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Watercolor of Mesa Prickly Pear, Opuntia x vaseyi, by Julie Schneider Ljubenkov, © 2006
BAGSC Member Julie Schneider Ljubenkov is offering the following classes:
Eye on Nature, Beginning Watercolor Landscape Painting, 3 units (Adults)
January 20 to March 17th, 9 Thursday evenings, 6:00 to 9:00 PM
University of California San Diego, La Jolla. Extension. $275.00
Materials fee optional.
Mosaic Art, Mira Costa College Community Services (Adults)
7 Monday evenings, March 21 to May 2, 5:30 to 8:30. Non-credit
$109.00 to enroll. $35.00 materials fee.
Julie is also looking for three adults that would like to do a mosaic workshop with her in San Marcos. Email Julie if interested.
Introduction to Mosaic Art 1, 3 units. University of California San Diego (Adults) La Jolla, Extension. $275.00, 9 Tuesday evenings, 6:00 to 9:00 PM, April 5 to May 31st. Materials fee optional.
Watercolor Painting for Children, 4 Tuesday afternoons, 3:30 to 5:00, Feb. 1 to Feb. 22. City of Escondido, East Valley Community Center.
Gardening and Landscaping with California Native Plants at two locations:
1. 4 Tuesday evenings, 6:00 to 8:30, Feb. 1 to Feb. 22, City of Escondido
2. 3 Monday evenings, 5:30 to 8:30, May 9th to 23, Mira Costa College, Oceanside
There will be two Saturday morning field trips to a native plant nursery. The dates will be announced. You may go to either one, or both.
Please check dates, times, and prices on-line or in the schedule of classes. Signing up early insures the class will not get canceled due to low enrollment.
by Deborah Shaw
Chinese Brush Painting
Gloria Whea-Fun Teng will be teaching another session of Introduction to Chinese Brush Painting at the Arboretum:
4 Thursdays: January 6 – January 27;
4 Thursdays, February 3 – 24
12:30-2:30pm / Oak Room
$120 members / $130 non-members per session
In this introductory course the student will learn the difference between Chinese brush painting and other watercolor painting. The class will teach the beginning painter to use Chinese brushes and ink to create beautiful paintings on rice paper. At the end of this course, a completed painting will be ready to be framed and displayed. More experienced students will continue to refine their work and learn new techniques.
For Reservations or Information, please call (626) 821-4623 or email Jill Berry.
Exhibition invitation postcard
The opening reception for “Needles & Glass”, an exhibition of baskets by Janice Sharp and Jill Carlson and glass by Phillip Smith will be held Friday, February 4, 2011 from 7 pm to 9 pm.
The gallery, Creative Arts Group, is located at 108 North Baldwin Avenue, Sierra Madre, California 91024.
Congratulations Janice (and Jill)!
by Deborah Shaw
Chapman University Leatherby Libraries are promoting the BAGSC Exhibition, “A Brush with Nature” through press releases, invitations to their mailing lists, signage and campus communications.
Here are two links to campus sites where the exhibit is being promoted. The first — Happenings — is available on the university website and emailed to the campus community each week:
The second is the online Events Calendar posted on the Chapman website.
See you at the show!
by Deborah Shaw
Laying out tables of beautiful artwork to arrange for hanging.
A Brush with Nature, an exhibit of botanical art by The Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California (BAGSC) and presented by Chapman University Leatherby Libraries has been hung and is now open for viewing. Twenty-three BAGSC artists are exhibiting 75 works of art in watercolor, colored pencil, ink and graphite. (See list at the end of this article for participating artists.)
Exhibit dates are: Saturday, January 8 through Thursday, February 17, 2011
Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room and Clarke Gallery Wall
Leatherby Libraries, 2nd Floor
Chapman University
One University Drive, Orange, California 92866
For exhibit hours please visit the Chapman Leatherby Libraries website.
Leslie and Akiko working on the display case.
Visitor parking near the Leatherby Libraries is available for $2.00 – $3.00 and may be purchased from the permit dispenser.
For more detailed parking information, fees, maps and directions to Chapman University please visit the map on their website.
Information about the opening reception will be sent to all BAGSC members via email blast.
Participating artists:
Bonnie Born Ash • Cristina Baltayian • Margaret Best • Diane Daly • Akiko Enokido • Olga Eysymontt • Denise Genova • Irene Horiuchi • Barbara Jaynes • Clara Josephs • Morgan Kari • Joan Keesey • Suzanne Kuuskmae • Patricia Mark • Arillyn Moran-Lawrence • Norma Sarkin • Janice Sharp • Deborah Shaw • Mitsuko Schultz • Gilly Shaeffer • Gloria Whea-Fun Teng • Leslie Walker
The Leatherby Libraries staff were wonderful and professional on every level, greeting us with freshly painted walls, carts, levels and tape measures, hanging wires and labels. What a great team!
Stand with sign and price list.
One wall of the show.
by Jill Berry, Los Angeles Arboretum
In this introductory course the student will learn the difference between Chinese brush painting and other watercolor painting. The class will teach the beginning painter to use Chinese brushes and ink to create beautiful paintings on rice paper. At the end of this course, a completed painting will be ready to be framed and displayed. For more experienced students, you will continue to refine your work and learn new techniques. The instructor is a very talented artist who has taught a variety of courses over the years. She has also studied botanical illustration at Otis College of Art & Design.
4 Thursdays, January 6 – January 27
4 Thursdays, February 3 – 24
12:30-2:30pm / Oak Room
The Los Angeles Arboretum & Botanic Garden
301 North Baldwin Ave, Arcadia, CA 91007
Gloria Whea-Fun Teng, instructor
$120 members per session/ $130 non-members per session
To register, contact Jill Berry, Education Manager via email, or call 626.821.4624. (Please call to pay by credit card.)
by Deborah Shaw
Flyer for Basket Exhibition by Janice Sharp and Jill Carlson, © J Sharp 2010
BAGSC member Janice Sharp and BAGSC friend Jill Carlson of The Alta Collina Studio have an exhibition of their baskets at the Creative Arts Group Gallery, 108 N. Baldwin Avenue, Sierra Madre, California 91024. Their baskets are on display (and for sale) December 1, 2010 – January 31, 2011.
The Gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, and will be closed December 24 to January 3.
All proceeds from the sale of items in the Gallery go directly back to funding the programs offered by the Creative Arts Group, which reaches more than 2,000 adults and children each year.
Congrats to Janice and Jill!
by Deborah Shaw
Sue Kuuskmae won a first place award of $100 at the Palos Verdes Art Center Holiday Art Exhibition with her painting, “Dogwood in Fall”.
Sue Kuuskmae's award-winning painting, "Dogwood in Fall", © 2010, photo by Sue Kusskmae
Congratulations Sue!
by Leslie Walker
BAGSC sign at the entrance to the Secret Garden, © DB Shaw, 2010
On October 16, 2010, Botanical Artists Guild of Southern California members, Akiko Enokido, Clara Josephs, Janice Sharp, Deborah Shaw, Leslie Walker, Joan Keesey and her husband John spent the day at the Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch and Gardens, meeting and greeting the attendees to a John Schoustra garden lecture, and hosting an Art Exhibit of members’ work, with botanical art demonstrations and sales by BAGSC.
BAGSC artists participating in the exhibition throughout the historic house were: Margaret Best, Akiko Enokido, Clara Josephs, Joan Keesey, Janice Sharp, Deborah Shaw, and Leslie Walker. Clara Josephs’ painting of a Rosa ‘Just Joey’, and Margaret Best’s painting of Hemerocallis thunbergii, Day Lily, were chosen by the Gardens to promote the event.
R to L: Clara Josephs, Akiko Enokido and Janice Sharp demonstrate in the Secret Garden, © DB Shaw 2010
The day was a bit blustery, but we were welcomed by the garden personnel with lunch, then tea and cookies as we began to get chilly in the afternoon. Akiko sold a framed print, and our cards were well-received too! The Rancho Los Alamitos Gardens are building a new classroom, etc., space where they would welcome us for classes. Located just off the 405 freeway in Long Beach we all felt it was a great location. Easy for all of us to get to and the place is lovely — worthy of a visit and support. As Clara Josephs emphatically stated, “it’s MY new FAVORITE place!”
Deb Shaw demonstrates on the Back Patio, © DB Shaw 2010
Joan's husband, John Keesey, joined us to demonstrate plein aire painting in watercolor, © DB Shaw 2010
Joan Keesey manning the BAGSC sales table, © DB Shaw 2010
Leslie Walker, bundled up against the drizzle, © DB Shaw 2010
by Deborah Shaw
Opening Reception at the Fine Arts Building
The Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, hosted a wonderful opening reception for the BAGSC exhibit on Thursday, October 14, with catering from our good friends from Burger Continental. BAGSC members (along with their friends and family) at the opening included: Leslie Walker, Janice Sharp, Joan Keesey, Bonnie Born Ash, Veronica Raymond, Morgan Kari, and Deborah Shaw.
The show will be up into November. The building itself is worth the visit, and is an exceptional venue for displaying botanical art. Anyone interested in purchasing artwork will contact the artist directly via email. Leslie will let us know about when the show will come down once the schedule is finalized.
Thank you to all the artists who were able to step up to the plate on such short notice.
BAGSC Banner in the window of the Fine Arts Building
Left to right: John Keesey, Joan Keesey, Janice Sharp and Dane Hoiberg
BAGSC members at the start of the opening reception.
Janice was a whirling dervish during the show hanging on Wednesday, polishing the wood on the inside of all the cabinets.
Leslie hanging the wire system during the show set up on Wednesday.
by Deborah Shaw
Kathy Dunham at Watercolor West with her painting of day lilies, "A Love In Bloom"
Leslie Walker, Clara Josephs (and husband Jerry Josephs) were among the many attending the Opening Reception for Watercolor West, where Kathy Dunham exhibited her watercolor, “A Love in Bloom”. Congratulations, Kathy!
Kathy Dunham and Clara Josephs at the Opening Reception.
by Leslie Walker and Deb Shaw
The Opening Reception for the BAGSC “Fast Track” Show at the Fine Arts Building in Los Angeles will take place during the LA Artwalk on:
October 14, 2010
5 pm – 8 pm
Fine Arts Building
811 West 7th Street (7th east of Figueroa), Los Angeles
The Fine Arts Building is hosting a reception for BAGSC. The LA Artwalk is anticipating more than 20,000 people over the course of the entire walk during the evening. This is a grand event, and an opportunity to see LA in an entirely different light.
Sage advice is to try to get to the downtown area early if possible. The rush of crowds usually starts about 6 pm. As always, parking in downtown LA is a challenge and expensive. Street parking is difficult to come by and fills quickly. There are parking garages in the area, with prices averaging between $8 – $10.00.
There are fantastic restaurants in the areal as well, and the gourmet food trucks come in and participate in the walk too!
Interior art display area in the Fine Arts Building. Photo courtesy of http://www.ratkovich.net/development/office/fineartsbuilding
BAGSC has the following members exhibiting work:
Margaret Best
Bonnie Born
Kathy Dunham
Cynthia Jackson
Clara Josephs
Morgan Kari
Joan Keesey
Suzanne Kuuskmae
Arillyn Moran-Lawrence
Veronica Raymond
Janice Sharp
Deborah Shaw
Gloria Whea-Fun Teng
Please promote the show (which will be up until mid-November) to colleagues, friends and family. Please have your guests join us for the exciting opening reception and the LA Artwalk on the 14th.
by Leslie Walker
On Thursday, September 30th, I was contacted by the property manager of the Fine Arts Building on 7th St. in downtown LA. She said the lobby showcases were available for us to have a show there. We would hang the show on October 13 and they would host a reception on October 14, the night of The LA City Art Walk. This was presented to the group on Saturday at the BAGSC meeting and everyone thought it was a good opportunity.
Each member may enter four paintings, with no particular framing requirements. There is no entry fee to enter the show. An email blast will be sent to all BAGSC members with the show entry form and delivery details. Members must fill out the show entry form and email or send them to Leslie Walker and Deborah Shaw by Thursday, October 7, 6 pm. All paintings must have show identification labels in place on the back of the painting. Paintings may be delivered to Tania Norris, Leslie Walker, or Deborah Shaw by October 10. Paintings should be in portfolios or boxes with cardboard dividers with the member’s name written on the outside of the portfolio.
The show will be up until the middle of the second week in November. We will provide email addresses of all participants who will handle all sales and delivery after show is taken down. There will be no percentage of sales taken by the gallery.
This is a wonderful opportunity to participate in the LA Art Walk and exhibit in a beautiful, historic LA building!
by Deborah Shaw
Akiko Enokido with her painting at the Hunt opening. Photo by DB Shaw.
Akiko Enokido had her watercolor, Camellia japonica ‘Kramer’s Supreme’ accepted at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation for the 13th International Exhibition of Botanical Art & Illustration. The opening was in conjunction with the ASBA 2010 conference, attended by the following BAGSC members: Akiko Enokido, Olga Eysymontt, Clara Josephs, Tania Norris, Pat Mark, Janice Sharp, and Deborah Shaw.
Akiko also had a piece exhibited in the Thirteenth Annual International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition by the ASBA and The Horticultural Society of New York, her watercolor of Chorisia speciosa, Floss Silk Tree.
Additionally, Akiko presented her portfolio at the ASBA conference portfolio presentation.
Congratulations Akiko!
Akiko Enokido and Rose Pellicano at the ASBA Portfolio Presentation. Photo by Clara Josephs.
Deborah Shaw, Janice Sharp, Akiko Enokido about to go into the Hunt opening. Photo by Clara Josephs.
Akiko Enokido talking with Lugene Bruno at the well-attended opening. Photo by Clara Josephs.
by Deborah Shaw
"A Love in Bloom", Kathy Dunham, watercolor, © 2010, all rights reserved.
Kathy Dunham is exhibiting her watercolor, “Love in Bloom”, in the:
Watercolor West XLII Annual International Exhibition
Opening Reception: October 9, 2010, 5 – 7 pm
City of Brea Art Gallery
1 Civic Center Circle,
Brea, CA 92821
The juror is Frank Francese. The show will be up October 9 – December 19, 2010 and the demonstration schedule is listed on the Watercolor West website.
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