Know your Hub

 Point Persons:

 

Brattleboro:  

Lynn Hoeft  

     

Burlington/St. Albans   

 Lynn Cummings          

Marni McKintrick      

 Linda DiSante  

  

Manchester/Bennington:     

 Reggie Springer    

(looking for a co-point

person  

     

Middlebury/Rutland:

 

We need a Point Person  

for your area. If you  

are interested,  

please contact  

Pam Dexter 

  

Montpelier:  

Nancy Cleveland 

     

New Hampshire:   

Pamela Dexter 

       

Newport/St. Johnsbury:

 Pat Lipinski 

    

White River Hub:

 

Kate Reeves

  

Janice Bean   

 
HUB-BUB NEWS

 

 

New Hampshire Hub:

  

The NH Hub held their Spring meeting May 6th at the Plainfield Fire Station. Our planning session was followed by an open workshop/demo on jpeg digital images, offered by Jim Mauchly. Jim took us though setting up, lighting, photographing an unframed and framed w/glass painting, terminology used in digital imagery and saving images.  He answered individual questions regarding our individual camera capabilities.

 

 

  

Burlington Hub:

  

  SUMMER EVENTS:   

 

Tuesday, July 10 - Plein air painting at Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes, VT
Meet at 9:30 on the lake side of the main hotel building
Feel free to bring a friend (no need to be VWS member) 

Please send return email to

 Lynn Cumming 

if you are interested, and indicate if you'd like a lunch reservation at The Red Mill on the BHC property so I can make a group reservation. 

 

Early August - Plein air painting at Burton Island State Park, near St. Albans, VT 

We need someone in that area to coordinate this and set a date.  Please contact

Lynn.Cummings@uvm.edu 

if you are willing to do this. 

August 11 - October 8 - 31st Annual Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, Old Forge, NY 

We are working with the Old Forge Arts Center for discounted tickets & possibly discounted accommodations for VWS members. 

Stay tuned for further information on this not-to-be-missed show.  A long drive, but well worth the time. For more information on the show, see:      

 Old Forge Arts Center 

 

If you haven't discovered this already, Holbein has 11 fabulous new paint colors that have just arrived in the US.  Some of their other colors are being discontinued so stock up now if there is something you love that isn't being made anymore.  Black Horse Art Supply on Pine St. in Burlington and Artists' Mediums both should have the new colors.  Enjoy painting this summer and we hope to see you at one of our summer events.   

 

Lynn, Marni & Linda

PAST EVENTS:

Eight members of the VWS Burlington/St. Albans hub toured the Papeterie St.-Armand paper factory in

Montreal on June 5. Factory owner David Caruthers explained the processes of making various types of

handmade and machine made paper. The tour started in an area with bales of various colors of cotton

fabrics, to cutting machines, giant roller machines to make sheets of paper pulp stock, to large tubs of

wet paper pulp in which he dipped the frame to make several sheets while we watched. At the end of

the tour the group was provided with several types of handmade papers to try with our paints. The

group had a much better understanding and appreciation of handmade watercolor papers by the end

of the visit. A lunch at Atwater Market, with its colorful stalls of flowering plants and delicious foods

followed the paper factory tour.

 

 

 

Montpelier Hub:

SUMMER EVENTS:

Dear VWS Montpelier Hub members, 

 

Please join us for a SALON Session on June 20th (first day of Summer) from 6pm to 8pm at

5 State Street, Second Floor (above Delish) in Montpelier.  There is no cost to attend, bring light refreshments if you like.  The Salon was a suggestion by Gary Eckhart at our Hub meeting last week and was enthusiastically received by many who attended that meeting.  Nancy Cleveland has agreed to serve as your "Point Person", her contact information is 802-229-9841, Nancy Cleveland.  For this particular event I will be your contact person.

 

The write up below should give you an idea of how the Salon will work. 

 Salon set-up:

 Everyone is to bring a piece of art work, may be framed, unframed or in progress. 

 

Everyone should be prepared to speak a bit about their work - time depends on number of guests - but it should be to the point and not too long.

 

Topics:
the inspiration:                work from life or photo
  some problems encountered and how solved:

composition
techniques used

where help is needed
the painting process
any recognition the painting may have received 

  NO OUTRIGHT NEGATIVE   COMMENTS! Any question reflecting a negativity must be supported with a positive  suggestion.     

Please RSVP to my email
Mark Nielsen if you plan to attend, I hope that many of you will be able to join us.       

 

Rewarding volunteer openings with VWS! We need a few more Hub Point     People to plan fun, interesting and exciting watercolor-related     events, for only a few hours of your time every month or two! Get a     friend to volunteer with you to be a co-Point Person and it's even     better.   Other VWS hubs have great ideas you can use to plan events     in your area. Please contact Pam Dexter, Hub Director at Pam Dexter to     find out how you can get in on the fun too.    

Do you like to write? Would you like to see more people at our VWS exhibitions? Then join your dynamic VWS volunteer colleagues as part of our PR team. This is a way you can make a big difference without a big investment in time. You would write a brief press release for each of our shows (there's an app. for that), and our fabulous volunteer Kathy Berry Bergeron will send it to media outlets. Thank you very much, Kathy, for volunteering for the mailing piece, and thanks in advance to you who volunteers for the writing. We hope to bring many more art lovers to our shows and to raise awareness of the Vermont Watercolor Society as a leading arts organization.  

Check out our new website @  www.vermontwatercolorsociety.com.

Being a new site, we have tested and retested it until we were sure it was perfect. The site has been live for about a week we have received more than one email letting us know it wasn't EXACTLY perfect. So please, as you use it, let us know if something just isn't working correctly.

Here are some of the things you will find on the new site:

• Gallery pages and updates are FREE through the end of 2012.   We want to encourage all of our members to have a gallery page and to keep it up to date with current works. Click here  to set up a new gallery page. Click here to renew your gallery images or bio.
• Find fellow members easily
  A full member listing is updated monthly. It can be viewed by Hub or by last name simply by clicking on the column heading.
• New Hub section - REQUIRES A PASSWORD
  Everything you could possibly want related to your Hub can be found in this section. You will find the Hub tab at the top of the VWS home page.
  The ID and password is the same for all VWS members as follows:

ID - vws

PW - watercolor 

• Blog
  Each Hub has their own blog to communicate to fellow Hub members.

Don Dalton will continue to be our web administrator. Please send all your gallery information to Don via the website forms.  Cynthia (Cindy) Crawford has gratefully passed this on to Don.  

Thanks to the Board of Directors, Cindy Crawford and Don Dalton for all of your help. Thanks to our Webmaster, Eric Gottesman, for his fine work on the site.