Stitched, oil painting by Trish Harding

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Join us for this major Bellingham Art Event.

Watercolor Journaling Class New!

Field Journal Workshop 2010
Trish Harding, instructor

I haven’t offered this class since the artist trip to Mexico. See my website for a sample of my Mexico Field Journal. Once again, I am offering this class so that you can learn the following!

· Create your own beautiful and richly meani…ngful field journal with Trish Harding as your guide. Trish will help your creativity explode with new ways of thinking, feeling, observing and experiencing the incredible world around you!

· Using variations of simple watercolor, pen & ink, and other techniques you will learn to fuse page preparation, text, drawings and paintings into the classic Moleskine Book.

· The first day you will work in the studio preparing pages and learning several techniques including staining, pouring, blotting, dragging, dabbing, salting, taping, and sponging. This will transform your empty journal to a beautiful showcase for all of the field work that will be done in the next class.

· The second day you will go into the field…walking from Studio UFO to Maritime Heritage Park where you will work on Nature Journaling, Emotional Journaling, Scenic Journaling, Locale Documentation and Journal Writing Techniques all under the guidance of Trish Harding.

· Learn to see your world with more clarity, internalize your world with wonder and passion, learn to remember your world with more joy and learn to appreciate your every moment in your world!

· Lunch Break, noon-1pm, (you can get lunch on your own on 17th at a downtown restaurant but on the 24th you will want to bring a sack lunch as you will not want to pack up to leave your working station in the field.)

· See my website for a sample of my Mexico Field Journal www.studioufo.netTwo 5-hour sessions, Monday May 17 & 24, 10am-3pm, $158

Supplies List:Moleskine Book- included in your tuition and supplied by Trish at Studio UFOWatercolors & brushes (this can be a small traveling watercolor kitIndelible Ink Pen (bring several of different colors or values if you wish)Masking tapeMaskoid, optionalSponge, optionalMesh or Lace, optional

Hi Trish -

Christine Kendall suggested I get hold of you.  We’ve got a very cool event coming up at the Roeder Home this coming Thursday, and she thought you might be interested, and possibly help us spread the word.  One of the top experts in North America on pre-contact Native Pigments is doing a presentation.  I’m not as well-connected in the visual arts community as I am with the folk musicians so I’m doing some last-minute scrambling.  Just in case, here’s a write-up:

SPECIAL EVENT:  NATIVE PIGMENTS
Thursday, Feb 25  Roeder Home 2600 Broadway, Bellingham
7:30 $8-$12 suggested donation
The Roeder Home was built on Native land, and it is a pleasure invite Native artists to share this old Home fully, and to share their art and heritage with the larger community at the same time.  Please come help welcome them home!
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So, what DID they use for paint?  Look at those old totem poles and masks, their paint patinaed by age and wear, their once-rich colors almost erased by time: just what did Pacific NW Natives use to make that paint which has, in some cases, endured more than 400 years of embellishing Native objects.

Artist, educator and researcher, and recipient of a 2009 Bellingham Mayor’s Arts Award, Melonie Ancheta of Copper Woman Studio will share some of what she’s learned in the past 13 years of researching pre-contact paint technology among the NW Coast Natives. She’ll display and discuss samples of the pigments used and will address the importance of researching and preserving this information. You’ll be able to see some of the methods and materials such as handmade paint brushes and stone and mortar grinding used in the manufacture of paints. Oh, and of course, you’ll learn what human spit has to do with paint.

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Co-sponsored by the Friends Of The Roeder Home and the Whatcom Family & Community Network.

Thank you VERY much for any help you can give!

love/Fl!p
360-671-4511
2518 Cherry Street
Bellingham WA 98225

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  Sunlight on Nina, pastel by Trish Harding 

NPS President’s Message Winter 2009

Here comes Old Man Winter! And along with it all of the things that we hearty souls of the Northwest find wonder in: from the chill in the open air to the cozy spot in front of the fireplace. It also often means going back into the studio to work after a sensory explosive spring-to-fall plein air painting period. For me the differences between plein air and studio painting are immense. Outdoors I feel the most alive while painting. For me it is a complete reaction to my senses and I am comfortable setting up my easel and painting whatever is in front of me. I notice the air that I am breathing, both the natural sounds and manmade sounds, the moving sky, warm or cool air, the constant movement of bodies of water, the relentless changing light and I am always aware that I am never quite alone, but sharing the particular space with many others. There is no other experience for me that feels more authentic.

On the other hand, going back into the studio is a whole new ball game! With four walls, a ceiling and a floor to enclose me into my space tending to separate me from other living energy, I am bound physically and sensory to something completely different and very solitary. Studio work gives me an opportunity to react slower to my surroundings, which are more stagnant and less interactive. I go inside myself in a more conceptual and intellectual mode. I play with streams of consciousness and memories- I realize things that I “know” but do not have any reason for “knowing”. There is a sense of more planning, designing, and selection in studio and I have something altogether different to say in my work, which manifests there. I simply find wonder in it all!

Plan now for the 2010 Members’ Show, April 23 through May 28, 2010 at Bluehorse Gallery in Bellingham. This show will have a miniature section as well this year. 8 inches or smaller (image size) on any side. Sales for miniatures are strong all over the country in these economically challenged times. Big prize money and more importantly we want you to enter! The International Show in December 2010 promises to be world class again. Be sure to put it on your calendar now. This is a fabulous opportunity for all of our members! Life long learning changes our brain and keeps us young! Peace, Trish Harding, President NPS

  Bocci Ball Spectators, watercolor, $800 

Good Morning

I thought that you might be interested in this one day workshop.  I plan to have a shorter watercolor day monthly after this one.  It will also be half the tuition.  So, watch for that one in February and beyond.  This will be a great opportunity for watercolorists to practice, hone their skills and share ideas at Studio UFO and beyond!

WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP “FLUSHING”, Trish Harding instructor

• Learn Trish’s “Flushing” technique in watercolor painting.
• Achieve glowing luminosity with temperature and juicy color.
• Overcome your tendency to paint stiffly and with obnoxious control.
• Learn how to keep your color clean and prevent
  ”mud”.
• Understand how and when to use transparent and sedimentary colors.
• Learn to make intelligent color choices.
• Class fee includes a color wheel
• One hour lunch break; brown bag or eat out!

1-5 hour session, Monday 1/18/2010, 10am-3pm, $63 

Supplies list will be emailed upon receipt of your registration.

Hope to see you soon,

Peace,

Trish

Diane Townsend
June 11-14, 2010
Going Into Abstraction in Pastels
All Levels
$350 (for NPS Members only, until Dec 31, 2009)

Robyn Williamson of Dakota Art Pastels is offering any member of the NPS this workshop for $350 just until Dec 31, 2009! After that time the price will go to it?s regular price of $435. Just a phone call or email right now will reserve your spot. She will start to take deposits and payments Jan 1, 2010 but needs your reservation right now!

We are so grateful to Robyn to offer us this discount this year as we as a society have opted to not plan and conduct our own workshop this year because of the challenging economic times. This is a win-win situation for us. We not only get a better price but we do not have to do all the work or arrange and house this workshop.

Keep our society strong and vital!

Contact Robyn: phone number 360-416-6556, www.dakotaartstore.com, or robyn@laconnerartworkshops.com

Become a member www.nwps.org

Trish Harding
NPS President

personal invitation

Hello to you, beautiful people!
This information is in reference to my performance art piece
on Tuesday Nov. 17. Please read information about the piece
after this brief announcement about actors’ call:

So I’m adjusting my call time for people to come and join us
in the performance art piece (again, described below). Instead of meeting
at 5:00, I’m calling the “Leisure” group at 5:30 to set up and do
a run through. This might be easier, coming from work.
If you would like to participate, and CAN make 5:30 or even squeak
in at 5:45, please email me to confirm your participation.
So far we have picnic groupings of painting, and reading
poetry aloud. I’d love to have a musical group, perhaps a dance group,
and maybe a juggler. I definitely want this to be intergenerational,
so if we can get children and elders involved too, that would be wonderful!
Thanks for passing this on to others.
Excitedly,
Drue
Here’s the original announce again - please paste it and send it to others who may be interested.
Hi Everyone!
I am reaching out to invite you and your families and friends
TO PARTICIPATE - as “Actors of Leisure”
in a performance piece that I’m directing in the lobby of Bellingham City Hall on
Tuesday, November 17th. This performance piece is presented in conjunction
with Dr. Charles Sylvester’s lecture: “Thoughts on America’s Ambivalence on
Work and Leisure” as part of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s
Community Lecture series. (SEE INFO AT THE END OF THIS EMAIL)
* Please pass this email on to those who might want to participate.
If YOU want to participate, all you have to do is dress in white, sit, eat, enjoy
yourselves “in character” in the lobby - playing guitar, dancing, reading, etc.)
Wow! What a gig!
Here’s the scoop:
We need 20-30 bodies - YOUR bodies - doing fun
“leisurely” things, at the same time my 15 Fairhaven College students
are doing their “work” things.
The big stereotypes of this performance piece (”Black / White” and “Either / Or”)
lead up to Sylvester’s lecture directly following. He’ll be inviting a dialogue from his audience
about our work ethic in this country, and we’ll be like the “appetizer” for his lecture.
Real live artists doing their thing!
The Piece:
Imagine City Hall transformed for 25 minutes with people of all
ages (you), dressed in white, sitting on picnic blankets  — some are
reading to others out of books, some are set in a tableau while one
sketches or paints their portrait on a canvas, some are reciting poetry,
dancing, some are playing music - guitar, banjo, flute. All ages engaged
in “leisure” (otherwise known as ‘life’). At the same time —
On the steps: my students are dressed as overworked “business people”
- suits with frantic bodies in them - scurrying to and fro, too busy to look up,
too busy to say hello, only “excuse me” or “move please” or “I don’t
have time”. They’re in a tempo that matches our current pace of life.
Then… something happens - something shifts. The frenzy starts to slow
down, the people in business suits begin to notice the life that’s taking
place around them, below them on the lobby floor - people eating, having
fun, engaging with one another - as community. Something happens …
(You’ll have to come see it, or be in it, to find out.)
I know many of you ARE artists, and musicians, love poetry, like to eat and
sit with friends. Please consider being VISIBLE ARITSTS in this performance piece.
If you would like to join us,  please email me back. Here, again, are the logistics:
WHAT: performance piece - Art and Leisure (you sit and read, play music, dance, eat, paint)
WHERE: City Hall Lobby, downtown Bellingham
WHEN: Tuesday, November 17th (Next week)
REHEARSAL TIME: 5:30. Please come dressed in all white/off white (shirt sleeves rolled up,
skirts, easy relaxed clothes).
PERFORMANCE TIME: 6:30 or 6:40
LECTURE TIME: 7:00
WHAT TO BRING: White/off white (a sheet will do) ‘picnic blankets’,  musical instruments,
painting easels, brushes, picnic dinners to eat - (really!), books to read aloud, juggle balls, etc.
Again - it’s important to email me so i know you’re coming, and thanks for passing this
information on to others who will, in turn email me and confirm their participation.
We do need to rehearse, but it’s not much. More FUN than rehearsal.
If you haven’t seen the “Sound of Music in Antwerp Train Station” google it.
This is sort of like that. But different. : )
Hope you can come play!
Drue
LECTURE INFORMATION:
Please join us for our first College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s Community Lecture for the 2009-10 academic year.  It will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at the Bellingham City Hall Council Chambers.  We are pleased to present Dr. Charles Sylvester, Professor in the Department of Physical Education, Health and Recreation, who will speak on the balance between work and leisure. Please see the attached postcard for more details.

Hello Everyone,

As you know, Bellingham has a really vibrant art community!  Please give some thought to the Mayor’s Arts Award Nominations for this year.  We all know many people who deserve acknowledgement for their participation to further the arts.   As Shannon says it can be an individual, organization, event or venue.  Our art community is only as strong as those who participate. 

Trish
If you haven’t already, please take a moment and nominate your favorite individual, organization, event or venue for a Mayor’s Arts Award. Nominations are being accepted until December 31, 2009.  Nomination forms are available at http://www.cob.org/cob/maaform.nsf/Registration.  As many of you know this is a wonderful opportunity to honor those who have contributed greatly to the arts in and around our community.

The award ceremony will be held in early spring.  Details regarding the event will be published early next year. 

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Thank you,

Shannon
Shannon Taysi
Program Specialist
Planning and Community Development
210 Lottie Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
360-778-8360 - Phone
360-778-8302 - Fax

Visitor, Oil, Carole McNeese

Send a jpeg image of your painting asap so that it can be posted online; Bluehorse Gallery Website, Downtown Partnership Website and Studio UFO Website.

Your deadline for delivery is Oct 30 or 31 to Bluehorse Gallery.  Don’t forget to label your work with name, title, medium, size and PRICE.  No work will be shown that is not for sale!

This year’s PAPO looks to be fantastic!  I have had the opportunity to get a preview of many of the paintings and I do believe that they are some of the very best and most surprising translations of our beautiful city that I have seen. 

This is an important job YOU are doing for sustainable studio and gallery space in downtown Bellingham.  Congratulations for participating.

See you all at the Artists’ Reception Friday November 6, 6-10pm at the Bluehorse Gallery, 301 W Holly Street, Bellingham, WA 98225

Bellingham Farmer’s Market, People’s Choice Award 2008, by Ruthie V 

PAPO (the 4th Annual Downtown Bellingham Plein Air Paint Out) is this Saturday & Sunday, Aug 22 & 23, 10am-3pm.  Attention Artists!  You can still participate in the paint out!  We have extended the deadline so register now!

If you are not a painter please come on down to Bellingham and experience over 50 artists this year on the streets with their easels painting the town.  Their work will be shown in the Blue Horse Gallery in Nov with an artist reception on Friday Nov 6th during Downtown Art Walk.

Please do not miss these two wonderful community events that help make Bellingham such a great place to live!