76th National Show Exhibition Awards
See images of all of the Exhibition Paintings here!
| AWARD OF EXCELLENCE | “Uplifted” | Dylan Pierce |
| BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ AWARD | “The Club” | Daryl Nicholson |
| MERIT AWARD | “Top Of The Wave” | Keiko Yasuoka |
| MERIT AWARD | “Her Majesty” | Ardythe Jolliff |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by
Dr Jimmy and Becky Davis |
“Bouy o’ Bouy” | William C. Morris |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by M. Graham Watercolors
Martha L. Jordan |
“Unexpected Visitor” | Verena Murvin |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Cheap Joe’s
Carol & Larry Harris |
“Strawberry Alley” | Chris Krupinski |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Salis International
Dale & Deborah Waller |
“Emily” | Z. L. Feng |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Edwin O. King
Richeson School of Art |
“Reminiscing” | Tuva Stephens |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Creative Catalyst Prod, Inc
Candy & Jack Ray Edmiston Joel & Judy Elliot |
“Sugar Creek” | Kathy Butler |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Richeson School of Art
Allen & Patricia Jocobs |
“Beach Feather” | Deborah R. Garst |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Chroma, Inc USA
Jean B. McMillan E.F. & J.L. Barta |
“…Another Thing” | Anne Hightower-Patterson |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by
Blick Art Materials Sally & Will Lawrence |
“Pathway” | Carol Staub |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by American Frame Co
J. Michael Monroe Mr & Mrs MP Green, Jr |
“Another Day” | William H. McKeown |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by First First Bank of Alabama | “Day Is Done” | E. Jane Stoddard |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Richeson School of Art
Catherine Thornton Pat Hughston |
“Dog Daze” | Diane D. Shepherd |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Mary Nell & Jim Kerr
Doris Hurst Schmidt Lea Lewis |
“Stream River Ocean” | Christine Alfery |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Golden Artist Colors
Express Pharmacy Catherine S. Davis |
“Breezy” | Penny G. Anderson |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Griffins Jewelers
Nancy & John Mascia |
“Wild Ones” | Ally Benbrook |
| PATRON FINE ART AWARD Awarded by Frank & Libby Hubbard
Hugh & Lynn Sims Russel & Martha Olvera |
“Wary Buffalo” | Jane Fritz |
| SOUTHERN WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARD | “Washing Clothes” | Joan DiLaura |
| GEORGIA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARD | “Escaped” | Deborah Guy |
| LOUISIANA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARD | Pember, Ann – “Phlox” | Ann Pember |
| TALLAHASSEE WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARD | “Russian Smoke House Fish” | Tora Johnson |
| TEXAS WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARD | “Game Day Packer Fan” | Tom Francesconi |
| SIGNATURE MEMBERS AWARD | “Jewelry Seller” | Kathleen Durdin |
| SIGNATURE MEMBERS AWARD | “Oh, Aleppo” | J. David Davidson |
| SIGNATURE MEMBERS AWARD | “Heirlooms” | Peggy Milburn Brown |
| JURIED MEMBERS AWARD | “Railway Express” | Sharon B. McCormick |
| JURIED MEMBERS AWARD | “Jail Bird” | Carol Jane White |
Reminder to National Show Accepted Artists!
Hand-Carried work is due this Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm at the Jemison-Carnegie Heritage Hall, Talladega. There will be no members’ meeting this Saturday in Talladega following take-in!
WSA 2017 76th National Exhibition Accepted Artists and Paintings
Artists – please review the acceptance letter and delivery instructions here: 2017 76th acceptance_letter.
Alfery, Christine – “Stream River Ocean”
Allen, D.A. – “Giving It All”
Anderson, Penny G. – “Breezy”
Aronson, Judith F. – “Side Street Blues”
Baker, Gloria – “Ascent To The Cathedral”
Benbrook, Ally – “Wild Ones”
Bradley, Marilynne – “Louvre”
Bragg, Gwendolyn C. – “To The Pioneer Farm – Mt. Vernon”
Brewer, Benita – “In His Own World”
Brown, Hannah – “Sunflowers”
Brown, Peggy Milburn – “Heirlooms”
Butler, Kathy – “Sugar Creek”
Carlisle, Sondra – “Orange Bounty”
Carpenter, Sandra – “Leaving Grand Isle”
Costilow, Walt T. – “Sunshine Church”
Covell, Heike – “Growing Wild”
Davidson, J. David – “Oh, Aleppo”
Davis, Barbara M. – “Leopard Emerging From The Jungle”
Davis, Barbara O’Neal – “Anastasia III”
DiLaura, Joan – “Washing Clothes”
Durdin, Kathleen – “Jewelry Seller”
Fakes, Dennis R. – “Light At The End Of The Tunnel”
Feng, Z. L . – “Emily”
Fowler, Cescilia Llorente – “Come To Swim With Me”
Francesconi, Tom – “Game Day Packer Fan”
Frattali, Karen – “Two Pairs and a Spare”
Fritz, Jane – “Wary Buffalo”
Garst, Deborah R. – “Beach Feather”
Gibson, Harriet C. – “Greek Orthodox Church”
Guy, Deborah – “Escaped”
Hahn, Patricia – “On The Road To Puno, Peru”
Hardwick, Lynne N. – “Permenito, VI”
Hightower-Patterson, Anne – “…Another Thing”
Hylton, Marion W. – “Old Age”
Jackson, George – “Springtime in Romania”
James, John E. – “Flying Kites”
Johnson, Tora – “Russian Smoke House Fish”
Jolliff, Ardythe – “Her Majesty”
Jones, Keith – “A Farmer’s Way”
Kroll, Lynne – “Star Bright”
Krupinski, Chris – “Strawberry Alley”
Lowery, Joyce – “Life Flows Between Hard Places”
Lyons, Pio – “Chartres St.”
Matherne, Martha M. – “Boat Repair”
Mathews, Melinda M. – “The Night The Stars Were Falling”
McCormick, Sharon – “Railway Express”
McGee, Gina – “Lurking”
McKeown, William H – “Another Day”
Morris, William C. – “Bouy o’ Bouy”
Morrison, Arlaine – “Jewels In The Water X”
Murvin, Verena J. – “Unexpected Visitor”
Nelson, Marsha – “Ugandan Boy”
Nicholson, Daryl – “The Club”
Ozaki, Yuri – “Yakiyama #12”
Pember, Ann – “Phlox”
Pierce, Dylan Scott – “Uplifted”
Rogers, Sophie R. – “Strange Bedfellows”
Ross, Frances – “Chimney Rock”
Sampson, Gloria – “Succulent Garden”
Schmidt, Diane – “Remnants of a Dream”
Schneider, Margaret Murphy – “Days Gone By”
Schuchart, Annie – “Songbird”
Sculco, Philomena – “Phantom Chef At Sunset”
Shepherd, Diane D. – “Dog Daze”
Smith, Frank X. – “Sunday Sail”
Spellings, Mary P. – “Safe In The Arms of Love”
Staub, Carol – “Pathway”
Stephens, Tuva – “Reminiscing”
Stewart, Iain – “ The Placa Reial – Barcelona”
Stoddard, E. Jane – “Day Is Done”
Stuller, Susan M. – “The Window Washer”
Taylor, Don – “Coffee Break”
Thomas, Dawn – “Pueblo Shadow Blanket”
Tilly, Peggy Green – “Fall Splendor”
Trovato, Mary Anne – “Did You See That?”
Turcotte, Allen – “Evening Tide”
Wang, Caroline K. – “Alabama Joe Wheeler Cranes”
White, Carol Jane – “Jail Bird”
Yasuoka, Keiko – “Top Of The Wave”
Zirlott, Joyce – “Roxie”
WSA 2017 Annual Exhibition Prospectus
The 2017 Annual Exhibition will be here before you know it! Have you started your painting? If not you have time to get it done and entered. Find out all the details by downloading the prospectus.
To Download the prospectus click on wsa-2017-annual-exhibition-prospectus and it will open in a new window you will be able to download and print it out.
Happy Painting!
2016 Alabama Members Show Information
WATERCOLOR SOCIETY OF ALABAMA
ALABAMA MEMBERS SHOWCASE 2016
ALABAMA STATE COUNCIL on the ARTS (ASCA)
201 Monroe Street
Montgomery, Alabama 36130-1800
334 242-4076; staff@arts.alabama.gov
September 11 through October 28, 2016
JUROR OF SELECTION
Don Andrews is a nationally known watercolor artist and workshop instructor. He has conducted painting workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Africa for over 30 years. Don is an active member and past board director of the American Watercolor Society. His paintings have received
numerous awards in national watercolor competitions, including three awards from the American Watercolor Society, and two Best of Show awards from the New England Watercolor Society. Don is the author of the books, “Interpreting the Figure in Watercolor”, “Interpreting the Landscape in Watercolor” and “Rough Sketches: Short Stories of a Traveling Artist”. He has also created two DVD workshop sets that are based on what he teaches in a full week workshop: one on painting figures and one set painting landscapes, as well as his DVD, “Making Watercolor Glow” taken from his original video. He is also featured in the Watson Guptill publication “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Watercolor” and North Light’s new book, “Confident Color” and has had numerous feature articles published in American Artist magazine, and the Watercolor issue of American Artist. donandrewsaws@yahoo.com.
AWARDS JUDGE
Lian Quan Zhen is a sought-after watercolor and Chinese painting artist and teacher in the US and abroad. He is one of the most popular authors of North Light Books. He started sketching and painting in his childhood and continue as hobby while practicing medicine as a family physician in Canton Province, China. After immigrating to
the US in 1985, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of California at Berkeley in 1992 and a Master of Architecture Degree from MIT in 1996. He has many shows in the US, Hong Kong and China and developed an international following. His paintings hang in numerous institutional and private collections including the MIT Museum that has collected 14 of his paintings. His art teaching credentials include at the University of California at Berkeley where he taught watercolor outdoor sketching for 8 years; watercolor and Chinese painting workshops nationwide in US, and other countries in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, China, South Africa and Australia. Also, Lian has been an invited juror for California, Colorado, New Mexico, Georgia, Arizona and Kentucky Watercolor Societies’ exhibitions and other local shows.. lianzhen@yahoo.com
WORKSHOP
WSA will sponsor a workshop by the Awards Judge, Lian Quan Zhen at
The Armory Learning Arts Center located at
1018 Madison Ave, Montgomery, AL 36104 (334 241 2787).
His paintings are featured in magazines such as
Watercolor 94 Spring, Splash4, Collectors (Hong Kong) and books of Landscape on Watercolor (UK), Finding Your Visual Voice and Painter’s Quick Reference books by North Light Books: Flowers and Blooms, Dogs and Cats, Birds and Butterflies, Landscapes and Drawing and Painting Animals – the Essential Guide. (Members – $350; Non-Members $380.) For workshop information contact: Lyn Gill: lyn.gill1@gmail.com 251-867-9573
CALENDAR
Jul 8- CD/E-Mail Entries Received by WSA (DEADLINE)
July 18 – Juror Selection Begins
Aug 3 – Notifications of Acceptance Posted on Web/Shipping Instructions Sent
Aug 23 – 26 – Shipped Work Due at Alabama State Council for the Arts (ASCA)
Aug 27 (Sat)- Hand Carried Work Due (10:00AM-2:00PM) – ASCA
Aug 27 (Sat)– Annual Member’s Meeting – 2:00 – 3:00 PM – ASCA
Sep 8-10 (Thur-Sat) Workshop with Lian Quan Zhen (9:00AM-4:00PM) – The Armory, Montgomery, AL
Sep 11 (Sun) – Award Ceremony and Opening Reception – (2:30PM-4: 30PM) – ASCA Gallery
Oct 29 (Sat)- Paintings to be picked up (The hanging committee must check out hand-carried paintings.)
Oct 31 – Paintings packaged to be shipped
Download Prospectus Below
WSA Workshop
76th National Show Info
Reminder! The Opening Reception/Awards Ceremony will be from 1-4pm on April 9th!
