus leading to opportunities that can lead to a sale or other opportunities to show! ….. AND MORE! Hurry! We are in the process of updating the SAC Biography Notebooks, the website and our Newsletter roles and sadly, we must remove non-members from these programs. MEMBERSHIP Annual membership dues are $45 for an individual and $60 for a family of 2- 3. Additional family members are $20 each. Please bring payment in check or cash to renew or join at our next meeting, JANUARY 16TH. Or mail your check to Sunnyvale Art Club, P.O. Box 2744 Sunnyvale, 94087 – please do not send cash. Add $10.00 if you would like to receive a hard copy of the newsletter mailed directly to your home. The Membership Registration Form is attached with this email. Thank you to those who’ve already renewed! March 2020 SAC Newsletter Page 3 of 23 Gunjan Gupta Dovey Khechfe Suchi Maheshwari Natalia Schevochenko Sherry Symington Fluid Acrylic Pouring Technique Andrea Catura demonstrated fluid acrylic pouring techniques. She explained paint preparation for a fluid pour using Floetrol latex paint additive as an affordable pouring medium. Andrea demonstrated a few application techniques and created some very interesting designs on canvas. A handful of lucky meeting attendees got to take home the pours created during the demonstration. We were able to employ our new overhead projector and screen for easy viewing by members. Pouring techniques Andrea demonstrates the circles style of pouring as well as using a blow dryer to disperse the colors and create new designs. March 2020 SAC Newsletter Page 4 of 23 Kai Lun Qu Charcoal Drawing from Live-Portrait Demonstration https://www.kailunqu.com/ Kai Lun Qu b.1995 immigrated with his parents from China shortly after he was born and grew up in San Francisco, California. Being raised in an artistic family, he ventured back to China after graduating junior high and was then placed in the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts High School in Beijing; being taught the 19th Century Russian Academic methods in drawing. Kai traveled back to the US to finish high school and it was there through being exposed to galleries and museums that he started gaining inspirations from artists such as John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Cecilia Beaux, and the contemporary living master Richard Schmid. Kai then began to seek tutelage from renown painter Vincent Desiderio and Steven Assael at the New York Academy of Arts. In 2018, He was one of twenty-six recipients chosen out of nearly 3000 entries to be awarded a Certificate of Excellence for his painting Ashton in the 20th Annual International Portrait Society of America Competition. He has also been the winning recipient of the Figurative Art Convention and Expo Scholarship, Robert Gamblin Paint Prize, National Congressional Art Competition, and the Art of the Portrait Grant from the Portrait Society of America. He has recently been featured in Southwest Art Magazine's "21 under 31" Article, where he was one of 21 artists under the age of 31 being celebrated as rising art stars from across the West and around the country. His work has also been included and published by the likes of Poets Artist Magazine and PleinAir Magazine. 21 Under 31: Young Artists to Watch in 2018: Kai Lun Qu -- By: Southwest Art | August 15, 2018 https://www.southwestart.com/featured/21-under-31-young-artists-to-watch-in-2018-kai-lun-qu Kai has exhibited in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, US Capitol Building in Washington D.C., and the Schuler School of Fine Arts, Maryland Art Place, and Crystal Moll Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland Kai is currently an Accredited Member of the Maryland Society of Portrait Painter. Kai is currently residing in San Jose, California, painting and teaching full time. Here's a short video of his demo on charcoal drawing: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5KFkUKHkvX/ Watch one of his awesome portraits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgACz43RSRg Subscribe to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgIccq9lSE1NJy_srAt_Fg Kai Lun Qu Artist Statement I wish to chase what artists in the past have always chased - a celebration of the human form, a passion for and humility before nature, a belief in the emotional power of the common visual language of representation. I find representational realism to be that of a connection between human beings understanding of the natural world and I mainly focus on extracting the essential content of my subjects, aiming to paint with a brevity that expresses the immediacy of a moment. I view painting as my personal language to translate and communicate with viewers an interpretation of what I see. I believe in the naturalistic honesty that channels within painting from reality. I strive for an authenticity that reinforces the relevance of painting in a modern world; creating an image that feels truly alive and transcends the photo is my ultimate goal. -- March 2020 SAC Newsletter Page 5 of 23 January 2020 SAC Meeting Theme Competition Winners February’s Theme: Portraits and/or Figures FIRST PRIZE TIE: Co-WINNERS, GOLD SECTION Geeta Taneja “Extract Portrait” Oil on Acrylic ***Geeta’s artwork will hang in the Bean Scene Café until the results from the March art competition are announced. SECOND PRIZE: Fieldwork Brewery, watercolor Mary Williamson “The Zen of Joy” Acrylic SECOND PRIZE Gina Lin “Cha Cha” Watercolor THIRD PRIZE Debby Pratt “Willy” Watercolor March 2020 SAC Newsletter Page 6 of 23 FIRST PRIZE WINNER, BLUE SECTION Donna Miklica “Tonichka” Watercolor *Donna’s painting will hang at the Santa Clara Public Library until results from the March art competition are announced.